Hermeneutic phenomenology, which is commonly actuated in empirical research, presents many difficult challenges to investigators aiming to defend the credibility of their research. In particular, the phenomenology of lived experience reveals thorny issues of the relationship between lived experience, awareness of an experience, and describing or…

In 2012, I completed my doctoral study which was positioned in a hermeneutic phenomenological theoretical framework within the interpretive social science mode of inquiry. Through the phenomenological component, I attempted to understand the experiences of secondary school immigrant students in their mathematics classrooms as the phenomena, while…

As a doctoral student, I was asked to focus my dissertation research on a subject that would shed light on a current problem in higher education. Since I had concentrated a great amount of writing throughout my coursework to Hispanic student success and was interested in this topic, I chose to contribute research in that area. After a review of…