Entering the Middle: Becoming a Post-Intentional Qualitative Researcher?

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Abstract

This paper explores the phenomenon of becoming a post-intentional qualitative researcher by previewing and moving through the post-intentional phenomenological triangle, engaging the five principles of PIP, and considering methodology through post-reflexion. Jackson & Mazzei (2022) assert that qualitative research should launch from theoretical concept. St. Pierre (2021) writes, “[T]hose interested in post qualitative inquiry will set methodology, including qualitative methodology, aside and study poststructuralism instead” (p. 163). Conversely, post-intentional phenomenology launches from methodology then takes shape as the researcher thinks with theory, gathers phenomenological material, and post-reflexes. Commitment to post-reflexing offers a welcome, necessary, post-intentional twist to researcher reflexivity for the post-intentional qualitative researcher. This paper suggests that qualitative researchers might find these three post-intentional notions useful in their practice.

Authors

• Laurie Elisabet Hahn Ganser, University of Minnesota

• Melissa Surrette, University of Minnesota

• Jessica Silk, University of Minnesota

• Andrew Fiegen, University of Minnesota

• Mark D. Vagle, University of Minnesota