In spite of the acknowledged importance of professional ethics, technical students often show little enthusiasm for studying the subject. This paper considers how such engagement might be improved. Four guiding principles for promoting engagement are identified: (1) aligning teaching content with student interests; (2) taking a pragmatic rather than a philosophical approach to issue resolution;...

There are over 2500 chiropractors/osteopaths in Australia with an estimated 15 million patient visits per year (1). Yet published case studies involving chiropractor/osteopath patients are minimal. Chiropractors/osteopaths often have many interesting cases to discuss and present, however, some practitioners are uncertain of the best procedure to publish these case reports. As a consequence, it ...

This case study reports on a programmatic decision to require a credit-bearing course that was made by Faculty in Residence (FIR), including its implementation and results over a two-year period from 2010-2012. The focus is on FIR and on the impact of their decision upon the students enrolled in their Living Learning Communities (LLCs). The credit-bearing course was a Kinesiology Activities cla...

OBJECTIVE To provide a unified description of an adolescent's experience of living with and dying of cancer. DESIGN Qualitative analysis using phenomenological methods. SETTING Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. PATIENT A 15-year-old boy who was diagnosed as having osteosarcoma in 2003 and died of his disease 1 year later. INTERVENTION Analysis of his 90-pa...

PURPOSE Continuity and discontinuity are controversial concepts in social theories on aging. The aim of this article is to explore these concepts using the experiences of older persons living in second couplehood in old age as a case in point. DESIGN AND METHOD Based on a larger qualitative study on second couplehood in old age, following the existential-phenomenological tradition, a theoreti...

This qualitative phenomenological research was carried out in order to understand how women experience living with advance gynecological cancer. We chose to make a qualitative survey in a phenomenological approach, based on the following directive question: "I'd like you to tell me your experience: 'How is it to be a woman with gynecological cancer?" ' Six women were interviewed. The ontologica...

Background: Nutrition education delivered by classroom teachers has become a popular intervention designed to combat childhood obesity. However, few qualitative studies have explored nutrition education with teachers Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how elementary teachers describe their experience with nutrition education. Methods: A qualitative phenomenological approach was u...

This article will closely examine the phenomenological method as applied to qualitative inquiry in psychology and psychiatry. In a critical comparison between Amedeo Giorgi's and Larry Davidson's qualitatively methods, conclusions were drawn with regard to how different kinds of qualitative inquiry are possible while remaining faithful to Husserlian philosophical foundations. Utilizing Lester E...

In recent years, the field of entrepreneurship has witnessed an emerging body of research that operates within an interpretive paradigm. In contributing to this research tradition, this article explicates an interpretive, phenomenological form of inquiry, described by Thompson et al (1989) as the ‘phenomenological interview’. Particular attention is paid to the ontological and epistemological f...