Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

Crystallizing the Research Design

As I summarized the research, I crystallized the processes and productions found in this dissertation. These were reflective of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks upon which this research was grounded. These frameworks were foundational to the post-intentional phenomenological methodology and the crystallization methods selected and outlined for this research. The explanation for using the term data gathering rather than data findings related to the frameworks and methodologies. Research phases and timelines provided the details of the actions I conducted and the sequence in which they were completed. This included the preparation, the interview, and the data analysis phases. Although descriptions of participants’ contexts and geographic locations were not shared, the processes and reasoning for creating pseudonyms and avatar images supported my efforts to maintain confidentiality and still be as open about the participants’ lived experiences as possible. The credibility and trustworthiness of this research was grounded and consistent with the interpretivist, socio-constructive paradigms applied to this research. Ethical practices, as guided by current research and documentation, were foundational to the research design. In these considerations, I trusted that design of this research inquiry matched the purpose and directions established, in order to achieve possible answers to my research questions. In the next section I examined the gathered information from the participants’ lived experiences and stories of their MDL as revealed in their OEPr. 

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