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Phenomenology has made a particular mark in the area of educational policy on a number of levels. The flaws of objective testing have been addressed using phenomenological tools. The issue of construct validity, the link between observation and measurement, has been studied ethnographically as a discursive activity to clarify the practices employed by education researchers to establish validity (Cherryholmes 1988). Testing of children has increasingly respected the subjectivity of the test taker (Gilliatt and Hayward 1996: Hwang 1996). Educators are more alert to the need for understanding the learner’s social and cognitive processes, for taking into account the constraining parameters of consciousness, and for encouraging self-conscious reflection. Instructional practices that emphasize constructivist approaches have gained great support among professionals and have been broadly implemented to the benefit of learners (Marlowe and Page 1997).
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Phenomenology does offer ways of understanding not offered by other research methodologies. In contrast to the scientific method it is both poetic and interpretive but those working from an emancipatory view of the role of research express dissatisfaction that it does not go beyond interpretation; it does not become emancipatory. Research needs to do more than offer understanding about human experience. Ehrich, (1996) discusses this dilemma which confronted her in her doctoral studies when she moved from a commitment to a critical approach to adopting a phenomenological approach.
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