UNDERSTANDING THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF EDUCATED PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

Dev Nandan Kumar; Prof. (Dr.) Mala Tandon

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

UNDERSTANDING THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF EDUCATED PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

Dev Nandan Kumar, Prof. Dr. Mala Tandon

Abstract :

The most immediate impression of disability is paradoxical. The way people think about disability affects the care and education of PWDs. Myths and misconceptions about disabilities are common. Promoting negative images of disability is a form of discrimination because it creates barriers to full citizenship for people who have a disability. Phenomenology is concerned with the study of experience from the perspective of the individual, ‘acketing’ taken–for–granted assumptions and usual ways of perceiving. These experiences are called lived experiences. This type of research is used to study areas in which there is little knowledge. Phenomenological research methods are very different from the methods used in quantitative research and has sometimes been viewed as so–called soft science, rigorous, critical, and systematic. Phenomenological and associated approaches can be applied to single cases or to serendipitous or deliberately selected samples