The Database of Phenomenographic Research has been compiled over a period of three years out of resources identified and held in the Centre of Applied Environmental and Social Education Research at the Queensland University of Technology. The database represents a wide range of books, journal articles, conference papers and research reports in the field of phenomenographic research from its development in the late 1970s and early 1980s through to the present.

Coverage of the database is not comprehensive. However it does include core materials of significance in the development of phenomenographic research and what has come to be called phenomenographic pedagogy. The database also includes a selection of materials on phenomenology and interviewing techniques which may be of interest to the phenomenographic researcher. Papers in languages other than English are not included. To indicate the directions which the early phenomenographic researchers have taken, more recent papers by Ference Marton, Lennart Svensson, Roger Saljo and Lars Dahlgren also appear.

The content of the database indicates clearly that phenomenography has primarily been a tool for educational research. Its roots are Swedish (University of Gothenburg), and it has developed a strong following in Britain and Australia. There is very little material emanating from the United States.

This third edition contains over one hundred and fifty citations, almost all of which are annotated to provide a perspective of their place in this developing research paradigm. Included in this edition are a chronological listing of papers emanating from the phenomenographic approach and a selected index. It should be noted that the chronological listing is of papers closely related to phenomenography only; extraneous material on interviewing for example has not been included.

This third edition of Phenomenographic Research: an annotated bibliography includes the contents of the database as at July 1995.

Christine Bruce
July 1995

Preface Annotated Bibliography: Alphabetical Index Phenomenographic Research: A Chronological Index Subject Index Back to Table of Contents