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Bracketing is a technique or process derived from phenomenological approaches to research/analysis where one is required to suspect judgement about research foci – that is to put aside preconceptions, such as widely accepted common-sense notions about their nature.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.