Phenomenography therefore bridges the extremes of the universal and
the individual (Bodner, 2004). In a phenomenographical study of the various
ways people experience learning, the final product may be three categories of
recognition, for example: (1) ‘I can pass a related test.’, (2) ‘I can explain
material to others.’, and (3) ‘I can apply the material to new situations.’ A
phenomenographical approach also will attempt to interrelate the experiential
categories in a hierarchical fashion. In the previous example, this interrelation
may take the form of suggesting that each of the three described categories
represent successively deeper learning.