While IPA originated in psychology, its relevance to other disciplines and areas of research has grown (Smith, 2011). Recently IPA has been used in educational research to understand the experiential aspects of teaching- learning (See Bainger, 2011; Cope, 2011; Pipere & Micule, 2014). Given IPA’s potential to explore deep personal meanings, it has been used in educational disciplines that generally adopt a positivist stance toward knowledge generation even when the underlying interpretive tenets of IPA are in conflict philosophically (Kirn, Huff, Godwin, Ross, & Cass, 2019).