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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Autobiographical Narratives"”.
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A comparison of the trauma and autobiographical narratives of female rape and non-sexual assualt survivors
Research on the trauma and autobiographical narratives of survivors are two burgeoning areas in the international literature. The focus is primarily on the correlation between particular linguistic features in these narratives and PTSD and depression. Whilst these findings have important clinical …
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
… startlingly different world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic of early modern colonial writing. It also suggests that the author's particular religious ideology influences their …
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Connecting With the Heart of God in Grief: Employing Narrative in Christian Bereavement Care
… the human experience of grief by examining autobiographical narratives and God’s account of the origin of grief in the Genesis narrative. Chapter 4 develops the argument for a theocentric and Christocentric approach. A proposed bereavement care framework is derived from the way Jesus relates …
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Composing the self: examining dynamics of meaning and agency in narratives of authenticity and self-transformation
This mixed-methods study examined how autobiographical narratives of authentic, inauthentic, and transformative experiences relate to retrospective self-attributions of meaning and agency. Narratives were analyzed using established deductive thematic coding schemes alongside a novel system designed …
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Evaluating the Borderline Personality: A Study of Identity and Narrative Voice
… on individuals' ability to produce coherent autobiographical narratives. Those lacking this ability, or those producing narratives that defy cultural norms often become labeled as pathological. Re-examining the relationship between narratives and reality challenges existing foundations upon …
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Academic resilience: narratives of high-achieving Black female middle school adolescents
… and researcher field notes, personal autobiographical narratives, archival document reviews and artifacts. Findings of this study revealed that participants exhibited critical roles in their academic success and demonstrated strong academic identities. All four participants described …
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Narratives of the transnational student: a complicated story of cultural identity, cultural exchange and homecoming
… of their degree programmes. It draws on their autobiographical narratives in order to demonstrate the way in which they exist in a suspended state of 'temporary permanence' and with time, develop a' contaminated' sense of cultural identity, diluted by their 'foreign exchanges'. The study …
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A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions and Beliefs of Elementary Teachers' Value of and Responses to Their Professional Development
… grades two through six. This study also contains autobiographical narratives to emphasize the process of the learning experiences and reflective thinking of the researcher. The study was conducted at a Title I school in South Carolina, pseudo-named Sunshine School I, that was at the initial stages …
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Low and Slow
… to a humpback whale named “Ursula.” Interwoven autobiographical narratives and oceanic disappearance stories draw on Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water to frame a feminist posthuman hydrocommons. The final chapter turns inward, tracing the physiological and sensorial transformations of …
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Effects of age on autobiographical memory
… investigate the effects of healthy ageing on autobiographical memory (AM). Previous work in this area has shown that older adults exhibit a deficit in recall of specific episodes from their personal past, yet there is evidence in the literature of exceptions to this rule. As yet, there have …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… select Victorian and Modernist women writers' autobiographical narratives with attention to how the presence of transatlantic travel' bodily and textual, between Europe and America' links private processes of self-narration to public critiques of nation-specific systems, customs, and …
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Exploring social identity through theatre : an examination of the process of creating Jingle Dreams with youth in the coloured community of Clanwilliam
… and participants are invited to recognise that autobiographical narratives have social, communitarian and historical significance, as well as personal relevance. Performers drew on their own experiences to devise the scenes. This process often emphasised how the boundaries between truth and …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
… white self and white society. The respondents' autobiographical narratives of life during legal segregation, a time of overt white supremacy, are typified by nostalgia for a childhood era of safety, security, and "good" race relations. Interviewees' narratives of the civil rights era, including …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
… discourses and affects of previous mnemonic narratives, especially those regarding territorial politics and the production of subjectivity under the regime. An analysis of the exclusion of personal accounts from political and historical research informs a critique of these politics. Examining …
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
… in a rural township in Taiwan. Through examining autobiographical narratives, master narratives about elders, and classroom discourses, this study explores the historical construction of their sociolinguistic marginalization and their negotiation and resistance of such marginalization. The …
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
… discussion of contemporary fictional and autobiographical narratives by migrants who write in a language other than their mother tongue and/or grew up in a bilingual environment. While not all literature by ethnic minority writers is necessarily concerned with the experience of growing up …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… truth and identity across a number of genres, narratives, periods and voices. That history and fiction share many similarities is an idea well-established by both historians, critics and novelists, from Lionel Gossman and Hayden White to Richard Jenkins and E. L. Doctorow. The fiction–history …
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An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Children's Experiences of the Five Foundations of the Social-Emotional and Academic Learning Program you can do it! Program Achieve.
… of cultural, institutional, and social narratives shaping the students' lives and stories? How might my inquiry expand knowledge about the YCDI program and the meeting of diverse lives on school landscapes? My research puzzle considered YCDI conversations as spaces where children engaged …
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A Curriculum of Place: Who Are We? Southerners Beneath the Red Clay and the Black Dirt
… (Morris, 2001, 2006), I theorize my autobiographical narratives spanning from my childhood to my present adult life as an educator. Methodologically I draw upon Ugena Whitlock's (2007) autobiographical exploration of life in the South as a queer and a fundamentalist white female; …
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