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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Biographical research"”.
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The Scrapbooks of the Roslyn Rensch Collection and Papers at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign
… 2,000 items of harp music, books, recordings, research papers, clippings, and letters collected from approximately 1900-1993. The two series of scrapbooks display a large portion of clippings, programs, and print representations of the harp. These scrapbooks contain a majority of the …
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Lost in Menippea: the metabiography of Dambudzo Marechera
… fiction. This thesis fills a significant gap in biographical research into Marechera, and it is the first ‘literary’ biography of the author written in the form of creative metabiography. Menippean satire, or menippea, is fundamental to the execution of the metabiography. I draw on Menippean …
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Leaving Spain: A Biographical Study on the Experiences of an Economic Crisis, Migration and New Beginnings
… This PhD project is a response to this gap in research. In contrast to some other studies, which focused on specific aspects of the experiences of 'new' Spanish migrants, I opted for a holistic approach by taking their whole life history into account: the structural processes of their life …
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"A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham
… subjectivity and self-representation. Her Biographical Dictionary participates in a construction of female identity that redefines the feminine while acknowledging the influence of preceding historians. The location and recovery of her autobiographical writings inform this examination of …
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Identity, Memory, Compassion and Competition: Mass-Participation Photography and Everyday Life
This research asks key questions about the nature of 'majority' photography and its role in the making of community history, national identity and social memory, while testing existing theoretical assumptions about the form. Arguing that existing writing on amateur photographic practice lacks …
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Rewriting myths through life writings in Marina Warner's fiction
… traced as it gradually turns from the theme of biographical research and its difficulties into the inclusion of different types of life writings within the very structure of these novels. Most importantly, it will be argued that a parallel comes to the fore between the textual exposure of life …
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Dismember the past
… engagement. This text synthesises academic and biographical research with speculative fiction, much like Burgess’ own works of historiographic metafiction, including Nothing Like the Sun (1964), which shares a similar fiction/academic lecture form: Abba Abba (1977); and A Dead Man in Deptford …
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Biography from childhood to adulthood: mirroring as an educative and therapeutic strategy in caring for carers
… review process improved John’s childhood autobiographical memory recall.<br/><br/>Qualitative data analysis employed verstehen hermeneutics (Dilthey 1976) with grounded theory (Glaser and Strauss 1967; Patton 2002) and biographical research methods (Erben 1998). The most noticeable outcome was …
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Contesting the Secular and Converting Space in Berlin? Becoming Jewish in an Urban Scene.
… itself as Jewish’. Combining ethnography with biographical-narrative interviews, I present how this scene is enacted and performed, embedded in the respective historical and socio-political contexts, and constituting itself by migration and conversion. By way of mirroring the biographies of …
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Education Otherwise: An Inquiry into Young People’s Perceptions of Their Educational Experience at Two Alternative Educational Settings in Norway
Informed by the biographical research tradition, this thesis presents a qualitative inquiry into young people’s perceptions of their educational experiences in relation to two schools in Norway – Hyssingen production school (Hyssingen) and UWC Red Cross Nordic (RCN) – that are grounded in …
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The descriptive miniatures of Alphonse Hasselmans and Henriette Renié: an examination of the pedagogical and artistic significance of salon pieces for harp
… Renié. This document seeks to encourage further biographical research and to inspire performance and recording of their works.
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Aren't Only Girls Secretaries…?”: Leadership Lessons From Women U.S. Secretaries of State
… direct contact with leading figures, I used biographical research as a means of data collection and a case study/cross-case analysis design paired with a constructivist grounded theory strategy as the method of inquiry.</p> <p>Findings reveal Albright’s leadership is anchored in her Czech …
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How can material culture analysis of fashionable menswear augment biographical and museological interpretations? A critical analysis of three wardrobes of menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath
… challenges the continuing dearth of clothing as biographical evidence in telling life-stories; which, I argue, has an adverse effect on the interpretability of people’s lives. The biography of objects is a burgeoning area of research, through which theorists and practitioners have become …
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What Does It Mean To Be A Learning Support Teacher? A Life-History Investigation Of Ten Learning Support Teachers In The East-Coast Of Ireland
… Although there is a small body of quantitative research on LS teaching, there are no qualitative studies on LSTs themselves. This gap in the research is unfortunate because of the importance of studying teachers’ lives and perspectives as a key to understanding teaching, a now well-established …
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Sustaining teacher career resilience in a resource-constrained rural education setting : a retrospective study
… design was framed methodologically as biographical research with participatory principles. Teacher participants (n=5, 3=female and 2=male) were selected according to purposive sampling. Data were generated through participatory interview-conversations, which were audio-recorded and …
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Affective Rhythms in Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith
… and performed by poets and their poems. My research method combines close reading and biographical research with examinations of unpublished archival materials housed in the Houghton Library in Harvard, Berg Collection in New York, and McFarlin Library in Tulsa. The three types of affect I …
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From Rabi'a to Ibn al-Farid : towards some paradigms of the Sufi conception of love
… study, it should not be seen as a historical or biographical research. The historical analysis and information are presented merely to give some insight into the social and historical context of the Sufi's time. The primary aim of this research is to establish the different paradigms of love of …
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The social and cultural impact of internally displaced persons, IDPs’ camps on the host community in Nigeria: a sociological evaluation
… interviews, participant observations and biographical research interviews, this thesis examines the various social and cultural impacts that IDP camps make on host communities in Nigeria. By exploring how such interaction can foster new economies, as well as new patterns of social …