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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Essentialist Portraiture"”.
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The Essential Role of Spirituality in Living With an Acquired Physical Disability
Using essentialist portraiture, this study explored the essential role of spirituality in the lives of four participants with an acquired physical disability. Participants' experiences of their spirituality in living with disabilities, their spiritual awareness, expressions, and realizations were …
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Seeing the Way They Are in the Way They IM: Case Studies of Instant Messaging in Taiwanese Fifth Graders' Lives
… the child, I adopted the ""participant as ally---essentialist portraiture approach"" research methodology, which argues that a researcher's task is not just to understand the investigated phenomenon but also to explore how the investigated phenomenon ties into the other aspects of the …
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Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives
… of the child, I adopted the “participant as ally—essentialist portraiture approach” research methodology, which argues that a researcher’s task is not just to understand the investigated phenomenon but also to explore how the investigated phenomenon ties into the other aspects of the participant’s …
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
… to teach SSI. The overall approach is based on essentialist methodology (Witz, Goodwin, Hart, & Thomas, 2001; Witz, 2006a) with its focus on ""the participant as ally"" and ""essentialist portraiture."" The primary data source is four to six in-depth interviews with individual teachers (about …
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Art education for social justice: empowering marginalized Korean students through a community cultural arts program
… I used the qualitative research methodology, “Essentialist Portraiture.” This approach allowed me to understand these two girls on a deeper level. Through the use of questionnaires given to Iwha and Eunbie and interviews with them as well as examination of their artwork, I was able to gain …
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Writing the true self: case studies of ENG 101 students responding to a Peter Elbow-inspired curriculum
My fulfillment in life comes through helping others develop their potential, work through their troubles, and follow their dreams. I have found that my college students embrace this aspect as I teach them expressive, author-involved writing. Peter Elbow’s work asserts that this type of writing fits …