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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Life narrative"”.
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Exploring Educational Psychologists’ views and experiences of the Beads of Life narrative therapy based intervention
Beads of Life is a narrative therapy based intervention that supports children and young people’s (CYP) emotional wellbeing by helping them to identify their strengths and view their problems as separate to themselves (Portnoy et al., 2016). Despite a core function of the Educational Psychologist …
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"Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
<p>Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the …
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
… masculinity oriented men toward the genres of life writing—to build written monuments to themselves—that republican convention also set the stage for others to express troubling affects and orientations that positioned them on the outskirts of normative republican belonging. To trace that …
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Desert Flowers: Sexualized Industries of Nevada and the Women Who Work In Them
… and interviews, this thesis combines true-life narrative from one-on-one interviews with information in the fields of sociology, women's studies, and law. Through interviews of cocktail waitresses, promo models, exotic dancers, and prostitutes, this piece of narrative nonfiction takes a …
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“Seeking peace of mind” – understanding desistance as a journey into recovery and out of chaos
… work uses the voices of the participants via life narrative interviews and the findings emerged via a Grounded Theory analysis that links the themes and concepts to the data.
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The disciples of light: a way of seeing and the educational transfer of ideas linking spirituality and art among southern painters in the Hensche-Hawthorne tradition
… the school in 1899. Each painter provided a life narrative of artistic education and development, discussed personal philosophy of art, shared views on the role of the artist in society, and related personal experiences of understanding and creating art. Spirituality in art is examined from …
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Collaborating on Reference: A Study of Discourse and Aphasia
… genesis. Finally, an ethnographic case study (a life narrative supplemented with situated analysis of interaction in two settings) explored the way one young man with aphasia re-negotiated his identity and social relationships across multiple spheres of activity (e.g., sports, medicine, family, …
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Atheism, agnosticism, and nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative
… types of Nonbelief. Moreover, social tension and life narrative play a role in shaping one’s ontological worldview. Through thematic coding, a typology of six different types of Nonbelief was observed. Those are Academic Atheists, Activist Atheist/Agnostics, Seeker Agnostics, Antitheists, …
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Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement
… become fluid and informed by individual life experiences. In the context of this study, direct to consumer genetic ancestry tests (DTC-GAT) are operationalized as a self-initiated encounter event. Participants were enrolled in an arts-in-education program that connects self-identified …
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Building parents’ leadership capacity for engagement in the New Orleans education reform landscape
… more active participants in school and community life (Hong, 2011; Oakes & Lipton, 2006; Warren, 2005; Oakes & Lipton, 2002). Federal policy also recommends that parents engage in regular, two-way, meaningful communication with school staff regarding academics and other school activities. While …
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Towards a Definition of Visual Artists’ Archives: Vera Frenkel’s Archives as a Case Study
… includes the literatures of archival studies, life narrative, and art. Vera Frenkel’s interdisciplinary art work reflects a deep engagement with questions of truth and fiction. As an aspect of this theme, records and archives play a role in several of her works, often being revealed as …
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Narrative theology in religious education
… are of a great importance in the Christian life and with Narrative Theology people are able to understand these stories and their message. The Bible is one whole unit presenting God’s story in the form of a narrative, which teaches the human person about the relationship between God himself …
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'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition
… context and community. The thesis draws on the life narrative interviews of four generations of Ngāti Porou descendents, the second largest tribal group in New Zealand, whose home boundaries extend from Potikirua in the north to Te Toka-a-Taiau in the south on the East Coast of the North Island. …
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Voices in a Knowledge Conversation : an exploration of two narrative representations of Adult Literacy Learners
… in England in recent years, political and public narratives about adult literacy learners have become dominated by the notion of skills deficit, demonstrating a disregard for adult learners’ lives and life experiences beyond employment and skills. At the same time, research in the field of adult …
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Meaning and narrative : a phenomenological enquiry, with reference to psychotherapy
… of the 1920s and proposes that the concept of narrative can clarify our understanding of meaning in human life. Narrative theory in turn is critically examined and the importance of the difference between the spoken and written word is elucidated. It is demonstrated that the theoretical …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… our nation's history, we have come to know the narrative of her life only through juvenile biographies. These stories made Tubman's life a legendary one by reconstituting her into a historical and cultural icon suitable for mass consumption as the "Mother of her race". More myth than reality, …
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The power of images: The confrontation of violence and the construction of black manhood in the films of Gordon Parks
This dissertation studies the life and art of American filmmaker Gordon Parks, Sr., to argue that four of his films, all centered on black men, explore how black men in America might attain greater agency through self-awareness, particularly in the context of racialized violence. The films under …
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Dalí's Religious Models: the Iconography of Martyrdom and its Contemplation
… use of sources was closely bound to his life circumstances, and I integrate biographical details in my analysis of his paintings. I identify unexpected sources of Dalí's images, and demonstrate how alert he was to the psychological motivations of traditional art. I find he made especial …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
… more traditionally associated with religious life. Instead, this study redirects focus toward the neo-religious nature of modern spirituality; that is, the fulfillment of Thomas Luckmanns prediction that a significant aspect of modern spirituality would concern the need to construct a self, …
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Pathways to Competence and Participation in the Digital World
… many social and economic activities of everyday life. Individuals who are excluded from such participation feel left behind and alienated and desire to be competent. The Know IT pilot project was a workplace learning intervention designed to improve basic everyday computer skills in adults. It …
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