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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Narrative Identity"”.
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The possibility conditions of narrative identity.
The focus of this dissertation is narrative identity theory, i.e. the proposition that our sense of self is structured like a story. The imputed advantage of narrativity identity is that it enables great coherence and guidance to our complex lives composed of multiple and often conflicting inner …
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… observation to examine the construction of narrative identity by the staff members and worker-members of a workers' rights organization in Northwest Arkansas. I seek to understand how the organization negotiates the broader cultural and institutional narrative identities with the personal …
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The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity
… lives and, by extension, into our own sense of identity. It was hypothesized that vicarious events from within a person's social network can be as germane to identity development as autobiographical events if the vicarious event involves someone with whom the person is socially-close rather than …
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Learning for Cambodian Women: Exploration through Narrative Identity and Imagination
… present inquiry portrays the personal histories, narratives and hopes of selected women to uncover possible ways in which government and non-government agencies may transform the lives of Cambodian women through education programs.</p> <p>Theory and Protocol</p> <p>This research is grounded in …
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Examining processes in the relationship between narrative identity and psychological functioning
… and empirical evidence support a link between narrative identity and psychological functioning. When examining this relationship, psychological functioning has typically been conceptualised in terms of diagnostic symptoms. As a result, the transdiagnostic psychological processes underpinning …
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THE BELOVED COMMUNITY IN SHAW: CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE IDENTITY IN THE ANTI-GENTRIFICATION MOVEMENT
… fertile for the construction of value making narratives. Social movements rely heavily on the publicly acknowledged moral value of their causes for legitimacy, values often cultivated through identification with existing community beliefs. Likewise, Fisher’s paradigm teaches us that narratives …
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Overcoming the Cancer Experience: Narrative Identity in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
… develop mental health difficulties. Research on narrative identity and posttraumatic growth suggests that developing a coherent life-story narrative, making meaning, and finding benefits from negative life events, can contribute to better psychosocial adjustment. The aim of the present study was …
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Limitations on the Arts in Prison; Restrictive Narrative Identity and the Performance of Reform
… opportunity for those in prison to adopt an identity beyond the restrictive narrative identity of prisoner.<br/>My original contribution to knowledge is to introduce the concepts of 'restrictive narrative identity' and 'performing reform' as a means of understanding fundamental issues that …
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Exile and Home: Narrative Identity in the Central American Community of the San Francisco Bay Area
… and is focused on the mimetic power of the narrative to foster within the individual a sense of home, identity, and forgiveness, calling for meaningful action.</p> <p>Theory and Protocol</p> <p>Using critical hermeneutic field based protocol (Herda 1999), I analyzed the data, transcriptions …
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Deconstructing narrative identity in English language teaching: an analysis of teacher interviews in Japanese and English
… is the third of three modules, and explores narrative identity in interviews with English language teachers. It offers an analysis of how speakers used linguistic resources to construct identities for themselves during life story interviews. Both interviewer (the author) and interviewees (21 …
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The Re-Imagining of Rapa Nui Traditional Healing Arts: Explorations of Narrative Identity, Mimesis, and the Public Sphere
… tourism and global media has raised awareness of identity and culture within the Rapa Nui society. The present inquiry explores one aspect of their societal healing arts that is in the midst of re-exploration and re-imagination: their traditional medicinal practices or hervias tradicionales and …
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Individual and Collective Diaspora Remittances in the Philippines and Korea: An Interpretation of Narrative Identity, Communicative Action, and Recognition
… community projects. The research analyzes the narratives with reference to identity and culture of diaspora Filipinos and Koreans in the United States who are remitters and donors in the United States supporting humanitarian causes in North Korea.</p> <p>Research Theory and Protocol</p> …
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Mii o gwayak inaajimotaagooyaan [this is how it was told to me]: narrative identity and community-building in northern Minnesota
… approach to understanding the role of specific narratives, and of storytelling practice in general, in shaping perceptions of Anishinaabe indigenous identity, history, and politics in northern Minnesota, as well as the social and political climate of the region, including relations between the …
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Deconstructing Negative Stereotypes, Myths And Microaggressions About Black Women: Reconstructing Black Women’s Narrative, Identity And The Empowering Nature Of Ethnic Identity
… the historical formulation of Black women's identity and how the distorted figures of stereotypes have emerged and manifested into contemporary microaggressions. The work explores two central inquiries: The first, quantitative study, examines slavery as the malignant marker that has shaped …
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Examining the Utility of Life Narratives for the Assessment of Personality Pathology in Emerging Adults
… on the assessment of self-functioning (e.g., identity, self-direction), scholars have proposed that narrative methods might be useful for the assessment of one’s sense of self, and thus, improve the detection of personality pathology. The narrative identity framework offers a …
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New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story
… in the maintenance of traditional culture and narratives in the rural communities of DeKalb and Neshoba counties in Mississippi. The first chapter argues that memory through story can yield significant historical findings in narrative identity. It is here where the discussion on historiography, …
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Perspectives on Disability and Community Engagement in Albania: Developing Mutual Understanding Through the Sharing of Individual Narratives
… researcher and participants together and used narratives as a medium for participatory inquiry.</p> <p><strong>Research Categories</strong></p> <p>The critical hermeneutic concepts of narrative identity, mimesis, and communicative action were used to guide my research. Narrative identity …
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On Being an ESL Teacher in Saskatchewan: Exploring Professional Identity Using Metaphor Analysis
… as language teachers. By situating the metaphors narratively, within a collective case study, the ways in which they are (in-)formed by experiences as students (the apprenticeship of observation), teachers, and Others are revealed. With the understanding that teacher knowledge is largely tacit and …
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THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON: ESSAYS AND EXPERIMENTS
… to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian heritages, and the complicated ecology, geography, …
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