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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Narrative Method"”.
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Narrative Method and Point of View in Bleak Houe
… of Bleak House is told through two distinct narratives. Thirty-three of its sixty-seven chapters are narrated in the past tense, first person, by a young woman, Esther Summerson. Her chapters occupy 464 of the 880 pages of the Oxford Illustrated edition and appeared in all but five of the …
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Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict
… is developed out of an observed phenomenon of narrative formation in the Arab Spring. Narrative, informed by and reliant upon communication models and technologies, enables us to navigate, negotiate, and elicit meaning both from and within complexity of information. As a primary model of …
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Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court
… Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas from a narrative approach informed by theories on the rhetorical situation. The Bowers majority opinion is framed around themes of history, morality and a reductionist understanding of sexual orientation which allows the Court to endorse sodomy laws. In …
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The Armpit Sage V. the Golden Barbarian: Zhen Luan's Response to the Taoist Conversion Narrative
… text is selected and evaluated using Fisher's narrative method. Results seem to indicate that the Chinese have engaged in argument as a means of critical decision-making and that with sufficient knowledge of Chinese history and culture those arguments are comprehensible to Westerners.
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A Narrative Exploration of 'Unhealthy' Attitudes Towards 'Healthy' Eating.
This qualitative research study employed a narrative method, in order to explore how individuals who consider themselves to have an ‘unhealthy’ approach to ‘healthy’ eating make sense of this experience through the stories they tell. Narrative interviews were undertaken with four research …
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K-12 Economically Disadvantaged Students, Poverty, and Education: Ecological Narratives of Successful Raised-In-Poverty, Texas Educators
… descriptive, online case study design rooted in narrative nonfiction. Virtual interviews with six successful Texas educators that grew up in poverty were conducted. A narrative method of analysis was utilized to generate codes then organize them into themes, and to construct and compare the …
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The Fables of Superintendent Don Paolo: Object Lessons on Community Upheaval, Community Efficacy, Heritage Knowledge, and Education
… it on its own terms. This study used the narrative form as the source of inquiry using the fabulistic form as methodology. The novelist Calvino has served as a guide to this narrative method. Narrative is employed to gain knowledge of the community and this study examines how the community …
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Constructing entrepreneurial identities: the case of entrepreneurial dyads
… produced by the dyads were analysed using the narrative method. First, the narrative styles of the business stories were assessed looking at elements such as plot, structure, and characterisation. This analysis allowed an understanding of the socially available discourses which provided the …
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“It depends on the individual”: A psycho-social exploration of designated teachers’ and virtual school advisory teachers’ experiences of supporting looked after children in education.
… were conducted applying a Free Associative Narrative Method (FANI) and each participant was interviewed once. An Activity Theory Diagram was included in the interview as an initial task, providing a conceptual map of the participants construction of the systems surrounding LAC children. …
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Through My Mother's Eyes: The Lifelong Journey of Raising Children with and Without Disabilities
<p>Through the use of narrative, this study sought to document the life-altering journey of 32 mothers raising children at various stages of development and with a variety of disabilities. The main questions guiding this research study consider the lived experiences of mothers raising children with …
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Young women's narrative accounts of experiencing social aggression in adolescence
… were interviewed using a modified collaborative narrative method (Arvay, 2003). Interviews were transcribed and interpreted in narrative form to preserve the unique voice and experience of each participant. Five themes emerged through a process of categorical-content analysis as described by …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
This study uses a narrative analytic approach to explore the similarities and differences between pre-Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment firsthand accounts of madness in order to answer the question; what is the relationship between madness, narrative, understanding, identity and recovery? …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… novel in the world, which uses an ambiguous narrative method and the concept of the grotesque body. Contemporary women's writings still employ similar strategies, though more direct and effective. From the beginning of the twentieth century and through the development of consumer society, …
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A human rights violation during the South African transition: documenting narratives of the 1993 Highgate attack in a support group context
… of human rights to examine how group members' narratives were shaped by their experiences in the support group. Qualitative research in psychology provides the guiding epistemological framework for this study. Two sets of individual interviews were conducted with group members; and these were …
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Reading and re-reading young adult memoirs : a narrative study with pre-service and in-service teachers
In this dissertation, I describe a narrative study in which five pre-service and in-service teachers read and re-read three young adult memoirs and discussed their responses in a series of book group meetings. The purpose was to examine how teachers discuss young adult memoirs, what they might …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… feminist participatory approach and qualitative narrative method. Eleven female nurses were asked for their stories of acts of resistance. The narratives were analyzed using an approach that combined the methods of other narrative researchers. The narratives of these eleven nurses revealed their …
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William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins
… in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling, and retelling, and its attention to curses, genealogies, covenants, and nation-building, reverberate in Faulkner's time as resoundingly as in any preceding it. There are myriad links in Faulkner's …
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The Man with the Bag: An Autoethnographic Exploration into Practitioner Experience of Working in the Activation Paradigm During Ireland’s Housing Crisis.
… open myself up to writing through it, using the methodology of autoethnography as a vehicle for reflexivity. Using evocative vignettes, I share stories of the people I am meeting through the course of my job, documenting the hopelessness and anger I feel towards the system. Contemplating leaving …
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Through illusion into transcendence : a narrative criticism of the Bhagavad gita
… this investigation examines the use and form of narrative elements within this dialogue to determine how they contribute to its potential effectiveness and message construction. Previous research has indicated that story telling is an integral format for the transmittal of Indian transcendent …
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