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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Narrative enquiry"”.
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Narrative enquiry into the physical literacy journeys of further education young ambassadors
… to a better understanding in this context. The narrative data obtained from the interviews underwent thematic analysis, facilitating the identification of emergent key themes. As a result of the coding framework, the researcher categorised themes as, 'desire for significance,' 'personal reward,' …
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Tales from the diaspora : a narrative enquiry into second-generation South Asian Britons
I present a qualitative study using the narratives, elicited through interviews, of seven second-generation South Asian Britons; five men and two women, aged at the time of the interviews between 35 to 50 years. My participants are higher professionals who have married out of their ethnic and …
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Talking back: the dialogical identities of dyslexic students in the figured worlds of the university. A narrative enquiry
… cultural contexts of school and university. A narrative enquiry was undertaken in 2020 with ten dyslexic students attending the same UK post-’92 university. Derived rapport chain referral was employed to engage with a harder to reach group of dyslexic students than represented in previous …
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Becoming Prospective Medicine Students. A Case Study of Access to Medicine Students’ Descriptions of Their Experiences of a Further Education Course in the UK as Determined Through Narrative Enquiry and Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
‘Becoming prospective medicine students' is about how ‘Access to medicine’ students at a college of Further Education (FE) in England describe their experiences of the course and how they become positioned through discourses as they prepare to progress from an ‘Access’ course to medical schools. …
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Mother as curator: performance, family and ethics
… ethics and the mother-artist, family and narrative enquiry, the home and sited practices. It consists of a written dissertation, three full (larger) scale installations set within the family home, Trace (2013), Reclaiming the Ritual (2014), 31 Days Old (2016), and a series of smaller works …
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South African Public Secondary School Administration Machinery: A Case of Three Educational Institutions
… nature within the qualitative research paradigm. Narrative enquiry and interviewing techniques were employed to generate data. Out of the population of 15 public secondary schools in Mopane District in Limpopo Province, South Africa, three were conveniently sampled and in each secondary school, a …
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The Role of Educational Institutions in Development and the Economy: A Human Resource Perspective
… nature within the qualitative research paradigm. Narrative enquiry and interviewing techniques were applied to generate data. Out of a population of 13 public secondary schools in Vhembe District, in Limpopo Province, South Africa, three were conveniently sampled. In each of the three sampled …
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Coaching in the grey space, exploring boundaries, ethics and complexity
… practice and to safeguard coachees/clients. The enquiry considers the experiences when working with coachees/clients on stress management, resilience and personal development, particularly focusing on moments where the boundaries between therapy and coaching may intersect. An action research …
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Becoming an ethical leader: The leader development journey of South African chartered accountants in business leadership
… training. The study followed a qualitative narrative enquiry approach, conducting interviews with seven CA business leaders. Narrative stories were compiled using the interviews and triangulation using secondary sources. The analysis was completed with the lens of the Leader Development …
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Teacher career motivation and professional development in special and inclusive education in China
… facilitated the identification of cases for narrative enquiry. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) was applied in data analysis and discussion. The key findings are as follows: First, teachers researched were mostly extrinsically motivated. Some were amotivated (unwilling) and were regretful of …
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Women's experiences in the gendered environment of outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand : "I felt a need to prove my right to be there" : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Adult Education, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
… This research was undertaken using a feminist narrative perspective. Purposive sampling was used to identify women who had worked in outdoor education for a significant length of time. Semi-structured interviews were held with each woman to gather their experiences told through their own …
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Stories of Resistance to Religious Authority: A Discursive Analysis
… acts of resistance. A discursive approach to narrative analysis was developed and applied to transcriptions of these interviews. This analysis identified a range of discursive technologies which had contributed to the subjugation of the participants and protected the hegemony of discourses …
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“Tension, Frustration and Compromise in the Field” An Exploratory Study of the Habitus of Educational Technologists
… adopted was influenced by both arts based and narrative enquiry, designed to capture the voice of the practitioners using focus group discussions prompted by a range of visual media. Grounded theory guided the subsequent analysis of a rich collection of opinions, values, beliefs and motivations …
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Motherhood experiences through transformations : narratives of intergenerational continuities and changes in post-Communist Poland
… to social liberalism. This thesis is based on a narrative enquiry aimed at examining the impact of these shifting socio-historical contexts on mothers' lives in Poland through a focus on two groups of women who became mothers before and after 1989. This thesis examines the presumed new …
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Everyday enactments of humanity affirmations in post 1994 apartheid South Africa: a phronetic case study of being human as occupation and health
… a method and the object of study, along with narrative enquiry to generate storied exemplars. Maximum variation sampling aimed for heterogeneity of participants. The stories which made up the instrumental collective case were selected on the criterion of encountering likely resonance within …
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Evoking Belonging: Enlivening Ubuntu As Social Sculpture for Cultural Transformation towards Ecological Citizenship in Sustainable City Making
… as a 100% practice-based doctoral research enquiry in the field of contemporary Social Sculpture and Connective Practice. Through the research practice, I have formulated the Evoking Belonging approach comprising the Ubuntu Practices. These are informed by my Evoke theory of inclusive and …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
… interrelated elements that outline the linear narrative of the research as well as the conceptual and methodological developments. The first part of the thesis outlines the global challenges in fashion production and consumption. The second part introduces and applies ethnographic methods to …
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Memoryscapes of belonging: tracing black women's bodies and interior lives in postcolonial city making
… and architecture, and that of story. Using narrative enquiry and creative methods of analysis as qualitative research method, the research asks questions about how belonging is negotiated by black women in a postcolonial city. The thesis starts by introducing four strands of literature that …
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An Investigation Of The R&D Anomaly In The U.S. And Europe: Implications For Mispricing Theory
… and architecture, and that of story. Using narrative enquiry and creative methods of analysis as qualitative research method, the research asks how belonging is negotiated by black women in a postcolonial city. The thesis starts by introducing four strands of literature that inform the …
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Respect & Recognition: What’s the Story?
… of the research participants were accessed using narrative enquiry in one to one interviews. The research produced is qualitative and gleaned from the stories these individuals shared concerning their learning journeys, both in childhood and as adults. The primary sensitizing concept used in this …