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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Narrative methods"”.
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A phenomenographic study of lived experience in a residential street in a small city in the Scottish Highlands
… in small, complex, urban spaces drawing on narrative methods, social ecological resilience and phenomenography. The research also makes recommendations for policy and practice in the consultation process for urban planning initiatives.<br/>The area is a historic residential area on the …
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Emerging identities in contemporary South Africa : six individual identity narratives from central Cape Town high schools
… Discourse analysis was combined with narrative methods; the former determined the discursive environment in which the students are embedded, and the latter investigated how individuals are positioned within this environment, and how they interact with this positioning. Focus groups in …
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Comparison of Narrative and Class-Based Abc Data Collection Procedures
… psychologists' ABC data collection compared to narrative recording methods. Results indicated that class based recording methods were not significantly better compared to narrative methods, but school psychologists frequently used imprecise recordings. School psychologists require additional …
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Inspiration for Healing and Reclaiming Cultural Wellness and the Spirit of Indigeneity in a Colonial “Canadian” Context
… Indigenous research methodology, exploratory narrative methods, and thematic analysis, the narratives from seven wellness experts and seven wellness role models uncovered four themes of the process of colonial trauma healing; 1) the Spirit of Indigeneity call to healing, 2) purging colonial …
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The hermeneutics of social identity in Luke-Acts
… his ethnically universalist tendencies and his narrative methods of communication. Specifically, social identity is formed through the use of prototypes and exemplars, characters that resemble a quality that the group either desires to promote or eliminate. Luke communicates many of these facets …
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He Vā: Possibilities in Moana Relationships: Pūrākau with five Pacific educators
… Aotearoa-New Zealand. The participants and I use narrative methods of talanoa (Samoa/Tonga/Fiji) and pūrākau (Māori) to bring to life day-to-day practices that exemplify care and nurture (the cultural-ethical) and negotiation (the political) potentials of the vā. Five philosophical lenses assist …
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Exploring literacy and technology with middle school English teachers: Articulating understandings of knowledge and teaching practices
… views of literacy in their classrooms. This narrative inquiry qualitative study consisted of three open-ended interviews, written literacy narratives, and multiple classroom observations with each participant as well as the collection of various teacher documents, such as lesson plans, …
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Positionality Matters: School Choice Decisions Based on Ethnographic Accounts of African American Parents
… qualitative inquiry presented is an exemplar of narrative methods that approached relevant evidence in a compelling way to frame research that brought facts and findings to bear on people’s sentiments and personal beliefs about diversity, fairness and equal education for all.</p>
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Empathy in Clinical Nutrition: A Qualitative Study of Students, Interns, and Dietitians’ Perspectives
… training, and early practice continuum. Methods: This constructivist-interpretivist qualitative study of semi-structured interviews employed content and narrative methods to analyze the perspectives of students (n=7), interns (n=10), and early-career dietitians (n=12) on the construction …
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discovered by the Process: A Methodology for Twentieth-Century Moral Fiction
… of the moral enabled through deployment of form, narrative methods, rhetorical and linguistic devices, and literary techniques. My method is to select texts in which particular thematic moral issues appear especially salient, but then, through a careful rhetorical and narratological analysis of …
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Shhhuicide Stories: A Crip Critical Analysis of Attempt Survivors' Narrations of Suicidality
… picture. In critically analyzing firsthand narratives of suicidality as they are shared by attempt survivors, this work blends crip theory frameworks with narrative methods to better understand how people experience suicidality, what brings them to attempt, and how treatment for survivors …
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Untold Narratives: Realizing Personal Design Identities
… agency and structure, and political and personal narratives. The hypothesis is that the structures embodying students’ relationships — the self and society, the self and others, and the self and self — are all essential to how design identities develop, yet these relationships are often …
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Embodying Liberatory Education: The Values and Hopes of Asian Non-Binary and Women Movement Makers
… focus group sessions, and reflective arts-based narrative methods, I learned with and from 12 Asian movement makers in Seattle that 1) their politics were informed by their personal experiences 2) their commitments were to intergenerational and intersectional care, and that they seek a liberatory …
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Presencing Settler Colonialism: White Settler Girls’ Engagement with Colonial Violence
… women and girls. Using feminist, qualitative, narrative methods, I conducted twelve in-depth, semi-structured interviews with white settler girls, aged fifteen to seventeen, living in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay and Montreal. My analysis of the interviews offers critical insights into white settler …
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN OPPORTUNITY: FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGAGEMENT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN THE U.S. CORPORATE WORKPLACE
… engagement. Using a phenomenological design and narrative methods, 15 participants across industries shared their lived experiences through in-depth interviews. Findings revealed participants frequently encountered exclusionary norms, including pressure to mask cultural identity, tokenism, …
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Gardening across the life course : A qualitative study of the meaning of everyday gardening and its links with well-being
… is influenced by phenomenological, biographical, narrative, and grounded theory approaches. Thematic analysis builds on narrative methods and on case by case comparison. The analysis indicates that most of the meanings associated with gardening emerged in childhood and include „escape‟, „fun and …
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Examining the Utility of Life Narratives for the Assessment of Personality Pathology in Emerging Adults
… 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 phenomenologically rich account of the self as a story, holding the …
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Implementation of Environmental Education in senior phase: a survey of cluster schools
… to teach as compared to others. The teaching methods used by educators in teaching environmental education were to be identified. The study was conducted amongst six (6) primary schools and two (2) high schools in one cluster. There were thirty (30) educators involved in the study. The …
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Host Families’ Perspectives of the Impact of the Commodification of Education on the Student-Host Family Relationship in Study Abroad
… semi-structured interviews and analyzed using narrative methods for within-case and a cross-case analysis to identify recurrent themes.</p> <p>The findings reveal that participants define their contributions as far exceeding the provision of accommodations. They indicated they function as …
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Individuals and society in transition: a narrative study of parents’ use of smacking
… in recent years. Within this qualitative study, narrative methods have been used to explore relationships between societal change and individuals’ own biographical narratives of growing up and becoming parents and for some, becoming health visitors.At the heart of this study ‘small’ stories of …
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