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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"authentic voice"”.
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This post is sponsored but all opinions are my own: does fashion blogging offer an authentic voice? An investigation into the credibility of fashion blogger sponsored content and blogger perspectives on the tensions between authenticity and commercialisation.
… upon their practice and on the credibility and authenticity of their blog output. This study takes an interpretative, qualitative research approach with a combination of an online questionnaire and in-depth interviews. It focuses upon over 300 fashion bloggers divided into three distinct groups: …
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A woman of letters : an examination of the character of Margaret Paston through a selective reading of Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century
… by the letter form, to the identification of an authentic "voice" in the letters of a woman who was probably unable to write, and to the constraints of an incomplete historical record. Margaret is viewed by means of her own words and her relationships with her immediate and extended family, and …
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Voices of Midlife Tomboys: A Narrative Study
… tends to mute the positive sense of self and authentic voice of young girls in our current culture, and midlife tends to relax these restrictions, allowing self and voice to emerge once again. Many women in their middle years rediscover the spirited, independent, and competent identity left …
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Changing her tune : how a transsexual woman claims a new identity through voice
The human voice is an important indicator of a person's gender. For male-to-female transgender individuals (or transsexuals) the voice is one of the most difficult parts of the gender transition. Males have larger and heavier vocal apparatuses (larynx and vocal folds), which generally produce a …
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Is Anybody Listening? How Can Young People with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties influence their own Post School Transition Process?
… learning difficulties (PMLD) did not have an authentic voice in planning their post-school opportunities although government legislation states that young people should participate in their own post school planning. I regard this as a human rights issue. Prior literature tends to address …
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Reclaiming virginity, liberating desire : a study of three women's novels
… on the other hand struggling to articulate an authentic 'voice' beyond the confines of patriarchy. The discovery of an autoerotic awareness linked to the motherdaughter relationship, introduces virginity as a legacy of spiritual embodiment enjoyed by all women at all stages of their lives. The …
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Americhicano
… <p>The last section titled, “Imitation and True Voice” discusses the ways in which a writer grows and continues to grow. The idea here is that we do not have a “true” or “authentic” voice, but rather that we are the culmination of voices and identities that are constantly in flux. This last idea …
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The Lived Experiences of Transmasculine Speakers: A Phenomenological Investigation of Vocal Quality and Function in Relation to Gender
… perceive the quality and function of their voices, and how those perceptions influence how they experience gender identity and communicate with others. This qualitative study adopted a hermeneutical phenomenological approach that involved using content analysis and thematic analysis to …
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The Role of Self-Determination and Co-Construction to Support Meaningful Student Participation in an Individualized Education Program Meeting in High School
… express interests and goals through their own authentic voice. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe the experiences and participation of two high-school students labeled with intellectual disability or autism at their Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings …
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The Role Of Student Voice And Choice In Learner-Centered Competency Reform
… the center of their education. Giving students authentic voice and choice has potential to engage these most important stakeholders in educational reform. This qualitative case study set in eleven upper elementary classrooms in one school, explores the opportunities for voice and choice as …
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Understanding therapeutic support for adoptive families through the golden thread of attachment theory, constructionism and creative arts therapies
… form to reflect her expertise and convey her authentic voice.<br/><br/><b>Results: </b>The findings indicate a strong interconnection between attachment theory, constructionism, and creative arts, which collectively foster positive transformations for adoptive families. For organisations …
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"The Fantastic And Magical Realism In The Contemporary Mexican Short Story As A Reflection Of ""lo Mexicano"""
… national psychic identity and his search for an authentic voice with which to express that identity in the contemporary short story. The first part of the study, titled "Background and Theory," is divided into three chapters. In Chapter One, an overview of some of the historical and political …
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Seeing Biomedically: the Routine Grounds of Translation in Patient Oriented Research
… of disease. One doctor presented the patient’s authentic voice of experience at an international medical conference. The doctors considered themselves dedicated to normalizing patients and preventing the difficulties and challenges of social exclusion. Yet, an ethnomethodological analysis of …
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The Discovery of Self Through Creative Exploration
… a confidence based upon knowledge. Developing an authentic voice grounded in experience leads to an ability to nourish and expand the learning of others. I had proposed to continue with my artwork and develop a body of work and present that work in a public venue. The following is an ichnolite of …
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The Discovery of Self Through Creative Exploration
… a confidence based upon knowledge. Developing an authentic voice grounded in experience leads to an ability to nourish and expand the learning of others. I had proposed to continue with my artwork and develop a body of work and present that work in a public venue. The following is an ichnolite of …
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Displaced romanticism: searching for the self in J.M.Coetzee's autobiographical fiction
… realities inhibits the Romantic yearning for an authentic sense of self, even while he reformulates the idea of authentic voice as the expression of a politically and historically compromised subjectivity. Finally, in the last chapter I turn my attention to the authorial imprint that derives from …
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A study on the role of the parent in educational decision making from the perspective of parents and teachers
… have to be employed in order to give parents an authentic voice in educational matters and provide an avenue for parents to acquire the necessary skills and lmowledge needed to do so. As schools, school boards, and the Ministry ofEducation implement parent involvement guidelines and policies, …
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Between the market and the state: the regulatory reform of community housing in New South Wales - contractual, proprietary and governance frameworks
… these arrangements. This thesis considers: the authentic voice in participation; the cultivation of solidarity; and the development of community. This thesis found that current reforms hold promise in potentially embedding these features but that more needs to be done during this dynamic and …
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The professional life of the school science technician: the daily reality lived in schools and the virtual community of their professional websites
… changes on technicians, leaving them without a voice and vulnerable to change. Yet science technicians have alternative spaces where they can communicate, collaborate and create a close professional network. The aims of this thesis are: to reveal the work undertaken by science technicians; to …
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The genesis of poetic prose in the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine through the transgressive and maieutic agency of the figure of the Double
… use of a maieutic method for eliciting truth or authenticity in his work is evidenced in the high level of poetic prose as its outcome. It is also extant in the effect that the author's prose has on the reader in eliciting an active response in the form of a participatory reading of Celine's …
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