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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"auto/biography"”.
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Towards the light : A fictionalized (auto) biography
Towards the Light - - at times biographical, autobiographical, and basically fiction - is built out of anecdotes supplied to me as the result of direct questioning of my parents and relatives, and from my own memories of past experiences; from private 'on the ground' observations both in Western …
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Auto Biography: A Daughter's Story Told in Cars
Auto Biography is a creative nonfiction memoir: A daughter, forced to move her unlovable, ever-combustible, wheelchairbound mother cross-country in an RV, attempts to come to terms with her via the automobiles of their lives. The story explores: 1) the universal dilemma of caring for aged …
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The individual, auto/biography and history in South Africa
… about the relationship between history and biography were developed in relation to the life of the Unity Movement leader, I.B. Tabata.
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The 'author' in theory and documentary practice: authorship, (auto)biography and shared textual authority
… conventionally auteurist readings of the (auto)biographical and oral history documentaries included in this submission. These discrete but interlocking discussions form the major sections here, together with a brief introduction and conclusion. An appendix lists the candidate’s relevant …
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Autobiographical constructions
This thesis is an organization of my thoughts on autobiography as it concerns my own life and my work as an artist. It incorporates the study I have made of traditional elements of autobiography. It includes a discussion of my understanding of the process of self - definition and discusses how my …
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Midwives and mothers : reproductive identities and experiences
… the perspectives of midwives and mothers. Using auto/biography this research emerged from my own embodied experiences of reproduction, childbirth and midwifery. It questions how experiences of reproduction might shape the identity of the midwife and the relationships between midwives and mothers. …
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Come to Your Senses, Remember Belongings: A Pedagogy of Making, Memory and the Haptics of Home
… a circuitous material journey to a sensual biography of place. It culminates in two exhibitions, Her Place and What was Learned There, and Her Place-Scraps, distinct drawing installations of graphite rubbings on tracing paper, assembling a feminist response to familial vulnerabilities. The …
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‘At Least I wasn't in an Inner-City Flat with a Partner I Hated’: An Auto/Biographical Study of Reflections on Well-Being by 35-65 Year Olds in Cornwall Following the Covid-19 Pandemic
… semi-structured interviews and researcher auto/biography to investigate the mental health experiences of middle-aged, single adults living in Cornwall in the UK during the pandemic. In the pandemic literature, this is an under-researched, and therefore potentially less understood, group and …
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(Dis)Locations, (Dis) Placements and (Un) Belonging in Zimbabwean White Farmer's Auto/biograhies 1995 to 2010
This study interrogates white auto/biography and exposes the ambivalences, ambiguities, paradoxes and dilemmas that arise in the claims for belonging and the premises for the authority behind such claims. It gestures to white autobiography and biography writing as an opening to what in Zimbabwe has …
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Towards auto/pedagogy:A reflexive auto/biographic case study of professional learning mediated by technology
… 1980s to the present day, this thesis uses the auto/biographic method developed at CCCU by Linden West (e.g. West, 2004), in combination with a personal, reflexive dialogic hermeneutic redolent of the epistemological approaches of liberation theologians in the 1970s and 1980s, to evaluate …
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The doctor will fix everything : intersexuality in contemporary culture
… I situate medical discourse, fiction and (auto)biography as forms of narrative within a contemporary culture, and I examine how each narrative form respectively creates and contests what it means to be "intersexed". Various representations of intersexuality interest me for their ability to …
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Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
… there is only one existing attempt to produce an auto/biography, one by ZK himself and edited with memoirs by Monica Hunter Wilson. The name of the book is Freedom For My People published in 1981. I analyze the circumstances of the production of this book. And secondly I point out that the …
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Primary Teachers' Understandings Of The Nature Of Science And The Purposes Of Science Education
… the emergence of professional identity from an autopoietic network involving auto-biography; values; dispositions; beliefs; personal theories; self-image; knowledge of and relationships and discourse with children and colleagues; curriculum, subject and pedagogic knowledge: images of teaching …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… the study of individual lives. This political biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's (re)unification process in 1989/90, which was a prime example of a nationalist event. However, Kohl's nationalism …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… the study of individual lives. This political biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's (re)unification process in 1989/90, which was a prime example of a nationalist event. However, Kohl's nationalism …
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An Exploration of Religious Practice as a Valued Occupation
… and considered within practice. Method: An auto/biographical overarching research orientation is used to encompass a reflexive awareness of my own experiences as a Christian. And I take an occupational science perspective to explore religious ‘doing’. This is achieved by the use of a facet …
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Heteroglossia and ‘hagiography’: authorship, authorisation and the collective/ individual couplet in different every time and associated public works
… public works, including my authorised biography of the British musician Robert Wyatt. The contribution to knowledge is twofold. Firstly, there is the fact that, despite his status as a musician, mine is to date the only Robert Wyatt biography, while one of my journal articles has at …
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That night, this life: essays from a South African story
… witnessing, narrative, pain, forgiveness, home, auto/biography, memory. They also include whiteness, for both Neville and I are white South Africans coming to postcolonial terms in the land that is our home. It is inimical to creative nonfiction that its practice foregrounds ethical …
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Crafting Lives: The Evolution of Identity in the Works of Zhu Tianxin and Kapka Kassabova
… writing as located on the continuum between auto/biography on the one hand and fiction on the other. Each writer's life and writing are considered as a whole, an intertwined and complex entity. This responds to the extreme biographical tendency in the prevailing criticism of both writers …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… literature, nationalism, history, politics, auto/biography, architecture and urban studies. This interdisciplinary research includes an analysis of three Israeli commemoration plaques, the examination of Israeli real estate websites featuring 'Arab-style' homes, the study of three contrasting …
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