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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"family narratives"”.
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Memorable family narratives
<p>Memorable narratives are highly under-studied in the world of family communication. By understanding what memorable messages entail and what a story is, we can bridge that gap and explain a narrative. In this study, 13 participants were recruited and interviewed. Only participants over the age …
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The Textile Archive: curating personal histories and family narratives
… for their ability to prompt personal and family histories and stories, in a phenomenon identified within the study as the personal textile archive. Textile design research is increasingly concerned with incorporating interdisciplinary social and cultural frameworks within its traditional …
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Traumatic Family Narratives in a Cosmopolitan World: Identity in American Third Generation Holocaust Survivors
<p>Examines what role traumatic family narratives play in identity formation of subsequent generations. Considers transmission processes of memory and history. Specifically focuses on identity of adult (age 18-40) grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in America juxtaposed with identity of adult …
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Family narratives of child-to-parent violence and abuse: lifting the veil of secrecy.
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Autoconstruccíon as a modality for life and pedagogy: Learning to self-construct through family narratives
In this paper, I explore my family’s history to identify patterns of self-construction, or autoconstrucción. Through years of convivios and pláticas, I have collected stories that connect our family’s vulnerabilities to a larger narrative that paints life as messy and de-skilled. By thinking …
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Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
… interest in how individual perspectives affect family narratives and constructions of family history. Narrative exists chiefly in story form, but it also exists in people's mind, helping them to understand material culture, customs, and other forms of folk expression. These folk ideas define us …
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Psychosis: an exploration of intergenerational narratives and family processes
Research highlights the important role that family narratives play in how an individual makes sense of themselves and the world around them. Family narratives can also impact how a person makes sense of their illness. Among individuals experiencing psychosis, families play an integral role in their …
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung- Und Aufarbeitung In Der Verlorene, Am Beispiel Meines Bruders Und Pawels Briefe
… Germany has caused an increase in the number of family novels since the reunification. Also, the need to preserve and consolidate the memory of events that took place during the Third Reich as the war generation begins to pass on has informed the proliferation of family narratives by the post-war …
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The Interspecies Family: Attitudes and Narratives
… utilized to examine a widespread contemporary family form, the interspecies family. This mixed-method approach relied on both quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data. First, survey data from the 2006 Constructing the Family Survey were analyzed to understand who in America …
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Preparation for school art: young children's meaning making practices in out-of-school settings
… multimodal and dialogic site where family narratives, identity and childhood aims and intentions converge. It is argued that when art oriented adults, who seek to promote their child’s artistic growth, are sensitive to the dynamics of child meaning making, especially those that …
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An exploration of London based second generation Sierra Leoneans’ family mental health narratives and their relatedness to personal narratives of mental health
… and to review what informs their personal narratives about mental health. Giving consideration to the unique experience of migrant families straddling two cultures, the research aims to explore these phenomena by investigating how the family narratives of second-generation Sierra Leoneans …
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Which discourses underpin long-term, autistic/non-autistic romantic couples’ understandings of their relationship as they live with and accommodate each other? A critical discourse/narrative inquiry
… were given the opportunity to tell their narratives in a variety of forms, through interviews, emails, stories and with photographs and mementoes as prompts. These forms inspired the way that the data was retold in the research using a variety of styles reflecting the narrative choices of …
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Use of Family Life Review with Older Adults and Families Adjusting to the Late Life Transition of Relocation
… living facilities are growing in popularity. A family life review intervention, with an older adult resident and a selected family member, was facilitated to support older adults transition to assisted living through mutual storytelling and acceptance. Sixteen dyads participated in one, …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers explore personal narratives as narratives of culture against the backdrop of collective memory and historical and cultural …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers explore personal narratives as narratives of culture against the backdrop of collective memory and historical and cultural …
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In the Shadow of the Family Tree: Narrating Family History in Väterliteratur and the Generationenromane
… lives, but on the lives and experiences of their family members, particularly those who lived during the NS era. In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between two waves of this autobiographical writing, the Väterliteratur novels of the late 1970s and 1980s in the BRD, and the current …
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Cultivating Genius: A Narrative Journey of At-Promise Youth at a P-TECH Early College High School
… cultural wealth, and how students utilize family narratives to promote abolitionist teaching practices. Findings suggest the P-TECH programs assist students in defining their self-awareness by understanding what youth know about themselves, igniting actions by knowing what to do to move …
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Parts Tethered Elsewhere
… of cross-genre creative work inspired by family history, this thesis looks to redefine home by the intangible parts of it that we carry with us, and by parameters that encompass movement and rootlessness rather than simply permanent settlement.</p>
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Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain
… radical change brought on by an outer event, narratives of conversion to Islam convey a sense of continuity, where conversion happens as a natural, almost inconspicuous development of faith. The process of conversion is thus presented as a cumulative acquisition of knowledge, which is in line …