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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"figured worlds"”.
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Identit(ies) and Agency: College Students' Navigations of Sexuality and Gender in Complex Figured Worlds
… especially from identity and agency in cultural worlds (Holland, 1998), from which to understand the ways in which individual student experiences are shaped, influenced, created, reflected, and/or formed in relation to the climate that they perceive. Rather than viewing identity through a …
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Exploring the figured worlds of teachers and pupils in the primary mathematics classroom: Five illustrative cases
… mathematics classrooms through the lens of a figured world illuminate significant and influential differences in pupils’ experiences. This study focuses on five distinct episodes in five different year 2 primary mathematics classrooms. Stimulated recall using video recordings, eliciting both …
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Talking back: the dialogical identities of dyslexic students in the figured worlds of the university. A narrative enquiry
… by employing Holland et al.’s notion of the Figured worlds (FWs): how people form their identities through their interactions within a historically and culturally constituted context. This theoretical framing is employed to explore how students come to understand themselves and their dyslexia …
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It’s All Connected: How Teachers and Students Co-Construct Spaces and Figured Worlds through Literacy and Language Events and Practices
… 1974/1992) and Holland et al’s (1998) theory of figured worlds, the researcher analyzed classroom data in the form of field notes of classroom observations, audio and/or video recordings of classroom observations, classroom artifacts, Facebook postings to the Connect group page, and interviews …
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Negotiating theory and practice with preservice English/language arts teachers : an examination of burgeoning understandings and practices of multicultural education
… diverse, urban schools. Employing the frame of figured worlds, this research strove to tease out how preservice teachers negotiated the complex and varied worlds through which they traveled when learning to teach, and to document their movement from novices committed to equity to those capable …
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Fractured Practices: How Schooling Norms Limit Modeling Practices in Traditional Technical Thermal-Fluids Engineering Courses -- And the Possibilities Emerging through the Cracks
… part, by adapting the theoretical framework of Figured Worlds. Originally developed by Dorothy Holland and later used in Engineering Education research, figured worlds is a situative framework that allows researchers to look at distinct, sometimes contradictory cultural worlds within the same …
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Constructing early graduate careers : navigating uncertainty in transition
… and has adopted the anthropological theory of Figured Worlds, as a novel lens to consider how individuals author themselves in an economic context characterised by uncertainty. Findings reveal the considerable identity work engaged in by individuals in reflecting upon their situation. …
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Enacting professional identity : an exploration of teacher educators’ entanglement with educational technologies in FE
… negotiate professional identity within the figured worlds of FE. Although underrepresented in research, the literature indicates that this group has an important role in achieving government objectives for improved learner outcomes. This study’s findings suggest that teacher educators …
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Walk Like an Egyptian: Belly Dance past and present practice in England
… formation, in particular Holland et al’s “figured worlds” (2001), it is possible to critically frame the development of a practitioner’s Belly Dance identity over a period of time. The research presents the case that Belly Dance in England has an identifiable past and present practice, one …
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"No one reads in our house": Exploring the challenges faced by parents with limited literacy skills when helping their children with school-based reading activities at home
… courses. Second, I apply Holland et al.’s (1998) Figured Worlds theoretical framework to my data corpus to explore how the participants in my study have constructed their identities as readers, within the figured world of home-school practices. Through viewing my data through this lens, I note the …
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Girls and A level physics : identity and choices
… of the girls that takes place in the many figured worlds that they inhabit. Particular notice needs to be taken of how girls’ identification with physics develops due to interactions with teachers; how physics plays a part in the discourse of achievement and how society in general …
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'Figuring and becoming': developing identities among beginning nursing students
… themselves, at the intersection between the Figured Worlds of practice and education. This represents an arena where they author their present and future selves, using individualised and unique stories to buffer conflicts and establish affiliations. Each participant created a rich and …
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Storied Lives: Exploring English Language Learners' School Experiences
… Trouble with JanCarlos. In Just Like Me, I use figured worlds (Holland et al., 1998) and positioning theory (Davies, 2000; Harre & van Langenhove, 1999) as analytical frameworks to present how the students rely on their positions as English language learners in an ESL program, on the ESL …
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Young girls' lived experiences of 'going online': an exploration into the relationships between social media use and well-being for primary age girls
… how interactions in both the online and offline ‘figured worlds’ (Holland et al., 1998) of blogs influence children’s identity formation as they ‘figure’ out who they are at this pre-adolescent stage. This thesis adopts a mixed methods approach, combining interpretative phenomenological analysis …
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Exploring the Uses of Cultural Funds of Knowledge Among Ethnic Minority Immigrant College Students in Their Constructions of Learning Identities Within a Collaborative Photovoice Project
… (Stetsenko, 2004), and identity and agency in figured worlds (Holland, Lachiotte, Skinner & Cain, 1998). Findings from this study supported conclusions found in these literatures by emphasizing learning as a collaborative process. However, this study expanded on these literatures by …
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Twelve Tales of Engineering in the "Real World:" Narratives of Newcomers' Agency in Transitions to Engineering Work
… to Work study (Paretti et al., 2021). Using the figured worlds framework of identity development (Holland et al., 1998), I investigated the structures of work, which constrained who newcomers could become, and newcomers' agency, which they used to improvise identities within those constraints. …
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Cultivating a Caring, Environmental Self: Using the Figured World Concept to Explore Children's Environmental Identity Production in a Public School Garden Space
… and narrative analysis methods are employed. The figured world concept is used to theorize and study the caring, environmental identities taken up and enacted by the children in this context. Through participation in emergent provocations, the creation and leveraging of garden artifacts, and …
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From textbook adoption to implementation: investigating teacher agency amid educational reform in Vietnam
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype
<p><em>“Dropouts” Drop In</em> aims to challenge conventional views of both “dropping out” and “dropouts.” When young people “drop out” of high school, they open themselves up to a world of negative assumptions and blame, which are directed at them from the outside and are also deeply internalized. …