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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"institutional narrative"”.
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… observation to examine the construction of narrative identity by the staff members and worker-members of a workers' rights organization in Northwest Arkansas. I seek to understand how the organization negotiates the broader cultural and institutional narrative identities with the personal …
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Intersections Between the Life Stories of Internationally-Trained Immigrant Women and Institutional Narratives of Immigrant Success in Ontario
… and integration policy. Using Lindes (2009) institutional narrative to conceptualize how these video stories of successful bridge training graduates can serve as templates and tools of socialization for skilled immigrants who are seeking to re-enter their fields in Ontario, the analysis …
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The Effect of Emotions on the Acceptance of Reclaimed Wastewater for Irrigation: A Key to Manage the Hydric Balance in an Arid Region of Spain?
… The study challenges the prevailing academic and institutional narrative of balance achieved through reclaimed wastewater by analyzing the perceptions of farmers and water managers, in addition to highlighting the risk related to the acceptance of reclaimed wastewater of low quality. The findings …
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Making records ready: responding to the Scottish child abuse inquiry.
… For the care leavers, state legislators and institutional corporate parenting bodies of the past, the present, and in the future, their dependency on the legal and moral dimensions of recordkeeping as a national and institutional narrative is key. The study supports the conclusion that …
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Navigating the Streams and Currents of an Emerging Institutional Form: The Causes and Effects of a Community College S.T.E.M. Coalition
… coalition, coupled with a myopic and hegemonic institutional narrative, allowed individuals outside the college to guide and direct the activities of the institution with relatively little dissent. Because of the lack of orchestrated inter-organizational coordination and agreement, the objective …
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
… overwhelmingly used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, simplify the intricate nature of the disability construct within …
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Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865 - 1955
… College. The primary goal was to produce an institutional narrative of Storer College that acknowledged the depth and dimension of its 90-year history, and recognized its three utmost administrators: the Doctors Brackett, McDonald, and McKinney. The inquiry incorporated a broad range of …
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Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future
<p>The institutionalized dehumanization in the United States continues to allow for people who are categorized as intellectually disabled to be legally warehoused and paid as little as pennies per hour to complete rote, repetitive work within segregated environments. An entire court case was …
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Voluntary sector chargeable support services: A typology of actor worldviews of legitimacy.
… of legitimacy against the backdrop of a shifting institutional environment that increasingly favours charging front line organisations (FLOs) for support services that were previously provided free at the point of use. It employs an institutional lens to explore the linkages between actors, …