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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"narrative self"”.
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Engaging the angst of unemployed youth in post‐industrial Japan: a narrative self‐help approach
… are adopted: 1) participant observation in a self‐help group where unemployed youth with ikizurasa gather to help themselves by sharing their own narratives, and 2) indepth interviews of ten participants of the group. This thesis argues that the term ikizurasa is a reflection of individualised …
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Integrated arts as a transformational medium of instruction in KwaZulu-Natal schools : a narrative self study
Thesis in compliance with the requirements for the Doctor’s Degree in Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2012.
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A narrative self-study : how do I demonstrate my multi-cultural origins in my art of fashion?
Submitted in partial fulfilment for the Masters in Technology Fashion, Durban University of Technology. Durban, South Africa, 2014.
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Learning From the Lives of Others: A Social Analysis of Human Exemplarity and Imitation
… relationship between the socially dependent narrative self and the already impulsive ideas presented by the examples of other human beings. The third topic deals with the meanings of imitative action. I explore some of the factors involved with constructing the meanings of imitation and argue …
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21 skin lies & the naked truth : short fiction
… synthesize multiple voices, perspectives and narrative modes. 21 Skin Lies ... is concerned with investigating personal and textual transitions, the interchangeability of pronouns (and therefore identities) and the search to order fragmented experience into sense. It explores the journey …
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Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being
The ‘loss of self’ trope is a pervasive shorthand for the prototypical process of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the popular imagination. Turned into an effect of disease, the disappearance of the self accommodates a biomedical story of progressive deterioration and the further medicalization of AD, a …
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Reading the personal: Toward a theory and practice of self -narrative in student writing
… personal essays as rhetorical projects of self-representation. The debate over the role of personal writing in composition studies has created a binary opposition between a modernist transcendent notion of self and a postmodern discursive subject. As a result, the complex issues of self and …
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"Sometimes, I think I might say too much": Dark Secrets and the Performance of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
… of the role of support groups in shaping self perception and the influence of the private body on this process.</p> </p>
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… of auditory surveillance, and the imposition of self-observational and self-disciplinary practices as constitutive of artistic, scientific, and everyday life. In doing so, I show how distinct elements of modern soundscapes and corresponding techniques of listening informed both the key thematic …
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Of symposiarchs and doorkeepers: theorizing cultural appropriation and authenticity
… their cultures, histories and identities through self-representation have emerged in relation to representation in a number of other disciplines including visual art and literature. The perceived need for "control" over the authenticity of cultural images through self-representation as a …
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Autobiography: theory and practice
… and expectations of ‘authenticity’ in narrative self-portrayal. It addresses conflicting notions of autonomy and reliability in present, past, perceived and actual subject identities, followed by considerations of narrative continuity, inclusions and omissions, and the insidious nature …
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Moral responsibility for character
… incorporates Daniel Dennett' s notion of a 'narrative self', is that we are to a significant extent 'morally responsible selves'. My conclusion is that we are morally responsible for our characters only if (1) we are to a significant extent morally responsible selves and (2) we identify with …
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Memory, language, self and time : personhood and relationship in dementia
… of how the entanglement of language, memory, self, and time in contemporary Western thought shapes assumptions about the personhood status of elderly persons with dementia and their capacity for meaningful relationship. The ethnographic data that informs the study was drawn from a three-month …
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Losing and Regaing Self: A Narrative Inquiry of an African-Ameircan Woman in the United States in the South
This self-study uses narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 1994, 2000) to explore my autobiographical experiences and journey in education “through the telling of stories” (Bloomberg & Volpe, 2008, p. 11; Clandinin & Connelly, 1998). Utilizing narrative forms of personal reflection and …
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The Experience of Being a Collaborative Writer
This qualitative self-study narrated and analyzed my experience of writing an academic textbook collaboratively with 2 other authors. Social constructivist theory and the idea of cognitive apprenticeship provided a conceptual framework. In this study, I compared my experience with the benefits, …
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Re-authoring Empathy: Constructing Narratives of Empathic Understanding and Engagement in Higher Education
… of empathy in order to become more conscious and self-aware in our understanding of how we each learned empathy. These experiences, brought forward into the present, create hope and possibility for new self-knowledge. This new self-knowledge supports the embodiment of empathy in a teaching …
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Living with chronic illness. A biographical analysis of a family's account.
… address the effect chronic illness had on the ¿self¿ and ¿identity¿ of these three women and to determine what extent and impact the illness process had on the relationships within this family. The study used open-ended biographic narrative interviews to elicit data. The research revealed that …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… where he claims that not everyone is Narrative by nature and that there is no reason to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking over time that is an inherent mental activity and essential for experience of one’s Self. I make my …
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Five go to academia: narratives of becoming
… believe shaped the becoming of their workplace self. The individual stories are narrated, and then discussed collectively to encourage dialogue and deepen understanding. This inquiry is set against the context of previous research that focusses on the impact neoliberal policy and practice places …