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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"oral stories"”.
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… this evolution, I primarily draw on traditional oral stories alongside the works of Louise Erdrich and Winona LaDuke, including <em>Tracks</em>, <em>Four Souls</em>, <em>The Round House</em> and <em>Last Standing Woman</em>. To close, I demarcate the trend of American television shows to …
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Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study of Stories Told by Pre-service Teachers
<p>Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… Indigenous critical geography, and Indigenous histories are foundational for this project. The presence of the buffalo is found within Indigenous oral stories, literature, art, and other forms of expression. Specifically, the dissertation engages with the representation of buffalo’s role in …
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Native American Secondary Female Students' Perspectives On School Success
… contribute to their success; and (b) to document oral stories students shared about their experiences through transcribed interviews. The information gathered was intended to support educators in understanding factors contributing to school success for Native American students. Students …
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Story as an Approach for Facilitating a Knowledge Management Innovation
… of organizational story begs us to discover when stories work best and why. Is there a best practice for creating and telling stories? This study examined one organization's use of storytelling as a means of facilitating an innovation and what happened from the perspective of the storyteller. The …
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Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement
… order to a new democratic dispensation. Oral stories are essential to this process as they contain memories of recent history that contribute significantly to contemporary political and social life, which in tum shape the future. The stories of the activists who comprise this study …
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Criticism, Pedagogy, Practice and Facilitation in Children's Literature, Drama and Oral Storytelling
… conference speaker, researcher, workshop leader, oral storyteller and drama director in the United Kingdom and abroad. His experience informs much of his writing.<br/><br/>He published regularly throughout his time at Exeter on several aspects of his field. A common element underpinning his …
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Literate Attachments in a Multilingual Kindergarten: A Case Study
… strong and sustained involvement with books, oral stories, poems, and songs. In addition to the emotional attachments described by other researchers, these children exhibited aesthetic and intellectual attachments. Many of these attachments were socially constructed. Group aesthetic …
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Until lions learn to speak... placing the African oral tradition at the centre of power, knowledge, and media
… of knowledge production, specifically the oral tradition, have largely been undervalued and ignored. As such, what is a vibrant, complex and active tradition of African orality in the pursuit and preservation of knowledge has been relegated to the back rooms of academia and scholars are not …
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A comparison of fifth-graders' oral and written stories
… has not offered a comprehensive analysis of both oral and written stories. My study, therefore, identified and analyzed the differences between eighteen fifth-graders' oral and written stories. I also conducted interviews to determine students' perceptions of their preferred composing situation …
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The institutional forces that impact on the understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the form of social partnerships in the Peruvian Mining industry
… traditions and seeking understanding of their oral stories. The findings from this study regarding the regulative elements, indicate that, whilst in Peru there is no specific law that promotes social partnerships, the government has developed an ecosystem of law that promotes social …
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Engaging with the ‘modern birth story’ in pregnancy: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s experiences across two generations
… but also in the milieu of other women’s stories. For the purposes of this thesis the birth story (described as the ‘modern birth story’) encompassed personal oral stories as well as media and other representations of contemporary childbirth, all of which had the potential to elicit …