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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"personal narrative"”.
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Tattoos as Personal Narrative
… discover whether tattoos anchor an individual's personal narrative and help to solidify an individual's sense of self. The study considers both modernist and postmodernist concepts of identity, but ultimately supports a perspective which argues that identity is the result of an individual's …
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Emergence of an art education philosophy through a personal narrative inquiry
… links between who I am, the art I make, and my personal art teaching philosophy. In using personal narrative inquiry as my research method, I have constructed an account of my lived experience as a person of ethnicity. The narrative is the result of the compilation of memory fragments. The …
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Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay
For my MFA, I aimed to reflect on my personal experiences and family history through the medium of a film essay and installation. By showing it in a public space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is …
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Navigating choreographic transitions through the use of personal narrative and storytelling an investigation into the choreographic process and performance of 'I stumble every time (2010)'
This dissertation aims to analyse the choreographic processes during the making of the dance theatre performance ‘ I stumble every time...’ which was performed as part of my Masters in Choreography as a practical examination held, at Joseph Stone Auditorium in Cape Town, South Africa in October …
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Examining Teachers' Perceptions of the United States Social Class System
… and interpretations of social class: their own personal narrative /identity construction and the mindset of poverty. Personal narrative/identify construction includes the participants’ experiences from family life as well as interactions with friends, colleagues, students and their families. The …
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Examining Teachers' Perceptions Of The United States Social Class System
… and interpretations of social class; their own personal narrative /identity construction and the mindset of poverty. Personal narrative/identify construction includes the participants experiences from family life as well as interactions with friends, colleagues, students and their families. The …
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The dancer in nature
… the neuroscience of dance. The thesis integrates personal narrative and descriptions of dance performances with scientific discussion of the art form. Greater scientific understanding of the art of dance is needed in order to improve teaching practices and decrease injuries to dancers.
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Toward a Deeper Awareness: Becoming a Mindful Educational Leader
… mindful educational leadership. This Scholarly Personal Narrative (Nash, 2004; Nash & Bradley, 2011; Nash & Viray, 2013) study provided a conceptualization of what it means to be a mindful educational leader. The conceptualization came from the application of a review: of mindfulness; of …
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Rhetorical Autobiography: A Narrative Analysis of Aleshia Brevard's The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey
… as a rhetorical genre and to explore the personal narrative of Aleshia Brevard, an MTF (male to female) transsexual. The critical analysis employs a form of narrative criticism created from the work of several rhetorical critics. Narrative coherence is examined through looking at Brevard's …
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Landfall
… becomes inextricable from an interrogation of personal and familial relationships. The power of such bonds seems to defy any satisfactory explanation, but by drawing on personal narrative as well as on the natural world, these poems begin, cautiously and in fragments, to approach and confront …
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Square Halos: A Thesis
The work of Richard W. James explores themes of personal narrative creation and cognitive dissonance as affected by the influences of culture and religion. In first person narrative, this thesis paper discusses the body of work created for his thesis show in March, 2016. Specifically, this paper …
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Connectedness and autonomy in parent-child relationships: Links to children's socioemotional orientation and peer relationships
Personal narrative conversations between mothers and their 5-year-old children (N = 192) were videotaped at home and rated for the qualities of connectedness between the dyad and the parent's support for the child's autonomy. Connectedness was found to predict the children's socioemotional …
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On Unstable Ground: A Journey in Time, Memory, and Place
… per se. Rather, it is a history told through personal narrative. Each essay-chapter revolves around a particular experience that I had living in that country—a point of contact or clash—that magnified an important aspect of El Salvadors character. Cumulatively, the essays piece together the …
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The Object of My Abduction
… "The Writer's Journey”. The third part is a personal narrative examining the many graduate school experiences that have helped shape me into the writer I am today. Together, these three parts are presented in such a way as to showcase both my mastery of writing and my understanding of the …
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The Impact of Academic Climate on Black Women's Experiences in Higher Education
… in academia, which also constitute her own personal narrative, since she herself is a living testimony of the institutional isms that many women of color endure while obtaining their graduate degree. The research design incorporates a critical narrative analysis of self-reflective interviews …
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Mapping the Dream: A Poetics of Remembering
The Things Downriver is a personal narrative drawing upon the lyric as a pathway to map dreaming. Devoting a year to mapping dreams of childhood recollections, the writer focused on interludes when she and her younger brother spent summers with their paternal Italian American grandparents on their …
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The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art of Making Do
… study mixes performative writing, poetry, and personal narrative with the ethnographic methods of participation observation and interviewing in order to tell a story of an amateur performance poetry community and what it can teach about how to resist the constraints of contemporary …
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