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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"self-identities"”.
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Acculturation as a Mediating Factor between Ethnic and Self-Identities
<p>Is acculturation a mediating factor in self- and ethnic identity among ethnic minority emerging-adults? A conceptual model was tested examining links between self and ethnic identity and acculturation. An association was proposed between perceived social support, affirmation and belonging, and …
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Emerging Self-Identities and Emotions: An Exploratory Study of Ten Saudi Students’ English Writing Experiences
… experiences and their effect on L2 possible self and identity. The study pays particular attention to the role of experience and emotion and the way they influence and shape Saudi students’ perception of themselves as English writers over time and in various contexts. The study also takes a …
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Self-identities of young people on a course for those who are not in education, employment or training
… situation. This research therefore explores the self-identities of a group of twenty seven young people on a course for those who are NEET in an area of the Midlands. The views of these young people were captured through the use of ethnographic research. While these young people attempted to …
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Finding one's own place in transnational lives: life trajectories, careers, and self-identities of Japanese young people who studied abroad
… establish their way of lives, work careers, and self-identities. The interviewees are 12 Japanese people including 3 males (roughly 18-40 years old), who are current or former students of ESL (English as a Second Language) schools or community colleges in several cities in the US, and have stayed …
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Identity as discursive practice : historical, social-cultural and political interactions in understanding workers' identities in tea plantations in Sri Lanka
This study examines how the self-identities of workers in Sri Lankan up-country tea plantations are produced, reproduced and modified in their day-to-day interactions. According to the social constructionist assumptions underpinning the research, I suggest that individual self-identity is how …
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Making art to make identity : shifting perceptions of self amongst historically disadvantaged South African artists
… how historically disadvantaged artists shift self-identities through artmaking beyond previously racialised, hierarchised and essentialist constructs in a transforming New South Africa. Fieldwork research involved direct observation, working with artists on art projects, and interviews with …
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Social Capitalisation in Quest of Recognition: Egypt and Qatar in the 2010s
… by significant others of a state’s important self-identities, a regime may embark on a quest for recognition by leveraging social capitalisation processes. The thesis deploys the theory in Egypt and Qatar during two episodes in which they faced misrecognition of important self-identities of …
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Leaving journalism: Self-identity during career transition for female former Kentucky reporters
… affected their personal and professional self-identities, what about journalism was meaningful to them and what is meaningful in the work they do now, and what values and beliefs did they hold as reporters, and do they still hold them. </p> <p>Discussion: Thematic data analysis revealed …
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The impact of a teaching practicum on the selves of cooperating teachers.
… Because the study focused on aspects of the self that included identity, role, perspectives, relationships and emotions, I used symbolic intercationism as a theoretical framework. I decided that semi-structured interviewing was the most effective method of accessing the selves of the teachers …
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Egyptian nationalism, 1882-1919 : elite competition, transnational networks, empire, and independence
… composed of multiple overlapping and contingent identities. Furthermore, this thesis will draw attention to inter-and intra- elite rivalries between power bases within Egypt, including the office of the Khedive, the urban elite, landowners, European powers, and Ottoman representatives; and the …
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Spheres of Influence: Understanding International School Choice in Malaysia
… school choice, and attitudes to cultural and self-identities within the context of international education. Findings suggest that Malaysian parents from different age groups as well as varying ethnic and linguistic backgrounds had similar motivations for sending their children to an …
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Acting out: a performative exploration of identity, healing, and wholeness
… the queer individuals relationship to his/herself, their community, and to the society at large. Specific concepts addressed include, mystory, dramatic structures (i.e. framing, juxtaposition, polyvocality) and poetry. Anecdotes from each show, coupled with actual textual examples from the …
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Participation in SOS Outreach: a positive youth development program
… youth with opportunities to develop positive self-identities and life skills that they can apply to other areas of their lives. Studies have demonstrated positive outcomes of these programs, but have also shown that youth participation is key for gaining these benefits. Many youth drop out of …
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Islam and the West : Problematizing a Discourse of Dualism
… their own ideological beliefs, reinforce their self-identities, and represent their respective values as universal. As a result, each group views the other as threatening and necessarily oppositional. An analysis of key terms and phrases used by influential scholars, political and religious …
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Reforming the state by re-forming the family: imagining the Romantic mother in pedagogy and letters, 1790-1813
… instill social consciousness and foster national self-identities in their children, thereby changing social power structures. Early-childhood education tracts thus produce an ideology that elevates mothers as contributors to free nations in a peaceful Europe. The correspondences of two Romantic …
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Islands of culture : the experiences of post-secondary Cree language teachers
… pedagogy. The study demonstrates that the self-identities of First Nations' students were enhanced when students learned and acquired the cultural and historical background of nêhiyawêwin or Cree language. When First Nations students developed mutual trust and honesty within their learning …
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Encountering Globalization: An Ethnographic Study of Women and Television in China
… consisting of hybrid contents, as part of their self-identities as modern Chinese women. While their efforts are usually contained within the constraints of existing gender politics, these women are nevertheless carving a space beyond existing limited codes for ideal womanliness in Chinese …
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Queering Addiction
… to create a sense of an embodied normative self-identity. These sought-after self-identities come with bodily limitations and histories through which the addict has been medicalized and pathologized. In this sense, addicts challenge universalizing norms even while they repeatedly experience …
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Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity, and Law
… of Hegel's conception of freedom as a theory of self-realization that is historical, not metaphysical, that represents a substantive move away from the voluntarist tradition, and that points to a broad practical rationality culminating in communal self-reflection. Hegelian freedom demands that …
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'Ukuba yindoda kwelixesha' ('To be a man in these times'): Fatherhood, marginality and forms of life among young men in Gugulethu, Cape Town
… While many men have been able to create positive self-identities and roles, those with whom I worked have struggled to attain socially sanctioned ideals of masculinity, work, parenting and partnering. They inhabit forms of masculinity that rest on danger, even as they desire social approval. …
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