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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"self-narrative"”.
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Reinventing the Self: Narrative Persona in Five Autobiographical Works of Viktor B. Shklovsky
… tone the narrator uses when talking about himself and his family. In addition, he makes clear in these works that he is first and foremost a man of letters and that literature is the most important thing in his life. The five works examined here represent an experiment in autobiography. …
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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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The Role of Autoethnography within Anthropology (How Self Narrative is a Useful Research Tool in Social Science)
… social and cultural phenomena with the self as central. Its primary contribution to the extant literature is to provide a robust analysis of literature and texts, which fall broadly under the Autoethnography heading in order to contribute to the conversation of the place of …
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Shaping the present, crafting the past: imaging self-narrative in the life and work of Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
… woodblock print tradition and his self-identification (and self-narrative) as a ‘master of kabuki actor prints’ (nigao-e shi).
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Good to great: a framework for improving instruction In a ninth grade academy
… and repeating each cycle in a spiral of self-reflective cycles. The data was captured through qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies. The study is written as an autoethnographic self-narrative and is a self-reflective study of my leadership. The findings of this study …
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Continuity, constellation, and unworking: an exploration of language in Nietzsche
… the last text, <em>Ecce Homo</em>, writing and self-narrative emerge as dominant nodal points in this changing constellation of language.</p>
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A case study of two administrators from an NGO who developed from novices to experts
… officer (CEO) of the organisation as well as the self narrative as compiled by the administrators.This research questions formalised learning as the only form of acquiring knowledge and accordingly adopted workplace learning as a theoretical framework for the study. Workplace learning stresses …
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The School to Prison Pipeline from the Inside Out: Survivor Narraitves
… pipeline is lived? (2) How do their narratives illustrate the impacts of exclusionary discipline policies, such as zero-tolerance, on educational opportunities and life outcomes? (3) How does the researcher's extensive experience as a special education teacher provide insights into …
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Shifting: the creation and theoretical exploration of a collaborative autobiographical novel
… The novel, written from a male and female narrative perspective, has alternate chapters which tell the story of an Italian migrant boy and an Australian-born girl growing up during the 1950s and 1960s. The story deals with physical, emotional and psychological changes in the lives of the …
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The subjective experiences of disagreeing with one's diagnosis of schizophrenia – a phenomenological study
… superordinate themes were identified: (I) A self, independent of psychiatric labels, (II) Stigma and being part of society, and (III) Moving away from “mental illness”. Superordinate theme (I) centres around making sense of one’s experiences and creating a coherent self-narrative that can be …
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Knowing ourselves : an emerging dialogue between nature and leaders
… movement in the meaning making of their evolving self-knowledge, self-identity, and self-narrative. This research exploration is supported by constructive developmental theory and informed by complexity leadership theory, and considers the importance of a sense of wonder in the unfolding of this …
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Psychosis: an exploration of intergenerational narratives and family processes
… highlights the important role that family narratives play in how an individual makes sense of themselves and the world around them. Family narratives can also impact how a person makes sense of their illness. Among individuals experiencing psychosis, families play an integral role in their …
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Darbas vyrų dominuojamose užimtumo srityse: moterų patirtys, dirbant IT sektoriuje Lietuvoje /
… in Lithuania, revealing their „Project of the Self“ narrative. A comprehensive literature review has been carried out, which discusses the challenges and various social, structural, psychological, and cultural factors affecting gender inequality, and helps to identify the barriers and …
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The strategic development of one man and his business : A reflexive approach.
… is a reflexive study, presented in the form of a self-narrative covering a span of around fifteen years.Literature within the dominant paradigm is examined for its usefulness in describing the expected characteristics of small businesses and their owner managers but the lack of explanation behind …
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The Life of the Mind: An Intellectual Biography of Richard Hofstadter
… were formed towards the end of his career. The narrative pervades of Hofstadter as the archetypal New York intellectual who rejected his youthful radicalism for political conservatism which, in turn, shaped his consensus vision of the past. These assessments reflect the biographical tendency to …
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The Sufi As The Axis Of The World: Representations Of Religious Authority In The Works Of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725)
… speculate argue that the particulars of Hakki’s self-representation can be viewed as early indications of institutional anxiety and contested leadership within the Celveti Sufi order, which split into subbranches in the latter part of the eighteenth century. My study situates Bursevi’s writings …
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Images of Violence from Mexico: A performance art based enquiry
… I express my work as practice and the use of myself as a participant. These aims have been informed by the blurring of perceptions of space, authenticity, and notions of the global and local; by designing a theoretical framework informed by the concept of ‘Capitalismo Gore’; by traversing a …
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Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942
… define their own ethnic identities or senses of self. However, an examination of the lives of Nisei who were children and adolescents before their Second World War internment demonstrates that binary enculturation greatly oversimplifies the transnational links between Japan, United States, and …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… counters the capitalist and patriarchal urban narrative whilst the shadow of the Algerian War renders, as in Resnais, a similar implicit reflection on (anti-)colonialism. Varda’s Nausicaa (1970) combines autobiographical narrative and a documentary on Greece’s coup d’état, enquiring into …
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Career Narratives of Women Professors in South Africa
… were audio-taped and then transcribed. Using narrative analysis, the interview transcripts were then analysed. The processes of analysis and interpretation were informed by the theoretical underpinnings of the study, which was located within the ambit of feminist post-structuralism and social …
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