"Or I May Live...": Meaning-Making and Mortality

<p>This project examined the ways in which dialogical processing of the fact of one’s own impending death impacts meaning-making in day-to-day life. Taking a qualitative approach, the thesis builds from five in-depth interviews and follow-up surveys with students in higher education. In reviewing the role of death education in public school settings, the study concludes that an enhanced emphasis on love of learning, creative thinking and community engagement in public education is the most effective way for educators to support students in building appropriate skillsets to create meaning in their lives, as well as in the face of their eventual mortality.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Bright, Hannah

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jennifer Lucko, PhD
• Shadi Roshandel, PhD

• meaning-making
• meaning
• death
• mortality
• creativity
• learning
• community
• education
• life
• change
• Elementary Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/masters-theses/348

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:masters-theses-1360