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Burch, Sarah. "Narrative and negotiation within structured interviews with older people." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400800.
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Bamberg, Stefan. "Holocaust und Lebenslauf Autobiografisch-narrative Interviews mit Überlebenden des Konzentrationslagers Theresienstadt /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-77899.
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Perez, Christina. "Narrative Abilities and Resistance to Suggestion in Monolingual and Bilingual Children: Implications for Forensic Interviews." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1556563428655542.
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Kiernan, Patrick James. "Deconstructing narrative identity in English language teaching : an analysis of teacher interviews in Japanese and English." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/164/.
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This thesis is the third of three modules, and explores narrative identity in interviews with English language teachers. It offers an analysis of how speakers used linguistic resources to construct identities for themselves during life story interviews. Both interviewer (the author) and interviewees (21 native English speakers and 21 native Japanese speakers) taught English in Japan. All interviews were conducted in the interviewee’s native language. The analysis therefore consists of a contextualised cross-linguistic description of the linguistic resources employed by speakers for expressing identity. I use this analysis to address the role of the ‘native speaker’ in English language teaching in Japan (introduced in Module 2) through a fresh analysis that includes the perspectives of ‘non-native’ teachers. In terms of theory, this module offers a response to the general question: ‘What differences are there between narratives told in Japanese and English?’ (posed in Module 1). In turn, my answers to this are used to inform pedagogic proposals (the principal focus of Module 1) on the development of a pedagogic model of narrative suitable for Japanese learners of English.
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Mattsson, Elin. "The Narrative Identities of QueerPeople of Color : Interviews with Queer People of Color in Long Beach, CA." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-87215.
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Queer people and people of color are two groups that are exposed to much stereotyping and discrimination in the United States. When these two identity labels coincide they sometimes conflict. In this study, five queer persons of color were interviewed on their identities and their life stories, to find out how they create their identities through narratives, negotiating and rewriting the meanings of social categories. Using Johnson's Quare term as inspiration,and analyzing the data with the use of Riessman's performative narrative analysis and Muñoz's Disidentifications, I find several common tropes of identity creation and performance as well as practices of resistance and disidentification. I then discuss the word Queer as used by respondents to label practices and attitudes that can be considered disidentifying.
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MARQUES, DEBORA. "NARRATIVE ENGAGEMENT AND GUILT MITIGATION IN POLICE INTERVIEWS AT A POLICE STATION SPECIALIZED IN CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25327@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Nesta tese, analisamos a mitigação da culpa coconstruída, discursiva e interacionalmente, por inspetores de polícia, suspeitos e vítimas em interrogatórios policiais de uma Delegacia da Mulher. Para isso, ancoramo-nos na Análise de Narrativa e nos pressupostos da Linguística Aplicada contemporânea, de perspectiva construcionista da pesquisa qualitativa. Em nossas análises, olhamos, mais focalmente, para as performances narrativo-identitárias que emergem no trabalho interacional de tentativa de mitigação da culpa frente aos crimes em análise nos interrogatórios. Nesse cenário, mostramos como o engajamento narrativo assume um papel essencial e constitutivo nesse tipo de interação institucional-legal. Analiticamente, lançamos mão de elementos do modelo narrativo laboviano – destacando dele a avaliação (sobretudo o discurso reportado) e a ação complicadora. Esse modelo mostra-se como uma ferramenta producente para entender como as histórias são coconstruídas por suspeitos e por vítimas e como elas configuram-se como um meio discursivo-interacional para tentar mitigar agência e responsabilidade a fim de buscar mitigar a culpa: suspeitos buscam distanciar-se, interacional e discursivamente, da confissão do crime em investigação na Delegacia, vitimizando-se ao responsabilizarem suas esposas/vítimas pela agressão e vítimas, por sua vez, buscam distanciar-se dessa responsabilidade atribuída a elas nas histórias que seus companheiros/suspeitos contam. Nessa mesma perspectiva, nossas análises mostram como o engajamento narrativo dos participantes ocorre como accounts (explicação), já que suspeitos e vítimas usam, interacionalmente, as histórias que contam como uma forma para tentar justificar e prestar contas de suas ações (essas histórias são chamadas, nesta tese, de narrativas-accounts). Dessa forma, mostramos que é contando histórias, avaliando ações e personagens sob sua própria ótica, que narradores – suspeitos e vítimas – constroem confissões e depoimentos, que são tomados como fatos no ambiente jurídico. Ainda, relacionamos construções identitárias, o trabalho confessional e o tipo de atividade em curso, posto que a culpa e a responsabilidade perante crimes são coconstruídas na interação negociada entre os participantes. Face ao exposto, destacamos que entender melhor como a agência e a responsabilidade são mitigadas, discursivamente, pode contribuir para a atuação dos agentes da lei, sobretudo, daqueles que participam de contextos investigativos.
In this thesis, we analyze the mitigation of guilt, discursively and interactionally co-constructed by police officers, suspects and victims in police interrogations that took place in a police station specializing in crimes against women. To this end, we adopt Narrative Analysis and contemporary Applied Linguistics constructionist perspective for qualitative research. In our analyses, we focus on the narrative, identity performances that emerge in the interactional work involved in attempting to mitigate guilt related to the crimes analyzed during interrogations. In this scenario, we show how narrative engagement plays an essential and constitutive role in this type of institutional, legal interaction. Analytically, we employ elements of Labov s narrative model – highlighting evaluations (particularly in reported speech) and complicating actions. This model shows itself to be a productive tool for understanding how stories are co-constructed by suspects and victims, and how they serve as a discursive, interactional means for attempting to mitigate agency and responsibility in order to seek to mitigate guilt. Suspects attempt to distance themselves, interactionally and discursively, from the confession of the crime being investigated in the police station, victimizing themselves by attributing responsibility for the aggressions to their wives/victims. Victims, on the other hand, seek to distance themselves from the responsibility attributed to them in the stories told by their partner/suspects. In this same perspective, our analyses show that the narrative engagement of the participants occurs as accounts (explanations), since suspects and victims use, interactionally, the stories they tell as a way of attempting to justify and account for their actions (in this thesis, these stories are called narrative accounts). Thus, we show that it is by telling stories and evaluating actions and characters in their own point of view that narrators – suspects and victims – construct confessions and testimonies, which are taken as facts in the legal environment. Moreover, we connect identity constructions, confessional work and the type of activity in progress, given that guilt and responsibility for crimes are co-constructed and negotiated in participants interactions. In view of the above, we emphasize that a better understanding of how agency and responsibility are mitigated discursively can contribute to the work of law enforcement officers, especially those who participate in investigative contexts.
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Talseth, Anne-Grethe. "Psychiatric care of people at risk of committing suicide : narrative interviews with registered nurses, physicians, patients and their relatives." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96910.
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The aims of this thesis are to illuminate the meaning of being cared for and treated by nurses and physicians, as narrated by psychiatric suicidal in-patients; the meaning of taking care of and treating patient at risk of committing suicide, as narrated by nurses and physicians; and the meaning of being met and having one’s suicidal relative taken care of by health personnel, as narrated by relatives. Narrative interviews were conducted with 42 adult patients at risk of committing suicide in an in-patient psychiatric unit, 19 RNs, 19 physicians, and 15 relatives at a hospital in Norway. The tape-recorded and transcribed interviews were interpreted using a phenomenological hermeneutic method. Nurses’ relations to patients at risk of committing suicide were illuminated via the dimension ‘Distance- Closeness’ (I). The relation of the suicidal patient to the nurses was illuminated via the dimension ‘Confirming- Lack of confirming’ (II). The relation of physicians to patients was illuminated via the dimension ‘Power to - Power over’. (III). The relation of suicidal patients to physicians was illuminated via the dimension ‘Participating approach-Observing approach’ (TV). Results from the relatives’ experiences of being met by health personnel of suicidal patients reveal that the context of being met was characterized by ‘being helpless-powerless’, and that the meaning of the experiences of ‘being met’ was reflected in six themes: ‘Being seen as a human being’; ‘Participating in an I-Thou relationship with personnel’; ‘Trusting personnel, treatment and care’; ‘Being trusted by personnel’; ‘Being consoled’; and ‘Entering into hope’ (V). The interpreted meanings of the experience of being cared for as a person at risk of committing suicide were illuminated as confirmation, communion, consolation and hope. Threaded through these meanings is the relation with self and others. Thus, the essence of the results that emerged from this study indicates the presence of a relational view of the care received by people at risk of committing suicide.Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2001, härtill 5 uppsatser
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Ngabaza, Sisa. "An exploratory study of experiences of parenting among a group of school-going adolescent mothers in a South African township." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8071_1320757415.
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This study explored adolescent girlsâ subjective experiences of being young mothers in school, focusing on their personal and interpersonal relationships within their social contexts. Participants included 15 young black mothers aged between 16 and 19 years from three high schools in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Conducted within a feminist social constructionist framework, the study adopted an exploratory qualitative structure. Data were collected through life histories that were analysed within a thematic narrative framework. The narratives revealed that the young mothers found motherhood challenging and overly disruptive of school. Although contexts of childcare emerged as pivotal in how young mothers balanced motherhood and schoolwork, these were also presented as characterised by notions of power and control. Because of the gendered nature of care work, the women who supported the young mothers with childcare dominated the mothering spheres. The schools were also experienced as controlled and regulated by authorities in ways that constrained the young mothersâ balancing of school and parenting. Equally constraining to a number of adolescent mothers were structural challenges, for example, parenting in spaces that lacked resources. These challenges were compounded by the immense stigma attached to adolescent motherhood. The study recommended that the Department of Education work closely with all the parties concerned in ensuring that pregnant learners benefit from the policy. It is necessary that educators are encouraged to shift attitudes so that communication with adolescent mothers is improved.
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Silva, Vasco da [Verfasser]. "Narrative des Erasmus-Auslandsaufenthaltes: Freizeit, Liebe, Institution : Linguistische Studien zum sprachlichen Handeln in deutschen und spanischen Interviews / Vasco da Silva." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1114640255/34.
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Neri, Bruna Clézia Madeira. "Representações sociais e extrema pobreza : travessias de (r)existência." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/148944.
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Este trabalho propôs realizar um estudo sobre as representações sociais de sujeitos categorizados pelo governo como extremamente pobres enfatizando o que estes nos apresentaram acerca de suas vivências enquanto empobrecidos. A pesquisa qualitativa caminhou no sentido de investigar o que os interlocutores entendiam por pobreza, ser/estar pobre, bem como compreender quais tipos de dificuldades estes sujeitos enfrentam em seu cotidiano. Também buscamos estabelecer um comparativo entre o que o atual governo brasileiro identifica como uma situação de extrema pobreza e como os sujeitos empobrecidos, público-alvo das políticas públicas sociais de combate à miséria, descrevem a situação na qual vivem. Investigamos o que estas políticas propõem, de que forma são implementadas e quais os critérios utilizados para estabelecer categorizações sobre o universo da extrema pobreza. Através de entrevistas semiestruturadas, capturamos fragmentos de narrativas de vida dos interlocutores e, com aporte teórico-metodológico da Teoria das Representações Sociais, bem como de autores que discutem a problematização do conceito de pobreza, construímos uma análise das falas, elencando oito dimensões de sentido estruturadas a partir do que os entrevistados apontaram em suas falas ao relatarem as durezas de seus cotidianos.This work proposed to conduct a study of the social representations of subjects who were categorized by the government as extremely poor; emphasizing what the interviewees presented us regarding their life experiences as impoverished people. The qualitative research was developed aiming to investigate what the interlocutors understood by poverty, be/being poor, as well as understanding of what types of difficulties these subjects face in their daily lives. We have also sought to establish a comparative between what the present government identifies as an extreme poverty situation and as the impoverished subjects, target group of the social public policies to fight poverty, describe their current life situation. We have investigated, as well, concerning what such policies propose, how they are implemented, and which criteria are employed to establish categorizations regarding the extreme poverty universe. Through semi structured interviews, we were able to capture interlocutors’ fragments of life narratives, and, with the theoretical-methodological support from the Social Representations Theory, as well as from authors who discuss the conundrum of the poverty concept, we have analyzed the speeches, and listed eight dimensions of meaning that were structured from what the participants showcased in their discourse when reporting their daily hardships.
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Mcgregor, Kirsty. "Adolescent intimate partner violence : exploring the experiences of female survivors." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/adolescent-intimate-partner-violence-exploring-the-experiences-of-female-survivors(7ea7896c-40d5-472a-acdd-df8e621f3a3b).html.
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This research contributes to existing knowledge of intimate partner violence (IPV) by highlighting the lived experiences of female adolescent survivors through the examination of the lived experiences of seventeen participants. Framed within an intersectional feminist epistemology and informed by psychoanalytical theories, a hybrid of the Free Association Narrative Interview method (Hollway and Jefferson, 2001) and the Biographical Interview Method (Wengraf, 2002) was applied, allowing an in-depth analysis of the young women's adolescent experiences of IPV. The female participants' narratives highlighted significant levels of psychological, sexual and physical violence by various male partners, suggesting that gender is indeed a mediating factor. These experiences reflect Johnson's Typologies of Domestic Violence (2008). In addition, consideration of other intersecting factors, such as age, socioeconomic demographic information, familial exposure to IPV and previous IPV victimisation, highlighted the necessity to consider all factors when determining risk and experience (Potter, 2015). This research adds to the debate regarding gender symmetry of IPV perpetration and victimisation, with analysis of participants' experiences suggesting gender symmetry is not experienced by all adolescents, thus further exploration of this phenomenon is required. Similarly, participants experienced severe forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence at each stage of adolescence (early 10 to 13 years; middle 14 to 16 years; late adolescence and young adulthood 17 to 25 years) contradicting the oft held assumption that more severe violence occurs solely in adulthood. Analysis of participants' experiences of informal and formal support, and an exploration of participants' ideal prevention intervention model argues for a public health approach to preventing AIPV, with resources focused on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Ultimately the young women felt that with appropriate education, support and intervention they could have avoided, or at least reduced, their exposure to abuse. Hence in order to reduce and/or prevent adolescents from experiencing IPV resources should be aimed at giving young people the information, skills and abilities to resist gendered inequalities and unhealthy relationship behaviours, and promote healthy and happy romantic and sexual relationships.
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Günther, Susanne, Levke Heitmann, and Sibylla Kukuck. "Third Culture Kids? Auslandsentsendung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen." Thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200600739.
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Die Arbeit untersucht die langfristigen Auswirkungen von Auslandsaufenthalten im Kindesalter. Das Interesse richtet sich auf die Frage, welche Rolle der Auslandsaufenthalt für die Identität im Erwachsenenalter spielt. Zu diesem Zweck wurden qualitative Interviews mit Erwachsenen geführt, die in ihren Entwicklungsjahren durch den Umzug von ihrem Ursprungsland in ein fremdes Land – und wieder zurück – Transitionserfahrungen gemacht haben.
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Mahula, Pulane Matsietsi. "Memory, trauma, silences: Narratives of the 1982 Maseru Invasion." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6418.
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Magister Artium - MA (History)The aim of this mini-thesis is to interrogate an incident that happened in Lesotho in 1982, where the South African Defence Force (SADF) invaded the capital, Maseru, under the guise of searching for ANC operatives and killed 42 people thirty of whom were South Africans, while the remaining 12 were Basotho citizens. A particular concern is how traumatic events are represented by witnesses, how they remember or, rather talk, about the event, and the secrets and silences which may arise. A lack of literature on this period of Lesotho's history and the Raid itself has necessitated a wider engagement with Raid as it is the first raid that involved the SADF, perpetrated in Lesotho. The first chapter draws out and highlights the complicated relationships between Lesotho and South Africa and their respective main opposition political parties, namely, the Basotho Congress Party and the overall South African liberation movements including the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. This brings me to conclude that the 1982 Maseru Raid and subsequent ones took place on the back of a period that was burdened with gross human rights violations in Lesotho and, this can be argued to explain why the Raid is not particularly spoken about.
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Drottz, Sandra. "Psykiatrisjuksköterskors erfarenheter av vårdande samtal med patienter som har substansmissbruk : En kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - avancerad nivå, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-16885.
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Bakgrund: Substansmissbruk är ett globalt problem och leder till negativa konsekvenser både för personen och samhället. Antal patienter som vårdats för substansmissbruk inom hälso- och sjukvården i Sverige har ökat de senaste åren. Tidigare forskning visar att substansmissbruk kan grundas i och leda till lidande. Psykiatrisjuksköterskor ger ofta omvårdnad till patienter som har substansmissbruk. Kommunikation mellan psykiatrisjuksköterska och patient sker vanligen via samtal. Forskning har visat att vårdande samtal kan lindra lidande. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att beskriva psykiatrisjuksköterskors erfarenheter av vårdande samtal med patienter som har ett substansmissbruk. Metod: Semistrukturerade narrativa intervjuer via telefon utfördes med elva psykiatrisjuksköterskor. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen mynnade ut i elva subkategorier och fyra kategorier. Kategorierna var drogfrihet som ambition, följsam närvaro, genuin människokärlek och att möta och lindra lidandets olika skepnader. Slutsats: Vårdande samtal kan ha potential att lindra patientens lidande samt tillfrisknande från substansmissbruk. Psykiatrisjuksköterskan behöver ha ett professionellt och personcentrerat förhållningssätt. Det vårdande samtalet beskrivs vara ett samtal mellan två människor vilket för psykiatrisjuksköterskan innebär utmaning i balans mellan närhet och distans till patienten.Background: Substance abuse is a global problem that leads to negative consequences both for the person and for society. Healthcare in Sweden has the last couple of years taken care ofan increasing number of patients with substance abuse. Research shows that substance abuse can both lead to and caused suffering. Psychiatric nurses often give nursing care to patients who have substance abuse. Communication between the psychiatric nurse and the patient is often done by conversation. Research has shown that caring conversations can alleviate suffering. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe psychiatric nurses’ experiences of caring conversations with patients who have substance abuse. Method: Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted by phone with eleven psychiatric nurses. Data is analyzed according to qualitative content analysis. Results: The analysis resulted in eleven subcategories and four categories. The categories were drug freedom as ambition, compliant presence, genuine human love and to meet and alleviate the various forms of suffering. Conclusion: Caring conversations can have the potential to alleviate the patient's suffering as well as recovery from substance abuse. The psychiatric nurse needs to have a professional and person-centered approach. The caring conversation is described as a conversation between two people, which for the psychiatric nurse means a challenge in balancing closeness and distance to the patient.
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Walczuk, Maria. "Tools of Vulnerability : How can tools to access vulnerability be a symbolic key to unlocking the transformative power of resilience in a narrative?" Thesis, Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för film och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-746.
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My film work has revolved around a hypothesis of vulnerability with my artistic research question: in the context of interviews and the larger scope of cinematic storytelling, how can tools to access vulnerability be a symbolic key to unlocking the transformative power of resilience in a narrative? Proposed Methodology: I. The Privilege of Listening II. The Power of Silence III. Trust & Intuition IV. The Light of Vulnerability V. Discovery of ResilienceThis is a written companion piece to the graduation short film, "Rise" by Maria Karin Walczuk.
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Anderson, Fiona E. "Being 50: A psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th
have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the
impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the
UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain
(Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to
experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009)
extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the
experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and
Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear
developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978;
Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004).
Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980)
enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions
about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed
around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear,
deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the
experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life'
which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie'
magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of,
girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How
women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined
within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research
revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as
a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses',
however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the
plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not
supported by the interview material.
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Taylor, Joanne Zaida Godderidge. "Understanding and managing risk : the use of in-depth psychological narrative interviews in the development and evaluation of an innovative new HACCP-based system for catering businesses." Thesis, University of Salford, 2007. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26938/.
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Small catering businesses represent the majority of the food industry and have an important role to play in the control of food borne disease. Since 1995 they have been required by law to operate risk-based food safety management in their businesses, based on the principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP). This was extended to a requirement for formal, documented HACCP-based systems in January 2006. HACCP is a theoretically effective risk management system, which takes a preventative, focused approach to managing food safety. However, it is a resource-heavy, time-consuming system, that is full of complex jargon and requires technical expertise to put into place. This poses a major problem for the majority of businesses in the industry, namely small catering operations with limited resources and technical expertise. This project utilised in-depth psychological research techniques through a 3- year iterative process of development, piloting, evaluation and review of a new risk-based approach to food safety management for the catering industry. In- depth narrative interviews and supporting documentary analysis were carried out with 22 catering businesses to identify the practical and psychological barriers involved in implementing food safety management systems in catering. The businesses were randomly selected from the North West of England and 100% of the original sample agreed to be interviewed when approached. A model of 21 barriers was identified from this work and was used to assist in the development of a new risk-based food safety management system. Six months following the implementation of the new system, the business managers still in post and available were re-interviewed and their documents were assessed. This enabled an in-depth analysis of any changes in their food safety knowledge, attitudes and behaviours as a result of using the system. Three years following the implementation of the new system, the managers still in post and available were interviewed and their documents were assessed a third time to assess longitudinal change. At both the six-month and three-year periods the system was shown to be highly successful in improving knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, and overcoming barriers to food safety management in the catering industry. The new system, named Safer Food Better Business, was officially adopted by the Food Standards Agency in 2005. It is now the recommended approach to food safety management for over 400,000 small catering businesses nationwide.
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Allen, Sarah. "Narratives of Women Who Suffered Social Exclusion in Elementary School." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1405504885.
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Bailey, Etienne Benjamin. "Understanding local public responses to a high-voltage transmission power line proposal in South-West England : investigating the role of life-place trajectories and project-related factors." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17948.
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With a projected increase in electricity demand and low-carbon energy generation in the UK, expansion of the existing transmission grid network is required. In going beyond the NIMBY concept, Devine-Wright (2009) posited a place-based approach that highlights the roles of place attachment and place-related symbolic meanings for understanding public responses to energy infrastructure proposals. This PhD research investigated two overarching and interrelated research aims. The first sought to enlarge our understandings of the processes of attachment and detachment to the residence place by investigating the dynamics of varieties of people-place relations across the life course (people's 'life-place trajectories'), thus addressing the limitation of studies adopting a 'structural' approach to the study of people-place relations. This research, in a second instance, sought to better understand the role of people's life-place trajectories and a range of project-based factors (i.e. procedural and distributive justice) in shaping people's responses to a power line proposal. This research focussed on the Hinckley Point C (HPC) transmission line proposal and residents of the town of Nailsea, South-West England. A social representations theory framework was usefully applied to this research by acknowledging that people's personal place relations and their beliefs about proposed place change, are situated and embedded within wider social representations of place and project. A mixed methods approach was employed comprising three empirical studies. The first consisted of twenty-five narrative interviews, the second a set of five focus group interviews, and the third a questionnaire survey study (n=264) amongst a representative sample of Nailsea residents. Triangulating findings across the three studies produced a novel set of key findings. By elaborating five novel 'life-place trajectories', this PhD research moved beyond structural approaches to the study of people-place relations and made a novel contribution to our understandings of the processes and dynamics of attachment and detachment to the residence place across the life course. This research further confirmed the existing typology of people-place relations and revealed a novel variety termed 'Traditional-active attachment'. Life-place trajectories were instrumental in informing divergent representations of the nearby countryside which were more or less congruent with objectified representations of the HPC project. Future studies investigating place and project meanings should be sensitive to these trajectories. Interestingly, place as a 'centre of meaning' rather than a 'locus of attachment' (or non-attachment) emerged as particularly salient for understanding responses to the project. Project-based factors were salient in informing participants' responses toward the project. A perceived imbalance between high local costs and an absence of local benefits was seen to result in distributive injustice and opposition toward the project. However, improved perceived procedural justice following National Grid's announcement of siting concessions in the spring of 2013, was seen to ameliorate local trust in the developer and project acceptance.
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Anderson, Fiona Ellen. "Being 50 : a psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009) extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978; Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004). Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980) enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear, deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life' which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie' magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of, girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses', however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not supported by the interview material.
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Hayes, Jacqueline Ann. "Experiencing the presence of the deceased : symptoms, spirits, or ordinary life?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/experiencing-the-presence-of-the-deceased-symptoms-spirits-or-ordinary-life(7d77ebab-53c8-43b1-99b5-ea79eec72c36).html.
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Experiences of presence are common in bereavement. The bereaved person may see the deceased, hear their familiar voice, or otherwise feel they are close at hand. But although common, they are experiences not without controversy. They have come under a variety of descriptions, from 'hallucinations', lacking in meaning and even essentially meaningless, to 'continuing relationships', of rich personal significance. The current thesis represents the first systematic investigation of the properties and meaning of experiences of presence. Narrative biographic interviews with bereaved informants were analysed using Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Analytical focus was on the ways in which participants made such experiences meaningful. As a novel approach, this thesis reports several new findings about these phenomena. Firstly, the experiences happened in a variety of bonds (including spouses, parents, grandparents, children, siblings and others), and in a variety of circumstances of the bereavement (including sudden and expected deaths). In all cases, they were described as richly meaningful experiences and as relying on several sources for this meaning. The personal histories of participants were of particular importance in making sense of experiences of presence. Within this context, the experience acquired sense as a continuation of some aspect of the relationship with the deceased. The experiences also had diverse functions, from soothing to destructive. Sometimes, the experiences helped the bereaved to resolve unfinished business with the deceased; at other times, the help was with a much more ordinary problem. On some occasions the experiences of presence caused the bereaved more problems; they simply pronounced the grief or continued a fraught relationship. Participants showed that they had many cultural resources available to them in making sense of their experiences but they did not use all of them. Many informants used some spiritual and psychological ideas to make sense of their experiences. The thesis concludes that many of the most popular theories for these experiences impoverish them by stripping them of their diversity and important aspects of their meaning. The thesis also makes recommendations for psychotherapy for those who have problems of living as a result of their experiences of presence. The study also has implications for psychological research as none of these findings could have been observed through the use of an experimental methodology.
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Song, Mei. "Modeling situated health information seeking and use in context the use of two approaches to grounded theorizing as applied to 81 sense-making methodology derived narrative interviews of health situation facing /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1189183438.
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Webster, Natasha Alexandra. "Gender and Social Practices in Migration : A case study of Thai women in rural Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134565.
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Set within discussions of gender, migration and social practices, this thesis explores the ways in which Thai women migrants to Sweden build connections between rural areas through their daily activities. Arriving in Sweden primarily through marriage ties, Thai women migrants are more likely to live in Swedish rural areas than in urban areas. Rural areas are typically not seen as a site of globalization or as receivers of international migrants. In contrast to these perceptions, the case of Thai women migrants in the Swedish countryside reveals a complex and vigorous set of social practices that connect rural Sweden across spatial and temporal scales. The aim of this study is to explore the ways in which Thai migrant women construct and implement social practices spatially and temporally. Drawing on the life stories of 16 Thai women living in Sweden, along with other sources of empirical data analysed within feminist epistemologies, this thesis discusses: In what ways does gender shape migrant social practices? How are social practices constructed within individual migrant micro-geographies? By what means are migrant social practices contextualized by spaces and places? Thai women migrants are gendered agents of these social practices and are utilizing specific resources, objects and networks to bridge the distances found in their daily lives. The empirical material examined in this thesis points to the importance of women’s everyday social practices in connecting and linking rural areas globally at different spatial and temporal scales. The results highlight the importance of a translocalism perspective to understanding gendered social practices. This study adds to the translocal discussion by demonstrating that social practices are embedded in multiple geographic sites and scales. Thai women migrants, in this study, emerge as significant actors in global countrysides and do the functional work of bringing spaces and places together daily and through their life course. This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and five papers. The introductory chapter outlines the context and theoretical approaches to understanding Thai migration flows to Sweden. The papers share an emphasis on local sites: homes, workplaces and community. They examine different ways that women construct and build social practices – for example, through food, community projects and in developing their businesses.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Submitted. Paper 5: Submitted.
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Roades, Rebecca Nicole. "Dual Consciousness: Identity Construction Among Appalachian Professional Women in Southern Ohio." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317250592.
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Chheda, Bijal Mavji Bharti. "Evaluation of narrative interview as an assessment method." Thesis, University of Hull, 2004. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8080.
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This thesis examines the role of the narrative interview as an assessment method. The main aim of the study was to ascertain the value of subjective and holistic methods of assessment in facilitating and enabling psychological processes. Traditional psychometric techniques of assessment are compared with narrative interviews, based on Bartram's (1990) 'Factors to consider when choosing an assessment method'. Data collection was in two phases. During phase one, 40 participants were administered traditional assessment tasks: Differential Aptitude Tests, Career Interest Inventory and structured guidance interviews. This enabled an evaluation of traditional assessment techniques to allow a comparison of the open-ended narrative interview. For phase two 10 participants from phase one and 30 new participants were administered the narrative interview in order to ascertain its value. Assessment profiles which were formulated, feedback questionnaire results and focus group feedback results portrayed particular strengths of the narrative interview. The narrative interview is seen to provide rich, holistic and deep assessments. It also instilled motivation and encouraged participants thereby facilitating the overall psychological process. The narrative interview thus fulfils aspects of assessment, which traditional assessment techniques fail to provide. The phenomenological and subjective nature of narrative interview aids reconceptualisation of the term 'assessment' from classification and categorization to understanding and exploration.
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Christopher, Justin. "Testimony in narrative educational research: a qualitative interview, narrative analysis and epistemological evaluation." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5730.
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The purpose of this study is to assess issues that arise in the context of epistemological claims in narrative educational research by means of narrative analysis and epistemological evaluation. The research questions which guided the study were: 1) To what extent is epistemology considered by narrative educational researchers?; 2) What issues do narrative educational researchers perceive when capturing participant testimony?; 3) What procedures do narrative educational researchers carry out which assure of methodological rigor?; and 4) What additional procedures, either before, during or after a study, can narrative educational researchers carry forth to assure that the research is the most meaningful for the researcher, the participant and anyone else who reads the research study? I applied multiple methods to address these questions, narrative thematic analysis and epistemological evaluation. Research participants included four narrative educational researchers.
First, based on interviews, and after two rounds of open coding, narrative thematic analysis provided several themes which emerged based on the testimony provided by the research participants. Following the creation of themes, I completed the narrative thematic analysis by discussing how participant responses fit within the themes. Second, I epistemologically evaluated the quality of narrative educational research by relying on epistemological theory and concepts found in philosophical literature. The theoretical foundation for this work arose from developments that largely build and extend from classical reductionist and nonreductionist positions on the epistemology and social epistemology of testimony.
Results from the evaluation provided a mix of strengths and weaknesses epistemologically, and therefore methodologically, in narrative educational research. Positively, I found strength in the methodological approach of building a close relationship between researcher and participant, and strength is found in a level of triangulation to address validity concerns. For weaknesses, I found that too much trust is offered by the researcher to the participant, both in themselves as well as in their testimony. Relatedly, accuracy in recall from memory and the dearth of concern about truth also presented issues. I recommended that in working to assure that trust is offered and justified by both the speaker and hearer, with greater concern to accuracy and truth, testimonial beliefs are more likely to be warranted. Future studies can focus on the inclusion of teachers, students and principals to provide additional insight, and a combining of a rich conceptual framework with a rigorous analytic approach to maintain the strengths of narrative research in education while addressing the weaknesses.
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Lindholm, Johanna. "Sexually exploited youths in the Swedish legal system : Conditions of victimhood." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-116791.
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This thesis explores how the Swedish legal system, specifically the police and district courts, understand and construct cases of human trafficking for sexual purposes and procuring with under-age victims. It draws on police investigative interviews and court decisions in 22 pronounced district court sentences, involving 36 female youths. Theoretically the thesis primarily builds on social constructionism and the sociology of childhood. Methodologically it builds on coding of forensic interviews, narrative analysis and discourse analysis. Study I explores the informativeness of 24 of the 36 adolescents when interviewed by the police. It shows that the adolescents were informative yet evasive, specifically when asked open questions. Experiences of violence and force as well as interviews conducted soon after the police intervention further contributed to evasiveness. Also evasiveness seemed intimately connected to circumstances in each unique case. Study II scrutinises the image of the ideal trafficking victim by asking how the issue of responsibility is handled when police interviews turn to prostitution. It also analyses which interactive and narrative conditions, related to agency and stake, apply for talk in this specific institutional setting. The findings suggest that in order to sort out the ‘real’ victims, the interrogator needs to pull apart the two categories ‘victim’ and ‘prostitute’ even if there may be problems with this clear-cut distinction since the categories tend to blend together. Further, in this institutional setting to talk about sex can be problematic as it may undermine the victim narrative instead creating a subject with interests. Study III explores how Swedish district courts assess the credibility of alleged victims of human trafficking for sexual purposes and the reliability of their testimonies. The findings indicate that the judges base their assessments on the Swedish Supreme Courts’ criteria of how to understand reliability and credibility but they seemed also to be influenced by extra-legal factors relating to victims’ behaviour. Further, the findings imply that the judges used the Supreme Court’s criteria to argue both for and against credibility. By so doing, their arguments supported the decision reached irrespective of how the adolescents reported or what impression they made. In brief this thesis can be said to point to a legal dilemma when law on paper is applied in practice as each unique adolescent must be recognized by the authorities as fitting the administrative category ‘victim’. When put into practice, categories are rarely neat and clear hence such categorizing becomes a phenomenon negotiated in interaction. Also, this legal context sets up limits and possibilities for the adolescents’ agency and this too can be said to have a bearing on if she is, or is not, constructed as a victim. In short, this thesis shows certain conditions of victimhood.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Submitted.
Forskningsfinansiär: Brottsoffermyndigheten genom Brottsofferfonden.
Människohandel/koppleri med barn och unga för sexuella ändamål Vad går att lära av rättsväsendet och brottsoffrens erfarenheter?
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Solon, Lilian de Almeida Guimarães. "A perspectiva da criança sobre seu processo de adoção." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-23022007-171716/.
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As produções científicas sobre adoção, especialmente no campo da Psicologia, em geral são estudos que avaliam as crianças adotadas, muitas vezes comparando-as com as crianças não-adotadas. A criança aparece como foco principal, porém poucos estudos investigam a adoção a partir da ótica da própria criança. Os estudos falam sobre a criança e não com ela. No entanto, enquanto parte constitutiva do processo de adoção, a criança está submetida a uma série de fatores que circunscrevem este processo; ao mesmo tempo em que ela se relaciona com eles, negocia e, até certo ponto, tem a possibilidade de modificar o percurso do seu desenvolvimento. Neste trabalho, defende-se a idéia de que para se compreender os processos de adoção, faz-se necessário conhecer as significações construídas sobre o processo de adoção por parte daqueles que o estão vivenciando. Deixando o âmbito individual da adoção, propomo-nos a investigá-la enquanto relacional, contextual, abrangendo aspectos sociais e culturais, dentro de uma visão de processo. Nesse sentido, interessa-nos conhecer a perspectiva da criança sobre seu processo de adoção, assumindo-a como colaboradora de nossa pesquisa. Para tanto, optamos por um referencial que contemple essa complexidade, daí o trabalho com a perspectiva teórico-metodológica da Rede de Significações. Conversamos individualmente com três crianças entre 6 e 7 anos, que vivenciaram uma adoção tardia, durante seis encontros domiciliares facilitados por um material de apoio. Os pais adotantes foram entrevistados durante uma visita. Todos os encontros foram registrados por meio de gravações em áudio, fotografias dos materiais produzidos pelas crianças e notas de campo. As gravações foram transcritas integralmente e revisadas. O corpus da pesquisa foi composto pelas narrativas produzidas durante as conversas com as crianças, entrevistas com os pais e notas de campo. Entendemos esse contexto de investigação como sendo dialógico, em que as narrativas são construídas e situadas na relação entre pesquisador e participante. Ao narrar, as crianças aprendem sobre si e constroem significados. A partir das perspectivas dessas crianças, aprendemos sobre a relação intrínseca e dialética existente entre o processo de adoção tardia e os outros contextos (o abrigo, a família biológica e o Sistema Judiciário). No entanto, ao mesmo tempo em que evidenciou-se a necessidade de valorizar a história de vida, também evidenciou-se um processo de silenciamento do passado dessas crianças circunscrevendo as práticas associadas ao processo de adoção. Dessa forma, essa ambigüidade presente no processo de adoção tardia nos sugeriu a necessidade de um programa de acompanhamento familiar pré e pós-adoção, em que tanto a criança como seus pais possam ocupar um lugar com direito à voz, e que suas histórias de vida venham a ser respeitadas e valorizadas, assim como as expectativas mútuas entre pais e filhos possam ser discutidas em diferentes momentos.Research on adoption is usually characterized by studies that evaluate the children: they talk about the children but not with them. Few studies have investigated adoption from the children?s perspective. In this work, we highlight the idea that to be able to understand the adoption process, it is important to take into consideration the meanings attributed to adoption from those experiencing it. This research aimed at investigating the children?s narratives about their adoption process. A theoretical-methodological approach called Network of Meanings has guided the construction of this corpus and its analysis. We have talked with three children around 6 and 7 years-old, who have experienced late adoption. Six interviews were made with each child at their own home, having props as external cues. The adoptive parents were interviewed during one visit. The interviews were registered through audiotape, complemented by pictures of the children?s productions and field notes. The tapes were fully transcribed and revised. The analysis was based on the children?s narratives, parents?narratives, and field notes. We understand this investigation as a dialogic context where the narratives are constructed and situated at the relationship between researcher and participant. By narrating, the children constructed meanings about their life history and may have learned about themselves. From these children?s perspectives we found out about the dialectic and intrinsic relationship between the late adoption process and other contexts, such as foster-home institution, biologic family and Judiciary System. While the value of life history became evident, at the same time a past silencing process also became evident, constraining the practices related to the adoption process. Thus, by listening to these children, we recognized the necessity of pre and post-adoption family programs in which children and parents could have voice, respect and value for their life history, and in which their mutual expectations could be discussed at different moments.
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Bres, Jacques. "A la recherche de la narrativite. Fonctionnements narratifs en discours oral. Enquete sociolinguistique par interviews dans une entreprise industrielle." Montpellier 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990MON30019.
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Une premiere partie theorique s'applique a analyser d'un point e vue linguistique trois theorisations du recit : - la theorie semiotique (greimas), selon laquelle la narrativite correspond a l'organisation syntagmatique de la signification ; -la theorie hermeneutique (ricoeur), selon laquelle le recit est reponse poetique a l'aporie de la reflexion philosophique du temps; -la theorie sociopragmatique, selon laquelle les tructures (micro ou macro) du recit sont faconnes par l'interaction narrateur narrataire. A partir de ces trois entrees est developpee une approche praxematique de la narrativite, principalement autour de deux points: -les programmes narratifs sont derives des programmes phrastiques ; -le recit est, a differents niveaux, mise en ascenance du temps dont se construit le sujet. La seconde partie propose es etudes pratiques du recit oral. Apres presentation e la collecte et du traitement du corpus uquel sont extraits les recits soumis a etude, sont analyses la negociation du recit ans l'interaction e l'interview et, plus longuement, la production d'identite sociale dans deux types de recit : le recit de lutte et le recit socio-contresociotypiqueThe first theorical part leads to analyze from a linguistic point of view three theorisations of narrative: -the semiotic theory : (greimas), according to which narrativity corresponds to the syntagmatic organization of sgnificance; -the hermeneutic theory : (ricoeur), according to which narrative is a poetic response to the dead of philosophical thought about time; -the sociopragmatic theory according to which narrative structures (micro and macro) are modelled by the narrator listener interaction. We develop, from these three approaches, a praxematic approach of narrativity mainly around two points: -narrative programs derive from phrastic programs ; -narrative put time in and upward movement on which the subject build himself. The second part proposes practical studies of oral nrrative. We present the recollection and teatment of the corpus from which are extracted nrratives we study. Then we analyse first, negotiation of narrative within the interaction of interview, second and longly, the production of social identity in two kinds of narrative : the fight narrative and the socio-contresociotypic narrative
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Wood, Hannah. "Video game 'Underland', and, thesis 'Playable stories : writing and design methods for negotiating narrative and player agency'." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29281.
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Creative Project Abstract: The creative project of this thesis is a script prototype for Underland, a crime drama video game and digital playable story that demonstrates writing and design methods for negotiating narrative and player agency. The story is set in October 2006 and players are investigative psychologists given access to a secure police server and tasked with analysing evidence related to two linked murders that have resulted in the arrest of journalist Silvi Moore. The aim is to uncover what happened and why by analysing Silvi’s flat, calendar of events, emails, texts, photos, voicemail, call log, 999 call, a map of the city of Plymouth and a crime scene. It is a combination of story exploration game and digital epistolary fiction that is structured via an authored fabula and dynamic syuzhet and uses the Internal-Exploratory and Internal-Ontological interactive modes to negotiate narrative and player agency. Its use of this structure and these modes shows how playable stories are uniquely positioned to deliver self-directed and empathetic emotional immersion simultaneously. The story is told in a mixture of enacted, embedded, evoked, environmental and epistolary narrative, the combination of which contributes new knowledge on how writers can use mystery, suspense and dramatic irony in playable stories. The interactive script prototype is accessible at underlandgame.com and is a means to represent how the final game is intended to be experienced by players. Thesis Abstract: This thesis considers writing and design methods for playable stories that negotiate narrative and player agency. By approaching the topic through the lens of creative writing practice, it seeks to fill a gap in the literature related to the execution of interactive and narrative devices as a practitioner. Chapter 1 defines the key terms for understanding the field and surveys the academic and theoretical debate to identify the challenges and opportunities for writers and creators. In this it departs from the dominant vision of the future of digital playable stories as the ‘holodeck,’ a simulated reality players can enter and manipulate and that shapes around them as story protagonists. Building on narratological theory it contributes a new term—the dynamic syuzhet—to express an alternate negotiation of narrative and player agency within current technological realities. Three further terms—the authored fabula, fixed syuzhet and improvised fabula—are also contributed as means to compare and contrast the narrative structures and affordances available to writers of live, digital and live-digital hybrid work. Chapter 2 conducts a qualitative analysis of digital, live and live-digital playable stories, released 2010–2016, and combines this with insights gained from primary interviews with their writers and creators to identify the techniques at work and their implications for narrative and player agency. This analysis contributes new knowledge to writing and design approaches in four interactive modes—Internal-Ontological, Internal-Exploratory, External-Ontological and External-Exploratory—that impact on where players are positioned in the work and how the experiential narrative unfolds. Chapter 3 shows how the knowledge developed through academic research informed the creation of a new playable story, Underland; as well as how the creative practice informed the academic research. Underland provides a means to demonstrate how making players protagonists of the experience, rather than of the story, enables the coupling of self-directed and empathetic emotional immersion in a way uniquely available to digital playable stories. It further shows how this negotiation of narrative and player agency can use a combination of enacted, embedded, evoked, environmental and epistolary narrative to employ dramatic irony in a new way. These findings demonstrate ways playable stories can be written and designed to deliver the ‘traditional’ pleasure of narrative and the ‘newer’ pleasure of player agency without sacrificing either.
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Cornelissen, Stephanie. "The responses of primary school Heads of Department to curriculum changes since 2005." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40438.
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With nineteen years of democracy behind us, South Africa has experienced uncountable changes within its borders and on various playing fields. One of the most memorable changes, in my opinion, was in education. This motivated me to embark on a study about the responses of Heads of Departments (HoDs) to curriculum changes. I especially wanted to focus on the management of those changes.
The focus on HoDs arose from the devolution of responsibility from the principal to the HoD with regard to curriculum change. This uninterrupted cycle of curriculum change that South Africa is experiencing occupies the HoDs to a large extent. They have to ensure that the changes take place as smoothly as possible with as little resistance as possible. In order to accomplish this, one would think that the HoD would be trained in managing a department and curriculum changes. This is unfortunately not the case, and they are following their own guidelines that they have constructed through trial and error.
This study was conducted through a narrative design within a qualitative framework, allowing me to give a voice to those who have none. It required me to have focus group interviews, which laid the foundation for my semi-structured interview. The use of documents assisted with the crystallisation of the data. This research was conducted in the Lady Frere district of the Eastern Cape. There were two sets of HoDs from different schools, and one participant willing to participate in a semi-structured interview.
The purpose of this study was to find out what guidelines HoDs had constructed by looking at HoDs’ responses to, and management of curriculum changes since 2005. It became very clear that there is some confusion about what is expected of the HoD during the change process and the HoDs in this study felt it better to follow traditional methods of teaching, as this was all they knew. However, the focus on producing quality education was very important to them.Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Fesenfeld, Anke. "Brustverlust : zum Leib-Erleben von Frauen mit einer Brustamputation /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2869811&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Hansen, Margret. "Freundinnen Freundschaftserfahrungen in weiblichen Biographien." Münster New York, NY München Berlin Waxmann, 2008. http://d-nb.info/996092226/04.
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Gerber, Sofi. "Öst är Väst men Väst är bäst : Östtysk identitetsformering i det förenade Tyskland." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-54395.
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In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the overthrow of the socialist regime did not only bring about both an economic and political shift, it resulted also in the inclusion of the GDR into the Federal Republic of Germany. The fall of the Wall brought with it transformations in everyday life as well as changes in social identities. This study examines how people who grew up in the GDR define the East and the West in unified Germany, as well as identifying which concepts play a role in the self-interpretations given by former GDR citizens. Through applying discourse theory, I investigate how identities are partially fixed and change over time, relating this always to historically situated discourses. In the analysis, East and West are considered as floating signifiers, which, through articulations made with other categories such as class, nation, place and gender, come to be filled with meaning. The study is based on twenty-five life story interviews conducted in Eastern Germany. The group of interviewees consisted of fifteen women and ten men born in the GDR between the years of 1970 and 1979, all of whom had different levels of education. The demise of the socialist state and the transition to a capitalist society is central in the interviewees’ life stories. Their narratives about the past are formed in a discursive order other than the one in which the events themselves took place. Conversely, the past is used as a foil against which the present is compared. With the dislocation, the interviewees have developed a reflexive stance to both themselves and the world. The study reveals both how East and West are still used to make the world intelligible in a number of fields and, at the same time, how these same concepts are transcended. It shows in what ways the interviewees employ different strategies to adapt to the new circumstances and to handle a potentially marked position in unified Germany.
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Ellerman, Diana Drita. "Effective Combat Leadership: How do Individual, Social, and Organizational Factors in the U.S. Army Reserve Cultivate Effective Women's Leadership in Dangerous Contexts?" Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1456154602.
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Campos, Laira Ferreira de. "A entrevista e a construção de significados no Primeira Pessoa: narrativas, relatos de vida e diálogos na TV." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/117892.
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Este trabalho trata da entrevista e construção de significados no Programa Primeira Pessoa da TVE/RS. A pesquisa sobre esse tema leva em conta a amplitude do gênero programas de entrevista na atualidade, aspectos dialógicos e jornalísticos. Com 21 anos de existência e sob a apresentação da jornalista Ivette Brandalise, o programa busca revelar a personalidade de entrevistados dos mais variados segmentos sociais. Com duração de aproximadamente 60 minutos e em atmosfera intimista, a apresentadora procura extrair a experiência de vida pessoal no relato dos convidados. O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar as potencialidades da entrevista no aprofundamento de informações. A metodologia empregada é a análise da narrativa em Motta (2013) e análise de conversação em Braga (1994) e Marcuschi (1997). O corpus abrange os programas realizados entre o ano de 2013 e primeiro semestre de 2014. Três programas foram analisados.This paper discusses the interview and construction of meanings in a program called Primeira Pessoa showed at TVE/RS. Research on this theme takes into account the extent of the genre - talk shows - in today´s world, dialogic and journalistic aspects. Having twenty-one years of existence and the journalist Ivette Brandalise as its host, the program seeks to reveal the personality of its guests coming from various social segments. It lasts about 60 minutes, and it is presented in an intimate atmosphere. The host attempts to draw personal life experience from guests’ answers. The objective of this study is to verify the interview potentiality in getting further information about the guests. The methodology includes analysis of narrative from Motta (2013) and conversation analysis from Braga (1994) and Marcuschi (1997). The corpus covers the programs carried out between 2013 and the first half of 2014. Three programs were analyzed.
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Ricchezza, Victor J. "Alumni Narratives on Computational Geology (Spring 1997 – Fall 2013)." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6366.
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Recent meetings and publications have discussed what geoscience undergraduates should learn for professional success, and among other items, have identified several quantitative skills and habits of mind as being necessary for geoscience students; many of these items are commonly associated with Quantitative Literacy (QL). The Computational Geology course in the geology department has been evolving at USF for 20 years. The course teaches QL in a geologic setting independent of specific core geology topics. This course has long preceded the national acknowledgment of the need for what it teaches within the field. As the first of a series of related studies intended to find the effect and role of this course within the geoscience community, this thesis study begins as a qualitative narrative inquiry of course and program alumni. In the study reported here ten USF Geology alumni from a variety of career paths who took GLY 4866 between 1997 to 2013 underwent semi-structured interviews recounting their memories of the course, discussing the benefits to them of the course in their careers, and outlining their views of what students should gain from this course for professional success.
The interview results illuminate trends that can be usefully grouped by job/career category. Regulators (3) had the shortest overall interview time, remembered the least in terms of specific events from the course, and had limited (but consistent) suggestions for student learning. Their memories and suggestions were also rarely unique. Consultants (3) were the median group in length, and showed overlap in the content of their interviews to regulators, with additional details added. Academics (4) had the longest interview times, the most detailed memories from the course, and the most suggestions, possibly due to these interviewees using similar methods in their later careers as course instructors. Consultants and academics related large blocks of story text that were unique while also relating common statements.
Narratives from professionally successful alumni were sought to gain greater detail on the likely impact of Computational Geology than surveys are likely to give. The responses of selected, successful alumni were also sought to help refine questions that are to be used later in surveys of a larger sample population of alumni and to a larger national audience of geoscientists regarding their undergraduate programs and how those programs prepared them with quantitative skills. The information that interview subjects provided about the educational needs for successful entry-level geology professionals were shaped into a series of suggestions for course and program improvement. Course and program improvement suggestions and questions for a proposed survey have been assembled both to improve the GLY 4866 offering at USF for broader dissemination and to contribute to broader discussion of strategies for improving the quantitative skills and learning of geoscientists.
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Jehle, Manfred. "Psychose und souveräne Lebensgestaltung Erfahrungen langfristig Betroffener mit Gemeindepsychiatrie und Selbstsorge." Bonn Psychiatrie-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3005792&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Huber, Florian. "Durch Lesen sich selbst verstehen zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Identitätsbildung." Bielefeld Transcript, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3039481&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Degenhardt, Lars. "Pioniere nachhaltiger Lebensstile Analyse einer positiven Extremgruppe mit bereichsübergreifender Kongruenz zwischen hohem nachhaltigen Problembewusstsein und ausgeprägtem nachhaltigen Handeln." Kassel Kassel Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/db4/extern/dbupress/publik/abstract.php?978-3-89958-308-6.
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Fraccaro, Deborah. "Le capital social comme ressource intégrative d’une société locale." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040050.
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La recherche s'est occupée des liens de solidarité qui se créent à partir d’actions bénévoles spontanées au sein d’une communauté territoriale. L’ensemble de ces liens a été traité telle une ressource sociale conceptualisable par la notion de « capital social solidaire » et ce dernier a été considéré comme un bien public pouvant favoriser le bien-être social d’une société locale. De cette ressource, nous avons tenté d'en comprendre : 1) ses spécificités ; 2) son processus de micro-fondation ; 3) ses implications théoriques pour une théorie de la société. Le premier but a été atteint en dressant la carte des actions bénévoles mises en place dans deux provinces du nord-est de l’Italie (Trente et Trévise). La carte a montré un cadre hétérogène et diffus d’actions mises en place par les principales catégories d’acteurs de la société locale. Pour analyser le processus de création, les raisons des promoteurs ont été identifiées grâce à une série d’entretiens biographiques Les résultats des entretiens montrent une pluralité de motivations qui soutiennent ces actions et les limites de la théorie du choix rationnel à les expliquer. En ce qui concerne le troisième but, la réflexion a essayé d’éclaircir la nature de bien public du capital social et son utilité pour les débats sur la société civile et sur la cohésion sociale. Cette recherche a mis en évidence, d’une part, la contribution du capital social solidaire dans la valorisation du lien social et, de l’autre, l’utilité de la notion dans les analyses du courant associationniste de la société civile et dans les modèles individualistes de type communautaire de la cohésion socialeThe research work presented in this doctoral thesis analysed the solidaristic bonds generated by spontaneous voluntary actions within a territorial community. Such bonds form a distinctive social resource conceptualized as “solidaristic social capital”, meant as a public good that benefits the social well-being of a local society. Three main aspects of this resource were investigated: 1) its specificities; 2) the process of its micro-foundation; 3) its theoretical implications for a theory of society. As for the first aspect, a survey of voluntary actions was conducted in two provinces in North-Eastern Italy (Trento and Treviso). Data showed a variety of types of actions producing solidaristic bonds, carried out by a heterogeneous set of social groups. In order to explain the generative process of social capital, a series of biographical interviews were conducted, which shed light on the life stories of promoters of voluntary actions, as well as on the limitations of the rational choice theory in accounting for the complexity of their motivations. Finally, the main theoretical implications of the notion of social capital were discussed, focusing on its nature as a public good and on its contribution to a theory of civil society and social cohesion. On the one hand, the solidaristic social capital emerged as a source that helps strengthen social bonds. On the other, this notion might play a crucial role in the theoretical elaborations based on the associationalistic approach to civil society and on individualistic models of community type of social cohesion
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DANTAS, MARIA TEREZA LOPES. "IDENTITY AND DISCOURSE: ANALYZING THE NARRATIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS DURING A RESEARCH INTERVIEW." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11038@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA tese Trabalho, Identidade e Discurso: análise de narrativas de pacientes psiquiátricos em entrevista de pesquisa investiga a construção de identidade que emerge na produção discursiva de pacientes psiquiátricos que trabalham no Instituto de Psiquiatria da UFRJ. Os pacientes encontram-se em atendimento em ambulatório e em centro de atenção diária e participam de Projetos de trabalho e de geração de renda desenvolvidos na instituição. Eles atuam como prestadores de serviço, em atividades como atendimento na recepção do hospital, organização de dados em núcleo de informática e também em oficinas de criação artística, como o trabalho com música, pintura, vídeo. Os projetos têm o objetivo de promover a socialização e reabilitação psicossocial da clientela do hospital. A partir da perspectiva da análise do discurso, segundo a Sociolingüística Interacional, examino como os pacientes elaboram suas estórias, como se representam no que diz respeito à experiência de doença e qual a função do trabalho em suas trajetórias, analisando especialmente as avaliações contidas em suas narrativas. A análise de como as estórias são constituídas discursivamente mostra a complexidade de sua organização tópica em unidades narrativas e argumentativas, as quais apresentam diferentes funções na negociação de significados e o envolvimento dos participantes na interação. A avaliação contida em tais unidades é um importante recurso na enunciação das atribuições que os pacientes imprimem à doença e ao trabalho em suas elaborações identitárias. Observa-se também como tais construções de identidades expressam complexas configurações de valores, utilizando as concepções antropológicas de indivíduo e pessoa e a noção de sujeito pós-moderno, advinda dos Estudos Culturais. Em relação ao trabalho, vemos como a atividade artística é enunciada como recurso fundamental na recuperação da saúde, sendo, então, o trabalho definido principalmente através de sua dimensão reabilitadora.
The thesis Work, Identity and Discourse: Analyzing the narratives of psychiatric patients during a research interview investigates the construction of identity that emerges from the discursive production of psychiatric patients working at the UFRJ`s Instituto de Psiquiatria (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro`s Institute of Psychiatry). These patients are seen as outpatients and at the daily care center, and take part in work and income generation projects developed at the institution. They function as outsourced workers in activities including hospital reception and data organization at the IT center, besides taking part in artistic creation workshops that include working with music, painting and video. The objective of these projects is to foster the socialization and psychosocial rehabilitation of the hospital`s clientele. I use the discourse analysis standpoint and Interactional Sociolinguistics to examine how these patients develop their stories, how they represent themselves in relation to the way they experience their disease, and the role the aforementioned work plays in their paths; I particularly analyze the evaluations contained in their narratives. The discourse analysis of how the stories are composed shows how complex their topical organization is, with narrative and argumentative units presenting different functions for negotiating meanings and involving the participants in the interaction. The evaluation inherent in these units is an important resource for the verbal expression of the characteristics these patients attribute to their disease and to the work while they develop their identities. By using the anthropological conceptions of individual and person as well as the notion of a post- modern subject derived from Cultural Studies, I also examine how this construction of identity expresses complex value configurations. Concerning the work, we can see how the artistic activity is expressed as a fundamental resource for health recovery; the work, therefore, is defined mainly through its rehabilitative dimension.
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Lin-Stephens, Serene Yu-Chen. "An Empirical Investigation of Narrative Competency: Effects of an Image-based Intervention on Interview Anxiety and Performance." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28881.
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There exists a prevalent assumption that human beings are natural storytellers in narrative career counselling. This research program challenges this assumption in a series of empirical studies on interview storytelling. Additionally, this investigation employed image-supported narrative preparation to improve interview anxiety and performance, as a matter of concern in vocational rehabilitation and career guidance. The research process consisted of one systematic review, two case studies, and four experimental and quasi-experimental studies, the last of which explicated the effect mechanism using construal level theory. The systematic review revealed the gaps and potential of visual narrative interventions and informed the design of a brief intervention‒serious storytelling with images (SSWI). SSWI integrated past-behaviour interview skills training and image-supported storytelling for interview preparation. It was trialled in two case studies on participants with anxiety disorders. Upon confirming participants’ perceived benefits and low participation burden, four studies using a mix of double-blind randomised control trials and repeated measures ensued. They examined narrative competency, including interview narrative quantity, quality, anxiety, and performance. Primary covariates included SSWI, training, practice, generalised anxiety, prior interview anxiety experience, career information literacy, assessor, and assessor-perceived anxiety. Other covariates included age, gender, paid work experience, prior interview experience, and plan to work. The findings confirmed SSWI as the most significant predictor of performance, with construal level theory significant in explaining the effect mechanism. Collectively, the studies caution against assuming narrative competency. Training is necessary; intervention is required to optimise training.
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Szarkowicz, Diane Louise, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Education and Languages. "Preschoolers using narrative to evidence an understanding of mind." THESIS_FEL_XXX_Szarkowicz_D.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/347.
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Children's theories of mind have been researched extensively over the past two decades. Generally, studies concerning this understanding have focused on children between three and five years of age because it is believed that an understanding of mind develops during this period. However, evidence from naturalistic contexts suggests that many younger children can demonstrate an understanding of the mind. Despite this, the focus in many studies has been the age at which children are able to demonstrate a representational understanding of mind. Less interest has been directed towards how children use their understanding during their everyday interactions. Evidence suggests further investigations need to consider the social nature of a theory of mind. For example, a growing amount of research indicates that social contexts are important in facilitating an understanding of mind. Relationships have been reported between a theory of mind and the following: peer popularity, family size and level of fantasy play. Given these, it appears necessary for research to address the social implications of an understanding of mind in 3-5 year olds. Interview and observation methods were adopted for data collection. The interview phase of this study investigated whether or not selected characteristics of narrative influenced children's performance on four non-traditional literature based false belief tasks. Results indicated that narrative style, active participation and narrative detail were significant predictors of children's ability to demonstrate an understanding of false belief. Age was not identified as a significant variable. The results from both phases in this study suggest that 3-5 year olds can demonstrate an understanding of mind during non-traditional false belief tasks and everyday interactions. It is argued that an understanding of mind is characterised by a range of behaviours and that not all these are addressed in the traditional paradigm.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Ullrich, Peter. "Alte Psychoanalytiker/-innen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-74797.
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Die Arbeit untersucht Berufstätigkeit und Berufsausstieg alter Psychoanalytiker/-innen. Dazu werden der konzeptuelle Forschungsstand zum Thema referiert, zu dem es bisher fast keine empirische Forschung gab, und eigene Ergebnisse aus zwei Befragungen (eine standardisierte Fragebogenerhebung und eine Studie auf Basis berufsbiographischer narrativer Interviews) vorgestellt. Diese geben Auskunft über die hohe Erwerbsneigung der untersuchten Gruppe vor dem 1.1.1937 geborener Analytiker/-innen (69 %) und ihre Tätigkeitsfelder. Dabei zeigt sich eine Abnahme im Ausmaß der Berufstätigkeit und eine Verschiebung der Tätigkeitsfelder (von Praxistätigkeit zu ausbildungsbezogenen Tätigkeiten) mit zunehmendem Alter. Unterschiedliche Motive stehen hinter der hohen Erwerbsneigung (u.a. Identifikation mit der Psychoanalyse, Bedürfnis nach sozialer Anerkennung, Einkommensabhängigkeit). Der Übergang in den Ruhestand erfolgt in wenigen Fällen radikal mittels eines deutlichen Bruchs mit der psychoanalytischen Tätigkeit und dem fach(gesellschaft)lichen Engagement und meist gleitend durch eine langsame Verschiebung der Tätigkeitsfelder und die sanfte Reduzierung der Praxistätigkeit (häufig). Herausforderungen und Probleme der Übergangszeit werden dargestellt und daraus Empfehlungen für eine „Kultur des Übergangs“ abgeleitet.
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Moritani, Kohei. "Time, Narrative, and Identity in Advanced Capitalist Society." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1125686051.
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Thielen, Marc. "Wo anders leben? Migration, Männlichkeit und Sexualität ; biografische Interviews mit iranischstämmigen Migranten in Deutschland." Münster New York, NY München Berlin Waxmann, 2009. http://d-nb.info/99296430X/04.
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Nightingale, Naomi. "African American Men Who Give Voice to the Personal Transition from Criminality to Desistance." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1393458816.
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Fink, Gerhard, Marcus Kölling, and Anne-Katrin Neyer. "The cultural standard method." Europainstitut, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2005. http://epub.wu.ac.at/450/1/document.pdf.
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The proposed method enables us to identify cultural standards, i.e. the underlying norms of thinking, sensing, perceiving, judging, and acting that the vast majority of individuals in a given culture is considering as normal for themselves and others. Norms of behaviour can be different across societies even if the underlying values are the same and can cause critical incidents to emerge. A sequence of methodological steps allows systematically dealing with sampling, interviewer, interpretation, construct, and culture bias in cross-cultural qualitative research based on narrative interviews.(author's abstract)Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut
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Gold, Rachelle S. Eaker-Rich Deborah. "Outsiders within African American professors and their experiences at predominantly white universities, a narrative interview study /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1702.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Education." Discipline: Education; Department/School: Education.