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Auto/Biographical Work as Bildung [PDF]
, 2014 Bildung is a concept central to auto/biography. It can best be translated as ‘educative self-formation’ and describes the importance of the life-narrative as a vehicle for self-discovery, self-understanding and self-development.
Chapman, Judith
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom +16 more
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The biographical construction of Robert Fergusson, 1774-1900 [PDF]
, 2010 This article traces the biographical construction of Robert Fergusson from his death to the nineteenth-century biography by A.B. Grosart. It explores the influence of Romanticism, the Burns cult and the literature of sensibility on the construction of ...
Brown, R.L.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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Intergenerational Biographical Structuring
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008 Presupposing the thesis of interactive biographical structuring, two narrative-biographical interviews of a mother and her son are analyzed by looking at the process of biographical co-construction.
Wolfram Fischer, Martina Goblirsch
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Scarlatti and Kurtág : a case study in creative programming : a research paper presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Music at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2004 This research paper explores developing trends in programming recitals by way of a case study that juxtaposes keyboard works of composers Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) and György Kurtág (b.1926). It studies the preparation and performance of a recital
Sayers, Emma
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Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
wiley +1 more source
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We investigate family CEO birth order as an antecedent of family firms' CSR behavior. Despite psychology literature recognizing it as a key predictor of individual behavior, birth order has been largely neglected in management research.
Paola Rovelli +5 more
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Metaphors as Traces of Discourses in Biographical Texts
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007 In this article I discuss the potentials of discourse theory for biographical research from a social constructivist perspective. The connection between discourse theory and biographical research is becoming increasingly important in qualitative research.
Ute Karl
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