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Using appreciative inquiry to explore the professional practice of a lecturer in higher education: moving towards life-centric practice [PDF]
This paper reports on a strategy for exploring the life-centric practice of a lecturer in Higher Education. The initiative for this inquiry arose out of the realisation that there did not appear to be positive, heart-lifting stories in a lecturer’s ...
Giles, David, Kung, Susie
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This didactic experience was carried out in 2019, with a class of the 3rd year of high school at Colégio Estadual Professor José de Souza Marques, located in the neighborhood of Brás de Pina, in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Claudia Patrícia de Oliveira Costa
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Gold Teeth: Making Meaning through Narrative [PDF]
How do we create meaning in life through the telling of narratives? What do we have to gain by comparing stories from different cultures and times? By looking at two seemingly disparate stories - The Story of Kotikarna and Thomas Pynchon\u27s Inherent ...
Riesenman, Quinn
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A Lookout for a New Genre [PDF]
An English class changed one student\u27s life, and he and a professor are now completing a project that is the first of its kind - an anthology of fire lookout ...
Davis, Laura
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The present work aims to investigate the religious beliefs and ways of believing of two generations of people born in the decades of 1940–1950 and 1965–1975 in the Portuguese region of Braga.
José F. Durán Vázquez, Eduardo Duque
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This paper presents a method of studying the lexicon in oral literature. This will study the ethnobotanical lexicon of the province of Jaén, as an example of study and exploitation of the oral records of the Corpus de ...
María Águeda Moreno Moreno
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An Interview About an Illness [PDF]
The respondent tells of his experience of a life-threatening illness.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews from ...
G.yu lha
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Telling stories, understanding lives, working toward change [PDF]
Stories are helping us learn more about the livelihoods of the fishers and farmers with whom we work in eastern India. We are engaged with these communities in processes and activities aimed at improving their lives and promoting changes in government ...
Copley, K., Haylor, G., Savage, W.
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A Case Study: Rome's Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and the Social Function of Music
The research presented here is based on studies of the sociology of music, as well as on analyses of the dynamics of immigration. This explored some of the social dynamics and actions of a multi-ethnic orchestra founded and operating in Rome. The purpose
Milena Gammaitoni
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We haven't got a seat on the bus for you or All the seats are mine: Narratives and career transitions in professional golf [PDF]
In this article we explore how the stories an athlete tells throughout life in sport affect her career transition experiences. We base our enquiry on a social constructionist conception of narrative theory which holds that storytelling is integral to the
Crossley M.L. +16 more
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