Search results for "narrative"

Exploring teachers’ stories of writing : a narrative perspective

2018

This study takes a narrative perspective to examine teachers as writers and autobiographical creative writing as a way for promoting teachers’ professional development. In a creative writing group for Finnish primary and secondary school teachers, the teachers expressed themselves and explored their lives and identities through autobiographical creative writing. The aim of this study was to examine the stories the teachers tell about their relationship to writing and the goals they set for their professional and personal development in the writing group. Through thematic analysis, seven descriptive themes were found in teachers’ narratives of writing. Furthermore, based on the narrative ana…

Technostress and Social Networking Services: Uncovering Strains and Their Underlying Stressors

2017

Numerous users of social networking sites and services (SNS) suffer from technostress and its various strains that hinder well-being. Despite a growing research interest on technostress, the extant studies have not explained what kinds of various strains can SNS use create and how can these strains be traced back to different stressors. To address this gap in research, we employed a qualitative approach by narrative interviews. As a contribution, our findings introduce four SNS strains (concentration problems, sleep problems, identity problems, and social relation problems) and explain how they link with different underlying SNS stressors. As practical implications, the findings of this stu…

Developing narrative identities in youth pre-elite sport : bridging the present and the future

2019

Narrative research has contributed to understandings of athletic identity as an evolving story of the self that is creatively put together by the agentic individual but necessarily dependent on broader narratives within which we all live our lives. However, most studies in sport have focused on retrospective ‘big stories’ of athletes’ lives, rather than on-going, future-oriented identity construction through storytelling. In this study, we explored Finnish pre-elite athletes’ emerging stories of the self to understand the processes associated with the narrative selection and the resources they tap into in making sport meaningful to them. Nine women and eight men aged 17–18 were invited to c…

“She is where I’d want to be in my career” : Youth athletes’ role models and their implications for career and identity construction

2019

Abstract Objectives While role models have been documented to play a vital role in adolescents’ career development and identity exploration, in sport psychology they remain an untapped resource. The present study drew on narrative inquiry to explore the patterns of role model selection by adolescent student-athletes and the narrative maps these role models provide for self-construction. As a second objective, the study sought to understand the impact of gender on the selection and meaning of role models. Method Eighteen Finnish student-athletes (10 women, eight men) aged 17-18 participated in conversational interviews. We analysed the data with thematic and structural narrative analyses. Re…

Recensione a: Giacomo Tinelli, "L’io di carta. L’autorappresentazione contemporanea: Walter Siti ed Emmanuel Carrère", Edizioni del Verri, 2022

2022

Book review of Giacomo Tinelli's L’io di carta. L’autorappresentazione contemporanea: Walter Siti ed Emmanuel Carrère.

A Conceptual Restructuring of Spatial Motion Expressions in Chinese L2

2018

This paper focuses on the patterns in the encoding of spatial motion events that play a major role in the acquisition of these type of expressions. The goal is to single out the semantic contribution of the linguistic items which surface in Chinese locative constructions. In this way, we intend to provide learners with an account of the spatial representation encoded in the Chinese language. In fact, Chinese grammar is often perceived as idiosyncratic, thus generating a frustration that turns into learned helplessness (Maier and Seligman, 1976). We will analyze Talmy (2000a,b) framework under the light of investigations such as Landau and Jackendoff (1993), Svenonius (2004, 2006, 2007), and…

”Jag var slö och slapp och somnade nu lite varstans” : förvandling som narrativ i diagnosberättelser om diabetes typ 1

2018

I artikeln belyses hur individer upplever sjukdom och diagnos genom personliga erfarenhetsberättelser om diabetes typ 1. Med artikeln strävas efter att besvara frågorna: Hur berättar personer med diabetes typ 1 om att insjukna i diabetes? Vad karaktäriserar en diagnosberättelse? I analysen av berättelserna tas avstamp i medicinsociologen Arthur Franks teori om tre typer av narrativ (återgångsberättelser, kaosberättelser och utforskande berättelser). En definition av begreppet diagnosberättelse presenteras och diskuteras. Materialet består av sex berättelser. Intervjupersonerna är tre kvinnor och tre män i olika åldrar. Syftet med artikeln är att pröva den narrativa teorin kring sjukdomstill…

Edukacyjny wymiar pracy nad własną biografią

2017

The biographical approach is gaining more and more recognition among educators who have found an effective way to work with adults. The article describes the place of narration in pedagogy and adult education. Working on your own biography isn’t just a summary of your life, but a reflection on the present and future. It what characterizes this method is the subject matter of research and reflection, which is the life of a particular individual, included in a written or spoken narration. For this reason, this method has educational value because it allows the individual to constructive reflection on her own life, while on the other hand she is a valuable source of information for the pedagog…

2021

Abstract Objectives To examine how gender functions in the narrative construction of dual career styles, and how these styles impact the (dis)continuation of a dual career pathway. Design Longitudinal qualitative study. Method Life story interviews with 18 talented Finnish athletes (10 cis women, 8 cis men) at four points in time – when they averaged 16, 17, 19, and 20 years of age – followed by an integrative narrative-discursive analysis. Results (a) contrapuntal style was gender-typically female; (b) monophonic style was gender-typically male; and (c) dissonant style was an important pathway to dual career discontinuation through which gender ideologies impacted the emergent adults with …

The body fables in Babrius, Fab. 134 and 1 Corinthians 12: Hierarchic or democratic leadership in crisis management?

2021

Body metaphors and body fables were frequently used in ancient discourse for social communities and politics. This article will examine a body fable by the Greek fabulist Babrius (Babrius, Fab . 134) that has been overlooked in research so far. It shows a remarkable similarity to 1 Corinthians 12 through the use of central terms such as σῶμα and μέλος or personified speaking body parts such as an eye and head. Even if no literary direct dependence is claimed, the text, which was written at about the same time as 1 Corinthians, sheds light on Paul’s understanding of the body fable. It becomes apparent, however, that the rhetorical function is fundamentally different in the two texts. Whilst …