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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur den svenska gymnasieskolans förändringar sedan början av 1970-talet har påverkat en enskild lärares yrkesliv. Frågeställningarna lyder som följer; Vilka förändringar har skett i den svenska gymnasieskolan sedan början av 1970-talet? Hur har dessa förändringar påverkat en enskild lärares yrkesliv? För att uppnå mitt syfte och besvara mina frågeställningar har jag använt mig av en muntlig källa och av flera skriftliga källor. Mitt teorikapitel innefattar tre avsnitt; undersökningen Nära gränsen, gjord av Arbetslivsinstitutet, samt begreppen oral history och livshistoria. Förändringarna i den svenska gymnasieskolan sedan 1970-talet fungerar som en bakgrundsteckning. Kapitlet Slutsatser består i mångt och mycket av en diskussion kring vad som skapar och påverkar en lärares arbete. Tydligt är att samspelet mellan myndigheter och lärare samt mellan lärare och elever är av stor betydelse. / The purpose of this essay is to examine how the changes in the Swedish gymnasium since the the beginning of the 1970-thies have affected the professional life of one common teacher. The questions at issue are; Which changes have occured in the Swedish gymnaisum since the beginning of the 1970-thies? How has these changes affected the professional life of one common teacher? I have used both an oral source and and written sources in order to attain my pourpouse and answer my questions. The chapter concerning theories regarding the subject of this essay contains an investigation performed by the Arbetslivsinstitut, Nära gränssen, and concepts such as oral history and life history. The Changes in the Swedish gymnasium serves as background material. The chapter named Conclusions contains a discussion concerning what makes and influences the work of a teacher. It is obvious that the interaction between the authorothies and theachers and between teacher and students is of great significance.

This dissertation examines the memory of Ras Beirut and the various claims to its exceptionalism. I frame its history as a landscape of memory born of the convergence of narratives of exceptionalism. On the one hand, Ras Beirut's landscape inspired Anglo-American missionary future providence such that they chose it as the site of their college on a hill, the Syrian Protestant College (SPC, later renamed the American University of Beirut [AUB]). On the other hand, the memory of Ras Beirut's "golden age" before the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 inspired longings for a vanished past to Ras Beirut's oldest inhabitants. Shaped by the push of prospect and the pull of recollection, Ras Beirut emerges as a place formed out of the contest of these overlapping articulations of exceptionalism. Moreover, Ras Beirut's narratives have a wider significance and application in their transnational and interconfessional relevance. The missionary New England microcosm of the SPC represented the transnational transposition of memory onto Ras Beirut in an architectural narrative of exceptionalism. The monumental size and scale of their buildings oriented Ras Beirut and realized a "city upon a hill." Drawing from letters written to and from the US, I examine their ambiguous relationship to Ras Beirut that made them both part of the place and apart from the people. At the same time, the local Muslim-Christian community of Ras Beirut argued that Ras Beirut's distinct character rested on their own history of harmonious coexistence. In the early twentieth century, Arab Protestant converts settled in Ras Beirut and became known as the Protestants of Ras Beirut in their affixed identity and collective rootedness to place. This dissertation draws upon archival research and tangible sources in the changing architectural and urban environment. It also relies on oral history and memory to capture the multi-disciplinary making of place that best relates the textured history of Ras Beirut while giving meaning to everyday lived lives. In the process, the connections between the Middle East and the US unfold in transnational terms while the idea of Ras Beirut as a paradigm of coexistence unfolds interconfessional terms.

This thesis aims to emancipate female entrepreneurs from the metanarrative of economic growth which has created a false dichotomy of successful male entrepreneur versus an unsuccessful female entrepreneur. This aim is pursued through a multidisciplinary and critical inquiry that destabilises this metanarrative conceptually and empirically. A critical interrogation of economic studies reveals the embeddedness of the metanarrative in neo-classical economic growth theory. Far from being a true reflection of the entrepreneurial experience, the theory has silenced the innovator entrepreneur in economic theory and replaced him/her with an economic rational manager. Concurrently, a re-analysis of Schumpeter’s theorising suggests that his theories do not subordinate female entrepreneurs as claimed by a number of critical theorists. In contrast, his theorising is emancipatory and offers an alternative theoretical framework to the oppressive neo-classical economic growth theory. Oral history methods are used to capture the voices of female entrepreneurs which have largely been excluded from the literature. The oral history narratives challenge the oppressive homogeneity imposed by the metanarrative of economic growth and illustrate the negative influence of the theoretical foundation of neo-classical theory upon the entrepreneurial experience. The study offers theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to female entrepreneurship studies by presenting a fresh interpretation of Schumpeter’s theorising; including the voices of the female entrepreneurs; and applying research approaches that break away from positivism which dominates entrepreneurial studies. The study has implications for policy makers and practitioners as it generates knowledge that takes account of the current social and economic changes. / Bradford University School of Management

My Masters thesis focuses on socialist Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s memory in contemporary Pakistani Punjab. I use the analytical category of memory to argue that Bhagat Singh is invoked by various groups and individuals, specifically those who identify as leftists or Marxists, in contemporary Pakistan to serve a range of political purposes. My analysis particularly sheds light on how activists and writers use the figure of Bhagat Singh to highlight the erasure of regional and lingual identities in Pakistan. Their remembrances underline a perceived historical injustice; the imposition of a national identity based on Urdu language and Sunni Muslim-ness, which tended to marginalize Punjabi ethno-lingual identities. Using my ethnographic research, I further argue that Bhagat Singh and his afterlives in leftist progressive narratives also capture the tensions and differences among the Punjabi intellectuals and activists themselves. Due to the lack of adequate archival sources, my research draws heavily on oral history and contemporary Punjabi poetry and prose that I meticulously collected during my trips to Lahore in the past two years. I transcribed and translated this material from Punjabi into English on my own. Finally in my analysis of gendered literary language, I also demonstrate how mourning, and hope coexist in the Punjabi contemporary emancipatory imagination. Such overlaps illustrate how the past is continuously in dialogue with the present.

This thesis explores the ways in which LGBTQ+ individuals in Philadelphia ascribe significance to various places based on oral history interviews and additional primary source material collected initially for the National Park Service Northeast Regional Office’s LGBTQ+ Heritage Initiative. By examining stories from LGBTQ+ individuals of places that matter most to them in Philadelphia, this thesis argues that historic preservationists can expand their definition of significance to include personal testimony and broaden their practices to better engage the communities whose histories they seek to preserve. / History

As policy makers and educators from varying philosophical platforms develop strategies for facilitating inclusive education, there is a subsequent realization that this involves inclusive leadership. Such leadership may be addressed through ethical decision-making, exceptionality in learning, equity, effective programming, and partnerships (Crockett, 1999). Related to the moral and ethical aspects of decision making is the issue of caring leadership. Among the educational leaders who have demonstrated caring leadership, and who have had transformative influences over followers are the four women who constitute this study. To understand how they evolved as educational leaders, testimonies of their experiences and perceptions were developed. These testimonies are presented as reconstructed narratives. The discussion on these narratives explores relationships between who these women are in character, their experiences of the ethic of care, and leadership. The study directs focus on the lives of these women with a view to documenting their contributions and sharing their voices about the education systems of Trinidad and Tobago, and the broader Caribbean area. Oral history interviewing, within the biographical tradition, is the methodology used for data collection. The data as transcribed narratives and topical life histories were then content-analyzed to identify common themes and link these with contemporary research on leadership, women, and the ethic of care as discussed in the review of the literature. Findings from the study revealed caring leadership as an evolutionary process, and the importance that spirituality, community, and a sense of gender-equity and inter-relatedness played in the lives of the participants. / Ph. D.

The author contends that narratives, shaped not only by events but also by socioeconomic and geographic factors, are narratives that require exploration and analysis because these narratives build the lives in which individuals exist. By understanding narratives passed down with which they have built their lives, individuals can come to greater understanding of the narratives in which they live. To understand the narratives, he created and continues to craft about his life, the author needed to understand his narrative inheritance. When a proposed thesis study imploded, the focus of the study shifted to exploring the circumstances of a single interview with the author’s father. By examining methodology as originally intended and subsequently executed, setting the narrative in the proper historical context, and exploring relevant literature on oral history and autoethnography, the author crafted an evocative autoethnographical account of a complex father-son relationship.

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近年民間檔案逐漸受到檔案館的青睞，成為檔案館徵集的範圍之一，而口述歷史也屬於其中一部份。口述歷史會產生錄音帶、錄影帶、電子檔、訪談抄本、受訪者捐贈資料等，種類相當繁雜，而臺灣各檔案典藏單位進行口述歷史之後，有不同的整理與保存方式。希望藉此研究瞭解臺灣各檔案典藏單位是如何整理與運用口述歷史館藏，並提出一個更完善的整理與管理機制、提供更多元的運用方式。 本研究採用文獻分析法、深度訪談法與比較研究法，探討新加坡、澳洲、美國、加拿大、英國、香港等地的作法，並實際訪談中研院近史所、國史館、國史館臺灣文獻館、北市文獻會、宜蘭獻史館、臺大校史館、海大校史室、清大校史館等臺灣檔案典藏單位。 根據研究結果，提出結論如下：一、各典藏單位從事口述歷史主要有三項目的，分別為學術研究、史料蒐集、院史纂修或校史纂修；二、各典藏單位整理口述歷史館藏的人員不足；三、口述歷史館藏主要依據載體類型分開典藏；四、只有部分典藏單位將口述歷史館藏進行簡單建檔；五、提供利用的口述歷史館藏多屬已修改過的定稿；六、口述歷史館藏的運用類型偏少。 針對上述研究結論，提出六項建議：一、依據檔案載體典藏口述歷史館藏；二、加速口述歷史館藏的簡編，以提供利用；三、進行口述歷史館藏的內容描述；四、建立口述歷史館藏的智能編排，將相關資料連結；五、擴大口述歷史館藏的運用層面；六、建置全國的口述歷史資料庫。