The U.S. shortage of qualified nursing teachers and researchers is affecting national health care outcomes. Methods such as fast-tracking Baccalaureate nurses into graduate programs and embedding leadership development early into nursing curricula have been proposed to address faculty and research shortages. Early interest in nursing research careers increases likelihood of enrollment in graduate education. One way undergraduate nursing students may develop an interest in research careers is through a mentored apprenticeship with research-active faculty. In this thesis, the author uses an autoethnography methodology to examine the benefits that a mentored research apprenticeship model brought to her undergraduate experience. Her experience incorporated a variety of roles in an adolescent intervention program with Dr. Anne Norris (PI) at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. Several themes about the experience were defined in the results. Early research exposure that socializes a student to the nursing research world may provide a means for addressing the nursing faculty shortage. This socialization can generate interest in a research career and promote undergraduate students with the essential tools and insights needed to pursue this career pathway. However, findings from this study suggest a student-mentor relationship early in the undergraduate education experience is essential.

This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. The thesis showcases my temporal relation to both swedishness and colombianness and how that dimension influences the (re)production of my self, and the consequent “negative feelings” linked to depression I experience. Furthermore, as a creative endeavour following the tradition of WOC feminist writers, this thesis highlights how writing and theorizing can lead to healing.

Ce mémoire, construit sur les notions de périple et de cheminement, propose une analyse descriptive fruit d’une observation systématique ainsi qu’une autoethnographie afin de rendre compte de mon immersion dans un phénomène capitalisant sur une appellation libertine, provocatrice et suggestive, le ruin porn tel qu’il se présente sur la plateforme Instagram. Dans les dernières années, la massification croissante des photographies de ruines en ligne a contribué à la popularisation du terme ruin porn, une expression qui désigne la photographie de ruine contemporaine comme étant sensationnaliste et exploitant certains espaces pour leurs propriétés esthétiques. Cette recherche tente tout d’abord de comprendre ce qui caractérise le ruin porn sur Instagram au plan de sa facture visuelle en définissant à l’aide d’une méthodologie objectivante, les bornes, les thèmes, les éléments discrets qui circonscrivent visuellement le phénomène. Les réflexions qui ont suivi ma première immersion dans le ruin porn sur Instagram ont impliqué un changement de cap, une transformation des perspectives théoriques et méthodologiques qui prennent alors des allures d’autoethnographie, afin de me permettre de prendre en considération mon expérience lors de mon immersion dans le ruin porn sur Instagram. À la lumière de cette recherche, je suggère que faire l’expérience du ruin porn sur Instagram, c’est faire l’expérience d’ambiances, qui me font ressentir au travers des photographies de ruine, c’est comment je suis attirée et orientée vers la perméabilité des ruines, les atmosphères, mais aussi le temps, les temps. Cette recherche, c’est comment faire l’expérience du ruin porn sur Instagram, mais aussi comment je fais l’expérience du monde au travers du ruin porn sur Instagram. / This thesis is built on the notion of journey. It offers a descriptive analysis of a systematic observation as well as an autoethnography to account for my immersion in a phenomenon capitalizing on a provocative and suggestive name, ruin porn as it appears on the platform Instagram. In recent years, the growing massification of online ruin photography has popularized the term ruin porn, a term that views contemporary ruin photography as sensationalist and exploiting certain spaces for their aesthetic properties. This research tries to understand what characterizes ruin porn on Instagram in terms of its visual characteristics by using an objectifying methodology, the boundaries, the themes, and the discrete elements which visually define the phenomenon. The reflections which followed my first immersion in ruin porn on Instagram involved a change of course, a transformation of the theoretical and methodological perspectives translating into an autoethnography, to allow me to take into account my own experience of ruin porn on Instagram. In light of this research, I suggest that experiencing ruin porn on Instagram is to experience moods and feelings, it’s how I am oriented towards the permeability of ruins, atmospheres, and time. This research explores how I experience ruin porn on Instagram, but also how I experience the world through ruin porn on Instagram.

No description available.

This inquiry is an autoethnography of my experiences as a Black American male serving as a methods of social studies instructor to preservice teachers. Although some may deem this study as subjective, I have embraced that designation to provide insider information to others that face intersectionality and to inform institutional practices in teacher education programs.

This thesis provides a complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of whiteness as a racial category. Based on theories of critical whiteness studies, intersectionality and (white) phenomenology, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five white women about their understandings of their whiteness within a context of transnational travel. The interviews have been interpreted using thematic analysis, with the aim to show that whiteness is inherently relational and contextual, always in conjunction with Others and in interplay with the spatial context, while at the same time intrinsically related to other intersectional parts of the self. By making use of autoethnography as a methodology, my situated knowledge as a researcher was integrated within the entire thesis. The study has shown that whiteness never stands alone but is inherently relational, not only with racialized Others, but also with other intersections such as womanhood, which complexifies the experience and understanding of it. Moreover, whiteness is perceived as the most normalized standard from which everything different and other is measured by, while it serves as an invisible social category that can move through the world unnoticed. Consequently, the normality of whiteness creates a feeling of reassurance and comfort and thus keeps it in its place as the most normalized social category from which the world unfolds.

No description available.

No description available.

No description available.

No description available.