Qualitative research around teachers’ interpreted “experiences” has contributed to an increase and legitimization of “voice” and “experience” of those who have traditionally been excluded from research. Narrative inquiry in the form of autobiography has been utilized as one mode of inquiry to represent such teacher stories. However, such research that attempts to “capture” these “experiences” assume “experience” as fact and transparent, thus neglecting to acknowledge the idea that the “self” is constructed and mediated through discourse and power relations. Furthermore, many conceptualizations around “curriculum” focus on curriculum as “course of study” and neglect to recognize the ways in which “experience” intersects with “curriculum” and how this is manifested in daily school contexts. This inquiry explored the intersections of teachers’ interpreted “experiences” and how their understandings of their professional identities, if at all, spill into their understandings of “curriculum” based on conceptualizations of “curriculum” as discourse. Working from feminist poststructural orientations towards discourse, subjectivity and power, this qualitative inquiry took a particular event in Japan as an entry point and explored if and how teacher’s interpreted “experiences” and their understandings of their “selves” shifted, contradicted, and/or collided and, at times, impacted their understandings of the “curriculum.” Drawing from poststructurally inflected understandings of narrative inquiry, this inquiry explored how specific teachers spoke of their educator “experiences” in relation to their current circumstances of teaching in displacement following a series of natural and man-made disasters, and how they conceptualized “curriculum” in relation to their interpreted “experiences.” Through qualitative data collection and analysis informed by and interrogated by feminist poststructural assumptions, I attempted to trouble how I understood “data” and chose to represent these “data” throughout. Such troublings stemmed from what some qualitative researchers have called the “crisis in representation.” More specifically, through autobiography as one mode of narrative inquiry as self-reflexive practice and processes that I sought to “trouble” from poststructural perspectives, I grappled with the “crisis in representation” throughout this inquiry as I explored and challenged the limits of transparent notions of “experience” and “self.”

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

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Thèse de doctorat : Langue et littérature françaises : Nancy 2 : 2001. / Bibliographie.

The past few decades have heralded a paradigm shift in the psychology, oncology, and trauma literature. This shift has involved a re-focusing of the empirical lens from the distress and pathology of traumatic experiences to a focus on growth and thriving in response to adversity or traumatic events. Multiple studies have identified that individuals recognise positive changes following their experiences of adversity to the extent that many individuals report development beyond their pre-trauma functioning. These positive changes have been broadly conceptualised as growth, a multidimensional concept, which typically involves an increased appreciation for life, more meaningful relationships, an increased sense of personal strength, a change in priorities, and a richer existential and spiritual awareness. Growth following adversity, or adversarial growth, is still relatively new in sport, and specifically elite sport, and accordingly the purpose of this doctoral research was to explore adversarial growth in elite athletes with a particular emphasis on the experiences of elite level swimmers. The research was grounded in a constructivist paradigm which assumes changing and sometimes conflicting social realities, and seeks to understand people's constructions of their lived experiences.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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Cette étude est concentrée sur deux zones de la wilaya-I Aurès –Nememcha, la zone-II qui correspond au massif occidental de l’Aurès, principal foyer de l’insurrection du 1er Novembre 1954, devenu en 1956-1959 l’un des foyers de la dissidence contestant le Congrès de la Soummam, ainsi que la zone-I, région de Batna, ‘’capitale de l’Aurès’’. Le contexte volontairement réduit, rendait la recherche pertinente par la diversité des textes du corpus faisant l’objet d’une lecture globale et critique : ils sont écrits par un communiste, un réformiste religieux, un étudiant gréviste, trois chefs successifs de la wilaya-I, un ancien dissident, un chef de Zaouïa, des anciens militants du PPA-MTLD ayant été proches des messalistes durant la crise du parti, et divers autres documents. Une longue familiarité avec cette région et de l’historiographie locale a permis à l’auteur de cette étude, de ne pas s’arrêter aux explications de type anthropologique, et de traiter de questions de sociologie de l’histoire, en les inscrivant dans le champ de l’histoire : il en va ainsi de la dissidence, un sujet qui ne peut être épuisé par le seul fait du tribalisme. Il demeure que la profusion de mémoires d’acteurs de la guerre d’indépendance apparus à la fin des années 1980, sont tardifs et se conforment à une mémoire officielle, commandée par des dogmes, constituant des mythes incapacitants qui découragent toute perspective historique quand il s’agit du domaine de l’Aurès.La confrontation de cette littérature mémorielle permet toutefois de construire des objets de l’histoire, une fois ces mythes incapacitants circonscrits et reconnus comme tels. / This study focused on two areas of the province-I -Nememcha Aures, the zone-II which corresponds to the western massif of the Aures, main focus of the insurrection of November 1, 1954, in 1956-1959 became one of outbreaks of dissent challenging the Congress of Soummam and the -I area corresponding to the region of Batna, '' capital of the Aures. '' The context of the research and voluntarily reduced, became relevant by the diversity of texts adopted in the corpus subject to a comprehensive and critical reading: they are written by a Communist, a religious reformer, a student strike, three successive heads wilaya-I-Nememcha Aures, a former dissident, a leader of zawiya, former activists of PPA-MTLD having been close Messalists during the crisis of the party, and various other documents. Long familiarity with this region of the Aures and local historiography has enabled the author of that study, not to stop the anthropological explanations, and treat issues of sociology of history, in the registering in the field of history: it is the case of dissent, a subject that can not be exhausted by the mere fact of tribalism. It remains that the profusion of memories of actors in the war of independence emerged in the late 1980s, are late and comply official memory, controlled by dogmas, constituting incapacitating myths that discourage any historical perspective when he'is the domain of the Aures. The confrontation of this voluminous literature memorial but allows to build objects of history, once these debilitating myths identified and recognized as such.