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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A narrative exploration of educational experiences on deaf identity.

McIlroy, Guy William 08 January 2009 (has links)
This study explores from the perspective of deaf persons, how the identity of deaf persons is shaped by their educational experiences. Previous studies on identity by Erickson (1984) and Leigh (2001) on deaf persons have located identity within either the medical model, as a discourse of assimilation, or within the reactive social model, as a discourse of human rights. It is argued that the ‘first wave of deaf identity politics’ (Wrigley, 1996) of the medical and social model binary are sites of oppression and resistance. This binary provides both an insufficient and a static explanation of deaf identity as a victim is increasingly at odds with the lives of deaf persons in a post-modern ontology. Subsequently, this study engages in exploring the post-modern driven ‘second wave of identity politics’ and proposes a bi-cultural Dialogue model that recognises and explores, through cross-cultural exploration, the complexity and fluid construction of a DeaF identity. Later, the contributions of Bat-Chava (2000); Glickman (1993) and Ohna (2006) towards deaf identity are discussed within the post-modern educational framework. This ethnographic study explores the identity development of nine deaf participants through their narratives. The inclusion of the researcher as a DeaF participant in this study provides an auto-ethnographic gateway into exploring the lives of deaf/Deaf/bi-bi DeaF persons. The themes of ‘significant moments’; ‘connections at home and school’ and ‘deaf identity development’ were investigated. This study investigated the educational experiences of both deaf learners who attended regular mainstream schools and also deaf learners who attended schools for the Deaf. The findings suggest that deaf identity is not a static concept, but a complex ongoing quest for belonging and acceptance of being deaf through ‘finding ones voice’ in a hearing dominant society. This study challenges educators, parents and researchers through using dialogue and narrative tools to broaden their understanding of deaf identity and the dignity associated with being a deaf person.
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Citizens and Contemporary Science Ways to dialogue in science centre contexts.

Lundberg, Karin January 2005 (has links)
The current paper presents a study conducted at At-Bristol Science Centre, UK. It is a front-end evaluation for the “Live Science Zone” at At-Bristol, which will be built during the autumn of 2004. It will provide a facility for programmed events and shows, non-programmed investigative activities and the choice of passive or active exploration of current scientific topics. The main aim of the study is to determine characteristics of what kind of techniques to use in the Live Science Zone. The objectives are to explore what has already been done at At-Bristol, and what has been done at other science centres, and to identify successful devices. The secondary aim is mapping what sorts of topics that visitors are actually interested in debating. The methods used in the study are deep qualitative interviews with professionals working within the field of science communication in Europe and North America, and questionnaires answered by visitors to At-Bristol. The results show that there are some gaps between the intentions of the professionals and the opinions of the visitors, in terms of opportunities and willingness for dialogue in science centre activities. The most popular issue was Future and the most popular device was Film.
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Brukarinflytandets förutsättningar inom socialtjänstens missbruksenheter : En kvalitativ studie om socialsekreterarnas perspektiv / The prerequisites of user influence within the social services' substance abuse units : A qualitative study on the perspective of social secretaries

Pakjoo, Kaveh, Obéus, Kenny January 2022 (has links)
Studiens syfte är att öka kunskapen om brukarinflytandet och dess förutsättningar inom socialtjänstens missbruks- och beroende-handläggning, detta genom att utforska hur socialsekreterare inom missbruksenheter uppfattar förutsättningarna till brukarinflytande på individnivå. Detta baserat på sex kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialsekreterare från fyra olika kommuner i Stockholms län. Urvalet har varit målstyrt och således har kontakt tagits med adekvat enhet inom dessa kommuners socialtjänstkontor för att bäst besvara vår forskningsfråga.Intervjumaterialet har bearbetats genom tematisk analys med hermeneutisk meningstolkning för att sedan analyseras vidare med teorin Empowerment och det teoretiska begreppet gräsrotsbyråkrat. Vi har också använt oss av den teoretiska modellen brukardialogmodellen och dess begreppsapparat i en avslutande analyssammanfattning. Dessa val av teoretiska utgångspunkter för analysen har genomförts efter materialinsamling och har agerat som tolkningsverktyg med den referensram de erbjuder.Studien har visat att de intervjuade socialsekreterarna uppfattar en mängd återkommande och betydande förutsättningar för brukarinflytande på individnivå, inom socialtjänstens missbruksenheter för vuxna. Dessa har kategoriserats i tre huvudteman som vi benämnt socialsekreterarens verklighet, allians och brukarens verklighet. Dessa tre teman är tre dimensioner av de förutsättningar som finns för brukarinflytandet och vad som påverkar det. Det har även varit tydligt att förhandling är något som sker i men också mellan dessa tre teman, likt det lim som fogar ihop det till en helhet. Socialsekreterarna har beskrivit dels den verklighet de själva står inför i sin myndighet med de organisatoriska förutsättningar som står till buds, dels brukarnas verklighet i mötet med socialtjänsten och den situation de befinner sig i. Dessa två verkligheter behöver, enligt socialsekreterarna, tas i beaktan och genom olika relationella och kommunikativa egenskaper behöver en allians uppstå mellan parterna för att möjliggöra en konstruktiv förhandling om inflytandet. / The aim of the study is to increase knowledge about user influence and its prerequisites within the social services' addiction and dependency management, this by exploring how social workers in the substance abuse units perceive the conditions for user influence at the individual level. This is based on six qualitative, semi-structured interviews with social workers from four different municipalities in Stockholm County. The selection has been goal-driven and thus contact has been made with an adequate unit within these municipalities' social services offices to best answer our research question.The interview material has been processed through thematic analysis with hermeneutic sentence interpretation to then be analyzed further with the theory Empowerment and the theoretical concept of Street-level bureaucrat. We have also used the theoretical model of the user dialogue model and its conceptual apparatus in a concluding analysis summary. The choices of theoreticalstarting points for the analysis have been made after material collection have functioned as interpretivetools with the frame of reference they offer.The study has shown that the interviewed social secretaries perceive a variety of recurring and significant conditions that affect user influence at the individual level, within the social services' addiction and dependency units for adults. In our thematic analysis, these conditions have been categorized into three main themes that we have called the social worker's reality, alliance, and the user's reality. These three themes are three dimensions of the conditions that exist for user influence and what affects it. It has also been clear that negotiation is something that takes place in but also between these three themes, like the glue that joins it together into a whole. The social secretaries have described, on the one hand, the reality they themselves face in their authority with the organizational conditions that are available, partly the user’s reality in the meeting with the social services and the situation they are in. These two realities, according to the social secretaries, needs to be considered and through different relational and communicative characteristics, an alliance needs to emerge between the parties to allow for a constructive negotiation about the influence.

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