À ce jour, peu d’études ont été conduites pour mieux comprendre le phénomène de la demande d’aide auprès d’hommes dans le contexte du cancer. Les études consultées suscitaient de nombreuses questions et hypothèses sur la signification que pouvaient accorder ces hommes à la demande d’aide. C’est pourquoi l’étudiante chercheuse a réalisé cette étude phénoménologique auprès d’hommes atteints d’un cancer de la sphère otorhinolaryngologique, afin de mieux comprendre ce phénomène. Huit hommes ont accepté de participer à l’étude. Suite aux entrevues semi-structurées, l’analyse des données, assistée par la méthode proposée par Giorgi (1997), a fait ressortir les thèmes centraux suivants : 1) Se sentir capables de faire face seuls aux diverses adversités; 2) Bénéficier du soutien des proches et de l’équipe de soins; et 3) Utiliser des stratégies cognitives. Les résultats ont révélé que la signification accordée à la demande d’aide est intimement liée à la construction sociale du genre, c’est-à-dire aux normes d’identité masculine acquises culturellement. Les valeurs accordées à l’autonomie, à l’estime de soi et à « l’égo masculin » expliqueraient en partie pourquoi les hommes interviewés demandent peu d’aide. Par ailleurs, la présence constante de la conjointe et le soutien de l’équipe professionnelle de santé semblent avoir grandement modulé les comportements de demande d’aide des participants en anticipant leurs besoins avant même qu’ils puissent les exprimer; ce qui invite à une réflexion sur l’empowerment, stratégie d’intervention fondée sur la responsabilisation individuelle. Des recommandations pour la pratique et la recherche infirmières sont formulées afin d’optimiser le soin et le développement du savoir infirmier dans ce domaine d’intérêt. / To date, few studies have been conducted to better understand the phenomenon of help seeking of men in the context of cancer. The reviewed studies elicited many questions and hypotheses about men’s understanding of help seeking in the context of cancer. Therefore, the research student has conducted a phenomenological study to describe this phenomenon in men with otorhinolaryngological cancer. Eight men have agreed to participate in the study. Following semi-structured interviews, the data analysis, assisted by the method proposed by Giorgi (1997), highlighted the following key themes: 1) Feeling able to cope alone with the various adversities, 2) Having the support of the family and the care team, and 3) Using cognitive strategies. The results showed that the lived experience of help seeking is closely linked to the social construction of gender, that is to say to the culturally acquired male norms. Values of autonomy, self-esteem and “male ego” explain in part why most of the participants did not ask for help. Moreover, the constant presence of the spouse and the support of the professional health care team appear to have greatly modulated participants’ help seeking behaviors by anticipating their needs, before they could even express them; this issue invites us to a reflection on the phenomenon of empowerment, intervention strategy based on the individual responsabilisation. Recommendations for practice and nursing research are formulated to optimize nursing care and to insure the pursuit of the development of nursing knowledge in this area of interest.

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Teachers' use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the classroom has largely been studied to date with a focus on what is lacking. An important aspect that seems to have been understudied is how teachers' own histories and experiences of ICT connects to their teaching practices - in essence, focussing on what is 'present' and not what is 'missing'. This study examines five teachers working in the same school, but working very differently with ICT in their classrooms. The narratives of their lived experiences highlight the acquisition of their beliefs, attitudes and their in situ behaviours about the role of ICT in the classroom. A critical look at the factors responsible for shaping such behaviours suggests the value of understanding individuals' experiences when planning for technology-utilization, rather than prescribing a "teacher-proof" (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988) approach to technology uptake.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the lived experiences of young people living with mental healthcare users (MHCUs) in order to gain insight into their needs and how their daily coping can be maximised. A qualitative, descriptive phenomenology study was undertaken, with face-to-face, audiorecorded individual in-depth interviews conducted with 10 participants aged between 19 and 23 years, at their homes. Participants were recruited from one of the local health clinics in Dikgale area, Limpopo province, where the MHCUs collect medication and attend follow-up medical reviews. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample size. The following were the objectives of the study:  To explore and describe the lived experiences of young people living with MHCUs.  To determine the coping strategies of young people living with MHCUs. Five themes and 12 sub-themes emerged from the study. The findings of the study revealed that young people were faced with psychological effects, caring demands and responsibilities, effects on their schooling performance, and lack of coping and support. The study results informed recommendations to the psychiatric nursing services on the needs and support to be provided to these young people in order to ensure maximum coping in their life situation. / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Science)

This thesis explores the everyday experiences with unemployment and job searching practices in a so-called work club in Northern England. A work club is a place, often a community initiative, where jobseekers who are finding it difficult to look for work independently can go to for support and assistance. These initiatives are encouraged to be set up by volunteers by the UK Department for Work and Pensions and its Jobcentre Plus and are aimed at reducing unemployment levels by helping people apply for jobs. Specifically, the thesis focuses on contemporary job searching practices and asks what Banterby SC work club, the fictional name of the field work location, can tell us about how neoliberal ideologies influence both these job searching practices as well as the way we think about the relationship between employment and citizenship. Work clubs have only received scant academic attention, and this study shows how more in-depth explorations can provide us with some valuable insights. Specifically, because doing so helps us to look beyond policy formulations, framings and imperatives to the implications of neoliberal ideologies in peoples everyday lives. The study uses an iterative inductive ethnographic approach, focusing on one single site field work location, encompassing two hundred hours of field work, during which at least 96 jobseekers have visited the premises of the work club. The study s approach to doing ethnographic fieldwork was based on viewing participant observation as hanging out ; that is, more than merely being somewhere, but rather as engaging and being active in an informal fashion, something that the flexible and unstructured nature of the field work location suited very well. Through this ethnographic, in-depth exploration, then, I do not only explore the observations and findings as offered by some of the previous scholars exploring work clubs, but also seek to connect the findings to Bourdieu s theories of symbolic power/violence as a theoretical framework, which allows us to explore the wider implications of neoliberal governmentalities imposed on jobseekers that influence their everyday practices. This study extends not only our knowledge of the lived experiences of unemployment, but also provides a contemporary insight into work clubs, and how Banterby SC work club has proven to be a valuable site of knowledge about everyday experiences with neoliberal governmentalities toward unemployment and job searching practices. It also extends the application of a symbolic power/violence lens by bringing it together with Foucault s neoliberal governmentalities. Specifically, the study argues that neoliberal governmentalities influencing job searching and unemployment practices are a form of symbolic violence. This approach helps us to problematise job searching practices at work clubs in order to argue for increased critical attention on these sites. Furthermore, the study uncovers the extent to which a welfare system gearing towards a digital by default administration disadvantages many jobseekers who are finding it difficult to work with computers and navigate the internet. The study also addresses and explores to what extent compliance with symbolic power/violence is also shared by staff and volunteers of third sector organisations whose main goal it is to alleviate the burden of unemployment by assisting jobseekers to fulfil their job searching obligations as asked of them by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Jobcentre Plus. Finally, the study calls for more beneficiary-centred voluntary sector research, and proposes a new methodological model for exploring voluntary action and organizations, arguing for a more integrated analysis of the experiences of various actors.

Western psychology has in its current position and definition laid claim to the “psychology” landscape, despite being the construction of one epistemology. This imposition allows western psychology to dominate and control the “psychology” landscape, to the detriment of other equally valid and “scientific” “psychologies”. We argue for redefinition of western psychology in terms of lived experience or soul, so that it can co-exist with other “psychologies”. This should co-facilitate the process of repositioning western psychology into a dialogically equal relationship with indigenous african psychology. Redefinition of western psychology is dependant on psychologist’s appreciation of the relativity of epistemological frameworks and ability to challenge their own subjectivities. This in turn requires epistemological curiosity. This study adopts a conceptual, autoethnographic approach and methodology. Our aim is not to provide answers, but rather create a context for dialogue. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology study was to explore and describe the meaning employees attribute to the lived experiences of returning to work after cancer treatment. Semi-structured interviews were held with eight participants and a thematic data analysis method was used. The results indicate that cancer survivors experience various challenges that make it difficult to function as they did before the diagnosis when they return to work. A critical hermeneutical reflection against the literature followed the structural analysis and resulted in a contextual framework that incorporated the individual and organisational perspective on the various influences involved in supporting cancer survivors to maintain their wellbeing when they return to work. Four phases, repression, comprehension, activation and reintegration, were identified when they tried to cope/adjust on their return to work. The corresponding forms of organisational support they expected through these phases were labelled motivation, information, navigation and stabilisation. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

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The research analyses pedagogical episodes lived in the classroom, reflecting on the temporality of biographical experience and existence to think the place of narrative in the context of connections between the know-how as a possibility for transformation and self-transformation of the subjects involved. The narrative fragments of the history of life give the research epistemological coherence consolidating interest in autobiographical approach as research perspective and as a practical training, enabling a (re)construction of archaeological subject. Self-reflexive references and biographical reflexivity are used as theoretical allowance to (re)position historical consciousness about learning and lived experiences throughout life. This route took me to design a methodological tripod based in teaching episodes, in interviews and focal groups as orientation to analyze the data produced in the field of research which showed the self narrative as a way that projects a subject involved in passages, territory of sensibilities configured through marks, affections and traces resulting from lived experiences, that is, a subject under training who learns not only through pedagogical practice but also giving place to whatever comes, and yet, learning to be a place, a port and a space for happenings and mo(ve)ments of life as a necessary way to knowledge and self narrative. / Este estudio de doctorado, de carácter autobiográfico con énfasis en la narrativa de sí, presenta cuestiones que parten de “momentos con movimiento” al mirar por el espejo retrovisor de la vida. Esa retro(re)visión arqueológica evoca imágenes, memorias y fragmentos de mi historia de vida, llevándome a una (re)visitación de los tiempos de colegio, formación y actuación docente en el campo de las Artes Visuales. El estudio articula y contempla análisis relacionados al proceso de la narrativa de vida y formación discente/docente de alumnos colaboradores del curso de Licenciatura en Artes Visuales de la Universidad de Brasilia. La investigación analiza, también, episodios pedagógicos vividos en el salón de clases, con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre la temporalidad biográfica de la experiencia y de la existencia para pensar el lugar de la narrativa en el contexto de la conexión entre el saber-hacer como posibilidad de transformación y auto transformación de los sujetos involucrados. Los fragmentos narrativos derivados de la historia de vida proporciona a la investigación la coherencia epistemológica que consolidó el interés en el enfoque autobiográfico como perspectiva investigativa y como práctica de formación, permitiendo una posible (re)construcción arqueológica del sujeto. El referencial auto-reflexivo y la reflexividad biográfica son utilizados como subsidio teórico para (re)posicionar la consciencia histórica sobre aprendizajes y vivencias experimentados a lo largo de la vida. Tal camino me ha llevado a la concepción de un trípode metodológico pautado en los episodios pedagógicos, entrevistas y realización de grupos focales como una guía para analizar los datos producidos en el campo de la investigación, que evidenciaron la narrativa de sí como camino que vislumbra un sujeto permeado por transiciones, territorio de sensibilidades, configurado por marcas, afectos y vestigios consecuentes de las experiencias vividas, o sea, un sujeto en formación que aprendió por la práctica pedagógica no soló a dar lugar a aquello que llega, pero también, a ser lugar, puerto y espacio de los acontecimientos y movimientos de la vida como apertura esencial para el conocimiento y la narrativa de sí. / Esta pesquisa de doutorado, de caráter autobiográfico com ênfase na narrativa de si, apresenta questões que partem de mo(vi)mentos ao olhar pelo espelho retrovisor da vida. Essa retro(re)visão arqueológica situa imagens, memórias e fragmentos da minha história de vida, levando-me a uma (re)visitação dos tempos de escolarização, formação e atuação docente no campo das Artes Visuais. O estudo articula e contempla análises relacionadas ao processo da narrativa de vida e de formação discente/docente de alunos colaboradores do curso de Licenciatura em Artes Visuais da Universidade de Brasília. A pesquisa analisa, também, episódios pedagógicos vivenciados em sala de aula, com o objetivo de refletir sobre a temporalidade biográfica da experiência e da existência para pensar o lugar da narrativa no contexto de conexões entre o saber-fazer como possibilidade de transformação e autotransformação dos sujeitos envolvidos. Os fragmentos narrativos derivados da história de vida, conferem à investigação coerência epistemológica que consolida o interesse na abordagem autobiográfica como perspectiva de pesquisa e como prática de formação, possibilitando uma (re)construção arqueológica do sujeito. O referencial autorreflexivo e a reflexividade biográfica são utilizados como subsídio teórico para (re)posicionar a consciência histórica acerca das aprendizagens e vivências experienciadas ao longo da vida. Tal percurso levou-me à concepção de um tripé metodológico pautado nos episódios pedagógicos, nas entrevistas e na realização de grupos focais como orientação para analisar os dados produzidos na pesquisa de campo que evidenciaram a narrativa de si como caminho que vislumbra um sujeito permeado de passagens, território de sensibilidades, configurado por marcas, afetos e vestígios decorrentes das experiências vividas, ou seja, um sujeito em formação que aprende pela prática pedagógica não apenas a dar lugar àquilo que chega, mas, também, a ser lugar, porto e espaço de acontecimentos e mo(vi)mentos da vida como abertura necessária para o conhecimento e a narrativa de si.

Nesta pesquisa procuramos estabelecer as bases teóricas e práticas da Internacional Situacionista e de dois de seus principais teóricos, Guy Debord e Raoul Vaneigem. Para aprofundar a compreensão, fomos em busca das origens desse grupo no Letrismo, na Internacional Letrista e Movimento por uma Bauhaus Imaginista, em uma tentativa de estabelecer uma trajetória. O início, no Letrismo, se estabelece como vanguarda artística, para logo quebrar com a perspectiva de uma proposta estética e realizar um aprofundamento de caráter marxista na crítica à cultura e ao urbanismo, na forma metodológica do desvio e da deriva e na construção de situações, a partir dos anos da Internacional Letrista. O processo de Decomposição da cultura faz com que alguns grupos se reúnam em uma nova internacional, desta vez Situacionista, com uma proposta inicial de revolução cultural, na e contra Decomposição. O envolvimento de Guy Debord com outros teóricos marxistas como Henri Lefebvre, radicaliza uma crítica da vida cotidiana e tira do foco uma discussão sobre cultura. O resultado é desenvolvimento do conceito de espetáculo, forma mais desenvolvida da sociedade produtora de mercadorias, e a centralização da questão do fetiche na crítica. Uma possibilidade de debate entre uma práxis revolucionária da vida cotidiana e a centralidade do fetiche da mercadoria nos parece necessária no momento atual da Geografia. / This research sought to establish the theoretical and practical bases of the Situationist International and two of its leading theorists, Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. To deepen understanding, we were in search of the origins of this group in Lettrism, Lettrist International and the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, in an attempt to establish a trajectory. The beginning, in Lettrism, establishes himself as the artistic vanguard, soon to break with the prospect of an aesthetic proposal and make a deeper exploration in the marxist ideas, in order to make a critique of culture and urbanism with the methodological form of the detournement, the dérive and the construction of situations, since the years of the Lettrist International. The process of Decomposition of the culture causes some groups to join in a new International, Situationist this time, with an initial proposal of cultural revolution, inside and against Decomposition. Guy Debord\'s involvement with other marxist theorists such as Henri Lefebvre, the radical critique of everyday life takes the focus from the discussion about culture. The result is the development of the concept of spectacle, most developed form of commodity-producing society, and centered on the critical question of the fetish. A possibility for discussion between a revolutionary praxis of everyday life and the centrality of the fetish seems necessary at this moment in Geography.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) är den mest förekommande beteendestörningen hos barn. Forskning visar att minst 5% av barn och ungdomar är drabbade världen över, men det finns troligtvis ett stort mörkertal hos såväl vuxna som barn. ADHD har blivit ifrågasatt för sin autenticitet och har varit föremål för diskussion de senaste årtiondena. De drabbade möts ofta av förutfattade meningar vilket skapar stigmatisering. Denna litteraturstudies syfte var att belysa individers egna upplevelser av att leva med ADHD. Resultatet visade att individer upplevde ett utanförskap i samhället oavsett ålder, genus och ursprung. Upplevelserna behandlade känslor av att vara i otakt med sin omgivning, att inte passa in i samhällets normer samt att bli stämplad som stökig och lat. Även upplevelser av att vara speciell med unika gåvor framkom i resultatet. Slutsatsen är att individer med ADHD lever i en verklighet med en alldeles särskild livsvärld. Att vilja förstå och kunna sätta sig in i denna livsvärld är av betydelse för alla i den drabbades närhet. Då vården i framtiden kommer att möta fler patienter med ADHD behövs mer kunskap inom området för att kunna främja hälsa hos dessa individer. / Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder among children. Research has proved that at least 5% of children and adolescents are affected in a worldwide perspective. A large number of people are probably unrecorded with the diagnosis. The authenticity of ADHD as a real diagnosis has been questioned during the last decades, and ADHD and its symptoms is still a matter for discussions. People living with ADHD are facing preconceptions which can cause stigmatization. The purpose of this literature study was to illustrate lived experiences of ADHD. The result of the study showed feelings of alienation in the community regardless of age, gender and origin. Their experiences were about feelings of being out of time with their surroundings, to not fit in the norms of society as well as being labelled as disorderly and lazy. Despite this, feelings of being special and gifted were also reported. The conclusion is that people living with ADHD holds a unique lifeworld, which is important to understand. The future holds a surge in demand for caring of patients with ADHD. To support health and wellbeing this require more knowledge within the area of behavioral impairments.