L’idée m’est venue, après 35 ans de carrière en éducation de faire des études doctorales, question de boucler ma vie professionnelle par un exercice de synthèse significatif. Or au cours de cette carrière, j’ai eu à travailler quelques années avec des directions d’écoles élémentaires qui avaient à jongler, à la fois, avec le mandat de cette école particulière qu’est l’école de langue française en milieu minoritaire, avec la présence majoritaire d’enfants issus de l’immigration et avec les exigences de performance et d’efficacité telles que précisées par le ministère de l’Éducation de l’Ontario. Je me suis demandé comment le care et l’éthique du care interviennent dans le processus de conciliation de ces différentes exigences dans ce contexte. L’approche narrative (narrative inquiry) m’a offert la structure méthodologique requise pour réaliser mon travail de recherche. J’ai fait des entrevues phénoménologiques avec quatre directions d’école. Leurs récits d’expérience jumelés au mien ont permis d’explorer notre paysage du savoir professionnel puisque l’expérience est source de savoir. Les récits institutionnels issus du ministère et des conseils scolaires de district ont aussi offert une toile de fond à la réflexion. Le phénomène du care, sa forme et ses modalités d’expression dans le milieu scolaire a été au cœur de mes interrogations et de ma démarche. Cette démarche, en fait, se présente sous la forme d’une thèse/récit en mode narratif qui se veut un collage esthétique de trois livres. Ainsi, dans le Livre des savoirs, j’explicite le care et présente la méthodologie de recherche. Ensuite, dans le Livre des conversations, j’ai organisé mes données sous la forme de onze conversations qui me permettent de livrer les propos des directions d’école ainsi que les récits institutionnels. Chaque conversation est suivie d’une décantation, premier niveau d’interprétation. Vient en troisième lieu, le Livre des méditations qui est le résultat de mon effort interprétatif, herméneutique et systémique pour expliciter et cerner le care et l’éthique du care dans le milieu scolaire. Je me suis appuyée sur les phases du care et les qualités morales qui y sont inhérentes (Tronto, 1993, 2009) pour présenter, à travers les propos de directions d’école, comment le phénomène du care prend forme dans leur paysage professionnel. J’ai jeté un regard particulier sur les besoins distinctifs des personnes et des écoles en contexte linguistique minoritaire dégageant ainsi que, s’il est possible de parler de care au plan individuel, il est aussi important d’en considérer la forme et les exigences au plan institutionnel. En supposant que le care est le reflet d’une éthique relationnelle, il m’a fallu intégrer la notion d’éthique écologique dans ma réflexion sur les écoles en milieu linguistique minoritaire pour refléter l’importance de la composante communautaire dans la vision du care. De cette façon, ma recherche contribue à placer le care en éducation dans le domaine public et à élargir les pourtours de la conception du care en tant qu’outil de consolidation ou de développement communautaire.

This qualitative study aimed to enhance our understanding of youth engagement experiences from the perspective of Aboriginal youth living in the Canadian North, as positive youth development programs can foster community engagement among youth and may have implications for Aboriginal youth involvement in community healing. With an asset-based orientation that recognizes that youths’ strengths co-exist with, and are understood in relation to, environmental challenges, narrative inquiry was used to explore the experiences of six Aboriginal youth who participated in a program that promotes community engagement. Rich participant accounts resulted in better understanding youth engagement as a profound culture-bound process rather than simple participation in a program, and illuminates the importance of positive relationships, adult support, and pre-program community involvement to building subsequent engagement. This study has implications specific to Aboriginal youth as having a role in promoting health and healing in their communities through their engagement.

Orientador: Dione Lucchesi de Carvalho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T12:30:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GoncalvesJunior_MarcosAntonio_D.pdf: 7234019 bytes, checksum: 033616069cae738395a0ecbc5937dd10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: De 2008 a 2010, recebi, em minhas aulas de matemática, alunos de um curso de licenciatura que cursavam o Estágio Supervisionado II. Supervisionei-os em seu estágio e orientei-os em seu Trabalho Final de Curso. Tal processo me levou a desenvolver com eles um trabalho conjunto, olhando nossas aulas numa perspectiva de investigação-ação e colaboração. Assim, juntos, escrevemos um diário de aula descritivo e reflexivo sobre as aulas em todas as etapas do estágio: observação, semirregência e regência. Passados alguns anos, passei a perscrutar esses diários de aula, procurando investigar esse processo de formação, narrando-o, contando sobre o processo de constituição identitária dos futuros professores, descrevendo o trivial simples do dia a dia da sala de aula, bem como as tensões da prática de colaborar e investigar a própria prática. Em certa altura, por figurar como personagem nas histórias que contava, dei-me conta de que não investigava os estagiários, mas, sim, a mim mesmo, minhas contradições, minhas identidades no papel de professor de matemática, de supervisor (formador de professores) e de pesquisador em Educação Matemática. Desse modo, desenvolvi uma investigação sobre mim mesmo, por meio de uma pesquisa narrativa em que meus "eus" são objeto de estudo. Por meio de uma conversa comigo mesmo, procuro construir uma narrativa como forma de compartilhar uma experiência, de produzir uma experiência e como forma de compreender o vivido em relação à formação de professores de matemática durante o estágio supervisionado / Abstract: Between 2008 and 2010, I received prospective mathematics teachers in my math classes who were attending Student Teaching II, a course in a program that prepares mathematics teachers. As their student teaching supervisor, I also was their Final Project advisor. Together, with those student teachers, we approached a perspective of action research and collaboration in our teaching practice. Thus, we wrote a descriptive and reflective class diary regarding all student teaching periods: Observation, Pre-teaching and Teaching. After a few years, I began to peering into those class diaries inquiring this teacher preparation process by narrating it, by giving an account about the prospective teacher's process of identity construction, by describing the commonplace's everyday life of our classes and also the tensions of this collaborative practice of investigate our own practice. Unexpectedly, once I was a character in the stories I was telling about what we experienced, I realized that I was not only investigating the future teachers, but myself, my contradictions, may identities as a mathematics teacher, as a cooperating teacher, as a Mathematics Education researcher. So I made a self-study by a narrative inquiry about my 'selves'. By talking with myself I wrote a narrative as a way to share an experience, to create an experience and as a way to understand what we live in this process of become a teacher during the Student Teaching Course / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutor em Educação

The aim of this thesis is to study how self-narratives work as displaying identity construction and meaning making in school. The study draws from a theoretical frame made up by narrative inquiry, the theory of Communities of Practice and Ervin Goffman’s dramaturgical model of role-taking and positioning on the educational scene. The method used is narrative inquiry. In total, 96 sixth grade pupils in four different schools in Sweden, have written a text based on a PowerPoint presentation titled “Tell about yourself in school”. The data is analyzed with an emphasis on the organization and structure of the narrative as well as on its content. The findings reveal that the pupils in the study are active identity constructors and meaning makers when they are given the opportunity to tell about themselves and their experiences in school. These pupils position themselves in their narratives by choosing who they want to be and how they wish to be perceived by others. These roles are thus not solely selected by the narrator itself but are also influenced by the school community with its expectations, culture and social norms. Furthermore, the analyses yielded that pupils currently move within a complex landscape of communities of practice in the school’s context where they are continually compelled to make decisions, take stands and reflect upon their lives. To nurture meaningful relationships with peers and with others in school is viewed by the pupils in the study as the main element for meaning making in school.

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Constructions of race, reproductive health, and gender have been inextricably linked in the United States since the beginning of the nation. Today, these linkages remain evident in the marked racial and gender inequities in reproductive health outcomes that persist in the U.S. To better understand how these meanings and material outcomes are negotiated and produced by actors on the ground, this study asked: “How do reproductive healthcare providers (RHPs) communicate about the intersections of race, reproductive health, and policy?” I conducted semi- structures interviews with 24 RHPs, resulting in over 35 hours of recorded interviews. Drawing on critical-cultural communication, Reproductive Justice, Narrative Medicine, and Postcolonial theories, I developed a novel approach to narrative inquiry—Critical Narrative Analysis—to explore my data. Here, I present an in-depth analysis of 8 narratives shared by my participants. I conclude that participants communicated about race, reproductive health, and policy by engaging with dominant cultural narratives around these topics. While some participants contested dominant narratives, most upheld the foundational logics of oppressive systems in the stories they shared. To advance reproductive justice, I argue that new approaches to teaching clinicians, which engage with both narratives and sociopolitical structures affecting these narratives, are needed. By sharing my participants’ stories and contextualizing them within dominant narratives and social institutions, I aim to identify future research and practice opportunities for creating new stories about reproductive health and physician identity, stories which could suggest more equitable and just ways of doing reproductive health care.

Young Muslims growing up in the West face dichotomous narratives that fragment their being, creating internal divisiveness. Islamic spirituality, especially the notion of tawheed, promotes oneness and unity of being. In this thesis, I explore the spiritual development of young Muslims in the West through literature amidst these dichotomous narratives. Using sociocultural theory and narrative inquiry, I first explore the threads of dichotomous narratives throughout history that create a binary of Muslims and the West, proving them insubstantial. Then, I explore the lives of two young Muslims, a male, and a female, growing up in Toronto. I story their lives, rooting their spiritual development in the literature they read, which is socioculturally embedded. Finally, I reflect on the harmonies, and tensions that exist within the stories. Tensions signify third spaces of productive growth, in which young Muslims can contests meaning and open pathways for creative becoming(s).

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The relationship between qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) and the development of new methods remains underexplored. While scholars argue that software tactics are used only to implement analytic strategies, some strategies are made possible only with new software developments. Aligned with the Five-Level QDA method, we aim to address the gap in the literature by thoroughly presenting the methodological aspects of an existing narrative inquiry. To be systematic in our explanation of QDAS integration, we begin by offering background information about the original project, followed by an analytical plan, which was informed by our researcher’s subjectivity and generativity theory. We then introduce our translational process that merges our subjective narrative strategy with objective ATLAS.ti tactics into a comprehensive framework for analysis. The findings, presented as a conceptual mapping of the data, informed deeper metaphorical exploration of generativity which is discussed as a life-long process of intergenerational connectedness.

This study looks at issues of Bildung and vocational education from a biographical perspective. These issues are conceptualized in terms of Bildung in action, developed in relation to Schön’s concept reflection in action; Bildung through making as a way of thinking about processes of Bildung connected to crafts; and Bildung in vocational contexts, ie. contexts of vocational education and work. The concepts are enriched through an extensive auto/biographical case study of master craftsman Wolfgang B.’s educational biography focusing on stories of Bildung where processes and actions are described as well as the curricular structure of his training. Some of these stories and aspects of the case have then been analyzed in two articles, one dealing with questions of aesthetic Bildung in vocational education using Schiller as conceptual lens and one dealing with educating for vocational excellence using Aristotle’s concepts techne and phronesis to understand the narratives analyzed. The results are an increased and differentiated understanding of Bildung in vocational contexts, especially as related to the coexistence of skill training with education for Bildung and the unique perspectives that auto/biographical studies of retired or semi-retired craftspeople bring to the field of research connecting biography, Bildung in action and vocational education.