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This mixed methods study aimed to combine a quantitative analysis of the data of Swedish dual career (DC) athletes with two narrative interviews. The objectives were to quantitatively explore the Mental Health Literacy (MHL) of Swedish student-athletes, to compare the MHL of male and female, individual and team sports, and non-transnational and transnational athletes and to analyse student-athletes’ narratives about MHL in action. The data for the quantitative analysis, provided by the Dual Career 4 Mental Health project, was analysed via independent t-tests. For the narrative analysis two student-athletes were interviewed. The results showed significantly higher MHL for female athletes compared to male, and for individual-sport compared to team-sport athletes. No significant differences were found between transnational and non-transnational athletes. In the narrative results the participantstalked about their DC balancing, that lack of support from the environment can lead to the termination of a DC and how there still seem to be differences between the way physical and mental ill health are viewed and supported. At the current point we lack research studying the causes and influences of MHL. Practical applications, like specific education for coaches that could help prevent mental ill health as well as career terminations, still need to be created and applied. / Denna studie med blandade metoder hade som syfte att kombinera en kvantitativ analys av data från svenska idrottare med dubbla karriärer (DC) med två narrativa intervjuer. Målen med studien var att kvantitativt utforska svenska student-atleters mentala hälsolitteracitet (MHL), att jämföra MHL för manliga och kvinnliga idrottare, individuella och lagidrotter, nationella och transnationella idrottare, samt att analysera student-atleters berättelser om MHL. Data för den kvantitativa analysen, som tillhandahålls av DC4MH-projektet, analyserades via oberoende t-tester. För den narrativa analysen intervjuades två studentatleter. Resultaten visade signifikant högre MHL för kvinnliga idrottare jämfört med män, och för individuella idrottare jämfört med lagidrottare. Inga signifikanta skillnader hittades mellan transnationella och nationella idrottare. I de narrativa resultaten pratade deltagarna om sin DC-balans, att bristande stöd från omgivningen kan leda till att den DC avslutas, och hur det fortfarande verkar finnas skillnader mellan hur fysisk och psykisk ohälsa ses på samt stöttas. I dagsläget saknar vi forskning som studerar orsaker till och påverkan av MHL. Praktiska tillämpningar, som specifik utbildning för tränare som kan hjälpa till att förebygga psykisk ohälsa och avslutade karriärer måste fortfarande skapas och tillämpas.

<p>Alternate Level of Care, or ALC, is a designation assigned to a patient during an acute care hospital stay when that patient is occupying a bed but no longer requires that intensity of service. A high proportion of beds occupied by patients requiring ALC results in problems in the healthcare system related to patient flow, access, and efficiency. The purpose of this study was to better understand the experience of older patients and family caregivers while the patient is designated as requiring ALC. This study employed the Three-Dimensional Narrative Inquiry Space method of Clandinin and Connelly (2000) to examine the experiences of five patients and four family caregivers. The primary data source for this study was a series of semi-structured interviews with individual participants over time while they were in the midst of the experience of ALC. Data analysis involved a twofold process of restorying all interview transcriptions for a given participant into a single story summarizing his or her experience, and analyzing the content across stories to identify common themes. The major finding of this study was that uncertainty was a significant part of the experience of ALC. This uncertainty was manifest in relation to self-concept, waiting for placement, not knowing about information, not being included in planning, lack of mobility, and lack of meaningful activity. The study findings have implications for strategies to manage uncertainty in the areas of practice, policy, education, and research in order to improve the experience of older patients and their family caregivers.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)

There is a considerable gap between what scientists argue is necessary to avoid the most dramatic consequences of climate change and what governments around the world are currently achieving with their mitigation strategies and national pledges. This is partly due to the general inability to communicate solutions to climate change in a desirable way. Strategic narratives have been found to be a great tool to improve the effectiveness of climate change communication. Common narratives in climate change communication are the “Gore” narrative, “End of the World” narrative, “Climate Target” narrative and the “Green Living” narrative. Sweden has been considered a leading country in the field of sustainability in recent years. However, the newly formed government does not seem to be overly concerned with improving environmental sustainability, considering that their proposed policies would lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions for Sweden for the first time in decades. The Swedish Climate Policy Council has been formed in order to evaluate whether Swedish policies are aligned with Sweden’s national climate targets on an annual basis. This thesis examines recent reports of the Swedish Climate Policy Council through a document analysis in order to estimate the effectiveness of their climate change communication. The reports were coded using framework analysis and corresponding narrative statements were identified and categorized in the above mentioned narrative categories. Relative frequency of different types of narratives is analyzed and, based on recent climate change communication research, recommendations for improvements are given. It has been found that the Swedish Climate Policy Council should create a strategic narrative for climate change communication, based on the values of the current government.

This thesis is a narrative study that examines significant life experiences of six living artists that were pivotal in their decision to pursue careers in the arts. Although the examples found in these conversations are not exhaustive—many factors play into the individuals sense of identity and agency—they serve to give voice to the multiplicity of the learning experience, underscoring that creative education occurs in the home, the community, and among social groups as frequently as it does in the classroom. Through direct, open-ended conversations with artists, research explores the setting of upbringing and education, the pivotal experiences—catalysts—that propelled these individuals into art careers, and impact of their experience on both creative practice and notions of art learning. Interviews encompass artists whose work is located in public spaces, natural landscapes, and urban environments as often as it appears in the traditional exhibition settings, whose work is both collaborative and socially constructed. They comprise Rick Lowe, artist and founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas whose community-centered social sculpture expands on our cultural assumptions about the artist and Anne Wallace, a public artist whose early work as a human right activist and bi-cultural experiences translate into videos about the complexities of the United States/Mexico border. It includes Vincent Valdez, a self-described “hyper-realist” who depicts his home city and composite life experiences of his family through allegorical paintings and drawings; Marie Lorenz, an artist explorer whose interest in urban waterways brings her work into the waters of forgotten canals and rivers; of Robert Pruitt, who critiques ever-changing political landscapes, conceptions of history, and globalism through hybrid drawings and sculptures; and Franco Mondini-Ruiz who fuses aesthetics of high and low in installations and creative economy widely accessible to people both within and outside the confines of the art world. Through narrative conversation, this thesis enriches overlapping theories that encompass our understandings of education and learning—mentorship, experiential learning, the aesthetic experience, place-based learning, communities of practice—through lived example, underscoring learning as a socially constructed phenomenon. Experiences of learning, unique and wholly individualized, contribute to a one’s sense of self and agency; in the case of the six artists featured in this study, creative experiences contribute to their identity as “artist” and motivated their pursuit of lifework and career. / text

本研究使用敘說研究方法，探討未婚成年女性多重戀情的心理歷程。從文獻與實務經驗中理解到，有些多重戀情者在其中有許多負向感受（女性尤其強烈），因此希望關注在歷程中時有負向感受的女性當事人身上，給予敘說的空間。採用立意取樣由熟識的人介紹受訪者小黛，訪談與分析詮釋後發現，在說出來的故事底下，還有許多難以被說出來的故事主軸。小黛雖然本著開朗釋懷的態度，看似不受外界影響與壓迫，但其實渴望被接納，也擔心被社會評價所批判，因此說得小心翼翼，不斷地解釋與抗辯污名，並且在多重戀情歷程中持續進行自我形象的整飾。社會的負向評價不僅在訪談當時影響著故事的敘說，更在故事發生當時就扮演了舉足輕重的角色，並且已經內化為女性多重戀情者的價值觀，讓當事人被污名所壓迫，「這不是一部變心與劈腿的故事，而是一部在自我形象與感情需求的拉扯下，尋求著被允許與被接納之生存空間的故事。」 最後，本研究對多重戀情現象、質性研究者與諮商員提出反思與建議。 / The study was based on narrative research approach exploring the females’s psychological process of an unmarried adult female who had more than one lover at the same time. According to the research and practical experience, some people, especially the females who had more than one lover at the same time would experience a lot of negative feelings. The participator Diane was introduced by a friend based on purposive sampling. After interviewing and interpreting the story, there are some important stories under what she had said. Although she looked like optimistic and didn’t care about external pressure, in fact, she wanted to be accepted and worried about the social judgment. Therefore, she told about her story carefully, and explained her behavior again and again. Besides, she regulated her self-image all the time when she falling in love with two men. Not only influencing the narration in the interview, the negative social judgment also played a key person from the beginning. It was internalized by the female who had more than one lover at the same time, and oppressed her through stigmatization. “This is not a story talking about unfaith; this is a story talking about a person who seek to be accepted, be permitted to survive under the struggle between the self-image and the need of love.” Finally, there were some discussion about the phenomenon that a person had more than one lover at the same time and some suggestions to the researchers and counselors.

本研究使用敘說研究方法，探討一位明星高中成績低落學生形成自我認同的心理歷程。以後現代的觀點，來瞭解受訪者如何看待自己在耀眼的明星高中裡，所經驗到的課業問題以及對自我形象的認定。本研究採立意取樣方式，邀請正就讀於北部某明星高中，且高一至高二其間學業成績明顯低落的受訪者KK，進行半結構式的訪談。經過文本的分析詮釋後整理出KK的自我認同歷程階段表，來描述受訪者在進入明星高中前後，所經歷不同時期的自我認同樣貌；此外，研究者亦參考各心理學家所提出自我認同的相關理論來檢視受訪者的自我認同程度，並以質性的方式來描述；最後，研究者歸納出受訪者如何重新賦予自我新形象的心理模式。本研究亦針對教育工作者、質性研究者與諮商員提出反思與建議。 / The main purpose of this study is to inquiry what an underachiever expe¬riences his academically lagging behind in a prestigious high school in north Taiwan and how he establishes his self-image in the process of self-identity. By taking a post-modern perspective, I tried to understand the participator’s experiential world through his narrative language in a semi-structured interview. The method of text analysis is the holistic-content model by Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach(1998). After a narrative interpretation, I concluded the participator’s self-identity process describing his different self-image before and after entering the prestigious high school, assessed the participator’s degree of self identity by relevant theories in a qualitative method and discussed the way he established self-images. Finally, I proposed some educational suggestions for practical educators, qualitative researchers and counselors.

九年一貫課程「將傳統學科統整為七大學習領域」，在知識結構方面的改變，對教師的影響甚大；其中，尤以「綜合活動學習領域」的實施，最令基層教師感到困擾。研究者多年來擔任師資培育中心的教學研究發現，現行九年一貫課程「綜合活動學習領域」的實施，存在著許多問題。綜合課程強調「統整課程」及「合科教學」的部分，期能透過「綜合活動學習領域」的設置及活動過程的體驗與反思，將傳統的分科課程，統整為相互關聯的領域，並且落實學生生活能力的陶養。其若以「美學/哲學的課程取向」論述，教師可依循課程綱要，自主的規劃教學活動，學校也可採取彈性課程的方式，由生活經驗出發，讓學童探索真實生活中的經驗，學習對事物做深入的體驗、判斷與理解意義；因此，如何促使「生活中美感」與「體驗活動」產生聯結，落實學童生活能力的陶養，便成為「綜合活動課程實踐」的關鍵因素。 本文採用敘事分析的探究途徑，針對國小「綜合活動學習領域」教師的教學實踐敘事，進行「教師自我歸因」的敘事意義創塑，強調「閱讀文本、分享對話、游移遊戲」半結構式的課程設計，一種閱讀詮釋、對話視域與遊戲體驗的課程美學探究。本研究發現： 1、透過「教師敘事－自我歸因」的概念範疇，論述「綜合活動學習領域」課程美學之可能實踐途徑；包含：省思跨領域綜合課程的交互作用；充實學生生活使其發展完美人性；閱讀、對話與分享意念的課程實踐；課程中的主體性與情境詮釋以及一種「詮釋性反省的手法」：教師藉以覺察「師生從學習經驗中協商出的意義」，進而重新審視課程中「教育經驗的內涵及意圖」，「敘事」得以「喚醒了課程主體」，一種生命歷程、多元情境脈絡的建構過程、衝擊與協商。 2、透過「課程實踐－教學敘事」的案例分析，探究「觀看/閱讀生活世界」課程美學之可能實踐途徑；包含：協商的、批判性的、互為文本的解讀；師生互為「觀看、傾聽、感覺和感動」；「體驗作為一種學習方式」的課程實施；「故事作為一種學習方式」的課程實施；「想像文本作為一種學習方式」的課程實施以及「詩性智慧作為一種學習方式」的課程實施：綜合活動課程藉以創造出一個「詩性的經驗、感性的融合」，使其經營出一種對話遊戲中的新經驗，由詩、遊戲、美感經驗所構成的學習課程；在學習過程中，師生得以審視「由故事、創造組成，觸及學習者感覺、同情與想像力思維、詩性的體驗和實踐的智慧」。 3、透過「課程美學－詮釋批判」的概念範疇，探究「師生交感於美學視野」的互動過程之可能途徑；包含：詩性的、經驗內容的自我體驗和表白；在意義流動開展中解構自己的課程世界；情境互動、解構文本、賞析與視野融合；一種神話、故事、夢想與想像課程意圖；教育如何促使人們發展自己的知覺力量；如何促使人們發展美好生活的課程實踐：教師藉以審視或覺察「他們處於不斷的變化之中」，一種「主動的學習歷程，一種整體的生命經驗」，而且透過「課程的動態觀點」，所有的課程設計，都可以是一種思維過程的課程經驗，一種美好生活的「覺醒和意識」的模式。 4、透過「課程敘事－語言流動」的分析架構，探究「生活中美感」與「體驗活動」產生聯結之途徑；包含：語言的可能性與「觀看途徑」的運作；「以學生為主體」真實生活世界的知識實踐；能將「生活世界」真實存在的主題加以關連；對話提供未完成性的關連與希望的存有覺察；教育情境的動態發展，人與豐富情境的「邂逅」：教師藉以重新審視過程中「課程片段、組成部分的反思與回饋」，一種「人與情境多樣性的檢視」，透過「自由的實踐」，質疑一切看似靜態與不易變更之社會事實，一種互動不斷演化出渾沌的、眾多不同模式的課程實踐。 / Integrating the traditional disciplines into seven main learning areas according to Grade 1-9 Curriculum has imposed great impact on both knowledge structures and the instructors; especially the practice of Integrative Activities Learning really troubles the grass-roots teachers. Base on years of experience as an instructor in Teacher Education Center, I’ve found that the current implementation of Integrative Activities Learning is not easy to be executed in reality. The purpose of Integrative Activities Learning is to emphasize on integrated curriculum and all teaching aspect, and through the participation in the planned activities, students are in the mean time trained to have good life skills. When focusing on Aesthetics/Philosophy Course Orientation, not only the teachers can follow the curriculum guidelines to set the pace of the appropriate teaching plans, the schools can also adopt flexible curriculum; this will be a good way to guide the students in learning, exploring and experiencing daily events. Moreover, through the practice of Integrative Activities, students can learn to link their daily experiences with beauty of life, thus, they’re trained to own life skills. This abstract uses narrative analysis as the mean to proceed the evaluation on the effectiveness of practicing Integrative Activities Learning in elementary schools. To study the result of stressing on story reading, dialogue sharing and doing waver game – a curriculum for attaining story understanding, dialogue forming and gaming experience. This research found the following points. 1.Through the concept of narrative analysis and self-attribution to realize the possible ways of implementing Integrative Activities Learning in elementary schools. Teachers can guide students to learn to appreciate beauty and moral values in the process of reading, sharing dialogues and thoughts with others and further more, developing good life skills. 2.Through the concept of curriculum practice and teaching narrative to find the possible ways of practicing aesthetics curriculum in schools. Teachers can interact with students by sharing with one another about what their thoughts are in watching, listening and feeling from doing group activities. Through experimenting, reading and imagination brainstorming, Integrative Activities Learning can be a great tool to create a fun and productive learning experience for both teachers and students. 3.Through the concept of curriculum aesthetics and interpretation of critical to determine the possible ways of teacher/student interaction on beauty. Teachers and students can interact through studying myths, stories and dreams; by taking the initiative to learn and share inner thoughts with others, students can cultivate an overall life experience and gain the awakening and awareness through calculated curriculum learning. 4.Through the concept of curriculum narrative and language flow to find the connection between beauty of life and experience activities. Teachers can show the students the possibilities of languages usages, discuss the life themes of this living world with students and help them to examine, question and clarify the seems unchanged social facts and find the core value of their own through participating in the course.

本研究旨在探討中等學校輔導教師在校園中同時擔任個案的任課教師和諮商員的雙重關係經驗，以訪談法蒐集資料，經由立意取樣邀請四名任教國中、高中且面臨師生諮商雙重關係的新手和資深輔導教師參與研究訪談，呈現其工作樣貌，並輔以生態系統觀點探討面對雙重關係一事的考量。 　四名輔導教師皆曾聽過師生諮商雙重關係一詞且理解其意涵，但在何時聽聞以及考量原因等則印象不一。受訪教師認為雙重關係的優點包含提供學生觀察老師的機會、較易建立關係，可看到學生不同面向的表現並滿足教師本身對親近感的需求，此外亦可連結資源改善學生環境並推廣輔導工作；而其困擾多為內在感受，如擔心個人身為教師的價值觀介入或需要不時思考此議題的煩惱，至於其他負面影響則因皆可處理而未感困擾。 在師生諮商雙重關係的經驗中，受訪者因學校制度而進入雙重關係，並提及同事期待輔導教師協助個案輔導所給予的壓力，然而受訪者也利用自身教師角色連結校內資源提供學生協助。在外圍系統的決策考量上，因受訪老師選擇接受校園中輔導教師同時授課和個案輔導的限制且忘記當初的矛盾，故無法探究各老師的思考過程。在鉅視系統層面，受訪教師認同自身教師角色，皆有責任崇高或需要更主動付出的自我期待屬之。 　　整體而言，受訪教師接受師生諮商雙重關係的存在，然則不受限制而在此情況下依各自期許盡力而為是其主要因應方式。 / / / To explore the teacher-student dual relationships of middle school counselors, four study participants facing dual-relationships in junior and senior high schools including novice and veteran teachers were interviewed through purposive sampling. The results show their work appearances, assist with the discussion of the consideration facing dual relationships in eco-systems perspective. 　　The four participants all have heard the teacher-student dual relationships and understand its meaning, but have different impressions of when they heard, and the reasons of consideration. Interviewed teachers think the advantages of dual relationships include providing students the opportunity to observe the teachers, being able to build relationships easier, understanding students’ different performance, and meeting the teachers’ own needs of the close feelings, they also can link resources in order to improve the students’ environment, and promote counseling works. However, the distresses are their inner feelings, such as teachers worry about the personal values involving, or the need for thinking of this topic from time to time. Otherwise, they aren’t troubled with the solvable negative effects. 　　From the interviewees’ experiences, their duel relationship with students resulted from the system of school environment. They were under the pressure of student individual counseling from their colleagues’ expectations. However, they were able to provide more resources in the school under their role as a teacher. In terms of the decision making of exosystem, how the interviewees processed their conflicts of duel relationship is hard to explore since they have already accepted the reality of teaching and counseling in the same time as guidance counselor (guidance teacher), and forgot about their first thought. When we look at the macrosystem, interviewees’ identified their roles as teachers, and considered it as a high responsibility career, and expected themselves devoted to their career more. 　　Generally speaking, the interviewees accept the teacher-student dual relationships. Their way to deal with this inner conflict is trying their best according to their own expectation without other limitation.

Thesis with the title "Life stories and professional careers of women headmasters of vocational high schools" deals with professional life of women headmasters of vocational high schools and analyzes this professional life. Per this analysis is detected, what is the benefit of these headmasters for school and if they promote a development of the school. Narrative analysis was used on this research.Beside the research there are answered other questions, which are related to professional life and are associated with the primary research question. There are described the phases of professional life and there are stated the effects, which influence the decision making of the headmasters. In the conclusion of research the headmasters alone evaluate their actions in position of headmaster.The primary research question is answered, how it results from research, all headmasters are benefit for their school. Schools, which were guided by them, had evolved and it is them, who are the reason of its growth. Recommendations for futher research is analysis of professional men headmasters.