This study is a qualitative examination of the construction of identities of three novice English teachers at one university-level institute in Saudi Arabia. The study uses multiple theoretical frameworks to build a narrative describing construction of these identities: Goffman’s (1959; 1963; 1974) performing, frame analysis, and spoiled identity concepts, Anderson’s (1991) imagined community, Canagarajah’s (1996) “from bottom up” narrative style, Wenger’s (1998) three modes as a framework of the identity construction, and Pinar and Grumet’s (1976) currere. The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to offer a rich description of how novice, nonnative English speakers (NNES), especially teachers, constructed their identities and their positions, both inside and outside the classroom, and how they negotiated their access to power and were perceived as legitimate bilingual English teachers, as it pertains to the NNES label, and (b) theoretical multiplicity establishes a novel methodological approach to use narrative as a research tool that can fully capture the complexity of novice teachers’ identities. These purposes are embedded in an action and movement to remove stigmas that NNES English Language teachers experience because of the NNES label given to them and their learners (Kamhi-Stein, 2016). This study adopted the interview autobiographical narrative approach, reflections, and observations inside and outside the classroom because of the many life stories that were shared as a window or frame into understanding the participants’ experiences as English Language teachers. The findings suggest that the dichotomy of the native and nonnative English speaker is power-driven and political, rather than linguistic power (Canagarajah, 1999; Phillipson, 1992). This study’s participants were able to strategically position themselves as legitimate speakers where they were able to show a part of their identity that was worthy of investment. Their investment did not fit the community of practice (CoP) expectations. They were able to build relationships with the CoP and they felt satisfied in their job positions.

This research is concerned with the construction and expression of selfidentity in a sample of lay Christians working in a contemporary workplace. It seeks to understand how these believers construct and sustain, in and through autobiographical narrative, a faith-full self-identity at work. It is inspired by my own experience as a Christian believer in a secular workplace. The results of the study contribute to the discipline of practical theology in the specific area of understanding autobiographical construction of Christian self-identity. Although the study takes an overt Christian theological stance, it draws not only from the theory of autobiographical narrative in theology, but also from corresponding theory in philosophy, sociology and psychology. In particular the research draws on the Confessions of St. Augustine (c AD 400), using this patristic text as a benchmark expression of Christian selfidentity. Augustine’s neo-platonic thinking informs the central research question which asks whether fragmentation of self-identity is experienced by Christians in the challenging environment of the present-day workplace. Narrative is both phenomenon under study and research methodology. It is a particularly appropriate means by which to study faith identity. The concept is a fluid one and narrative inquiry is more concerned with establishing meaning and significance than facts and truth. The research resides within a constructivist paradigm and acknowledges that the findings are limited and specific. The findings suggest that fragmentation of self-identity is experienced by the research actors in work/faith tensions. However, these believers move through a process of growing self-awareness and awareness of God’s action in their lives as they construct personal work/life narratives. The research findings explore this process of self-identity construction and offer conclusions about the discovery of a sense of deep self-identity amidst the experience of fragmentation.

Abstract This research report explores the process of narrating survival in Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man and The Drowned and The Saved. The central objective is to understand the process of psychological survival is narrated in Levi’s autobiographical narrative. To this end, I have used a psychoanalytical framework to understand the traumatic impact of Auschwitz on subjectivity as well as to position subjectivity in relation to autobiographical narrative. I shall argue that the trauma of Auschwitz resulted in an eroded and shattered subjectivity and that narrative offers a space in which the reconstruction of that subjectivity can be negotiated.

Atualmente, a autobiografia é considerada um gênero literário de grande alcance, o que pode ser verificado pela quantidade de títulos e variedade de obras. No entanto, sua definição não deixa de ser complexa como demonstram os numerosos estudos consagrados à matéria (Starobinski, 1970, Genette, 1972, Lejeune, 1975). A premissa que norteia a presente pesquisa sustenta-se na ideia que perante as narrativas autobiográficas, na verdade, são as estratégias ficcionais as construções narrativas que serão relevantes. Esta investigação tem por objeto o estudo da escritura autobiográfica do escritor francês Louis-Ferdinand Céline e no decorrer deste trabalho demonstraremos que diante do processo autobiográfico, certamente a problemática do estilo é de relevância ímpar uma vez que a construção de si, por parte do autor, se dá através da escritura. Neste sentido, sua produção literária nos parece ser das mais significativas. De fato, quando Céline escreve, não se impõe como necessária uma identidade entre autor, narrador e personagem ou em reconstituir a verdade de sua trajetória de vida preceitos do pacto autobiográfico mas sim em construir variações ficcionais sobre sua vida através de uma escritura suficientemente expressiva permitindo traduzir a emoção e os sentimentos dolorosos de sua realidade. Assim sendo, a hipótese que tentaremos demonstrar, a partir do estudo de nosso corpus literário, o romance Mort à crédit, é a de que Céline desenvolveu uma nova escritura autobiográfica que daria a primazia ao estilo e para tanto teria modificado as regularidades formais do gênero ao ressaltar a importância da enunciação em relação aos conteúdos. Com Céline, o discurso não tem como primeiro objetivo a narração de uma história: o importante é a expressão, ou seja, a preeminência da função estética. / Nowadays, the autobiography is considered a wide-ranging literary genre, which is borne out by the great number of titles and variety of works. However, its definition remains complex, which is demonstrated by the number of studies devoted to the subject (Starobinski, 1970, Genette, 1972, Lejeune, 1975). The guiding premise of the present study is based on the idea that facing autobiographical narratives, in reality, are fictional strategies narrative constructions which will be of significance This research has as its object the study of the autobiographical writings of the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the course of this work we shall be demonstrating that faced with the autobiographical process there can be no doubt that the question of style assumes disproportionate relevance, given that the the construction of self by the author is produced through the writing . In this sense, Celines literary output shows itself as one of the most significant. In fact, when the author writes the question of identity does not impose itself on author, narrator and character, or endeavor to reconstitute the truth of his lifes trajectory precepts faithful to the autobiographical covenant but rather constructs fictional variations of his life through a form of writing sufficiently expressive as to translate his reality into feelings of pain and emotion. Given the aforementioned, the hypothesis that we shall endeavor to demonstrate, based on the study of our literary corpus, the novel Death on Credit is that it is from this that Celine developed a new autobiographical structure which would give primacy to style, thereby modifying the formal order of the genre by emphasizing the importance of expressivity over content. With Celine, the main objective of discourse is not narrating a story, that is to say, the preeminence of the aesthetic function.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / The new world order, called Technocracy (XAVIER, 2009) indicates that the school can not ignore the reality in which it operates, it is constituent of a communications transformation process promoted by new technologies, but incidents also in ways of working , to decide, to think. Given this and new pedagogical framework, we aim therefore investigate the constitution of the discursive ethos anchored in three aspects of autobiographical narratives, namely the report of the teaching pedagogical praxis - front postmodern contextual influence and adequacy challenge to current educational environment in the clinical interview (MAIA-VASCONCELOS, 2005), the redefinition of the self-image of the teachers vie ârÃcitâ and narrative self-receptivity. The research corpus is composed of 20 techno autobiographical narratives. The research rhetoric composition has a multidisciplinary theoretical approach, which includes studies in the areas of education, sociology, philosophy and linguistics, under different axes, namely: the studies of autobiographical narratives, as a research method, data analysis and formation of narrative (BOLÃVAR, DOMINGO e FERNÃNDEZ, 2001; DOMINICÃ, 2007; PASSEGI, 2011; BERTAUX, 2010; BRUNER, 2006; JOSSO, 2009; LEJEUNE, [2008] 2014; MAIA-VASCONCELOS, 2003; PINEAU e LE GRAND, 2012; BAKHTHIN, 2003); studies of the self-image in speech (AMOSSY, 2005), the biographical embodiment (JOSSO, 2007, 2008, 2012); the sensitive body (BOIS e RUGIRA, 2006; HUMPICH, 2008); the discursive ethos (MAINGUENEAU, 1995, 2006, 2011); technological habitus (BOURDIEU, 2002, 2003, 2004; BOURDIEU e CHARTIER, 2012; ALBUQUERQUE, 2005); the relationship between the foreshadowing, figuration and refiguration narrative (RICOEUR, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000a, 2000b, 2011); the approaches to the post-modern educational context and the new pedagogy (UNESCO, 2005, 2008; DEMO, 2009; FINO, 2008; LIBÃNEO, 1998; CAHRLOT, 2008; KENSKY, 2012, 2013); the relationship between time and reflexivity (GIDDENS, 2002); the postmodern historical context (BALMAN, 2001). The analysis has revealed that teachers show be aware that, in addition to expertise in their area, must show, in particular, digital skills (CARENZIO, 2012). Therefore, the survey results allow us to say that the teachers ethos emerges in techno autobiographical narrative in the unveiling of a discursive game in which the narrative setting signifies that, interwoven by a dialectical relationship, in the same proportion that the pedagogical praxis report influences in the reframing and the constitution of the image itself, it is also reinterpreted and made from that image of themself new meaning. In this perspective, the driving strength that propels the subject to this constant reinterpretation of the image itself is grounded in the desire to break paradigms and improve on the use of digital technologies. Thus, the formation of technological habitus depends less generational factor and more social capital, cultural and economic teacher. So whether or not presenting a geek ethos, the postmodern teacher who took a praxis mediated by pedagogical digital artifacts is, above all, curious and this insignia is revealed in the desire to learn and improve themselves constantly. / A nova ordem mundial, denominada de Tecnocracia (XAVIER, 2009) indica que a escola nÃo pode ignorar a realidade na qual està inserida, vez que à constituinte de um processo de transformaÃÃo das comunicaÃÃes promovido pelas novas tecnologias, mas incidentes tambÃm nos modos de trabalhar, de decidir, de pensar. Diante desse novo quadro pedagÃgico, objetivamos, pois, investigar a constituiÃÃo do ethos discursivo ancorado em trÃs vertentes de narrativas tecnoautobiogrÃficas, a saber, o relato da prÃxis pedagÃgica docente - frente a influÃncia contextual pÃs-moderna e o desafio de adequaÃÃo à atual conjuntura educacional na entrevista clÃnica (MAIA-VASCONCELOS, 2005), a ressignificaÃÃo da imagem de si no rÃcit de vie dos professores e a autorreceptividade narrativa. O corpus da pesquisa à composto de 20 narrativas tecnoautobiogrÃficas e a composiÃÃo retÃrica da pesquisa tem um aporte teÃrico multidisciplinar, que compreende estudos nas Ãreas da educaÃÃo, da sociologia, filosofia e da LinguÃstica, sob diferentes eixos, a saber, os estudos das narrativas autobiogrÃficas, enquanto mÃtodo de pesquisa, anÃlise dos dados e narrativa de formaÃÃo (BOLÃVAR, DOMINGO e FERNÃNDEZ, 2001; DOMINICÃ, 2007; PASSEGGI, 2011; BERTAUX, 2010; BRUNER, 2006; JOSSO, 2009; LEJEUNE, [2008] 2014; MAIA-VASCONCELOS, 2003; PINEAU e LE GRAND, 2012; BAKHTHIN, 2003); os estudos da imagem de si no discurso (AMOSSY, 2005), a corporificaÃÃo biogrÃfica (JOSSO, 2007, 2008, 2012); o corpo sensÃvel (BOIS e RUGIRA, 2006; HUMPICH, 2008) o ethos discursivo (MAINGUENEAU, 1995, 2006, 2011); o habitus tecnolÃgico (BOURDIEU, 2002, 2003, 2004; ALBUQUERQUE, 2005); a relaÃÃo entre a prefiguraÃÃo, a figuraÃÃo e a refiguraÃÃo da narrativa (RICOEUR, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000a, 2000b, 2011); as abordagens sobre o contexto educacional pÃs-moderno e a nova pedagogia (UNESCO, 2005, 2008; DEMO, 2009; FINO, 2008; LIBÃNEO, 1998; CHARLOT, 2008; KENSKY, 2012, 2013); a relaÃÃo entre tempo e reflexividade (GIDDENS, 2002); o contexto histÃrico pÃs-moderno (BALMAN, 2001). A anÃlise nos revelou que os professores demonstram ter consciÃncia de que alÃm da competÃncia na sua Ãrea de atuaÃÃo, deve apresentar, sobretudo, habilidades digitais (CARENZIO, 2012). Portanto, os resultados da pesquisa nos permitem afirmar que o ethos docente emerge na narrativa tecnoautobiogrÃfica no desvelar de um jogo discursivo no qual a configuraÃÃo narrativa atesta que, imbricados por uma relaÃÃo dialÃtica, na mesma proporÃÃo que o relato da prÃxis pedagÃgica corrobora para ressignificaÃÃo e constituiÃÃo da imagem de si, ele à tambÃm ressignificado e constituÃdo a partir dessa imagem de si ressignificada. Nessa perspectiva, a forÃa motriz, que impele o sujeito à essa constante ressignificaÃÃo da imagem de si, se ancora no desejo de quebrar paradigmas e aperfeiÃoar-se no uso das tecnologias digitais. Sendo assim, a formaÃÃo do habitus tecnolÃgico depende menos do fator geracional e mais do capital social, cultural e econÃmico do professor. Portanto, quer apresentando ou nÃo um ethos geek, o professor pÃs-moderno que assumiu uma prÃxis mediada por artefatos pedagÃgicos digitais Ã, sobretudo, um curioso e essa insÃgnia se revela no desejo de aprender e de aperfeiÃoar-se incessantemente.

Atualmente, a autobiografia é considerada um gênero literário de grande alcance, o que pode ser verificado pela quantidade de títulos e variedade de obras. No entanto, sua definição não deixa de ser complexa como demonstram os numerosos estudos consagrados à matéria (Starobinski, 1970, Genette, 1972, Lejeune, 1975). A premissa que norteia a presente pesquisa sustenta-se na ideia que perante as narrativas autobiográficas, na verdade, são as estratégias ficcionais as construções narrativas que serão relevantes. Esta investigação tem por objeto o estudo da escritura autobiográfica do escritor francês Louis-Ferdinand Céline e no decorrer deste trabalho demonstraremos que diante do processo autobiográfico, certamente a problemática do estilo é de relevância ímpar uma vez que a construção de si, por parte do autor, se dá através da escritura. Neste sentido, sua produção literária nos parece ser das mais significativas. De fato, quando Céline escreve, não se impõe como necessária uma identidade entre autor, narrador e personagem ou em reconstituir a verdade de sua trajetória de vida preceitos do pacto autobiográfico mas sim em construir variações ficcionais sobre sua vida através de uma escritura suficientemente expressiva permitindo traduzir a emoção e os sentimentos dolorosos de sua realidade. Assim sendo, a hipótese que tentaremos demonstrar, a partir do estudo de nosso corpus literário, o romance Mort à crédit, é a de que Céline desenvolveu uma nova escritura autobiográfica que daria a primazia ao estilo e para tanto teria modificado as regularidades formais do gênero ao ressaltar a importância da enunciação em relação aos conteúdos. Com Céline, o discurso não tem como primeiro objetivo a narração de uma história: o importante é a expressão, ou seja, a preeminência da função estética. / Nowadays, the autobiography is considered a wide-ranging literary genre, which is borne out by the great number of titles and variety of works. However, its definition remains complex, which is demonstrated by the number of studies devoted to the subject (Starobinski, 1970, Genette, 1972, Lejeune, 1975). The guiding premise of the present study is based on the idea that facing autobiographical narratives, in reality, are fictional strategies narrative constructions which will be of significance This research has as its object the study of the autobiographical writings of the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the course of this work we shall be demonstrating that faced with the autobiographical process there can be no doubt that the question of style assumes disproportionate relevance, given that the the construction of self by the author is produced through the writing . In this sense, Celines literary output shows itself as one of the most significant. In fact, when the author writes the question of identity does not impose itself on author, narrator and character, or endeavor to reconstitute the truth of his lifes trajectory precepts faithful to the autobiographical covenant but rather constructs fictional variations of his life through a form of writing sufficiently expressive as to translate his reality into feelings of pain and emotion. Given the aforementioned, the hypothesis that we shall endeavor to demonstrate, based on the study of our literary corpus, the novel Death on Credit is that it is from this that Celine developed a new autobiographical structure which would give primacy to style, thereby modifying the formal order of the genre by emphasizing the importance of expressivity over content. With Celine, the main objective of discourse is not narrating a story, that is to say, the preeminence of the aesthetic function.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Maria Galrao Rios.pdf: 2160336 bytes, checksum: 51bb33fa14771b0e4cb6a7a6f946abc4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-10 / The aim of this work is to study the development of autobiographical narrative in children, using the Jungian Psychology as theoretical reference. From the moment the children proved able to tell their story, at two and a half years old. Children s autobiographic narratives were studied considering their development due to age, gender and environmental influence, understood here as the education level of the mothers. The autobiographical narratives of children were considered from the point of view of its volume, content, presence of emotions, intentions, autonomy, presence of others and interactivity of scenarios, social inclusion and determinants of identity. Fantasy inclusion in autobiographical narrative was also studied. Participants were 410 children from two to six and a half years old, interviewed in their schools in São Paulo. The instrument used for data collection was a semi-open interview. The children answered five questions about events experienced in the past, recent events and imaginary ones, and were also invited to talk about themselves. The research was characterized as combined quantitative and qualitative methods, which sets up a mixed method. The strategy used for data collection was Concurrent Triangulation design, which allows quantification of the qualitative data. Statistical analysis of the results indicated that the autobiographical narrative develops with age in volume and complexity, suffering influence of gender and culture. Autobiographical narrative includes both experienced or fantasized elements, edited on the individual webs of explicit and implicit memories, within a specific cultural pattern that guides the inclusion, exclusion or emphasis of elements in the narrative. The children were able to tell stories about themselves from age two and a half years on / Este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar o desenvolvimento da narrativa autobiográfica nas crianças, utilizando-se como referência a linha teórica junguiana. O relato da criança foi estudado quanto a seu desenvolvimento, decorrente da idade, gênero e influência ambiental, entendida aqui como a escolaridade das mães. As narrativas autobiográficas das crianças foram consideradas do ponto de vista de seu volume, conteúdo, inclusão de emoções, intenções, autonomia, presença de terceiros, interatividade dos cenários, inserção social e determinantes da identidade. A inclusão da fantasia no relato autobiográfico também foi estudada. Os participantes foram 410 crianças entre dois anos e seis anos e meio, entrevistados em suas escolas no município de São Paulo. O instrumento usado para a coleta de dados foi uma entrevista semiaberta. As crianças responderam cinco questões a respeito de eventos vividos no passado, eventos imediatamente acontecidos e eventos apenas fantasiados, e foram ainda convidadas a falar sobre si mesmas. A pesquisa caracterizou-se como uma investigação de ordem tanto quantitativa quanto qualitativa, o que configura um método misto. A estratégia usada para a coleta dos dados foi a triangulação concomitante, segundo a qual os dados qualitativos são quantificados. Foram feitos estudos estatísticos dos resultados, que indicaram que a narrativa autobiográfica desenvolve-se em volume e complexidade com a idade, sofrendo influência do gênero e da cultura. A narrativa autobiográfica inclui elementos experimentados como fantasiados, editados sobre as teias individuais de memórias explícitas e implícitas, dentro de um padrão cultural específico que orienta a inclusão, ênfase ou exclusão de elementos na narrativa. As crianças mostraram-se capazes de contar histórias a seu próprio respeito a partir dos dois anos e meio

Study abroad has received much attention as an effective educational practice in today’s globalized world, and a wide range of skills, attitudes, and knowledge has been recognized as potential learning outcomes resulting from it. Accordingly, in the context of higher education, international students’ learning experiences have been understood in terms of measurable outcomes. Outcome-oriented understanding, however, has put international students’ learning experiences into a binary category of successful or failed learning experiences, based on whether they learned what they were supposed to learn during study abroad. This study takes a critical stance that binary understanding of student learning during study abroad fails to grasp the uniqueness and complexity of each international student’s learning experiences and aims to go beyond binaries to provide a more nuanced understanding of them. Through autobiographical narrative interviews, five students’ narratives about their learning experiences during study abroad were collected. The five students were graduate students studying in Sweden, which represent an under-researched group in the previous literature. Their narratives were comparatively analyzed using thematic narrative analysis, from the perspective of existential learning theory. The results demonstrated the uniqueness of the five international students’ learning experiences, by showing that they experienced existential learning with different dimensions of their existence and in different settings, including formal and informal settings. The results also highlighted the complexity of their learning processes, where each student sought to learn in a way in which the new values, beliefs, or knowledge that they encountered could be consistently integrated into their own biographies. This study shed new light on international students’ learning experiences, highlighting the uniqueness and complexity of them from the perspective of existential learning theory.

L’imbrication de l’écriture et de la photographie sera examinée dans Les années, d’Annie Ernaux, de façon à montrer la tension au cœur du double désir de l’auteure de documenter des moments révolus et de les transmettre à autrui. Seront étudiées, d’un point de vue poétique et esthétique, la mise en œuvre des documents et les modalités d’inscription des souvenirs, lesquels sont généralement présentés sous forme d’images mémorielles. Nous verrons que ces images sont liées à un effet photographique, destiné au lecteur dans le but de partager une mémoire matérielle, intime et collective, s’étalant sur des années. Cet angle d’approche devrait permettre de relire Les années suivant une perspective critique nouvelle, et de contribuer aux recherches portant sur la narration, la trace et la mémoire dans la littérature contemporain. / The interweaving of writing and photography will be examined in Annie Ernaux’s Les années, showing the central tension of the author’s double desire to document past events and pass them on to others. The implement of documents and the engraving modes of memories are generally presented as mental images that will be studied here from a poetic and aesthetic point of view. We will see that those images are linked to a photographic effect, in order to share with the reader an intimate and collective material memory that spreads over many years. This approach would allow a rereading of Les années from a new critical perspective and a contribution to research about narrative, trace and memory in contemporary writing.

This thesis uses analytic philosophical inquiry and autobiographical narrative inquiry to identify a conception of critical thinking (CT) that is “most adaptable” for teaching History 12, and then discusses the strengths and limitations. The CT literature includes several conflicting conceptions of CT, and I use two specific types of analytic philosophical inquiry, (conceptual analysis and conceptual structure assessment), to identify which conception is “most adaptable” for teaching History 12. After considering the degree to which each conception meets the criteria developed for the “most adaptable” conception of CT, I conclude that the Critical Thinking Consortium’s (TC²) conception is the most adaptable. Of all the conceptions developed thus far, the TC² approach is unique because it is designed solely as a pedagogical model for embedding CT throughout the curriculum of each subject and grade level. In the second section of the thesis, I use autobiographical narrative inquiry to reflect on the strengths and limitations of the TC² model after using the model to teach History 12 for a year. One of the foundational principles of the TC² conception is the notion that embedding CT throughout the curriculum is a powerful way of improving understanding. I determine that this contention is accurate because students improved their knowledge of the curriculum, the epistemology of history, and the adoption of CT in their everyday lives. Furthermore, use of the TC² conception helped improve my planning and assessment practices, and initiated a positive change of my role in the classroom.