Thesis (Ph.D.(Practical theology)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-156).

Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2006. / LICL has E-Thesis 0012 ; please contact computer services.

Thesis (PhD(Psychology))-University of Pretoria, 2006. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2018-02-16T17:03:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GUSTAVOCOTOMACCI.pdf: 787247 bytes, checksum: f0d8ec0ae8d99aba1f1bc43a5a4d8670 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-16T17:03:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GUSTAVOCOTOMACCI.pdf: 787247 bytes, checksum: f0d8ec0ae8d99aba1f1bc43a5a4d8670 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-06 / The present study, nurtured by teacher formation, aims at sparking initial discussion on the law teaching in undergraduate courses in which law is not the focus. Most of such courses do not offer law teaching in their programs. In the light of such a frame, the challenge of teaching law-oriented issues stands out. The research intends to consider perceptions which emerge from students’ narratives on a twofold basis: (i) through informal conversations and (ii) through questions based on an interdisciplinary task. The students involved in the research belong to a confessional university in São Bernardo do Campo. The law teaching focus on Geertz (2005), Martinez (2008), Oliveira (2004) and, as far as the theoretical foundations is concerned, on Beherens and Oliari (2007), Demo (2001) and Moraes (2012). The Paradigm of Complexity (MORIN, 2014, 2015, 2015a) and the so-called narrative inquiry (CLANDININ; CONNELY, 2015) cast light on the theme under investigation. / O presente estudo, vinculado à linha de pesquisa “Formação de Educadores” do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, tem como objetivo promover uma reflexão acerca do ensino jurídico ministrado em cursos não jurídicos. Nas matrizes curriculares de uma gama de cursos universitários se tem presente, nem que por um semestre, alguma disciplina que transita no universo jurídico. Diante deste panorama, surge a necessidade de levar a esses alunos, que não fazem parte do curso de Direito, uma linguagem técnica. Para a sua composição, o trabalho busca investigar quais percepções emergem a partir de narrativas de alunos sob dois aspectos, (i) em conversas informais e (ii) por meio de perguntas baseadas em uma atividade desenvolvida de forma interdisciplinar. Os discentes envolvidos estudam em uma Universidade no município de São Bernardo do Campo. O escopo jurídico se sustenta em Geertz (2006), Martinez (2008), Oliveira (2004), e na linha teórica nos fundamentos em Beherehs e Oliari (2007), Demo (2001), Moraes (2012) que completa o trajeto da educação no Brasil. Como sustentáculo metodológico, os fragmentos de narrativa encontram seu alicerce no estudo do paradigma da complexidade com Morin (2014, 2015, 2015a), juntamente com os fragmentos de narrativa à luz de Clandinin e Connelly (2015), que perfazem a chave para abertura de novas compreensões sobre o tema proposto

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Adult Learning and Leadership / Kakali Bhattacharya / Royce Ann Collins / The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how two Black women, born 1946 to 1964, discuss their sexuality in relation to their understanding of spirituality and informal learning. Using the Black Feminine Narrative Inquiry framework informed by womanism, Black feminism, and narrative structures used by Black women novelists, this qualitative study analyzed the vulnerable, empowered, and spirit-driven narratives (VES Narratives) collected from the participants to explore their experiences with spirituality, sexuality, and informal learning. The data collection methods included wisdom whisper talks to elicit spirituality and sexuality timelines and glean information from the participants’ treasure chests.

Rationale and Aims: Research into the lived experience of parenting children with muscular dystrophy has typically addressed key transitions along the disease trajectory, such as diagnosis or end-of-life care. Families reportedly face continuous challenges as their child's health deteriorates. No research has considered accounts of parenting across the lifespan that look at adaptation following their child's death. This research was conducted in the context of a wish-fulfilment charity that offer experiences for children to be supported in activities that are usually deemed inaccessible. In this context, the study asked how do parents who have lost a child to muscular dystrophy story their experiences of parenting. Methods: This research used a qualitative approach that explored the accounts of eight parents interviewed in couples, all of who had experienced the death of their child to muscular dystrophy. The study used a semi-structured interview, lasting from 100-150 minutes each. Interviews were video-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using narrative analysis to explore what and how the parents narrated their experiences. Consideration was given to the social and cultural contexts that shaped these. Analysis: Multiple readings of the transcripts allowed me to develop individual summaries and then construct an analysis across all of the accounts. Three main stories of change, survival and creating change emerged through my analysis. These three stories represented six sub-stories in total: waking up to different futures; being so close, you don't see the deterioration; humour through the struggle; storytelling together; creating a legacy; and living the dream. Findings: Couples narrated the loss of parental dreams, leading to the need for identity (re)formation. Humour and storytelling together were often used to regulate emotions during the storying telling, and a means of surviving their loss. Parents shared narratives of building legacies and the memories created through 'living the dream', which alluded to an impact that surpassed death itself. Implications: These findings suggest the need for greater consideration of sense-making, changing identities, and benefit-finding in clinical consultations, at key transitions during the parenting journey and particularly following the death of a child to muscular dystrophy. Accounts suggest that wish-fulfilment events can sustain hope for parents, a proposition that will need further investigation in the future.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Khalilah Doss, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Administration and Higher Education, presented on March 30th 2016, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: READY, SET, GO: A NARRATIVE STUDY ON JAMAICAN FEMALE TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES WHO ATTENDED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY IN THE U.S. MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Saran Donahoo At most institutions, track and field can function as the redheaded stepchild of athletic programs because these sports do not draw the revenue nor get the crowds often associated with college football or basketball. Nevertheless, there are multiple correlations common among all college student athletes. Primarily, all student athletes face the pressure of having both academic and athletic responsibilities and obligations. Concurrently, there are also differences that can make these athletes experiences unique, such as being from a different country or being of minority status (by gender, sexual orientation or color) and attending a predominately white institution. As a former college athlete, I want to identify and determine how Jamaican Female Track and Field Athletes negotiate the social, academic and cultural environments that they were a part of while attending a college or university in the U.S. I believe that some [if not all] of these female athletes struggle academically, socially, and personally while attending postsecondary institutions in the U.S.

Este trabalho se insere na área de Educação Musical, especificamente na educação musical escolar, vista sob a perspectiva dos alunos. Teve como objetivo compreender os significados que as participantes atribuem às experiências que tiveram nas aulas de música da escola. A pesquisa baseia-se em princípios metodológicos e epistemológicos do método (auto)biográfico, a partir de Bolívar (2012) e Abrahão (2004), em diálogo com a pesquisa narrativa de Connelly e Clandinin (1990) e Clandinin (2006). Participaram desta pesquisa duas estudantes do 1º ano do ensino médio, ex-alunas do pesquisador, que tiveram aulas de música na escola durante a educação infantil e séries iniciais e que, em encontros ocasionais com seu ex-professor de música, manifestavam sentir saudades das aulas. Para a produção de informações foram realizados um encontro preliminar e três entrevistas narrativas com as participantes. A análise narrativa das informações produziu sete tramas que resultaram em sete textos narrativos. Os textos narram diferentes tipos de significação atribuída pelas participantes às aulas de música. Os primeiros textos as mostram significando as aulas de música como parte de um conjunto de experiências que constituem a época da qual elas sentem saudades e como momento de integração entre fenômeno sonoro e movimento corporal. Elas também identificam a influência das aulas de música em quem elas são hoje e mostram que, dependendo da perspectiva, podem considerá-las ou não como momentos de aprendizagem musical. A aula é caracterizada como agradável pelo modo animado como o professor atua, pela autonomia dos estudantes na realização das tarefas, pelo aspecto socializador e pelo resultado esteticamente bonito da prática musical. A aula é caracterizada como agradável pelo modo animado como o professor atua, pela autonomia dos estudantes na realização das tarefas, pelo aspecto socializador e pelo resultado esteticamente bonito da prática musical. As participantes consideram importante e desejável ter aulas de música em seu nível de ensino atual, mas encontram dificuldades em conceber isso na prática. Em um tempo futuro de suas vidas, elas projetam que a música terá importante significado. As articulações entre as tramas narrativas permitem argumentar que há relação entre a caracterização da aula de música como experiência agradável e sua não significação como momento de aprendizagem musical. Essa relação passa pelo modo como os espaços de aprendizagem são constituídos pela cultura escolar. Permitem também perceber que as participantes constroem os significados das aulas de música a partir da característica coletiva pela qual o dia-a-dia das experiências musicais que vivenciaram está estruturado. Finalmente, essas articulações sugerem que cada participante tem seu modo particular de se relacionar com as experiências da aula de música e esse modo norteia a produção de significados que atribuem a elas. Uma delas se conecta pelo aspecto das relações sociais de integração proporcionadas pela aula de música e a outra através do aspecto prático, do fazer musical. A pesquisa contribui para ampliar a compreensão do significado das aulas de música na escola trazendo a perspectiva de estudantes que estão longe dessa prática há mais de quatro anos. O trabalho procura relacionar a produção de significados das participantes a um contexto escolar maior e, com isso, chama atenção para a complexidade de ações envolvidas nessa produção. / This work is set on Musical Education research field, particularly on the musical education at school, considered from the students’ perspective. It aimed to comprehend meanings that participants assign to the experiences lived in musical education at school. It is based on methodological and epistemological principles of (self)biographical research method, from Bolívar (2012) and Abrahão (2004) in dialogue with narrative inquiry of Connelly and Clandinin (1990) e Clandinin (2006). Participants of this research were two first year high school students, former researcher´s music students, that took music education at school on kindergarten and elementary levels and that told their former teacher, occasionally, they missed music classes. Information was produced by one preliminary meeting and three narrative interview with participants. Narrative analysis built seven plots that generated seven narrative texts. Texts narrates different kind of signification that participants assign to the music class. In the first texts participants signify music classes as a part of a set of experiences that constitute the time that they miss and as an integration moment between sound and body movement. They also identify music class influences in who they are in present and demonstrates that they may or may not signify music class as musical learning moments, according to the point of view. Music class is characterized as enjoyable because of the lively way that the teacher works, of the students’ autonomy in doing activities, the socializing aspect and the beautiful musical practice production. Participants consider that is an important and desirable issue in their current scholar level to have music class, but they find difficulties in conceiving that practically. In future, participants project that music will have important meaning for them. Articulations between narrative plots allow argue that there is a relationship between characterizing music class at school as an enjoyable experience and not signifying it as a musical learning moment. This relationship has to do with how learning places are constituted by scholar culture. They also allow us to perceive that participants built the meanings of music class from an essentially collective characteristic that structures musical experiences that participants lived. Finally, these articulations suggest that each participant has a particular way to relate to the music class experiences and this way guides the production of meaning they assign to music classes. One participant connects through social relation aspect the music class provides and the other one connects through the aspect of practice, musical practicing. This research contributes to extend the understanding of the meaning of music class at school taking the perspective of students that have been away of this practice for more than four years. This work wants to relate participants’ production of meaning to a wide scholar context and through this way it puts light to the complexity of the actions involved in that production.

abstract: This study is a narrative inquiry into teachers' and instructional coaches' experiences of new curriculum policy implementation at the classroom and district levels. This study took place during the initial year of implementation of the third grade Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM). Interviews were conducted with individuals directly involved in policy implementation at the classroom level, including several teachers and the school's instructional coach. Observations of the teachers' instruction and professional practice were also conducted. As an embedded researcher, I used this data to create a series of fictionalized narratives of the initial policy implementation experience. My analysis of the narratives suggests that accountability structures shaped individual's sense-making of the original policy. This sense-making process consequently influenced individuals' actions during implementation by directing them towards certain policy actions and ultimately altered how the policy unfolded in this school and district. In particular, accountability structures directed participants' attention to the technical instructional `forms' of the reform, such as the presence of written responses on assessments and how standards were distributed between grade levels, rather than the overall principled shifts in practice intended by the policy's creators. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Administration and Supervision 2015

abstract: This study sought the lived and told stories of Native American women working in engineering and technology so that their voices may be heard in engineering education scholarship and challenge assumptions surrounding universal understandings of what it means to be a minority woman in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The study was directed by two research questions: (1) What are the lived and told stories of Native women in engineering and technology who are leading initiatives to improve their Native communities and (2) How do Native women’s understandings of their identities influence their work and acts of leadership? The study employed narrative inquiry as the methodological framework and was guided by theoretical frameworks of identities as constructed, multiple, and intersectional (Crenshaw, 1989; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), hybridity, and “third spaces” (Bhabha, 2012). The inquiry was also informed by feminist theories of Native scholars (Green, 1983; Kidwell, 1978) and engineering education (Beddoes & Borrego, 2011; Riley, Pawley, Tucker, & Catalano, 2009). The narrative analysis presented three narratives, based upon interviews, field notes, observations, and documents: (1) the story of a Navajo woman working within a large technical corporation (Jaemie); (2) the story of an Akimel O’odham-Mexican woman working within a tribally-owned technical business (Mia); and (3) the story of a Navajo woman growing her own technical business (Catherine). The narratives revealed a series of impactful transitions that enabled Jaemie, Mia, and Catherine to work and lead in engineering and technology. The transitions revolved around themes of becoming professionals, encountering and overcoming hardship, seeking to connect and contribute to Natives through work, leading change for their Native communities, and advancing their professional selves and their Native communities. Across the transitions, a transformation emerged from cultural navigation to leadership for the creation of new hybrid spaces that represented innovative sites of opportunity for Native communities. The strength of the Native spaces enabled Jaemie, Mia, and Catherine to leverage their identities as Native women within the global context of engineering and technology. The narratives denote the power of story by contributing the depth and richness of lived realities in engineering and technology. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Curriculum and Instruction 2016