Understanding the military spouse learner using theory and personal narratives

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (136) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Gleiman ◽  
Stacy Swearengen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
The Military

A Critical Review of Barriers to United States Military Spouse Education and Employment

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-147
Author(s):  
Crystal Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Pursuits

In the United States, there are over one million military spouses. Frequent geographical relocations, the psychological stress and anxiety associated with spousal deployments, and supporting their children as the only parent while their active duty spouse is away leave military spouses disproportionately accountable for all family obligations. Ultimately, these inequities create barriers for military spouses and their employment and educational pursuits. Despite similarities in lifestyle to active duty service members, military spouses are not categorized as an at-risk population and have not been studied in depth. This chapter utilized the source, survey, synthesize method to address the literature gap surrounding the barriers to military spouse education and employment. Findings from the existing literature were synthesized to present the key themes for studies that investigated the military culture, barriers to military spouses' pursuits of higher education, employment, and career advancement and earnings.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Whittier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Government Surveillance ◽  
The Military

Chapter 5, the book’s conclusion, draws comparative theoretical lessons from all three cases. It discusses six features of relationships between frenemies: risks to participants’ reputation; reliance on hybrid or compromise frames or goals; focus on single-issue or specific goals; the importance of emotional and personal narratives; lack of more extensive collaboration or institutionalization of the relationships; and outcomes that depend on the relative power of participants. The chapter discusses implications for ongoing policy regarding sex offenders, sex trafficking, and government surveillance. The paths of activism around the case studies have influenced recent issues of sexual assault, including in the military, in colleges and universities. Feminists have influenced these developments, but not alone. Frenemies, including both feminists and conservatives, continue to be engaged in these issues and to shape their paths.

scholarly journals “Honey, I Want to Be a Surrogate”: How Military Spouses Negotiate and Navigate Surrogacy With Their Service Member Husbands

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (18) ◽  
pp. 2774-2800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ziff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Member ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Military Marriages ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how military spouses negotiate the decision to become a surrogate with their service member husband and how the two navigate surrogacy together. It is speculated that military spouses are ideal candidates for surrogacy due to their particular status as a military spouse; however, military spouses face structural constraints in their everyday lives which in turn would prove challenging to their desire to become a surrogate. Based on in-depth interviews with 33 military spouses who had been surrogates, this article examines how military spouses discuss, negotiate, and experience surrogacy with their spouses all the while navigating the structural demands of the military and the contractual demands of surrogacy. Findings highlight egalitarian decision making between the spouses, and a mostly collaborative approach to the surrogacy process. Ultimately, this work illuminates how surrogacy is experienced by the women who participate in the practice and provides insight as to how military marriages function.

A Critical Review of Barriers to United States Military Spouse Education and Employment

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Crystal Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Pursuits

In the United States, there are over one million military spouses. Frequent geographical relocations, the psychological stress and anxiety associated with spousal deployments, and supporting their children as the only parent while their active duty spouse is away leave military spouses disproportionately accountable for all family obligations. Ultimately, these inequities create barriers for military spouses and their employment and educational pursuits. Despite similarities in lifestyle to active duty service members, military spouses are not categorized as an at-risk population and have not been studied in depth. This chapter utilized the source, survey, synthesize method to address the literature gap surrounding the barriers to military spouse education and employment. Findings from the existing literature were synthesized to present the key themes for studies that investigated the military culture, barriers to military spouses' pursuits of higher education, employment, and career advancement and earnings.

Evaluation of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership: Progress Report on First Stage of Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gonzalez ◽  
Luke Matthews ◽  
Marek Posard ◽  
Parisa Roshan ◽  
Shirley Ross
Keyword(s):  
Progress Report ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Military Spouse Employment ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Working Around the Military: Challenges of Military Spouse Employment

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Harrell ◽  
Nelson Lim ◽  
Laura Werber ◽  
Daniela Golinelli
Keyword(s):  
Military Spouse ◽  
Military Spouse Employment ◽  
The Military

Finding and Creating Opportunity: Nurses Married to Members of the Military

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Brenda Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Practice Nurses ◽  
Military Service Members ◽  
The Military

Nursing is a profession that affords many avenues in which to practice. Nurses who are married to military service members have unique challenges as they progress through their careers. A military spouse shares a personal perspective of challenges and insight on how to overcome and persevere that may be relevant to others within the greater nursing community.

scholarly journals How do interpreters become heroes? Narratives on Soviet/Russian military interpreters

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Probirskaja
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Military

This article identifies narratives, or storylines, which represent Soviet/Russian wartime/military interpreters.  The data include the autobiographical writings of interpreters, documentaries, media articles, scholarly articles, and websites. The examination of the data proceeds to some extent in accordance with the narrative typology provided by Mona Baker (2006), that is, from general to personal narratives, with the assumption that personal narratives are embedded in collective narratives. The positioning of wartime interpreters participating in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) is compared to that of military interpreters participating in the military operations of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. A narrative reading of the data uncovers the storylines that portray wartime/military interpreters as quiet war heroes.

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