Teach Me about Your Life: Narrative Approaches to Lives, Meaning, and Transitions

This work examines what it has been and continues to be like for Clara Ng to be a home mother and an author in the publishing industry. Our exploration uses qualitative methods of narrative approaches in the form of biographical studies. Participants as data sources were selected using a purposive sampling technique which was collected based on retrospective interviewing techniques and then checked for validity and reliability using external audit. It gained that Clara Ng is a remarkable female whose synthesizes the difference between home mother and author’s career in the publishing industry. She did not seek fame nor did she seek self aggrandizement, her whole life was one of service to humanity, an indefatigable work ethic, and humility. Clara Ng’s journey offers insights offers examples of many ways in which home mothers can, and should, work to improve the career opportunities available to those who follow in their footsteps.

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Fenny Roshayanti: A Biography of Science Educator for Our Time

10.31237/osf.io/37une ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Sampling Technique ◽

Science Educator ◽

Data Sources ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Academic Advisor ◽

External Audit ◽

Narrative Approaches ◽

The Past ◽

Science Technology ◽

And Mathematics

STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics. STEAM defined as the integration of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics into a new cross-disciplinary subject in schools. The concept of integrating subjects in Indonesian schools, generally is not new and has not been very successful in the past. Some people consider STEAM as an opportunity while others view it as having problems. Fenny Roshayanti is science educator and researcher that consider STEAM as an opportunity. She has involved the study of STEAM, as an author, educator, academic advisor, and seminar speaker. This article examines what it has been and continues work from Fenny Roshayanti in the science education. Our exploration uses qualitative methods of narrative approaches in the form of biographical studies. Participants as data sources were selected using a purposive sampling technique which was collected based on retrospective interview and naturalistic observation. Data's validity, reliability, and objectivity checked by using external audit techniques. This work explores the powerful of female’s personal style in developing a form of social influence based on her forms of capital as well as address the positive and negative consequences that may follow while implement and research STEAM in teaching classroom.

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Imagining Ethnic Trauma and Healing: Narrative Approaches and Fictional Techniques

Storytelling A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative ◽

10.3200/stor.5.2.93-103 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 93-103

Author(s):

Elaine Lux

Keyword(s):

Narrative Approaches ◽

Healing Narrative

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The influence of life narrative themes on resilience and life outcomes

Personality and Individual Differences ◽

10.1016/j.paid.2021.111235 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. 111235

Author(s):

Madhuri Ramasubramanian ◽

Divya Patel ◽

Megan R. Turner ◽

Vincent Ybarra

Keyword(s):

Life Outcomes ◽

Life Narrative

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Debates on Changes in the Foreign Policy of Contemporary China (A Case Study of the English Language Academic Publications)

Moscow University Bulletin of World Politics ◽

10.48015/2076-7404-2021-13-3-112-150 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 112-150

Author(s):

S. K. Pestsov

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

English Language ◽

Chinese Foreign Policy ◽

World Politics ◽

National Interests ◽

Narrative Approaches ◽

Regional Dynamics ◽

Low Profile ◽

Academic Publications ◽

Radical Transformation

Due to a rapid economic growth over the past several decades China has significantly strengthened its international positions. This growth in its own turn was to a large extent due to a pragmatic and sound foreign strategy that the country has been pursuing since mid-1970s. However, in recent years both within and outside China there has been an on-going debate on the alleged radical transformation of the PRC’s perceptions of its national interests, its place in world politics, and its foreign policy. The variety of opinions becomes increasingly complicated as the number of discussants grows and new arguments are adduced in support of different positions. Whereas outside China this debate structures around the narrative of the Chinese assertiveness, within the country the main dispute is between the advocates of a traditional policy of ‘keeping a low profile’ (taoguang yanghui) and proponents of a new ‘striving for achievements’ (fenfa youwei) strategy. The present paper aims to provide a framework for a systematization of debates on the contemporary foreign policy of China in the English language academic literature based on two criteria: whether a researcher admits that the Chinese foreign policy is changing and how he assesses implications of these changes. Such an approach undoubtedly entails certain schematization of the presented views and arguments. However, it differs favorably from traditional, more narrative approaches to conceptualization of the debate since it establishes a clear, transparent theoretical framework aimed to identify the substantive core of the presented views. This, in turn, can bring about a better understanding of the current state and possible evolution of Chinese foreign policy in general. The author concludes that although these debates are far from being over, most researchers admit the PRC’s foreign policy strategy is undergoing a radical transformation. Since the latter half of 2000s there has been a steady trend in the foreign policy of China towards greater assertiveness. At the same time this transformation ensures continuity of the basic principles of Chinese diplomacy. All this means that further debates on the Chinese foreign policy should focus primarily on potential implications of this transformation for the PRC, the regional dynamics and international relations system as a whole.

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Introduction

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History ◽

10.3138/cbmh.513-022021 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. e513022021

Author(s):

Jennifer J. Connor

Keyword(s):

Newfoundland And Labrador ◽

Humanitarian Aid ◽

Medical Practitioners ◽

Narrative Approaches ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Introductory Article ◽

Medical Reports ◽

Geographically Distributed ◽

Case Writing ◽

Clinical Records

This article provides context for three studies about early 20th-century medical cases in the geographically distributed humanitarian aid organization founded by Wilfred Grenfell in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador. It situates these studies within historiographical and theoretical approaches to case histories and their publication by medical practitioners, the background for research on the clinical records of the Grenfell organization’s main hospital, and the history behind specific case information for coastal patients. While the cases examined cohere through their organizational origin, the authors of these three studies reveal sometimes unexpected representations of the patient in text and illustration. In these ways, both this introductory article and the following three studies emphasize the enduring appeal of narrative approaches to case writing while also pointing to the evolving ethics of publishing medical reports for general readers and scholars. Together they invite renewed attention to the representation of medical cases in publications that increasingly are available globally in internet collections.

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