scholarly journals A Beat of Goodbye: An Autoethnographic Account of My Last Days with Grandma

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Kathleen McNichol
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Retirement Home ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Journal Entries

In this paper, I use field notes, journal entries, and memory recall to write an autoethnographic account of my experiences of the last days of my grandma’s life. I use writing as method in the form of an introspective narrative, layering artistic storytelling and academic references. My original research goal was to better understand the experience of loving and caring for a very old family member by showing the inside of how I experienced my grandma’s aging and final days, including her move to a retirement home, and her death a short time later. By sharing narratively my lived experiences of my grandma’s last days, I also hoped to disrupt some of the socially accepted interpretations surrounding physical bodies and aging, especially for women. Although my initial goal was to understand how these types of experiences transform us, in the process of telling this story I found that what I also gained was a deeper understanding of who my grandma was, and ultimately, who I am.

Jesuit Mathematics

2018 ◽  
pp. 636-669
Author(s):  
Romano Gatto
Keyword(s):  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Scientific Innovation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Time

Despite its difficult gestation, the Jesuit mathematical schools, thanks to Christoph Clavius, gained great prestige in a short time. The Society of Jesus, therefore, provided a fertile ground for mathematical and astronomical studies. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, many generations of scholars had been trained in schools of the Society of Jesus. Jesuit mathematicians were interested in scientific innovation and they contributed original research to all scientific disciplines of the time, in addition to playing a key role in spreading scientific knowledge. Many Jesuits have an important place in the history of mathematics. Their handbooks and scientific texts were used and highly regarded by the greatest European mathematicians. In this chapter, we give an account of the events that characterized the birth and the developments of the Jesuit mathematical education, by focusing mainly on European assistances in addition to a brief account of Jesuit mathematical missions in Asia.

Fairy tale midwifery 10 years on: re-evaluating the lived experiences of newly qualified midwives

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 649-654
Author(s):  
Kate Ashforth ◽  
Ellen Kitson-Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Reality Shock ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
Sources Of Support

Newly qualified midwives (NQM) experience a reality shock upon initiation of first post. Despite efforts to smooth the transition to NQM status, there remains an incongruence between the expectations (‘fairy tale’) and the realities of practice. Transition and preceptorship programmes aim to increase competence and confidence, and improve the lived experiences of NQMs. Preceptorship, however, is unstandardised and supernumerary shifts and rotations to clinical areas may be affected by service demands. Sources of support in practice include peers, preceptors and midwives on shift. No new themes emerged when comparing contemporary and original research, suggesting data saturation has been reached, although it may still be pertinent to consider the experiences of NQMs in order to reduce attrition rates and increase job satisfaction.

scholarly journals GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MEANINGFUL LIVED EXPERIENCES RECALLED BY CENTENARIANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S307-S308
Author(s):  
Jyoti Bhatta ◽  
Alex J Bishop ◽  
Nadia Firdauysa ◽  
Tanya Finchum
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Human Longevity ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Mini Mental Status Examination ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Retrospective Examination ◽  
Good Proportion

Abstract The purpose of the investigation was to conduct a retrospective examination of meaningful live experiences reported by centenarians. Data for this study originated from N=111 centenarians (n = 43 men; n = 68 women) who participated in the Oklahoma 100-Year Life Project. Applying a hierarchical convoy mapping technique commonly used in social network evaluations, IBM/SPSS 23.0 was used to conduct a descriptive analysis of N = 654 recalled lived experiences. The Mini-Mental Status Examination-SF (MMSE-SF; M = 12.55; SD = 1.55) was used to screen all participants for cognitive orientation prior to participation to ensure capacity to consent and intact memory recall. Centenarian participants recalled a total of M = 6.90; SD= 2.61 lived experiences. Centenarian men recognized a significantly greater average number of meaningful experiences (F = (1, 653) = 30.53, p < .01) compared to centenarian women (M = 4.06 vs. M = 3.43). A good proportion of centenarians (40.50%) acknowledged meaningful events as occurring during young-adulthood. However, the timing of such events occurred significantly earlier (F = (1, 357) = 7.37, p < .01) on average for men compared to women (M = 27.60 yrs. vs. M = 34.11; 1.53). Further analysis revealed that over half of lived experiences considered meaningful among centenarians proportionally fit into three domain types: Family-oriented (19.5%); Work/employment related (18.7%); and Marriage (13.7%). Results have implications relative to understanding how variation in meaningful lived experiences among centenarians. Further evidence of a gendered life course in human longevity will be highlighted.

Bodhisattvas in Motion: A Path to Compassion Through Physical Activity for Larger Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Vicki Ebbeck ◽  
Keegan E. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Journal Entries ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of enacting the Way of the Bodhisattva (Chödrön, 2005) lessons in compassion with larger women, particularly in reference to their physical activity behaviors. Three women provided ongoing and detailed information with regard to their experiences engaging with the lessons over a 6-week period. Individual weekly interviews, journal entries, a focus group discussion with all women following the program, and researcher field notes in combination offered triangulated information that was analyzed by two researchers. The findings suggested that the women benefited from the program, although assuming the role of a bodhisattva did prove to be challenging in the time available and perhaps was most beneficial in facilitating the process of self-reflection.

scholarly journals Racial Identity and the Development of Body Image Issues among African American Adolescent Girls

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharlene Hesse-Biber ◽  
Stephanie Howling ◽  
Patricia Leavy ◽  
Meg Lovejoy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Deficit Model ◽  
African American Adolescent ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Journal Entries

As readers, children with dyslexia are vulnerable to becoming academically, socially, and emotionally detached from education. Traditional educational practices tend to use quantitative measures to diagnose children to better serve their needs and researchers, who study students with special needs often focus on a deficit model that quantify just how far a child is from the norm. This practice, while full of good intentions, often creates emotional scars and feelings of inferiority in a child. This reductionist view of a disability is most likely different from the lived experience of the person with the disability. To get a complete picture, we must use qualitative methods to reveal children’s words, their interactions, and the entire context within which their disability is nested. In this study, I use qualitative methods to unpack the educational experiences of a group of students with dyslexia. Data were gathered from four sources: interviews with students and teachers, field notes, and journal entries. The words of the participants are presented to convey the emotional impact that a reading disability brings and to remind educators and researchers that quantitative methods do not always provide a complete picture of a child’s experience in school.

scholarly journals Lived experiences of student nurses caring for intellectually disabled people in a public psychiatric institution

Curationis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Temane ◽  
Lizzie Simelane ◽  
Marie Poggenpoel ◽  
C.P.H. Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Psychiatric Institution ◽  
Field Notes

Background: Caring for intellectually disabled people can be demanding for student nurses who are novices in the nursing profession. To ensure that quality nursing care is provided, student nurses should have an understanding of and a positive attitude towards intellectually disabled people. Nursing intellectually disabled people can be a challenge for the student nurses. Therefore, student nurses need to be able to deal with challenges of caring for intellectually disabled people.Objective: This article aims to explore and describe experiences of student nurses caring for intellectually disabled people in a public psychiatric institution.Design and method: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was used. Data were collected through individual in-depth phenomenological interviews, naïve sketches and field notes. Thematic analysis was utilised to analyse the collected data. Results were contextualised within the literature and measures to ensure trustworthiness were adhered to. Ethical principals were also applied throughout the research process.Results: Five themes emerged from the data. Student nurses experienced a profoundly unsettling impact on their whole being when caring for intellectually disabled people; they developed a sense of compassion and a new way of looking at life, and experienced a need for certain physical, mental and spiritual needs to be met.Conclusion: From the results, it is evident that student nurses were challenged in caring for intellectually disabled people. However, they developed a sense of awareness that intellectually disabled people have a need to be cared for like any other person.Keywords: experiences, student nurses, caring, intellectually disabled people, public psychiatric institution

scholarly journals Lived experiences of parents of premature babies in the intensive care unit in a private hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa

Curationis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Steyn ◽  
Marie Poggenpoel ◽  
Chris Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Intensive Care Nurses ◽  
Premature Babies ◽  
Field Notes

Background: Many of the 15 million premature babies born worldwide every year survive because of advanced medical interventions. Their parents have intense experiences when their babies are in the intensive care unit (ICU), and these have an impact on their thoughts, feelings and relationships, including their relationships with their premature babies. Objectives: The aim of the study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of parents of premature babies in an ICU. Method: Research design was qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual. A purposive sample of parents with premature babies in an ICU in a private hospital in Johannesburg Gauteng in South Africa was used. Eight parents, four mothers and four fathers, married and either Afrikaans or English-speaking, were included in the study. Data were collected by conducting in-depth phenomenological interviews with them and making use of field notes. Trustworthiness was ensured by implementing the strategies of credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. Ethical principles such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice were adhered to throughout the research process. Results: Thematic analyses were utilised to analyse the data. Two themes in the experiences of parents with premature babies in ICU became apparent. Parents experienced thoughts, emotions and hope while their premature babies were in the ICU as well as challenges in their relationships and these challenges influenced their experiences. Recommendations: Mindfulness of intensive care nurses should be facilitated so that intensive care nurses can promote the mental health of parents with premature babies in the ICU. Conclusion: Parents with premature babies in the ICU have thoughts and emotional experiences which include hope and they affect parents’ relationships.

scholarly journals Analysis of Diagnostic Images of Artworks and Feature Extraction: Design of a Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Annamaria Amura ◽  
Alessandro Aldini ◽  
Stefano Pagnotta ◽  
Emanuele Salerno ◽  
Anna Tonazzini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Short Time

Digital images represent the primary tool for diagnostics and documentation of the state of preservation of artifacts. Today the interpretive filters that allow one to characterize information and communicate it are extremely subjective. Our research goal is to study a quantitative analysis methodology to facilitate and semi-automate the recognition and polygonization of areas corresponding to the characteristics searched. To this end, several algorithms have been tested that allow for separating the characteristics and creating binary masks to be statistically analyzed and polygonized. Since our methodology aims to offer a conservator-restorer model to obtain useful graphic documentation in a short time that is usable for design and statistical purposes, this process has been implemented in a single Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application.

scholarly journals Rethinking experimental music within music education: Thoughts and feelings after a voyage through the Project INsono

2020 ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Ana Luísa Veloso
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

This paper tells the story of INsono, an interactive sound installation and workshop created by a group of musicians for the 6th edition of the Big Bang in Lisbon, Portugal. To tell this story I will present my findings throughout a narrative that evolves through the analysis and interpretations of interviews with the musicians and the curator of the Big Bang Lisbon, field notes taken during the creation and the presentation of INsono, and group interviews with children about their lived experiences during the workshop. Describing the process that led to the creation of the final sound installation, I will explore, on one side, what were the main concerns and ideas of the musicians and the curator of the festival in what regards concepts such as education, childhood, music, and art, and, on the other, the perspectives of children that participated in the workshop on their experiences of INsono. This will, hopefully, lead us to a discussion where we might rethink the potentialities of experimental music in both formal and non-formal contexts of learning; moreover, it might lead us also to look at the dynamics, strategies and tools that are used in non-formal contexts as a source of inspiration to reflect on pedagogical approaches in the classroom that might enrich the musical and artistic experiences of children.

scholarly journals Pre-Medicare Eligible Individuals' Decision-Making In Medicare Part D: An Interview Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Jin ◽  
Richard R. Cline ◽  
Ronald S. Hadsall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Drug Coverage ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Control Beliefs ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Part D ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Field Notes

Objectives: The objective of this study was to elicit salient beliefs among pre-Medicare eligible individuals regarding (1) the outcomes associated with enrolling in the Medicare Part D program; (2) those referents who might influence participants' decisions about enrolling in the Part D program; and (3) the perceived barriers and facilitators facing those considering enrolling in the Part D program. Methods: Focused interviews were used for collecting data. A sample of 10 persons between 62 and 64 years of age not otherwise enrolled in the Medicare program was recruited. Interviews were audio taped and field notes were taken concurrently. Audio recordings were reviewed to amend field notes until obtaining a thorough reflection of interviews. Field notes were analyzed to elicit a group of beliefs, which were coded into perceived outcomes, the relevant others who might influence Medicare Part D enrollment decisions and perceived facilitators and impediments. By extracting those most frequently mentioned beliefs, modal salient sets of behavioral beliefs, relevant referents, and control beliefs were identified. Results: Analyses showed that (1) most pre-Medicare eligible believed that Medicare Part D could "provide drug coverage", "save money on medications", and "provide financial and health security in later life". However, "monthly premiums", "the formulary with limited drug coverage" and "the complexity of Medicare Part D" were perceived as major disadvantages; (2) immediate family members are most likely to influence pre-Medicare eligible's decisions about Medicare Part D enrollment; and (3) internet and mailing educational brochures are considered to be most useful resources for Medicare Part D enrollment. Major barriers to enrollment included the complexity and inadequacy of insurance plan information. Conclusion: There are multiple factors related to decision-making surrounding the Medicare Part D enrollment. These factors include the advantages and disadvantages of enrolling in Part D, facilitators and barriers to enrolling in Medicare Part D, and significant individuals and groups for pre-Medicare eligible individuals. Type: Original Research

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