scholarly journals The British Nativity Play

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Lucinda Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Theories Of Meaning ◽  
British Culture

Year upon year the scene is set for what has, for many in Britain, become a strikingly and tangibly familiar image of Christmas and ultimately of childhood. Shepherds fiddle distractedly with their tea-towels. Angels preen their sparkly foil wings and hoist up their white woollen tights. Proudly bejewelled Kings fight over makeshift cardboard crowns. The school nativity play has become an ingrained part of British culture, and perhaps even something of a rite of passage. Despite the continuing prevalence and popularity of this ritualized narrative in British churches and schools, this phenomenon has not, until now, attracted any sustained academic study. This paper discusses four qualitative interviews I conducted in 2016 with parents whose children had recently performed in a nativity play at a non-faith state primary school in London. Examining how these parents interpreted their experiences, understandings, and memories of this dramatized narrative, I consider how the religious/cultural narrative is retold and reinterpreted through and in relation to personal life narratives. I draw upon anthropological and psychological theories of meaning seeking, memory making, and identity construction to explore how personal participation in, connection to, and narration of cultural/religious narratives might impact the type of valueattributed to their contents.

Attaining the Active School Flag: How physical activity provision can be enhanced in Irish primary schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bowles ◽  
Déirdre Ní Chróinín ◽  
Elaine Murtagh
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
School Communities ◽  
Physical Activity Interventions ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Initiatives

The provision of regular physical activity opportunities has the potential to have positive health benefits for children. This study used qualitative interviews and focus groups to examine the experiences of two Irish primary school communities as they worked to attain an Active School Flag. The data suggest that engagement in this formal physical activity initiative impacts positively on children’s engagement in physical activity. Schools were encouraged to embark on innovative activities that attracted widespread participation within schools and in the wider community. The establishment of links with community groups fostered collaborations that were empowering and inclusive. This research supports the contention that primary school initiatives can provide enhanced physical activity opportunities for children, and may provide guidance to national and international policy-makers as they devise school-based physical activity interventions.

Paul and the Author of 1 Clement as Entrepreneurs of Identity in Corinthian Crises of Leadership

2021 ◽  
pp. 0142064X2110647
Author(s):  
Katja Kujanpää
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Identity Approach

When Paul and the author of 1 Clement write letters to Corinth to address crises of leadership, both discuss Moses’ παρρησία (frankness and openness), yet they evaluate it rather differently. In this article, I view both authors as entrepreneurs of identity and explore the ways in which they try to shape their audience’s social identity and influence their behaviour in the crisis by selectively retelling scriptural narratives related to Moses. The article shows that social psychological theories under the umbrella term of the social identity approach help to illuminate the active role of leaders in identity construction as well as the processes of retelling the past in order to mobilize one’s audience.

scholarly journals Constructing academic hierarchies

Pragmatics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vally Lytra
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
School Based ◽  
Recurrent Activity ◽  
Break Time ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this paper I look at how through the use of teasing as a socially recurrent activity the members of a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic peer group (comprised of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children of Roma heritage) make particular identity ascriptions and displays salient and position themselves and others in particular ways in peer talk during break-time in an Athens primary school. Taking as a point of departure that identities are produced relationally, through systems of opposition (Barth 1969), the paper deals with how members of this school-based peer group exploit teasing as a versatile discursive device to construct one particular peer as a “poor” pupil and themselves by extension as “good” pupils in talk-in-interaction. The focus on the situated and relational construction of identity makes visible how children position themselves with regard to others in order to construct academic hierarchies. At the same time, it brings to the fore how through such positionings children may reproduce but also challenge powerful institutional discourses of academic success and failure in circulation in the classroom by negotiating identity options closer to their peer concerns. These processes of identity construction demonstrate how social selves are produced in interaction through contestation and collaboration and how identities may be simultaneously chosen and imposed through language use.

scholarly journals Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sieben
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Cultural Framework ◽  
Interpretative Analysis ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Intensive Parenting

This article presents interpretative analysis of 25 qualitative interviews with parents of preschool children in Germany, which focused on starting daycare and centred on topics of closeness and distance in the parent–child relationships. The article draws on sociological studies on intensive parenting, and cultural psychological theories of parenting. The analysis reveals that parents discuss starting daycare within the cultural framework of intensive parenting: they stress the benefits for their child’s social and cognitive development. As cultural psychological theories suggest, parents in Germany emphasise autonomy and independence, while also arguing that young children need interdependence. In addition, parents articulate a longing for interdependence themselves: they yearn for closeness with their children, but are also aware that their children are on a path towards autonomy. The article theoretically elaborates on these ambivalences and suggests that adding the dimension of parents’ longing enriches both the concept of intensive parenting and cultural psychological accounts.

scholarly journals Identities Do Not Belong in a Box: Understanding Identity Construction, Negotiation & Communication for Escorts and Escort Agency Owners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleo Pyke
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
And Performance

This Master’s Research Paper (MRP) seeks to better understand how both escorts and escort agency owners construct, negotiate and communicate their identities in the context of their lives. Using Erving Goffman’s theories on stigmatization, identity formation, and performance theory, combined with in-depth qualitative interviews, I aim to better understand of the dynamic nature of the participants’ identities. The qualitative nature of the research will explore how both human agency and social constructs impact and inform their lived experiences communicating and constructing each of their respective identities. The findings reveal that there are significant gaps in the existing literature on communication and sex work; the current literature focuses heavily on a victim-based narrative of sex work, with particular emphasis on the outdoor population of sex workers. This ignores the experiences of those who work in the peripheries of the sex industry (e.g. agency owners), as well as the escorts themselves, who have willingly chosen to engage in this line of work without coercion.

scholarly journals A PROFILE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL READER: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Andris Krieķis ◽  
Zenta Anspoka
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Arithmetic Mean ◽  
School Age ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Mean Frequency ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Starting School ◽  
Education Process

In order to ensure a targeted development of literacy in a primary school, it is important to recognize needs and realize experience of the little reader. The article aims to analyze the results of a study of literacy levels, reading habits and needs of pupils studying in classes 2 and 3. The study’s methodology is based on psychological theories about the current development of children of the youngest school age, on necessity theories, linguadidactic theories and educational observation, as well as on teacher polls. The data analyzed in the study was collected from April 2017 to January 2018. The study involved 819 pupils studying in classes 2 and 3. The results of the study have been processed using quantitative (arithmetic mean, frequency distribution) and qualitative (meaning content analysis) methods. They have contributed to the development of the profile of the Latvian starting school reader, and have exposed the difficulties encountered by students while learning and using literacy, as well as the reading habits of pupils and the main causes to draw attention to in the primary education process, in order to improve the level of literacy and gradually turn in a proficient reader.

scholarly journals Including the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawel Ziemianski ◽  
Jakub Golik
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Positivity Bias ◽  
University Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Met Expectations

Pursuing an entrepreneurial career is often rewarding in terms of both economic and psychological outcomes. However, becoming an entrepreneur also has its darker side that affects professional and personal life. Meanwhile, the positivity bias is prevalent in entrepreneurial education and research. It is recognized as emphasizing the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and giving considerably less attention to potential downsides. Based on the theoretical model of met expectations, it is proposed that building an accurate and balanced image of the entrepreneurial career is crucial to help students prepare to pursue it successfully. Using data from SEAS (Survey on Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Students) Project, authors quantitatively test the perception of the severity of negative aspects of entrepreneurship among 513 business students from northern Poland. Further, the results of 16 semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with mature and experienced entrepreneurs from the same region are presented. They are focused on the entrepreneurs’ perspective on the experienced dark sides and reveal employed coping strategies. A call is made to include these findings in designing university entrepreneurship programs by eliciting the awareness of the existence of the dark sides and indicating the means of their attenuation.

Personal Life-narratives in an Evolutionary Context

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gerald Cupchik ◽  
C. Michelle Hilscher
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Evolutionary Context
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