Studying Library Technicians’ Professional Lives Using Life History

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Cycle De Vie ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Organizational Roles ◽  
Life History Methodology

Within the libraries and other information organizations, paraprofessionals have taken on ever more important roles. Given the prominence of paraprofessionals in the LIS workplace, their organizational roles and career paths are understudied. Using life history methodology, this study will address this gap in the LIS literature.Au sein des bibliothèques et autres organismes d’information, les paraprofessionnels assument des rôles de plus en plus importants. Compte tenu du nombre de paraprofessionnels dans le milieu des BSI, leurs rôles organisationnels et leurs plans de carrières demeurent sous étudies. À l’aide d’une méthodologie du cycle de vie (life history), cette étude comble un vide dans la littérature des BSI.

scholarly journals Gender as a Barrier for Women With Children in Academe

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Armenti
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Women Professors ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research involved in-depth interviews with nineteen women professors, drawn from across various faculties and ranks at one Canadian university, and was intended to explore the interconnections between the women's personal and professional lives. The women in this study chose to combine having children with an academic career. Most of them depicted their career trajectory as a lifelong challenge, one that was both fulfilling and prestigious. In contrast, the women reported a number of obstacles in their career paths that served to prevent them from gaining full membership in academic life. This study probes the nature of such obstacles that are grouped into two categories: the child-related time crunch and the career-related time crunch. As a result of these obstacles, the women encountered childbearing/childrearing problems, research dilemmas, a willingness to leave the academy, and denial of tenure and promotion. Findings call for a restructuring of academic careers in order to effectively accommodate women with children in the profession.

scholarly journals Four Religious Education Teachers: Four Retrospective Career Trajectories

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Juha Luodeslampi ◽  
Arniika Kuusisto ◽  
Arto Kallioniemi
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
History Approach

This article examines the career paths of Finnish Religious Education (RE) teachers who were born in the 1930s, through a retrospective, self-autobiographical life history approach. The material reported here is a part of wider data of mainly written narratives (N = 62) from RE teachers who recount their career trajectories. In these career-focused life histories, the teachers outline their own professionalism as embedded in changing sociohistorical contexts, where to a great extent they tell about the active development of the school and the teaching of their particular subject to answer to the changing needs and challenges. Some teachers have, along with their teaching, also been actively involved in different communities or associations. Many of the Religious Education teachers here reflect on their career paths in relation to their profession as a teacher and often also with double qualifications as pastor trained theologians. At times, this constructs a possibility for tension between the roles of a teacher and that of a pastor, and in the perceptions of RE as a school subject and as something “preached” in the pulpit—some see their professionalism above all in relation to their religious life. This also includes a notable gender divide in the data, as at the time when these teachers gained their professional qualifications, it was only possible for men to be ordained in the Finnish Lutheran Church. Succeeding this, the male teachers in these data commonly have pastorhood as their first profession. For the purpose of this article, the career accounts of four teachers have been selected for further analysis, as they were perceived as telling examples of the wider material in terms of more or less typical career paths.

Life History Meets Economic Theory: The Experiences of Three Working-Class Women in a Local Labour Market

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Life History ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Local Labour Market ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Life History Methodology

Life history methodology has undergone a major revival in the last two decades but its impact on economic theory has been minimal. The dominance of quantitative methodologies within economics has precluded the contribution which qualitative approaches, such as life history method, can make to questions of human agency and individual decision making. Three case studies of working-class women in a local labour market are used to explore these themes, and to argue for the importance of incorporating social and historical contexts into our analysis of economic processes.

A Life History Perspective on Parenting

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-149
Author(s):  
Merrilyn O. Johnson ◽  
L. Julia Ball ◽  
Barbara Haight ◽  
Shirley Hendrix
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Parent Child Interaction ◽  
Life History Methodology ◽  
Parent Child

Utilizing the life history methodology, this paper will examine the reminiscent memories of parenting patterns and perceived parent-child interaction experienced by 18 adult women over 63 years of age, with the aim of exploring the linkage of these early experiences to the present day relationships these women have with their adult children. (Methodology: Life history)

scholarly journals Genesis of self-identity as DisOther: Life histories of people who stutter

2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsha Kathard ◽  
Mershen Pillay ◽  
Michael Samuel ◽  
Vijay Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
South African ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Multiple Processes ◽  
Life History Methodology ◽  
Over Time

This paper explores the processes shaping self-identity formation as DisOther and the actions of participants who stutter. It illuminates the experiences of adults who stutter using a biographical, narrative, life history methodology. The participants were seven South African adults of diverse racial, social and economic backgrounds from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Five males and two female were invited to participate via purposive and convenience sampling processes. Their stories of living with stuttering in their life worlds over time were constructed via biographical interviews using personal, social and temporal lenses typical of life history methodology. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. The data were analysed at two levels using a combination of strategies. The first level entailed a narrative analysis that was represented as research stories for each participant. The cross-case and thematic analysis of research stories constituted the second level analysis of narratives. The findings explain the complex and interrelated personal and social processes over time which contribute to the genesis of self-identity formation as DisOther. Social inscriptions of difference occurred in immediate home, school and work contexts over time via multiple processes such as labelling, norming, judging and teasing. Personal processes included discoveries of difference via critical events, repeated reinforcement of difference, self-judgement and temporal burdening. Furthermore, the actions participants took in negotiating stuttering were examined. The implications of the findings and limitations of the study are presented.

scholarly journals Imprisoned mothers in Victorian England, 1853–1900: Motherhood, identity and the convict prison

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Female Prisoners ◽  
Imprisoned Mothers ◽  
Family Contact ◽  
Life History Methodology

This article explores the experiences of imprisoned mothers in the Victorian convict prison system. It argues that motherhood, of central importance to the ideals of Victorian femininity, was disrupted and fractured by women’s long-term imprisonment. Using ‘whole life’ history methodology, the article draws on research into 288 women imprisoned and then released from the prison system, of whom half were mothers. It illuminates how the long-term prison system dealt with pregnancy, childbirth and family contact for female prisoners. It argues that while institutional or state care was often an inevitable consequence for children of single or widowed mothers, women used their limited resources and agency to assert their identity as mothers and direct outcomes for their children. But for others, prolific offending and multiple long sentences would render any chance of motherhood impossible.

scholarly journals Unpacking the Burden: Gender Issues in Anaesthesia

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Strange Khursandi
Keyword(s):  
Private Practice ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

A survey carried out by the Australian Society of Anaesthetists explored gender issues in the personal and professional lives of anaesthetists. Issues highlighted include training and career paths, combining anaesthetic training with domestic responsibilities, personal relationships, pregnancy and childrearing, private practice, part-time work, parental leave, the single anaesthetist, doctor spouses, sexual harassment, and negative attitudes in colleagues. Particular problems were identified in the training years, in part-time work, in private practice, and in combining parental and domestic responsibilities with a career in anaesthesia. Strategies to address relevant issues are discussed, with reference to the increasing proportion of women in medicine and anaesthesia.

scholarly journals Working in rural areas – the experiences of Umthombo Youth Development Foundation graduates

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Life History ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Life History Methodology

Background: Recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals (HCPs) for rural areas is challenging throughout the world. Although rural origin HCPs have been identified as being the most likely to work in rural areas, only a small number of rural-origin South African scholars are trained as HCPs each year and many do not return to work in rural areas.Aim: The aim of this article was to present the experiences of rural-origin HCPs who returned to work in a rural area after graduation.Setting: Umthombo Youth Development Foundation has been running an innovating rurally-based scholarship scheme since 1999. By December 2013, 184 students supported by the scheme had graduated and all had returned to work in a rural area for a period of time.Methods: This was a qualitative study using a life history methodology to explore the educational experience of six rural-origin HCPs working in rural areas.Results: The four themes that emerged from the data were: (1) contribution to service delivery; (2) professional development (3) the challenges and frustrations of working in rural hospitals; and (4) the impact of working as an HCP.Conclusion: Rural-origin HCPs are willing to return and work in rural areas. However, context and content factors need to be addressed if a work-back scholarship scheme is to be along-term strategy for the recruitment and retention of HCPs. 

scholarly journals Indirect cues of nest predation risk and avian reproductive decisions

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Mönkkönen ◽  
Jukka T Forsman ◽  
Tiina Kananoja ◽  
Hannu Ylönen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Predation Risk ◽  
Clutch Size ◽  
Nest Predation ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Habitat Features ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Individual Fitness ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Indirect Cues

Current life-history theory predicts that increased mortality at early stages of life leads to reduced initial investment (e.g. clutch size) but increased subsequent investment during the reproduction attempt. In a field experiment, migratory pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca perceived differences in mammalian nest predation risk and altered their reproductive strategies in two respects. First, birds avoided nest sites manipulated to reflect the presence of a predator. Second, birds breeding in risky areas nested 4 days earlier and laid 10 per cent larger clutches than those in safe areas, a result that runs counter to the prevailing life-history paradigm. We suggest that the overwhelming importance of nest predation to individual fitness reduces the value of collecting other information on habitat features leading to expedited onset of nesting, and, consequently, to larger clutch size.

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