scholarly journals Against the Grain

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jessica Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Schools ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Community Staff ◽  
Rural Places ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This study explored the question “What roles does rurality play in the professional lives of teachers in northern Wisconsin?” Using narrative analysis of four participants’ interviews about their lives working in rural schools, this paper compares participants’ stories with dominant narratives about rural schools and communities. Common depictions of rural people, places, and work often oversimplify the complex relationships among school, community, staff, and students. This study found that participants a.) feel a sense of belonging in rural places despite the challenges of living and working there, b.) create and maintain a strong professional family in order to mitigate rural school recruitment and retention difficulties, and c.) experience school and community partnerships that are both supportive and challenging. This study calls for a more critical and complex representation of rural people and places, especially schools, in order to work against the dominant narratives about rurality that exist in popular imagination.

Norwegian remote and rural dementia care

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Oyvind Kirkevold ◽  
Kari Midtbo Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Dementia Care ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Rural Workforce ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
District Nurses ◽  
Rural Places ◽  
General Medical Practitioners ◽  
Home Helpers

A fifth of Norwegians (one million people) live rurally and approximately 80,000 rural people currently live with dementia. Diagnosis and follow-up support for people with dementia takes place in municipalities (local government areas). Most municipalities have a memory team that assists general medical practitioners in assessing dementia. In-home care is from district nurses and home helpers employed directly, or through contracts, by the municipalities. An early adopter of national dementia planning, Norway has instituted and adapted several innovative approaches that help to contextualise care to rural places, including service collaborations, joint upskilling and developing local workers that focus on people with dementia. While rural Norwegians with dementia experience many challenges shared internationally, such as long distances to access specialists, rural people tend to benefit from ‘everybody knows everybody’ communities and a relatively stable rural workforce.

scholarly journals Not ‘getting on the bandwagon’: When climate change is a matter of unconcern

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe H Lucas ◽  
Aidan Davison
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Depth Interviews

Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others’ biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual’s lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This ‘concern deficit’ is framed as a problem to be addressed through policy, education and communication that seeks to maximise concern about climate change. In contrast, we conceptualise unconcern about climate change as an expression of focal life concerns that are incommensurable with dominant narratives of climate change. Originating in active cognitive, social and experiential processes, we regard unconcern about climate change as inseparable from the lived contexts in which it is expressed and irreducible to the attitudes or attributes of individuals. Using narrative analysis of repeat in-depth interviews with Australians who express unconcern about climate change, we find that this unconcern has multiple sources, takes diverse forms and is entangled in epistemological and normative engagements with other issues. It is constituted through social relationships, discursive processes, moral values and embodied experiences that are overlooked in much existing research. We argue that respectful attention to the experiential conditions in which concern about climate change is resisted can enable constructive re-negotiation of narratives of climate change. Such agonistic processes could lead to more reflexive, pluralist and dialogical forms of discourse that better articulate climate science and policy with a wider diversity of lived concerns.

Resolving Conflicts in Rural Schools

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharin A. Kelker
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Model Problem ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Shared Set ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Small Rural Schools

Small rural schools once thought themselves immune from serious conflict, but these once tranquil environments now find themselves dealing with more diverse student bodies, conflicts in values, and social and economic changes. It is no longer possible to assume that a rural school will have a sense of community—an underlying foundation of shared values and a sense of belonging. Without this shared set of values, conflicts are more difficult to resolve when they arise. More than ever, schools need to make a conscious effort to teach problem-solving and negotiation skills that build a framework for cooperation and the cultivation of mutual respect. Educators themselves must be prepared to resolve conflicts that arise for them with their colleagues and with parents and students. If teachers feel well prepared to handle conflict, they can be effective in modeling this behavior for their students. Master of interpersonal skills—communication, collaborative planning, and emotional “banking”—can keep conflicts within bounds and dialogue focused on problem-solving rather than blaming. When educators have the tools to manage conflict, they can model problem-solving and negotiation skills for their students. Then conflict resolution becomes a way to reestablish effective cooperation an provide opportunities for the creativity, excitement, and energy that come from the exploration of differences among ideas and values.

scholarly journals Identity and self-understanding among transgender women in Norway

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 68-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigdis Moen ◽  
Ingvild Aune
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Transgender Women ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social

Aim: The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of and more knowledge about the experience of transgender women in terms of identity and self-understanding. Method: Data are collected from six Norwegian adult transgender women who have told their life stories. A narrative analysis is used to analyse the stories of the participants. The narrative focus is on themes relating to identity, self-understanding and belonging. Results: The results of the study show that the participants exclusively have a female identity and sense of belonging. Despite this, two of the participants prefer to live as males out of consideration for those in their surroundings. The self-understanding of the informants is expressed in different ways, depending on personality and life experience. Conclusion: Whether or not one has ‘come out of the closet’ seems to be important for both identity and self-understanding. The participants who are open about their identity seem more secure than those who are not. The more acceptance and recognition they get from the social environment, the more it appears that the women in this study dare to be who they are.

scholarly journals “I’m Not Afraid of Dying Because I’ve Got Nothing to Lose”: Young Men in South Africa Talk About Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 155798832199615
Author(s):  
Jason Bantjes ◽  
Curwyn Mapaling
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Directed Action ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Common Understanding

First-person narratives of suicidal behavior may provide novel insights into how individuals with lived experience of suicide understand and narrate their behavior. Our aim was to explore the narratives of young men hospitalized following nonfatal suicidal behavior (NFSB), in order to understand how young suicidal men construct and understand their actions. Data were collected via narrative interviews with 14 men (aged 18–34 years) admitted to hospital following an act of NFSB in Cape Town, South Africa. Narrative analysis was used to analyze the data. Two dominant narratives emerged in which participants drew on tropes of the “great escape” and “heroic resistance,” performing elements of hegemonic masculinity in the way they narrated their experiences. Participants position themselves as rational heroic agents and present their suicidal behavior as goal-directed action to solve problems, assert control, and enact resistance. This dominant narrative is incongruent with the mainstream biomedical account of suicide as a symptom of psychopathology. The young men also articulated two counter-narratives, in which they deny responsibility for their actions and position themselves as defeated, overpowered, wary, and unheroic. The findings lend support to the idea that there is not only one narrative of young men’s suicide, and that competing and contradictory narratives can be found even within a dominant hyper-masculine account of suicidal behavior. Gender-sensitive suicide prevention strategies should not assume that all men share a common understanding of suicide. Suicide can be enacted as both a performance of masculinity and as a resistance to hegemonic gender roles.

scholarly journals Tahapan Pembentukan Identitas Etnis Remaja Madura Di Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faqihul Muqoddam ◽  
Suryanto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Data Presentation

This research aims to describe the stages and driving factors the formation of ethnic identity of Madurese adolescents who live in Surabaya. This research used qualitative approach with narrative analysis. Participants in this study were Madurese adolescents who lived in Surabaya aged 12-20 years. Data collection uses observation and interview techniques. Data were analyzed by stages of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results showed that (1) Adolescents form their Madura ethnic identity in Surabaya with the stage; bring back identity, intense interaction in ethnic groups, and implementation of Madurese cultural elements in the Surabaya environment, (2) Factors that encourage them in the formation of ethnic identity come from internal factors (sense of belonging and sense of pride to ethnic identity) and factors of brotherhood solidarity in ethnic groups. Suggestions for further research is to extend the context of research. The next discussion is expected to find obstacles and expand the studies that have been studied previously.

Interpreting Interpretations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Schiff
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

“Interpreting Interpretations,” Chapter 6 of A New Narrative for Psychology, discusses the premises for the analysis of narratives in research in the field of psychology and in everyday life. The chapter focuses on how researchers think about narratives after the data have been collected and on how narratives should be understood and analyzed. It details an interpretative, hermeneutic approach to narrative analysis in which the interpreter is always once removed, always interpreting the interpretations of others. It argues that there are no recipes for narrative analysis, only general analytic strategies. The process of narrative analysis is one of asking questions in order to open up the data and understand the complex relationships between a particular interpretative action and the contexts of person, time, and space.

Wartime Impacts Upon the Schools

1942 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Charles Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Rural Schools ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Rural People

The present plight of the rural schools of the nation is no new phenomenon. Conditions are merely more acute now than in normal times. When there are general shortages of professional services, whether these services be those offered by teachers, doctors, ministers or others, the cities usually outbid the rural people and many of the most competent rural professionals leave the country. That is what is happening now.

Fixed Nodes of Transience: Narratives of Homelessness and Emergency Department Use

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1183-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McCallum ◽  
Maria I. Medved ◽  
Diane Hiebert-Murphy ◽  
Jino Distasio ◽  
Jitender Sareen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Emergency Department Use ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Discourse in popular media, public policy, and academic literature contends that people who are homeless frequently make inappropriate use of hospital emergency department (ED) services. Although researchers have investigated the ED experiences of people who are homeless, no previous studies have examined how this population understands the role of the ED in their health care and in their day-to-day lives. In the present study, 16 individuals participated in semistructured interviews regarding their ED experiences, and narrative analysis was applied to their responses. Within the context of narratives of disempowerment and discrimination, participants viewed the ED in differing ways, but they generally interpreted it as a public, accessible space where they could exert agency. ED narratives were also paradoxical, depicting it as a fixed place for transient care, or a place where they were isolated yet felt a sense of belonging. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

Crossing boundaries in rural research

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110142
Author(s):  
Robyn Eversole
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Production Values ◽  
Rural Places

Rural places around the world share common issues related to their positioning outside social, political, and economic centres of power. More than simply tyranny of distance, many issues can be attributed to tyranny at distance: that is, the power of distant decision-makers to direct rural development from afar with little knowledge of rural contexts. In response to the challenge to progress a transformative research agenda for rural sociology, this article theorises a ‘cross-boundary’ approach to research for rural development, to address persisting issues of development ignorance. Cross-boundary knowledge production values the multiple, contextualised knowledges of rural people and brings these into dialogue with academic knowledges across disciplines to inform practical rural solutions. Rural sociologists, with their in-depth understanding of rural community dynamics and larger social structures, are ideally positioned to broker cross-boundary knowledge partnerships that equip rural communities to solve old problems in new ways.

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