Narratives of Writing as Healing

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-123
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lynne Bird
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
First Person ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Writing Practice

Writing as an art form helps people heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This chapter uses the theory of narrative inquiry to present a first-person case study of the author's writing life dovetailed with research illustrating how writing helps people heal. Writing methods will help educators, patients, people experiencing struggles, and anyone who wants to transfer thoughts to the page. Writing helps people cope with adversity, reframe situations to show a more optimistic attitude, and feel safe because the written page will not judge its author. Journal prompts serve as resources for the reader to begin or continue a writing practice.

Drama in Education Reaching Beyond the “Art Form or Teaching Tool” Dichotomy

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Irina Lešnik
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Drama In Education ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy ◽  
Emotional Level

Abstract In the following article we try to re-evaluate, the place drama occupies in contemporary elementary education. By limiting the role of drama to literature studies and theatre productions, we lose a greater potential Theatre Pedagogy has to offer to a much broader educational spectrum. The participatory practices of Theatre and Drama in Education (TiE, DiE) promote active learning, based on a most organic children’s activity - play. While students co-create the fictional world of drama, teacher's guidance is crucial in setting new challenges, encouraging students to find creative solutions and reflect on often-complex social issues. Because of its art component, drama challenges the participants on a cognitive as well as emotional level, becoming a truly transformational experience. As such, Drama in Education is especially useful when approaching sensitive and controversial topics. This thesis is presented on a case study observing Year 6 students at St’ Michael’s CE Academy in Birmingham, UK, using Drama in Education method as part of History curriculum.

Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship through Innovation diffusing Traditional Knowledge with Innovation: Case Study of Pottery Art in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambalika Sinha ◽  
Divya Rai
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
Marketing Intervention

India a massive country in terms of employment conditions and majority of human resources are involved in unorganized sectors but are more vulnerable in compare to other types of formal employment. Upliftment of these sector will results in increased economic conditions of population as well as it will fetch for foreign currency. This paper emphasizes on technological as well as marketing intervention in one of the art form i.e. Pottery which is at verge of extinction. Slight modifications in these will pave a long better way for development.

Contemplating Framing: Unpacking the Possibilities of Printmaking in Narrative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472199108
Author(s):  
Michelle Lavoie ◽  
Vera Caine
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
School Children ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, we explore, name, and unpack the possibilities that printmaking, as an art form, holds in visual narrative inquiry. We also explore the relationship between visual narrative inquiry and narrative inquiry, a relational qualitative research methodology that attends to experiences. Drawing on two different ongoing narrative inquiry studies, where we engage with either trans young adults or refugee families from Syria with pre-school children, we explore how printmaking practices facilitate processes of inquiry. The etymology of the word “frame” helps us understand framing as a process that is future oriented and reflects a sense of doing, making, or preforming. In this way, framing allows us to see otherwise, to respond to and with participants, and to engage with experiences in ways that open new possibilities of inquiry.

scholarly journals Doing Theatre: Theatre Pedagogy through the Folktale

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Jean Small
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Memory ◽  
West African ◽  
French Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Repeated Interaction ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy ◽  
The Brain

Theatre Pedagogy holds that cognition is body-based. Through performance the body’s unconscious procedural memory learns. This information learned through repeated interaction with the world is transmitted to the brain where it becomes conscious knowledge. Theatre Pedagogy in this case study is based on the implementation of a Caribbean cultural art form in performance, in order to teach Francophone language and literature at the postsecondary level in Jamaica. This paper describes the experience of “doing theatre” with seven university students to learn the French language and literature based on an adaptation of two of Birago Diop’s folktales. In the process of learning and performing the plays, the students also understood some of the West African cultural universals of life which cut across the lives of learners in their own and in foreign cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Chinese Paper Cutting: Opportunities for Revitalisation in Contemporary Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jieying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Universal Access ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Potential Strategy ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Design Case Study

<p><b>As a result of globalised development and the rise of capitalism, the craft of traditional Chinese paper cutting is facing marginalisation. The loss of this craft has resulted in a loss of opportunities to share the valuable role of this art form: to bring good wishes to people. The revitalisation of paper cutting as a component of contemporary design offers a strategy to sustain the value and meaning of this craft.</b></p> <p>My research explores a potential strategy that supports the transformation of Chinese paper cutting in the contemporary context through its application in design practice. This research investigates the traditional patterns applied to Chinese paper cutting and their implication and symbolic meaning within Chinese folk culture. Through the development of a criteria-led design case study, this research aims to translate these concepts into the formation of new design outcomes applicable to product packaging.</p> <p>As an element of packaging design, this approach intends to take advantage of the democratisation of and universal access to this medium ensuring wide dissemination to the public.</p> <p>The purpose of this research is to translate traditional paper cutting into a contemporary design approach that enables the values of this special Chinese craft to prosper.</p>

Redressing Elegy's Puella: Propertius IV and the Rhetoric of Fashion

1994 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 41-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeri Blair Debrohun
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
First Person ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Love Elegy ◽  
Writing Practice ◽  
Fourth Book

Much recent criticism of Roman love elegy, especially Propertian love elegy, has been concerned with the exposure of elegy's ego and puella as poetic constructions whose ‘partially realistic’ characteristics and actions serve as metaphorical representations of the poet's writing practice and poetic ideals. As Duncan Kennedy has pointed out, however, this discourse of representation has already threatened to create its own limitations of applicability, as it privileges the ‘partial realism’ of love elegy's first-person narratives, in which an authorial male narrator (ego) writes of his female subject (puella), at the expense of the more openly unrealistic representational strategies of works such as Ovid's Heroides and Fasti or, the more immediate concern of this article, the fourth book of Propertius' elegies.

Columbia Pictures and the Great Depression: A Case Study of Political Writers in Hollywood

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Scott
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Political Comedy ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Art Form

This analyses the largely neglected and underestimated role of screen writers in 1930s Hollywood, an era when the art of movie writing actually made great strides as an art form. It considers the significance of three Columbia writers – Sidney Buchman, Robert Riskin, and Jo Swerling, why they were able to flourish at this small studio with the support of mogul Harry Cohn, and their role in the making of Frank Capra’s populist classics – notably Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939). It examines how these scribes responded to the Great Depression not only by becoming active in the newly-formed Screen Writers Guild but also in writing scripts that injected populist values into the Capra movies as well as seemingly non-political comedy films like Platinum Blonde (1931) and Theodora Goes Wild (1935).

Scheduling race

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamik Saha
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Minority Programming

This chapter argues, following Garnham’s lead, that the scheduling of ‘minority programming’ and the commitment to finding, or rather, creating audiences for this type of programming is a much more crucial moment in the cultural process than receiving the commission to make the programme in the first place. The relatively small amount of research literature stresses the process of scheduling as an ‘art form’, or as Jonathan Ellis puts it, the last creative act. But this chapter goes further and emphasises the ideological role of scheduling – specifically in relation to the representation of racialised minorities. Using a case study of British South Asian television workers reflecting on their experience of scheduling, the narrative demonstrates how this consideration is neglected and particularly opaque within a stage of production that has a determining effect on the recognition and representation of minorities on television.

Qualitative Research in Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 291-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gordon Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Research Questions

The purpose of this chapter is to provide the researcher, who already is inclined to apply qualitative research, with an overview of methods. A representative sample of qualitative research methods is presented, which may be employed when conducting information systems research. These methods include Action Research, Case Study, Ethnography, Grounded Theory, and Narrative Inquiry. Examples of these research methods are also included, which provide a description of the method and references to more detailed presentations. Researchers should thoroughly explore these methods and become fully cognizant of when to appropriately apply each method. It is important to ensure that the chosen method addresses the research questions and supports the research objectives.

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