Experience and impact of the 1-2-3 magic parent programme for children with ADHD on the family unit from the mothers’ perspectives: A narrative analysis

Parent programmes are often used in the clinical management of children with ADHD. Research into parent programmes has predominantly been concerned with their effectiveness and much less attention has been paid to the impact that they may be having on the family and the inter-relationships between family members. This study explores the perspectives and experiences of parents of children with ADHD, who participated in a parent programme, including its impact on the family unit. A purposive sample of six mothers of children with ADHD who completed a 1-2-3 Magic parent programme in Ireland was invited to take part in this qualitative study. Data were collected by means of individual in-depth, semi-structured interviews and a narrative inquiry approach further informed analysis of the interview data. Two major narrative constructions of experience: ‘parent programme as positive’ and ‘parent programme as negative’ were identified. Outcomes from this study illustrated some unintended consequences caused by the parent programme (i.e. sibling rivalry and conflict arising between family members). Mothers believed that the parent programme was a beneficial intervention, but it was not without its flaws and they felt it was helpful for their family when used in conjunction with other supports and mediations.

Individual Features in the Contemporary Polish Reportage: A Syntactic and Stylistic Study on the Basis of "Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji" by Witold Szabłowski

The article deals with the individual features of language in the contemporary Polish reportage based on the text Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by Witold Szabłowski. The author presents both the statistical analysis and the stylistic peculiarities of this reportage which received a prestigious Beata Pawlak Award in 2011 and contains important components characteristic for the journalistic style. The author uses the traditional syntactic model of Zenon Klemensiewicz and takes into consideration Stanisław Jodłowski’s research achievements. According to the postulates of Anna Wierzbicka, Maria Rachwałowa, Stanisław Mikołajczak, and Marek Ruszkowski, she selects a sample of 200 utterances which are examples of such narrative constructions that strongly indicate subjectivity. In her research, firstly, she conducts a detailed analysis of the syntactic and statistical features of Szabłowski's text in comparison with the style of the contemporary Polish reportage. Secondly, she draws attention to unique stylistic features indicating the reporting syntax. As a result, the author notices the following individual features of language in Zabójca z miasta moreli: reportaże z Turcji by Witold Szabłowski: 1) simple utterances and direct and indirect objects in the developed sentences, 2) developed clauses and adverbials, 3) objective hypotaxis, and 4) adverbial hypotaxis.

Representações das histórias das mulheres na coleção indumentária do Museu Julio de Castilhos (1995-2010)

O artigo apresenta a investigação sobre as representações das histórias das mulheres no acervo de indumentária do Museu Julio de Castilhos (MJC), PoA, RS, no recorte temporal de 1995-2010. Analisa os objetos de três exposições que abordaram perfil das mulheres rio-grandenses. Avalia as doações e a musealização feitas por mulheres, nas quais denominei intelectuais mediadoras. Os dados assinalaram que as construções narrativas da historicidade das peças passaram pela interpretação desse grupo de classe média, branco e de idade cronológica média, que compôs as informações que constam na documentação museológica do banco de dados Donato, e, no Livro Diário do acervo. Os resultados apontaram permanências de estereótipos sobre as histórias das mulheres, problematizando as ações educativas realizadas pelo MJC.Palavras-chave: Museu; Coleção indumentária; História das mulheres.AbstractThe paper presents the investigation about the representations of the women's stories in the collection of clothing of the Julio de Castilhos Museum (MJC), PoA, RS, in the 1995-2010 period. The objects of three exhibitions that addressed the profile of women from Rio Grande do Sul are analyzed. It evaluates donations and musealization made by women, which I have called mediating intellectuals. Data indicated that the narrative constructions of the historicity of the pieces went through the interpretation of this group of middle class, white and middle chronological age, which composed the information contained in the museum documentation of the Donato database, and in the Daily Book of the collection. The results pointed to the permanence of stereotypes about the women's stories, problematizing the educational actions carried out by the MJC.Keywords: Museum; Collections; women's history.

The Language of Sustainable Tourism as a Proxy Indicator of Quality

Sustainable tourism (ST) has recently become the mainstream of the tourism industry and, accordingly, has influenced contemporary tourism research. However, ST is not just theories about indications and contraindications of global travel, but also a specific language that needs mastering to take sustainability work forward. In other words, what research receives recognition depends on the proficiency in how the articulation in research proposals and within assessment under the heading of “research impact”. The aim of this paper is to investigate how tourism research gains recognition within research evaluation, by investigating the national research appraisal in the United Kingdom (Research Excellence Framework). By using content analysis, we disentangle the rhetorical choices and narrative constructions within researchers’ impact claims. Our findings suggest that researchers adopt a rhetorical style that implies causality and promotes good outcomes facilitating ST. However, the structure of the assessment format enforces an articulation of sustainable research impact without stating the methodological limitations of that such claim. Therefore, the rhetorical choices of ST researchers merely represent a proxy indicator of the claimed impact. We conclude that the lack of rigor in accounting for the impact of ST research may inadvertently restrict attaining ST.

Facts and Fictions: Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance in Late-Life Narratives and Why Age Matters

Narrative gerontology examines the experience of aging through life stories and other first-person accounts. Literary gerontology explores cultural narratives (e.g., novels, films) that link us to our own aging through stories of others, real or imagined. Our paper focuses on narrative constructions of vulnerability, resistance, subjectivity and agency in life stories, interviews and fictional texts (e.g., Margaret Atwood’s short story “Torching the Dusties.”) It considers how aspects of vulnerability are embedded in stories and what they reveal about the cultural construction of age and aging or what makes us vulnerable as we age. Overall, our paper highlights the socio-cultural construction of vulnerability in narratives related to age and aging, focusing on the representation of vulnerability as a form of resistance and position of strength.

Co-constructing a child as disorderly: Moral character work in narrative accounts of upsetting experiences

This study explores how displays of strong emotions in narrative accounts of emotional experiences provide a context for invoking moral accountabilities, including the shaping of the teller’s character. We use a dialogical approach (i.e., ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology) to emotions to explore how affective stances are performed, responded to and accounted for in episodes of narrative accounts. The analysis is based on a case study that centers on how a child’s walkout from a peer dispute is managed retrospectively in narrative constructions in teacher-child interaction. It is found that the targeted child uses heightened affect displays (crying, sobbing, and prosodic marking), to amplify feelings of distress and stance claims (incorporating reported speech and extreme case formulations) of being badly treated. The heightened stance claims work to justify an oppositional moral stance towards the reported events while projecting accountability to others. The child’s escalated resistance provides a ground for the teacher’s negative uptakes (negative person ascriptions, counter narratives, and third-party reports). The findings shed light on how narrative renderings of upsetting experiences easily become indexical of the teller’s moral character and adds to dispositional features of being over-reactive and disorderly, in ways that undermine a child’s social position.

Rearticulating the Conventions of Hajj Storytelling: Second Generation Moroccan-Dutch Female Pilgrims’ Multi-Voiced Narratives about the Pilgrimage to Mecca

This article explores the interplay between content, narrator, and lifeworld in narrative constructions concerning the meanings of pilgrimage to Mecca by studying the hajj stories of second-generation Moroccan-Dutch women. By adopting a ‘dialogical approach’ to self-storytelling, it is asked how the pilgrimage experiences of these women and the meanings they attribute to them are shaped by different intersecting discursive traditions that inform their daily lives. It is demonstrated that by creative re-articulation and mixing of vocabularies from different discursive traditions to make sense of their hajj experiences, the women contribute to a modern reconfiguration of the genre of hajj accounts. Since gender is the site par excellence where the public debate about the (in)compatibility of being Muslim and being European/Dutch is played out, specific attention will be paid to how the women negotiate conceptions of female Muslim personhood in their stories.

Who Can Read Wisdom? The Implied Virtues of the Readers of Wisdom’s Narratives

This article contributes to the attempt to reformulate hermeneutical questions about ‘how to read the Bible’ in terms of theological characterisations of the kind of reader best placed to read the Bible well. It is thus situated amidst renewed interest in the intersection of character ethics and biblical interpretation. It addresses two related issues, before pointing in the direction of a substantive third concern. First, it explores what is at stake in reading wisdom texts as narratives, finding it persuasive to construe wisdom in narrative terms. Secondly, it considers what virtues are presupposed in these narrative constructions. The reading of Job draws us to consider patience; from Proverbs we consider the virtue of perceptiveness; and from Ecclesiastes a virtue of honesty. Thirdly, the larger question of how one might begin to characterise the implied reader of these texts is considered, building on a canonically constructed portrait of the reader informed by the virtues considered.