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Narratives

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences58%
Medical Sciences16%
Psychology8%
Education6%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting4%
Law and Criminology2%
4 Other Domains6%
Distribution within Humanities and Social Sciences
General & Introductory History8%
General & Introductory Anthropology6%
General & Introductory Development Studies5%
General Literature3%
65 Other Subdomains62%

Kinds of Narratives

  • autobiographical narrative
  • children narrative
  • conventional narrative
  • different narrative
  • dominant narrative
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  • experiential narrative
  • historical narrative
  • identity narrative
  • illness narrative
  • legal narrative
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  • life narrative
  • master narrative
  • new narrative
  • oral narrative
  • other narrative
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  • personal narrative
  • student narrative
  • women narrative

    • Terms modified by Narratives

  • narrative account
  • narrative analysis
  • narrative approach
  • narrative data
  • narrative description
  • narrative form
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  • narrative format
  • narrative identity
  • narrative inquiry
  • narrative interview
  • narrative presentation
  • narrative production
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  • narrative research
  • narrative review
  • narrative strategy
  • narrative structure
  • narrative study
  • narrative style
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  • narrative summary
  • narrative synthesis
  • narrative text
  • narrative theory
  • narrative therapy

    • Selected Abstracts

    THE CO-PRODUCTION OF NARRATIVE IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY: AN ANALYSIS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, IN TURMOIL

    GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2009
    Jamie Gillen
    ABSTRACT. In April 2001 Cincinnati, Ohio, erupted into violence and protracted unrest after the police shooting of an unarmed African-American named Timothy Thomas. African-American interest groups in the city subsequently organized an economic boycott of downtown businesses. In response to the demonstration and the boycott, the Cincinnati government issued a marketing campaign entitled ,We're On the Move!', intending to give nod to past failures and launch forward movement on their part. In this article I investigate the entirety of these events as narrative moments under the auspices of urban entrepreneurialism to answer the question: How does the local population inform, rather than simply mediate, the narrative administration of an urban entrepreneurial form of governance? I then turn to a response to the campaign by an African-American newspaper columnist in Cincinnati to underscore a dialogic relationship between an entrepreneurial city and its citizens as it forms the presentation of entrepreneurialism. In turn, this conception allows for a more nuanced version of entrepreneurial governance more generally. [source]

    EBION AT THE BARRICADES: MORAL NARRATIVE AND POST-CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

    MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2010
    MICHEL RENÉ BARNES
    My task in this article is to explore the question of the "place" of moral questions,questions of good and evil,in Christian faith, "faith" here being considered particularly as the content or narrative of belief. The thesis I will argue is that Christianity offers no substantial account or explanation of the origin(s) and nature of evil, that in a fundamental way Christianity is not concerned with offering such accounts, and that when the task of supplying accounts of the origin(s) and nature of evil is made central to the content or narrative of Christian faith that faith is made false: it is misunderstood. [source]

    RACE, RELIGION, AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF IDENTITY: A THEOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH DOUGLASS's 1845 NARRATIVE

    MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2005
    J. KAMERON CARTER
    This essay is about identity and the place of religion and theology in how it is thought about and performed. I purse this subject through a theologically informed reading of the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Taking Douglass's Narrative as emblematic of how identity continues to be conceived, I explain what is promising in the close link forged between religion, theology and culture. The promise of Douglass's Narrative resides in the emancipatory politics of race that it produces and the creative use of the theology of Easter in that politics. But I also explore the contradictions arising from that link,in particular, Douglass's oppressive gender politics. To overcome this problem, I conclude the article by pushing Douglass's cultural reading of identity and the Cross in a more robust theological direction, a direction that gestures towards a theology of Israel and of Pentecost. [source]

    APPRAISING THE ETHOS OF EXPERIENTIAL NARRATIVES: KEY ASPECTS OF A METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

    EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 1 2009
    Carola Conle
    In this essay, Carola Conle and Michael deBeyer describe their efforts to find a conceptual approach and methodology for the appraisal of the ethos of experiential narratives presented in a particular curriculum context. The language of "implied authorship,""the patterning of desire," and "friendships offered and received," first introduced by Wayne Booth, is elaborated through data from narrative presentations given by local heroes to students. Appraisals seemed possible when a narrative could be placed on Booth's "scales of friendship" and when the rational qualities of experiential narratives were considered. In addition, data needed to be available in which students' experiential encounters with the narratives could be seen as occasions where, during such moments of encounter, feelings and desires were created, memories were activated, and events and actions in a narrative were vicariously experienced through those activated phenomena. The authors offer a potential framework for future appraisals. [source]

    CREATING NARRATIVES OF PLACE AND IDENTITY IN "LITTLE SWEDEN, U.S.A.",

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2003
    STEVEN M. SCHNELL
    ABSTRACT. In Lindsborg, Kansas,"Little Sweden, U.S.A.",the streets are lined with shops offering "An Adventure in Swedish Tradition," and residents put on numerous festivals throughout the year highlighting Swedish folk customs. Such ethnic tourist towns have become increasingly widespread in the United States over the past thirty years. Tourists tend to perceive these places as towns where folk culture has been passed down unchanged for generations, while academics tend to dismiss residents' ethnicity as crass commercialism. Neither view is correct. Ethnicity and tradition are not static but constantly invented and reinvented. Modern folk ethnicity, among European Americans in particular, is simply the most recent incarnation of this process, one that attempts to recover ties to a specific, small-scale landscape and history. This article explores the changing nature of the narratives of ethnicity and place-based identity that the residents of Lindsborg have used to create a place for themselves in American society. [source]

    Collective Memory and Narrative: A Response to Etkind

    CONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 1 2009
    Eli Zaretsky
    First page of article [source]

    Jacob's Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel , Theodore W. Jennings

    CONVERSATIONS IN RELIGION & THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
    Richard Coggins
    First page of article [source]

    Practicing Change: Curriculum Adaptation and Teacher Narrative in the Context of Mathematics Education Reform

    CURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 2 2006
    COREY DRAKE
    ABSTRACT The use of reform-based curricula is one possible avenue for the widespread implementation of mathematics education reform. In this article, we present two urban elementary teachers' models of curriculum use that describe how each teacher used a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum. In particular, we examine when and how the teachers made adaptations to the curriculum. We find that each teacher had a distinctive pattern of adaptation when using the curriculum. Furthermore, these patterns were related to three key aspects of the teachers' own experiences with mathematics: their early memories of learning mathematics, their current perceptions of themselves as mathematics learners, and their mathematical interactions with family members. Implications for curriculum design and implementation are discussed. [source]

    Rereading the Dominant Narrative of Mentoring

    CURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 4 2000
    Alexandra Semeniuk
    Mentoring is currently being promoted as an effective means of easing new teachers' transition from preservice programs to the profession.. At the same time it is seen as a way of providing teacher development for those teachers with more experience. Furthermore researchers promote mentoring as a force for change to diminish isolation and promote teacher collaboration. In this article I present an overview,the dominant narrative,of some recent research on formalized mentoring programs in education. Bringing this material together reveals that researchers are virtually unanimous in their enthusiasm for these initiatives. A dialogue which took place between me and a colleague/friend about what we construed as our mentoring relationshippotentially serves as a counternarrative to this prevalent story. Through an analysis of the educational research and the personal narrative, I suggest that the widely accepted view of mentoring may need to be reread, particularly in relation to language: mentoring's meaning is now imprecise because it is used as an umbrella term for many kinds of affiliations in teaching. Inrereading our narrative I argue that my colleague/friend and I did not act as each other's mentor. Rather, our professional association became entwined with the friendship we developed over time. I maintain that by doing a similar rereading of the research on mentoring in education we might find richer and more precise language to describe how we as teachers can assist one another in becoming sophisticated professionals. [source]

    Thesis as Narrative or ,What Is the Inquiry in Narrative Inquiry?'

    CURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 2 2000
    Carola Conle
    I present elements of inquiry in a dissertation composed through experiential narrative. My account of the thesis process is interwoven with references to John Dewey's demonstrations of implicit inquiry in the creation and experience of art. Motivation, methodology, outcomes and literature review take on a narrative character and I show how aesthetic and reflective activities contributed to the inquiry. Conceptually, a ,tension-telos dynamic' characterizes the impetus for the work; ,resonance' is portrayed as the connecting principle among various narrative components of the thesis, and the function of a ,third term' in metaphorical relationships is presented as a structuring principle for these connections. Although my inquiry came about through personal stories, my narratives reached out to social, historical and philosophical contexts to gain a wider significance, academically and personally. [source]

    A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History

    DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 2 2010
    Erez Manela
    First page of article [source]

    "Our Country Endangered by Underwear": Fashion, Femininity, and the Seduction Narrative in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings

    DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 4 2006
    Helen Laville
    First page of article [source]

    Hearing the Silences in Thomas Bernhard's,Ja: Difference, Narrative, and Lyotard's Concept of the Differend

    GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 1 2010
    Teresa Ludden
    ABSTRACT This article examines Thomas Bernhard's largely neglected short novel,Ja,(1978) in terms of how silences and textual lacunae function. It uses Lyotard's concept of the differend and Wittgenstein's notion of language-games to analyse the representation of the relationship between the narrator's inner monologue and the female character, ,die Perserin'. It argues that the text alludes to incommensurability between the narrator's idiom and the Persian woman's history and suffering, as well as criticising the imposition of a meta-language and practising an anti-ventriloquism regarding the Persian woman's pain and despair, thus opening the narrative and the text up to its own silences and failings. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Funktion des Schweigens in Thomas Bernhards Roman,Ja,(1978). Er nimmt Jean-François Lyotards Konzept des,Differend,und Ludwig Wittgensteins Theorie der Sprachspiele zu Hilfe, um das erzählerische Monolog und die Darstellung der schweigsamen ,Perserin' zu analysieren. Bernhards Text bezieht sich auf Lücken und Schweigen, indem er nicht für die Perserin spricht sondern auf die Undarstellbarkeit ihres Schmerzes und ihrer Geschichte in der Sprache des Erzählers hinweist. Dadurch thematisiert der Text die Unmöglichkeit einer universalen Metasprache und eine Kritik des Erzählens überhaupt. [source]

    Narrative 360° assessment and stakeholder analysis: How a powerful tool drives executive coaching engagements

    GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 6 2010
    Richard Koonce
    A process of in-depth targeted interviews and analysis goes where a traditional 360° assessment cannot, revealing cultural, political, and other subtle organizational and performance factors that can make or break an executive. Rich, real-time contextual feedback helps leaders and their coaches to focus on those areas most critical to performance in a particular role and organization. The author describes the process and instrument and illustrates its use and value through two case studies. He also examines the benefits of pairing the process with the concepts of social economics and social theater and with a number of other coaching tools. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

    The Logic of Action: Indeterminacy, Emotion, and Historical Narrative

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 4 2001
    William M. Reddy
    Modern social theory, by and large, has aimed at reducing the complexity of action situations to a set of manageable abstractions. But these abstractions, whether functionalist or linguistic, fail to grasp the indeterminacy of action situations. Action proceeds by discovery and combination. The logic of action is serendipitous and combinative. From these characteristics, a number of consequences flow: The whole field of our intentions is engaged in each action situation, and cannot really be understood apart from the situation itself. In action situations we remain aware of the problems of categorization, including the dangers of infinite regress and the difficulties of specifying borders and ranges of categories. In action situations, attention is in permanent danger of being overwhelmed. We must deal with many features of action situations outside of attention; in doing so, we must entertain simultaneously numerous possibilities of action. Emotional expression is a way of talking about the kinds of possibilities we entertain. Expression and action have a rebound effect on attention. "Effort" is required to find appropriate expressions and actions, and rebound effects play a role in such effort, making it either easier or more difficult. Recent theoretical trends have failed to capture these irreducible characteristics of action situations, and have slipped into a number of errors. Language is not rich in meanings or multivocal, except as put to use in action situations. The role of "convention" in action situations is problematic, and therefore one ought not to talk of "culture." Contrary to the assertions of certain theorists, actors do not follow strategies, except when they decide to do so. Actors do not "communicate," in the sense of exchanging information, except in specially arranged situations. More frequently, they intervene in the effortful management of attention of their interlocutors. Dialogue, that is, very commonly becomes a form of cooperative emotional effort. From these considerations, it follows that the proper method for gaining social knowledge is to examine the history of action and of emotional effort, and to report findings in the form of narrative. [source]

    The Crisis in the Investiture Crisis Narrative

    HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2009
    Maureen C. Miller
    Recent research has undermined the connection between lay investiture and the iconic event usually seen as the most dramatic expression of the investiture conflict: the encounter of Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV of Germany at Canossa. This is just one, however, of many interpretive problems plaguing historical narratives of the investiture crisis. This essay briefly summarizes the classic interpretations that have dominated 20th-century understanding of these events and sets out the major problem raised in more recent research. Arguing that a new interpretive framework is necessary, the author suggests two paths forward: a radical reconsideration of the papacy from a truly post-confessional perspective and a reevaluation of the conflict in the context of new understandings of lordship and political change. [source]

    The Law of the Land or the Law of the Land?: History, Law and Narrative in a Settler Society

    HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2004
    Bain Attwood
    This article considers the influence of a controversial historical work on the law, politics and society of a settler nation. It argues that the impact of Henry Reynolds's 1987 The Law of the Land on legal consideration of indigenous rights to land in Australia can be attributed to the fact that it is best described as juridical history. As such, it told a lego-historical story that provided the High Court of Australia with a new way of interpreting its own traditional narrative, which had long denied Aboriginal people their rights to land, thus enabling it to make a new determination of those rights as well as resolve a crisis of legitimacy for the law and the nation. This article also contends that this history-making came to be accepted by many settler Australians because it provided the nation with a newly redemptive, liberal myth narrative. It assesses the cost of a story of this kind, asking whether such simple histories can have an enduring effect, especially where their authors are reluctant to signpost the historical or literary form of their texts. Finally, it suggests that histories truer to the complexities of the past might produce better political and social outcomes. [source]

    Renegotiating the Historical Narrative: The Case of American Higher Education

    HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2004
    Paul H. Mattingly
    [source]

    Systematic review on embracing cultural diversity for developing and sustaining a healthy work environment in healthcare

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE, Issue 1 2007
    Alan Pearson RN, FRCN, FRCNA
    Abstract Objectives, The objective of this review was to evaluate evidence on the structures and processes that support development of effective culturally competent practices and a healthy work environment. Culturally competent practices are a congruent set of workforce behaviours, management practices and institutional policies within a practice setting resulting in an organisational environment that is inclusive of cultural and other forms of diversity. Inclusion criteria, This review included quantitative and qualitative evidence, with a particular emphasis on identifying systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials. For quantitative evidence, other controlled, and descriptive designs were also included. For qualitative evidence, all methodologies were considered. Participants were staff, patients, and systems or policies that were involved or affected by concepts of cultural competence in the nursing workforce in a healthcare environment. Types of interventions included any strategy that had a cultural competence component, which influenced the work environment, and/or patient and nursing staff in the environment. The types of outcomes of interest to this review included nursing staff outcomes, patient outcomes, organisational outcomes and systems level outcomes. Search strategy, The search sought both published and unpublished literature written in the English language. A comprehensive three-step search strategy was used, first to identify appropriate key words, second to combine all optimal key words into a comprehensive search strategy for each database and finally to review the reference lists of all included reviews and research reports. The databases searched were CINAHL, Medline, Current Contents, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, The Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, Embase, Sociological Abstracts, Econ lit, ABI/Inform, ERIC and PubMed. The search for unpublished literature used Dissertation Abstracts International. Methodological quality, Methodological quality was independently established by two reviewers, using standardised techniques from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (SUMARI) package. Discussion with a third reviewer was initiated where a low level of agreement was identified for a particular paper. Following inclusion, data extraction was conducted using standardised data extraction tools from the JBI SUMARI suite for quantitative and qualitative research. Data synthesis was performed using the JBI Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument and JBI Narrative, Opinion and Text Assessment and Review Instrument software to aggregate findings by identifying commonalities across texts. Quantitative data were presented in narrative summary, as statistical pooling was not appropriate with the included studies. Results, Of the 659 identified papers, 45 were selected for full paper retrieval, and 19 were considered to meet the inclusion criteria for this review. The results identified a number of processes that would contribute to the development of a culturally competent workforce. Appropriate and competent linguistic services, and intercultural staff training and education, were identified as key findings in this review. Conclusions, The review recommends that health provider agencies establish links with organisations that can address needs of culturally diverse groups of patients, include cultural competence in decision support systems and staff education as well as embed them in patient brochures and educational materials. The review also concluded that staff in-service programs consider the skills needed to foster a culturally competent workforce, and recruitment strategies that also explicitly address this need. [source]

    Narrative, organizations and research

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS, Issue 3 2005
    Carl Rhodes
    Given the rapid expansion of narrative approaches in management and organization theory in recent years, this paper investigates the contribution of this literature to the understanding of organizations and processes of organizing. The paper tells the story of the development of narrative approaches in organizational theory. Narrative's contribution to substantive areas of organization theory is evaluated. These developments are then reviewed in relation to an ongoing tension between story and science. We conclude by contemplating some of the criticisms, and the future, of narrative research. [source]

    Lesbian Narrative in The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu

    JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2006
    CAROLINE GONDA
    First page of article [source]

    Threads from the labyrinth: therapy with survivors of war and political oppression

    JOURNAL OF FAMILY THERAPY, Issue 2 2001
    Jeremy Woodcock
    War and political atrocity are endemic, and the denial of what has befallen survivors who become refugees has both therapeutic and human rights dimensions. The work described in this article considers the psychological and political aspects of the suppression of memory and culture and how psychotherapy engages with these processes. Narrative, in its customary form as the creation of stories, is discussed as one of the ways of enabling survivors to be given a voice that allows them to process events of atrocity, displacement and exile. The usefulness of psychoanalytic ideas and their integration with systemic practice is demonstrated. The interplay between difficult psychotherapeutic material, the patient or family and the therapist is shown and the use of supervision noted. The discussion is exemplified with descriptions of therapeutic work with individuals, families and small groups. The thinking that emerges is applicable not only to work with survivors but has general implications for systemic work in general as it struggles with its contemporary identity. [source]

    Religious Identity as an Historical Narrative: Coptic Orthodox Immigrant Churches and the Representation of History

    JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
    GHADA BOTROS
    This paper looks at how the Coptic Church narrates this history particularly as it transcends the national boundaries of Egypt to serve migrant Copts in Western societies. The historical narrative of the Coptic Church celebrates its contributions to early Christianity; defends its stance in the Chalcedon Council in 451 CE; and celebrates a legacy of triumph and survival after the Arab conquest. Building on theories on collective memory, this paper shows how the present and the past shape one another in a very complex way. The paper is based on interviews with both lay and clerical members of Coptic immigrant communities in Canada and the United States and on textual analysis of books, bulletins and websites launched on and by the Church. [source]

    "Long Time I Trabble on de Way": Stephen Foster's Conversion Narrative

    JOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES, Issue 2 2008
    Jennie Lightweis-Goff
    [source]

    A Narrative-Based View of Coexistence Education

    JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 2 2004
    Gavriel Salomon
    Collective narratives of groups in conflict,their perceived histories, beliefs, self-image, and those of their adversaries,play a central role in interpreting and fueling the conflict,and, thus, can play an equally central role in facilitating coexistence. One of their main correlates is their implied delegitimization of the "other's" collective narrative, its pains, its sufferings, its history, and its aspirations. It is this deligitimization that ought to be the main target for change if coexistence is to be promoted, including the acknowledgement of one's own contribution to the conflict. Four dilemmas are discussed: coexistence programs for the dominant versus the subordinate groups; possible counterproductive outcomes; resistance against antagonistic, dominant narratives; and the problem of short-term intervention programs. [source]

    The Sociolinguistics of Narrative, Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates

    JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 1 2007
    Bethan Benwell
    [source]

    Art, Narrative and Childhood

    LITERACY, Issue 1 2004
    Teresa Grainger
    [source]

    On Not Expecting Too Much from Narrative

    MIND & LANGUAGE, Issue 4 2004
    Peter Lamarque
    An enquiry into structural, referential, pragmatic, and value-based features of narrative helps circumscribe the limits of narration and the test case of the narrative definition of the self is examined and shown to yield rather less that is often claimed. [source]

    RACE, RELIGION, AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF IDENTITY: A THEOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH DOUGLASS's 1845 NARRATIVE

    MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2005
    J. KAMERON CARTER
    This essay is about identity and the place of religion and theology in how it is thought about and performed. I purse this subject through a theologically informed reading of the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Taking Douglass's Narrative as emblematic of how identity continues to be conceived, I explain what is promising in the close link forged between religion, theology and culture. The promise of Douglass's Narrative resides in the emancipatory politics of race that it produces and the creative use of the theology of Easter in that politics. But I also explore the contradictions arising from that link,in particular, Douglass's oppressive gender politics. To overcome this problem, I conclude the article by pushing Douglass's cultural reading of identity and the Cross in a more robust theological direction, a direction that gestures towards a theology of Israel and of Pentecost. [source]

    Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town by Leela Prasad

    AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009
    NICOLA TANNENBAUM
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]