Narrative Story Research Articles

The Catholic Marianist Brothers’ Contribution to Moral and Integral Boys’ Education in Zambia (1966-1991) Part II

The article focuses on the contribution the Marianist Brothers made to moral and integral boys’ education in their education philosophy at Matero Boys Secondary School popularly known as MaBoys. Cox’s theory of phenomenology of religion was used in order to generate empirical data from religious and lived experiences of the Marianist Brothers as well as the narrated stories from both former teachers and pupils of the first twenty-five years at MaBoys, (1966 to 1991). The objective intended to be achieved was to determine aspects of morality that have been integrated with education by Marianist Brothers of MaBoys. The study was purely qualitative and specifically used a follow-up case study design to capture and understand the Marianist applied pedagogical practices in enhancing former pupils’ lives after leaving the school. The findings indicated that the Marianist education was the core of morality. The Marianist education policy: One Education Ministry integrated the pedagogical practices of the five-fold Marianist charism in their education philosophy and formed Christ in souls of young people. The charism included the virtues of educate for formation of faith, provide an integral quality education, Education in Family spirit, educate for service, justice and peace and Education for adaptation and change this can be seen as evidence in that the Marianist imprint remained in the boys’ lives long after school.

Discourse- and lesion-based aphasia quotient estimation using machine learning

Discourse is a fundamentally important aspect of communication, and discourse production provides a wealth of information about linguistic ability. Aphasia commonly affects, in multiple ways, the ability to produce discourse. Comprehensive aphasia assessments such as the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R) are time- and resource-intensive. We examined whether discourse measures can be used to estimate WAB-R Aphasia Quotient (AQ), and whether this can serve as an ecologically valid, less resource-intensive measure. We used features extracted from discourse tasks using three AphasiaBank prompts involving expositional (picture description), story narrative, and procedural discourse. These features were used to train a machine learning model to predict the WAB-R AQ. We also compared and supplemented the model with lesion location information from structural neuroimaging. We found that discourse-based models could estimate AQ well, and that they outperformed models based on lesion features. Addition of lesion features to the discourse features did not improve the performance of the discourse model substantially. Inspection of the most informative discourse features revealed that different prompt types taxed different aspects of language. These findings suggest that discourse can be used to estimate aphasia severity, and provide insight into the linguistic content elicited by different types of discourse prompts.

Indigenous Values of Short Stories in Indonesian Fictional Prose in Higher Education: Implication on Language Education

This research was qualitative research that analyzed the concept of indigenous values in the short story "Rumah Amangboru" by Hasan Al Banna. The main aim of this research is to deepen the understanding of how local wisdom is reflected in the values, traditions and culture of the Batak people which form the background of the story. This research was carried out using a literary analysis approach by examining elements of local wisdom revealed in story narratives, such as respect for ancestors, the role of women in Batak society, and the relationship between humans and nature. The results of this research illustrate that local wisdom is not only an element of the story, but also reflects the depth of cultural wealth and traditional wisdom possessed by the community. In the short story "Amangboru Rumah", five values were found. First, religious value related to a concept of respect, Second, the value of local wisdom which is also related to natural phenomena that occur in a real and specific manner within the scope of society. Third, the value is found in the customs of the community which is associated with the value of art. Fourth, honoring the dead or what is known as non-religious social values. Fifth, the value of love for the country. This research contributes to the understanding of how literature can be a medium for celebrating and telling the story of a society's cultural heritage, as well as offering valuable insights for research on Indonesian culture and literature

Analysing Bijaya Hitan’s some Selected Stories from an Eco-centric Approach

This paper makes the Ecocritical reading of three stories, namely, “Bagmati Blues”, “Saharle Panchhayeki Buhari” (My translation “A Daughter-in-Law Disregarded by a City”) and “Nawabarshale Janmayeka Brykshyaharu” (My translation “The Groves Bred by New Year”), written by an ecowriter, Bijaya Hitan. Drawing on the Ecocritical and Ecofeminist theories of Lawrence Buell, Vandana Shiva, Greta Gaard, and some relevant journals and books, it analyzes the portrayals of non-human world that is the Bagmati river and her declining physical environment. As soon as Bagmati river enters the Kathmandu valley near Sundarijal, the water starts to deteriorate. The river has been used as dumping site for domestic and industrial waste water and solid waste. Besides that, the river has been widely used for sand extraction and land encroachment through squatter settlements at the bank of the river. Hitan, in his three short stories questions the ethics, policies, and cultural values of people at Kathmandu for treating Bagmati as an instrument, only a means of human ends. This paper scrutinizes the power of words, subject, images and narrative of aforementioned stories to reinforce to understand the oppressive human-environment relations causing multiple forms of ecodegradation that afflict Bagmati river today. The significance of this study is to exhibit how Hitan’s ecowriting has proved to be an effective means of communicating the burgeoning environmental concerns of Bagmati and resolving this environmental harm through the adoption of possible alternatives practically and morally.

Perception of the status of well-being of beneficiaries of the social program Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro in Othón P. Blanco

This study focused on Othón P. Blanco municipality, aiming to comprehend the well-being perception of young participants in the "Youth Building the Future" social program. The objective was to assert that the variable under scrutiny significantly influences their worldview, subsequently impacting thoughts and mitigating antisocial (violence, addiction) and criminal behaviors reflective of social marginalization and inequality. The research is theoretically grounded in Sen's Human Development model, conceptualizing it as the expansion of individuals' capabilities and opportunities for a quality life. Employing a qualitative approach due to its phenomenological nature, the study adopted a narrative autobiographical life story design. The sample, comprising 36 subjects aged 18 to 29 with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, aimed for maximum variation. Results revealed that all subjects perceived a positive shift in their quality of life, encompassing physical, social, and psychological wellbeing. The study concludes that the journey towards a healthier society commences with access to opportunities, affirming Amartya Sen's theory. Human development and well-being indicators are incorporated through policies promoting equity and equal opportunities, fostering peace and non-violence. The program aligns with the well-being objectives of the 2030 agenda.

Momenty (nie)ciągłości psychologii narracyjnej

The thematic diversity and the way narrative is understood demonstrate the vitality of the concept and the phenomenon of narrative in psychology. This article presents some questions and dilemmas that narrative psychology, which is still a young discipline in search of its scientific identity, pose to researchers. It is not our ambition to resolve these questions; instead, we perceive them as moments of (dis)continuity in the ongoing narrative story and as markers of the directions of research and theoretical considerations. We identify such themes as the distinction between utterance and narrative, the space between author and listener, the directions in which the notion of narrative identity is expanding, and the link between narrative structure and narrative process. The methodological diversity the narrative perspective introduces allows us to pose research questions in a qualitative and quantitative approach.

DIGITAL NARRATIVE GERONTOLOGY AS BRIDGES BETWEEN GENERATIONS TO IMPROVE WELL-BEING, LEARNING, AND SHARED EXPERIENCES

Abstract Elders are an essential society component for the collective success of the demographic transition, for social inclusion and the fight against ageism (Berrut, 2020). Ageism - discrimination by age, is a very present concern. One way to respond to this challenge is to build bridges between generations in society; intergenerational programs can reduce the perception of stereotypes about other generations (Barbosa et al., 2021; Pentecouteau & Eneau, 2017), strengthen intergenerational solidarity, and help develop capital and social cohesion (Topping, 2020). Based on the theories of lifelong learning and intergenerational learning, our research engages digital narrative gerontology (Crettenand Pecorini, 2019). We have organized several meetings in pairs (elder – young) where each pair created a digital narrative from the oral narration of the elder life story, supported by the multimedia skills that the young adult acquired during the workshop we have set up. From individual and pairs semi-directed interviews, logbooks, debriefings, and digital narrative, based on case study thematic analysis, our preliminary results confirm the results obtained in 2019: improved general well-being, reduction in the perception of generation stereotypes, reduction in feelings of loneliness and isolation, strengthening intergenerational solidarity, satisfaction to rediscover one’s life or the projection of one’s life stimulated by example, new knowledge acquisition, as well as the pride of artifact creation and its sharing. This innovative project can be applied in schools, colleges, and universities as well as in community centers and seniors’ residences.

ENGAGING IN ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE AGING EXPERIENCE

Abstract This symposium provides an overview of artistic and creative engagement methodologies to understand aging experiences. The first presentation examines a collaborative effort involving a researcher and filmmaker to film, edit, and produce a documentary about Irish Men’s Sheds to increase awareness of diversity within the dissemination of narrative stories. The second presentation focuses on drawing, investigating how young children socially and cognitively represent perceptions of human longevity and of the concept of what constitutes “old.” Children were asked questions regarding what it means to be “old” and what they might look like at 100 years, and to draw a self-portrait image. Findings demonstrating internal working models consistent with socially-learned attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes of aging. The third presentation explains digital narrative gerontology and a life story project of the older adult’s life created by younger and older adults. Thematic analysis revealed improved well-being, reduced generational stereotypes, and feelings of loneliness and isolation. The fourth presentation details an intergenerational project involving university students and older adults with cognitive impairment. Participants engaged in a six-week, telephone-based reminiscence experience and then co-created a storyboard/script to create a digital story. Thematic analysis demonstrated six themes: Family, religion and purpose in life, loves and hates, career/work, stress/coping, and major life turning points. The final presentation details music as a therapeutic intervention to improve older adults’ quality of life and foster social connections, self-understanding and expression. Observations from working with older adults in a variety of environments and preferred music styles will also be discussed.

Особенности проявления гендерных характеристик в околоигровом феномене кроссплея

The article deals with the analysis of the representation of gender in game related phenomenon of “crossplay”, which involves impersonation as a character of the opposite sex, or attempts to try on the image of a character in a computer game, anime or film, which is gender different from the one originally presented in one or an-other fictional story narrative. The author analyzes the phenomena of M2F, F2M, gender bender and try to show the correlation of these everyday practices both with some problems of self-identification of a modern person living in contexts of fluid identity, oversaturated with the meanings of the modern cultural space, and with the complexity of the computer-game narrative, the convergence of gaming, animation and cinematic types of nar-rative representation of the fictional world and its heroes. The author draws conclusions about the “removal” of problems of self-identification in the phenomenon of cosplay, its special specificity among other types of eve-ryday practices.

Dry stone walling. Rural artisan enterprise in the urban economy

Usually, dry stone walls are a feature of rural locations but this paper presents a case story of how two experienced dry stone Wallers were commissioned to build a dry stone wall in an urban location. Through narrative story telling using photographs, this work charts the progress of the construction of the Wall from the commissioning process in December 2021 from visiting stone quarries to search for appropriate stone in January 2022, to the building of the wall itself in May–June 2022.The paper demonstrates how engaging in simple artisanal tasks, such as building a dry stone wall, is a source of fascination to the observer and also a process of discovery. Methodologically, it uses a Dramaturgical lens (Goffman, 1959) to capture the experience of both the construction of the wall itself and the lenses which the casual observer uses to understand the process of walling.The paper explores the significance of what are perceived to be ‘rural’ ‘creative enterprise’ and artisanship but transported to an urban environment. It expands an earlier work of a case study of two dry stone wallers, based in North Yorkshire, a region of the UK (McElwee, 2022).By so doing, it demonstrates how creative enterprise skills in the rural economy can be transported into the urban environment. By this simple process the paradox is that more actors are able to enjoy and appreciate a rural skill, than they would in a more ‘traditional’ environment. One further consequence of this is that urban-based actors are able to appreciate at first hand, the beauty of a well-constructed dry stone wall.Importantly it points to the significance of the dry stone wall for the continued sustainability of rural regions. In the UK, the dry stone wall is perceived to be a ‘Public good’. Indeed, the UK Domestic Agricultural Policy (DAP) is centred around the idea of ‘public money for public goods’, which incentivises farmers for providing services that the public can benefit from i.e., countryside access, sustainable farming practices and increasing biodiversity (Defra, 2021).

Correct Information Unit Analysis in Different Discourse Tasks Among Persons With Anomic Aphasia Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank.

This study aimed to explore how well persons with anomic aphasia communicate information during discourse regarding quantity, quality, and efficiency compared to neurotypical controls, to investigate the influence of discourse tasks on informativeness and efficiency and to examine impact factors like aphasia severity and cognitive ability. Language samples of four discourse tasks from 31 persons with anomic aphasia and 31 neurotypical controls were collected from Mandarin AphasiaBank. Correct information unit (CIU) analysis measures including the total number of CIUs, percentage of CIUs, CIUs per minute, and words per minute were calculated. Group differences and the effects of discourse tasks on informativeness and efficiency were investigated. Correlations of CIU analysis measures with aphasia severity and cognitive ability were examined. Persons with anomic aphasia showed lower efficiency in conveying information than controls. They underperformed controls on all CIU analysis measures when executing story narrative tasks. Discourse tasks influenced the informativeness and efficiency of both groups. Neurotypical controls delivered the greatest quantity of information most efficiently when narrating stories. Persons with anomic aphasia exhibited reduced quantity of information during procedural discourse and displayed superior information quality in sequential-picture descriptions. Discourse information may be impacted by aphasia severity and cognitive ability, with varying effects depending on the task. Persons with anomic aphasia are inefficient in communicating discourse messages and perform poorly on all measures in story narratives. When measuring discourse information, the effects of discourse tasks and factors like aphasia severity and cognitive ability should be considered.

The Impact of Different Thematic Apperception Test Administration Methods on Narrative Length and Story Richness as Measured by the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G)

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is the second most commonly used performance-based task in clinical practice. However, traditional TAT administration is time-consuming and raises accessibility issues. This study examines the effect of administration modifications (i.e., examiner handwriting versus typing, examiner recording versus participant recording, and re-prompting versus no re-prompting) on narrative length and richness as measured by the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G). A four-card TAT protocol was administered to 150 college students under one of five conditions. The resulting narratives were scored by two trained raters using the SCORS-G. MANOVA procedures showed (a) no significant differences between examiner handwriting versus typing; (b) the shortest, blandest narratives were produced when the examiner recorded the narratives without re-prompting; and (c) the longest, richest narratives were produced when the participant typed the narratives with re-prompts on the computer screen. Clinical and research implications and future directions will be discussed.

Bilingual Parenting: A Personal Narrative Story of Foreign Bride in Taiwan Towards Taiwanese-Indonesian Student Academic Achievement

Bilingual Parenting: A Personal Narrative Story of Foreign Bride in Taiwan Towards Taiwanese-Indonesian Student Academic Achievement

EmoStory: Emotion Prediction and Mapping in Narrative Stories

A well-designed story is built upon a sequence of plots and events. Each event has its purpose in piquing the audience's interest in the plot; thus, understanding the flow of emotions within the story is vital to its success. A story is usually built up through dramatic changes in emotion and mood to create resonance with the audience. The lack of research in this understudied field warrants exploring several aspects of the emotional analysis of stories. In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder framework to perform sentence-level emotion recognition of narrative stories on both dimensional and categorical aspects, achieving MAE=0.0846 and 54% accuracy (8-class), respectively, on the EmoTales dataset and a reasonably good level of generalization to an untrained dataset. The first use of attention and multi-head attention mechanisms for emotion representation mapping (ERM) yields state-of-the-art performance in certain settings. We further present the preliminary idea of EmoStory, a concept that seamlessly predicts both dimensional and categorical space in an efficient manner, made possible with ERM. This methodology is useful in only one of the two aspects is available. In the future, these techniques could be extended to model the personality or emotional state of characters in stories, which could benefit the affective assessment of experiences and the creation of emotive avatars and virtual worlds

The Effect of Story Maps Strategy on Iraqi EFL Preparatory School Students Creative Thinking

Story Mapping is a procedure which trains students to recognize the basic framework of narrative story in order to enhance their comprehension. The present study aims at finding out the effect of Story Maps Strategy in teaching EFL to preparatory school students and explaining the benefits of using it in the educational process ,This study also aims at: 1- analyze the significant different between the students who are taught using story maps strategy and without using story maps strategy at the fifth class preparatory school students in post test 2-finding out the effect of using the story maps strategy on EFL preparatory school students achievement. 3-Finding out the effect of story maps strategy on Students at four components of creative thinking skill. A sample of (65) students has been randomly selected from the Iraqi EFL fifth preparatory school students from Al-dour preparatory School for girls , in Al-dour, Salah Al-Deen, during the academic year (2021–2022). It represents (76.92%) per cent of its original population and they are divided into two equal groups, i.e., ( experimental and control) . Both groups have been equalized in their age, the parents’ educational achievement, and their degrees in English language subjects in the previous grade of the academic year (2020-2021).The test consists of six questions with its branches that have been developed and tested, its reliability achieved, and extended to the two sample classes. Results show that Story Maps Strategy is more effective than using the conventional method for organizing, clarifying, or simplifying complex information. Based on the results and obtained conclusions in this work, suitable recommendations and suggestions for further studies are put forward.

“Where’s My People?”: An Investigation of the Structure and Content of Black and Latinx College Students’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Narratives

As attending college became a normative life experience in the U.S., society developed a cultural narrative about what a “good” college experience looks like. But, for racially minoritized college students, this master narrative often excludes their experiences. Integrating narrative and ethnic-racial identity, the current study investigates how a sample of 11 Black and Latinx students ( M age = 19.73) narrate their lives in college and make meaning of their racial experiences. Participants were prompted to construct their college story as if it were a book with chapters and describe the connections between those chapters. We analyzed students’ college stories and found that they used either chronological or thematic coherence to structure their narratives; this distinction in structure was related to the content of their stories. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of using a racialized college story narrative to understand ethnic-racial identity for minoritized college students.

Introduction to the Foodways of Georgia

This article’s theme is an introduction to the foodways of Georgia,the main purpose of the research is to scientific way map out thefoodways of Georgia and its origins. The research project is still inits infancy so the author throughout the paper, consequently discussesthe staple foodstuff in today’s Georgia such as wine, bread,Khachapuri and Khinkali. The author research method is interdisciplinarywhere different sources are used such as artefacts, historicalwritten sources (for example, receipts, cookery books,narrative stories, accounts, agricultural texts, lists), photographs(past and present) and oral sources (such as interviews with localhousekeepers). The author also stresses the importance of workingin an interdisciplinary way, in order to get a wider, broader answerto the asked questions instead of just working with one source.

CARIMBÓ AS A THEMATIC UNIT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION: PARADIDACTIC MATERIAL FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN A FEDERAL INSTITUTION IN NORTHERN BRAZIL

The objective of this study was to verify the feasibility of producing a textbook to assist physical education teachers in carimbó dance classes for students in integrated physical education courses in schools. This is a field study with experimental characteristics and a quantitative approach. This research was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará (IFPA), with a sample of 28 physical education teachers. Data collection was performed through a semi-structured questionnaire prepared in Google® Form with alternatives on a Likert scale. The results showed that most participants were male (61%), with an average age of 44.3 years, white (43%) and mixed race (39%), and the average workload was 14.4 hours/month. In addition, 93% of the participants worked full-time. The length of professional experience was 19.7 years, classified as career stabilization. The teachers' perception of the need for the content of the thematic unit on folk dance and Carimbó had high validity according to the content validation index (CVI). In addition, the paradidactic book as an educational product was developed and validated by the CVI with a score >78. The evaluations showed that both the diagnosis and the application improved the scores after reading the book, which was also demonstrated in the content validation index by item (CVI-I) that improved for diagnosis and application after the teachers read the book. However, it was possible to develop an educational technology to assist in the teaching of folk dances with a focus on carimbó, through a paradidactic book of narrative story with dialogue entitled: Carimbó: what dance is this?

A Systematic Description of Imbrication in Nyakyusa

This paper offers a systematic description of imbrication in Nyakyusa (M31). The review of the literature indicates that, in Nyakyusa, imbrication, a phonological change involving the opaque difference between the input and output forms in the -ile suffix, has not been systematically described. Hence, the paper offers this description by identifying triggering conditions and reconstructing the phonological processes shaping imbrication. Data for this paper were collected in Kyela district through a review of written texts, narrative stories, observation and interviews. The findings indicate that the syllable structure of the verb is the main determinant of imbrication in Nyakyusa. Quite obviously, the process of imbrication involves the deletion of the consonant in the -ile, followed by metathesis whereby the last consonant of the stem fills the empty slot caused by the deletion of [l]. Then, various adjustments that follow, i.e., vowel coalescence, vowel deletion, vowel rising, leftward spread of vowel, and vowel lengthening, are meant to resolve hiatus. The paper concludes that, based on the review of literature, although imbrication is common in some Bantu languages, we noted some conditions and phonological processes shaping imbrication to be language specific. In this view, this paper recommends a systematic comparative description of imbrication in other Bantu languages.

How do adopted adults see the significance of adoption and being a parent in their life stories? A narrative analysis of 40 life story interviews with male and female adoptees

Being adopted and becoming a parent are both highly significant events in the life course. How adopted people represent adoption and parenthood in their life stories is the focus of the current study. The research explored the views of adopted people who were parents, focusing on those adopted since the late 1980s in order to capture the experiences of people adopted through the child protection system. The participants were 40 adult adoptees who had at least one child. Equal numbers of men and women were recruited, and purposive sampling was used to ensure a diverse range of people were included. Most participants (34 of 40) were in their 20s or 30s and age at adoption varied from 0 to 12 years old. All except one person were domestically adopted in England, with two-thirds having been adopted through the child protection system; 32 were White British, and 8 were Black, Mixed or Asian ethnicity. An adaptation of McAdam’s life story interview method was used to enable participants to describe their whole life including their adoption and being a parent. Interviews were first analysed ‘within case’ looking at narrative themes and structure. Then looking across cases four types of life story narrative were identified: “continuously stable”, “pulling through”, “still struggling” and “robbed of parenthood”. The research illustrates the wide diversity of adopted people’s experiences and the ongoing impact of difficult early life experiences on adopted individuals as adults and parents. Parenting raised additional challenges for many adopted people, but could also be a positive turning point. The pathways to overcoming (or not overcoming) early adversity to succeed as parents are illustrated and the role of adoption as both a risk and protective factor is discussed.