Stories Of Experiences Research Articles

Whites Only: Race and Mobility in Kym Ragusa's The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging and Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric

Whites Only: Race and Mobility in Kym Ragusa's <i>The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging</i> and Claudia Rankine's <i>Citizen: An American Lyric</i>

Personal Experience Stories at the Crossroad of Archaeology and Folklore

"Archaeological heritage of Turkey has been suffering for ages from severe destruction through the activities of local antiquities looters. The main reasons for this escalating phenomenon among the Turkish population include poverty, enhanced global demand for looted archaeological material in the worldwide market, gaps in laws, folklore, and the addiction to adrenalin experienced by looters. To comprehend the ongoing archaeological destruction caused by looters in Turkey, we need to be willing to investigate their folklore formed in the framework of illicit looting. Even though Turkish law strictly states looting as a crime, Anatolian-Turkish folklore, including oral tradition, does not condemn looters even as deviants. Hence, folklore must be listed as one of the significant excuses why Anatolian archaeological heritage keeps being looted. In recent decades, the destruction of archaeological sites of Anatolia and the loss of cultural heritage have entered a dangerous phase due to local looters having access to technological devices, software, and international connections, as well as folkloric spiritual, ritualistic guidance. My research aims to understand how and under which circumstances looters become looters in the first place. Keywords: Turkey, cultural heritage, folklore, antiquities looters, personal experience narratives. "

The Life Experiences of Wives Suffering from Marital Conflicts: A Narrative Inquiry using Sandtray Images

This study used narrative inquiry to understand the experiences of three wives who were suffering from marital conflicts. We collected data in the form of stories of life experiences of the participants and the images which they expressed in their sandtrays. Data collection involved interviews with each of the three participants over four 60-minute sessions. Narrative analysis of the data revealed the following meanings of marital conflict: ‘scabs picked over and over’ as the appearance of marital conflict; ‘glacial-interglacial cycles’ as the cycle of marital conflict; ‘seesaw not showing where it is tilted’ as the degree of marital conflict; and ‘walking up the spiral stairs slowly but constantly, at least until today’ as the trajectory of marital conflict. Based on the results of this study, it is proposed to develop an efficient counseling intervention strategy for wives suffering from marital conflict.

Illness and the Corporeal Experience as a Source of Collective Healing in 21st-Century American Poetry

Though 21st-century poetics is informed by protests and increasingly nuanced conversations about intersectional experiences, representations of chronic and acute illness are fairly rare. Even in the post-confessional era, with poets embracing vulnerability, ableism continues to dominate the genre. However, several poets have embraced their respective illnesses, centring their experiences not as wholly traumatic but as gracefully human. I argue that poets like Danez Smith, Andrea Gibson, Rachel McKibbens and others help insert acute and chronic illness into conversations about American poetics. American literature has long been complacent regarding the erasure of people living with illness, as well as its tendency to sensationalise trauma rather than centre the human experience in stories of illness. 21st-century poets are challenging this paradigm, effectively transforming their respective illnesses into a catalyst for activism and grounding their experiences in representations of the corporeal as flawed, vulnerable and yet miraculous.

Border Rioting and Crossings Between Disciplines and Professions, Countries and Cultures, Science and Society: An Assemblage of Autoethnographic Stories From the High North

We are seven experienced academics and researchers from the high north. All within the field of education. We represent different disciplines, countries, and cultures. What we have in common is a wish to cross borders, collaborate, and learn: make space for storied experiences. Our stories are open ended—we start and end in complexities, and embedded in some sort of post- or trans- perspective be it modernisms, -structuralisms, -humanisms, -colonialisms, -feminisms . . . No conclusions or commonalities are necessary. Rather, we want to draw attention to the metatextualities and freedoms of our storying and the inseparability of opposites. We are learning academics beginning where we are. We are learning academics wanting lives of becoming rather than copying or reinforcing what is already there.

Young children co-constructing stories with teachers

Children’s story experiences are foundational to their social, emotional, and communication development. Viewed through a sociocultural lens, variability in the ways children and teachers interact during stories across diverse learning contexts is expected. This article explores the social and cultural knowledge demonstrated by children of different ages as they co-construct meaning multimodally during stories with teachers across two early childhood educational settings, in Canada and New Zealand. Teachers’ gestures, gaze, questions, and verbal and non-verbal affirmations centred on themes, characters, and actions as they co-created stories with children. Teachers’ mediating roles and practices supported and sustained children’s embodied actions, languages, and cultures. Teacher–child stories shared in this article highlight the value of everyday stories as contexts for extending children’s learning, and the multimodal nature of story interactions underpinning the co-construction of meaning in early childhood education contexts.

Co-designing resources to support the transition from child to adult health services for young people with cerebral palsy: A design thinking approach.

Design thinking is a human-centred process that aims to identify the needs of end-users and iteratively develop solutions. Involving end-users in the development and design of solutions may enhance effectiveness by increasing focus on the needs of the target population. This paper describes the process of co-designing resources to support the transition from child-centred to adult-orientated health services using a design thinking approach. Five co-design workshops were conducted remotely with a young person advisory group and parent advisory group. A design thinking process guided by the Stanford D.School approach was used to understand the transition needs of young people and their parents and iteratively develop solutions to improve end-user experience. Eight resource prototypes were generated: (1) designated transition coordinator, (2) digital stories of transition experience (3) written informational support (4) transition website, (5) transition checklists and worksheets (6) transition app, (7) transition programme or course and (8) educational programme for health professionals. Design thinking is a feasible approach to identify, characterise and prioritise resources collaboratively with end-user partners.

Intentional leadership and vā critical shifts: A Samoan–Palagi school principal’s talanoa

The paper is a leadership talanoa by a primary school principal of Samoan and Palagi heritages. The context of my talanoa is a descriptive account of my intentional practices, stories of my lived experiences, and contextual learnings aimed to shift school practices and structures so that Pasifika students succeed as Pasifika, a point clearly noted in the Tapasā policy. To prioritise the success of diverse ākonga in South Auckland, knowing and learning to work outside of the confines of school systems and governance processes within Aotearoa New Zealand schooling supported my work as a school principal and critical change agent. I write this paper using talanoa, the cultural practice of storying by (re)telling my leadership reflections and ako views as a Pasifika school leader. Talanoa and vā have been useful in my intentional practices.

Reincarnation in the Yoruba Ontology: Abiku

This study will present an argument on reincarnation beliefs among the Yoruba people in Nigeria, focusing on the born-to-die phenomenon, Abiku. According to the Yoruba tradition, the Abikus were once spiritual creatures before evolving into humans. But the Yoruba people's reincarnation beliefs concerning Abiku may be a myth. With the lack of medical technology in Yorubaland and other pre-colonial African nations to ascertain couples’ genotype compatibility, sickle cell anemia, and other illnesses may have been the underlying cause of child mortality. Although previous scholars have attempted an explanation of the phenomenon, most scholarly works are premised on the medical perspective of child mortality, lack of adequate healthcare, folktales, and religious beliefs. A typical phenomenon among the Yoruba is the mutilation of body parts of the children assumed to be an Abiku. They do this to easily recognize the child if he returns to the family as a new child. When newborn babies are born with mutilation marks like the ones that died, it confirms the belief that he is an Abiku. However, it is hard to determine if the Abiku phenomenon is a myth or reality. To explain and establish this, I will explore research and documented stories of reincarnation experiences of people who have been caught on this web. This will also uncover parallels in the reincarnated individuals' experiences, the consequences for these people, and the impact of reincarnation belief systems and rituals on Yoruba society.

Intergenerational Voices of Adoption: Family Stories of Adoptees and Their Adult Children

Little is known about adoptees’ experiences through adulthood. Individuals sometimes make sense of their heritage, and come to understand and express themselves in their unique voices, through storytelling. Five mother-child(ren) dyads and triads participated. The mothers had been adopted in infancy and raised by an adoptive family. Their biological child(ren) had grown up aware their mother was an adoptee. The feminist relational method of the listening guide (Gilligan et al., 2003) was employed to hear the adoption stories passed from one generation to the next. Parent and adult child(ren) were interviewed together to explore voices embedded in the relational context of their story. The joint family interviews were analyzed for these different voices. The findings suggest mothers passed down stories of positive adoption experiences through voices that were both embracing of their adoption narrative and sometimes cautious. The children spoke from voices of embrace and curiosity. Both generations stated the meaningfulness of co-constructing family adoption narratives.

Introduction: Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice: A Religious Concept under Transformation

Abstract Sacrifice, originally a religious-cultic concept, has become highly secularized and used in various instances for different social phenomena. The current issue puts forward a selection of papers that offer insights into sacrifice and self-sacrifice and focus on the process of transformation of the sacrificial individual. Three main axes put the concrete papers into a dialogue with one another: first, there is the philosophical-theological and gender reflection of the experience of the paradigmatic sacrificial story of the western tradition, i.e., the Akedah (Gen 22); second, the existential-phenomenological interpretation of self-sacrifice in the secular world which nevertheless aims to reveal a higher good – Freedom, Love, or the Good; third, the gender and feminist reflection of the motherly sacrifice of childbirth both in the religious-cultic context and in the secular context which presents childbirth both as a moment of autonomy loss and submission and a moment of women self-emancipation.

Life Review Therapy (Melidupa) Effective to Increase the Sexual Quality of Life of Elderly Women in Banjar Gelumpang, Sukawati Village

The Elderly are often faced with problem, one of which is decreasing sexual function to 86%, this can lead to decrease in sexual quality of life elderly. The low quality of sexual life can affect their health thereby increasing the burden of family dependency. One of the treatments to improve the sexual quality of life is by giving life review therapy which is a therapy for telling stories of past experiences. This study aims to determine the effect of life review therapy on the sexual quality of life in elderly women. This study uses Quasi-Experimental, a one-group pretest-posttest design for the elderly which are aged 60-74 years. Collecting data using the SQOL-F questionnaire. The results of the pretest showed that the majority of the elderly's sexual quality of life was low at 14 (66.7%). The majority of post-test results have a good sexual quality of life 16 (76.2%). There is a difference in the sexual quality of life between the pretest and posttest p-value = 0.001 (α &lt;0.05). It can be concluded that there is an effect of life review therapy on the sexual quality of life in elderly women in Banjar Gelumpang, Sukawati Village.

A National Communication Effort Addressing Maternal Mortality in the United States: Implementation of the Hear Her Campaign.

More than 700 women die each year in the United States from complications related to pregnancy, and considerable racial and ethnic disparities continue to exist. Recognizing the urgent maternal warning signs of pregnancy-related complications, getting an accurate and timely diagnosis and quality care can save lives. In August 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health launched a national communication campaign called "Hear Her" to raise awareness of urgent maternal warning signs during pregnancy and in the year after pregnancy and improve communication between pregnant or postpartum people and their support systems and health care providers. Storytelling is a central strategy to the campaign, which features video stories of women's experiences with pregnancy-related conditions to bring voices to the statistics and to help motivate action. These stories and additional campaign resources are disseminated through a website, digital media, organic (free) and paid social media, earned media, public service announcement distribution, and partners, with increased outreach to disproportionately affected communities. Partners in maternal and child health played an important role from campaign development to outreach and message dissemination. In the first year of the campaign, there were >390,000 unique visitors to the Hear Her website and 180 million impressions (number of times that content was displayed to a user) from digital and social media. Digital media allowed the campaign to reach priority audiences at a time when news and social media had a number of other urgent public health messages related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Solution Density and Search Strategy in Narrative Generation

Intelligent interactive narrative systems coordinate a cast of nonplayer characters to make the overall story experience meaningful for the player. Narrative generation involves a tradeoff between plot-structure requirements and quality of character behavior, as well as computational efficiency. We study this tradeoff using the example of benchmark problems for narrative planning algorithms. A typical narrative planning problem calls for a sequence of actions that leads to an overall plot goal being met, while also requiring each action to respect constraints that create the appearance of character autonomy. We consider simplified solution definitions that enforce only plot requirements or only character requirements, and we measure how often each of these definitions leads to a solution that happens to meet <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">both</i> types of requirements—i.e., the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">density</i> with which narrative plans occur among plot- or character-requirement-satisfying sequences. We then investigate whether solution densities can guide the selection of narrative planning algorithms. We compare the performance of two search strategies: one that satisfies plot requirements first and checks character requirements afterward, and one that continuously verifies character requirements. Our results show that comparing solution densities does not by itself predict which of these search strategies will be more efficient in terms of search nodes visited, suggesting that other important factors exist. We discuss what some of these factors could be. Our work opens further investigation into characterizing narrative planning algorithms and how they interact with specific domains. The results also highlight the diversity and difficulty of solving narrative planning problems.

Sharing and discussing sports injury narratives with elite athletes: reflecting on member reflections

ABSTRACT While the notion of creating and sharing multiple narratives in sport, exercise, and health settings to promote a more diverse landscape is often discussed. the process of, and tensions in doing so are less articulated. Extending a previous study that identified the narrative typologies that scaffold elite athletes’ stories of sports injury experiences , the aim of this study was to critically reflect (i.e. introspective, intersubjective; on member reflections with participants to understand how these storylines were received and interpreted. Data were analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis. Using narrative theory as a theoretical lens , five reflexive themes were identified: (a) confronting the dominant narrative, (b) embracing new materialism, (c) extending boundaries of tellability, (d) linear and polyphonic narratives, and (e) symbolic violence. This study provides evidence of how the process of member reflections can enrich and extend our theoretical understandings and offer considerations about how to shift our social and cultural worlds to become more inclusive and diverse.

Storytelling (Online Discussions/Discussion Quality)

Storytelling (Online Discussions/Discussion Quality)

전일제 청소년동반자로 살아가는 경험에 대한 내러티브 탐구

Objectives This study was conducted to understand the life stories of two research participants and how they live as full-time youth companions, and to explore the meaning of the experience of living as full-time youth companions. Methods For this purpose, this research adopted Narrative Inquiry method of Clandinin and Connelly (2000), which is suitable for holistically understanding the context and complexity of life through experiential stories. Results The meaning revealed through the study of the participants' experiences of living as youth companions was ‘Blooming from a surrogate nest and becoming a surrogate nest’, ‘Learning a language of self-understanding and entering the path of understanding others’, ‘The complexity of life and anguish’, ‘Yesterday and today’s me, identity being reconstructed’. First, the participants experienced being helped through relationships that filled the deficit in the early stages of life, and then they were placed in a position to help the youth client. Second, the participants experienced self-understanding through counseling theory, and this experience led to the path of counseling in the course of career decision or career change. Third, as full-time youth companions, the participants constantly struggled with how to apply counseling to their youth and what kind of relationship they should have with their peer counselors. Fourth, as the participants living the story of the transformation of counseling and relationships at every moment they encountered in the field, identity as full-time youth companion is constantly being reconstructed. Conclusions This study is meaningful to understand the full-time youth companions vividly and integratedly with their life stories, who have different work characteristics from part-timers. In addition, practical discussion points were reviewed regarding the work of full-time youth companions. It is expected that this study will expand the understanding of the life as a full-time youth companion and help the development of youth companion programs and counseling fields.

Reflection through critical friendship: Promoting growth of teachers

This narrative inquiry draws on the longstanding collaborative work of the Portfolio Group (a cross-school, cross-institution teacher/teacher educator/researcher group) to explore the role of collaborative critical friendship in our group’s reflective practice and the influence on our individual growth as teachers/teacher educators/researchers. Narrative methods were employed, aided by a conceptual frame of reflection, critical friendship, and optimal experience. Results and discussion highlight how teacher practice is enhanced and strengthened when teachers come together as critical friends to share stories of experience, to examine experiential currents, undercurrents, and riptides (i.e., plotlines, dilemmas, contexts, interactions, politics, etc.), and to provide meaningful feedback that supports colleagues’ professional growth.

Design for Content Creation Support Application Based on TMS Method

In this research, we design a support application for Transmedia storytelling (TMS) content creation. The target of this application is the creators who are not familiar with TMS content creation. Developing a story with the different types of media and delivering a story experience to audiences is much more difficult compared to the content creation with a simple media platform. Therefore, we propose the application that enables users to create TMS content efficiently by following the provided flow from step1 to 8 through which they can create and combine the content elements; stories, characters, story worlds, and story experiences. Thus, this application makes it possible to create TMS content efficiently.

코로나19 시기를 살아가는 방과 후 강사의 삶의 경험

Objectives The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the life experiences of an after-school instructor living in a social crisis situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and explore the meanings of the life experiences. The participant was a woman in her late 40s working as an after-school instructor at an elementary school. Methods Data collection was carried out for about 3 months from September to December, 2020, and the collected field texts included interview data from in-depth interviews conducted in conjunction with art making activities, observations, field notes, the researcher's journal, and artworks. Data analysis was performed according to the narrative inquiry procedure proposed. Based on the field texts, research texts were constructed using the three-dimensional space narrative inquiry framework consisting of temporality, sociality, and place. Results Through the analysis of the life experience stories of the participant, four themes of the stories were identified as follows: ‘Leaving the life as a full-time housewife to step out into the world’, ‘The light and shadows in the life of an after-school instructor’, ‘Anxiety about job loss haunts me more than the fear of the coronavirus’, and ‘Another process of preparations to start afresh.’ Based on them, three meanings of the life experiences of the participant were derived as follows: ‘Reasons I live as an after-school instructor despite all the difficulties’, ‘A crisis turned into an opportunity for my growth’, and ‘Paintings have become a space for empathy and communication.’ Conclusions Based on the above analysis results, the meanings of the life experiences of an after-school instructor living through the COVID-19 pandemic were derived in the contexts of personal, practical and social justifications. First, the researcher and the participant explored their identities and the meanings of their work through confronting the life of an after-school instructor. Second, the experiences of painting pictures and art making became a new link of communication and relationship expansion, and the responsive art of the researcher was found to have a value as a tool for empathy. Third, through the process of art therapy, the researcher and the participant realized that there is a need for a social support system to address the problem of employment instability of after-school instructors.