storytelling

Adolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay@ Therapy…

This thesis is an exploration of imagination and its interaction with storytelling and our perception of the world around us. It draws on multiple fields of study including research, literature, philosophy, psychology and art. It examines various explorations into the history of…

This thesis investigates what can be gained by approaching social work reports and conversations as narratives. A conventional approach to social work accounting practices is to treat such documents as (more or less) accurate descriptions of social workers' clients, their proble…

The aim of this multi-disciplinary research was to explore the power of digital, interactive or participatory storytelling to influence human behaviour in the context of public health. It addressed three related questions: RQ1: Does digital storytelling have the power to influen…

This thesis is an ethnographic study of two local institutions within the community of Fallin which explores how twenty-four men understand, maintain and reproduce community and belonging. Throughout, the thesis suggests that the past acts as a stable reference point for the men…

This thesis investigates the present reality of an anti-homeless public space and its construction of the street homeless subject, with normative conclusions. The recent history of various tactics of dispersal and their interconnection are revealed. I argue that it is not just a…

This thesis focuses on how collective memories appeared during social mobilisation in Bolivia and how they helped social activists to make sense of their struggle and to build a sense of cohesion around it. Two very distinct moments of social struggles are studied: those of Sept…

This thesis develops a theoretical approach grounded in socio-narrative, narratological and new media theory for the analysis of Twitter and explores how such an approach can help us to better understand the processes of narrative production and reception on Twitter in the conte…

Migration has become a topical theme both in academia and in public discourses across the media which have contributed to create a highly political and visual 'migrant subject'. However, the highly mediatized figure of the migrant has left crucial aspects of migration underrepre…

This thesis aims to investigate students’ qualitative experiences of assessment in art and design higher education using storytelling and visual representations. It aims to investigate whether collaborative storytelling can encourage students to reflect on, and learn from, each …

This thesis offers a fresh perspective about the benefits of stories on the human experience when they are written, structured, and told effectively. To examine how stories inform us, Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros is deconstructed through the theoretical framework of narratol…

18 hours a dream is a symbolic journey of a woman who travels into her past to find a solution for her future. Throughout this journey, she tastes a bitter taste of growing in a constant state of repression. She found no answer to recover from the wounds of historical injustice …

Augmented reality’s growth brings a need for developed experiences, especially those centered around storytelling. However, as a new medium, the language and approaches for designing and developing said content are still being established. This work explores and proposes design …

This project is a series of podcasts that look at the history of the drive-in movie theatre from its inception, through its heyday and decline, up to its recent and unexpected resurgence. It examines the drive-in’s shifting role in community life and the ways in which outdoor mo…

Previous analyses of late medieval writing produced in Western Europe and its relationship to the East have been largely occupied by studies concerning the monstrous. Said studies dealt with how the West depicted the people of the East as “Other” and grotesque due to religious a…

This dissertation draws attention to relationships among students and teachers, researchers and participants, courses and programs, and institutions separated by academic hierarchies that obscure coalitional possibilities and cross-campus alliances geared toward equity and justi…

A conservação dos carnívoros é considerada prioritária devido à importância destes para os ecossistemas e à ameaça séria de extinção que enfrentam em todo o mundo. Jaguares (Panthera onca) e pumas (Puma concolor), os maiores felinos do Brasil e das Américas, estão em declínio de…

The purpose of this project was to determine if a contextualized teaching method using stories could be used with ministerial students from the Middle East to improve learning. The project looked at the world view of a small group of Muslim converts in a Bible school in the West…

Post-violence periods present sub-Saharan African countries emerging from violence with the challenges of social reconstruction, the rebuilding of peace and the redressing of legacies of human rights violations. To respond to these challenges, these countries are increasingly ut…

One of the distinctive features of biblical myth in general and of the Gospels in particular, as David Friedrich Strauss observed in his The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, is the making of myths out of historical (and historical-seeming) events. Strauss was the first…