My doctoral dissertation is a study in exploring ways of making LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) curriculum more responsive to the needs of South Asian immigrant women in Canada. As a former LINC teacher, I had found the LINC curriculum deficient because I fel…
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This thesis presents three main arguments. First, that curating in national museums is a process of meaning making and that the exhibitionary meaning is situated in and mediated by culture, thus, the products of curatorial work, i.e. the exhibitionary complexes are complex polit…
This thesis examines the narrative reconstructions taken from extended conversations with 25 bereaved individuals, who volunteered their experiences of losing a loved one. By considering the interaction between self and other to be the source of knowledge, these interview conver…
This dissertation employed qualitative ethnographic research with twelve human subjects, five female Chinese pastors and seven male Chinese pastors from the Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference, the Methodist Church in Malaysia (SCAC). The research seeks to appropriate a postmodern…
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has been the center of numerous political and theoretical disputes, and as the war heads into its seventh year, U.S. forces are still deployed in the tens of thousands, at massive social and economic expense. Rather than assuming that categori…
In this study, I examine how preteens interpret classical Hebrew literature. I explore the following questions about classroom discussion: What experiences do students link to Jewish texts? How do students question them? What patterns of interaction occur to sustain discussion? …
Meaning-making coping is an essential process for recovery from combat trauma. The meanings that combat veterans make after combat trauma, the meaning-based processes they utilize, and the social interactions they experience have not been compared across outcomes. This study was…
As of 2019, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identified 70.8 million current, forcibly displaced people (“UNHCR,” 2019). Once displaced, these migrants may proactively or retroactively seek refuge by means of a legal asylum case, which at times includes …
Research suggests that deeply held beliefs about the world, self, and others often inform subjective appraisals of stressful or traumatic events and these appraisals, in turn, drive posttraumatic reactions for many individuals. The present study examined how internal working mod…
Due to their vocation, first responders, more than the general population, are exposed to further critical incident stress which may remain unresolved. Consequently, a number of first responders continue to burn out, abuse their spouses, abuse alcohol and drugs, develop Post-Tra…
Although complex trauma can lead to disruptions in meaning-making systems, such as faith and spirituality, very little published literature to date illuminates this process, especially among survivors of childhood sexual exploitation (CSE). This population has typically been cha…
This study examined how college students made meaning of their service learning (SL) experiences. Two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with six undergraduate students at George Washington University—a large private research institution in Washington,…
This phenomenological study explored how Philippine activists of the Marcos Era made meaning of their varied sacrifices and loss in their role as political activists. By opposing the oppressive political regime that claimed many lives and witnessing scores of human rights violat…