In this project, I analyze 289 essays submitted to the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City (TMM) as part of their 2007 “What Does it Mean to be an American Girl?” exhibit. Inspired by-- and anchored with-- the fictional protagonists of the wildly popular American Girls Colle…
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A massive tsunami hit Aceh in December 26, 2004. It was one of the biggest natural disasters of the century. The tsunami’s unprecedented destruction of the area attracted the biggest influx ever of international aid and highlighted the nearly non-existent social service system a…
In this dissertation, I examine the effect of forms of historical narratives on citizenship policies, paying special attention to the degree and the terms of inclusion of ethnic minorities. I focus on two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria. I develop a framework of…
The academic study of how people respond to adverse life experiences has been dominated by Western conceptualisations of distress, resilience and growth. The current literature base regarding responses to adversity has been criticised for focusing on one response trajectory (Pos…
In the 1990s, the topics of development and poverty, once dominated by development economists, appeared on the radar of management, organizational studies and innovation scholars. A huge variety of terms, some historical like ‘appropriate technology’ and some others totally new …
While a lot of previous work has focused on the Marlovian quartet, on questions of narrative method and of identity in Conrad, there has been no full-length study of the close connection between narration and identity in his fiction. The thesis is informed by Paul Ricoeur's phil…
This thesis critically examines the predominant narratives which emanated from political discourse in relation to two significant events in Scotland in 2014 the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the independence referendum. In particular, the thesis scrutinises the extent to which …
This research aims to explore the lived experiences of young British Muslims in higher education at the University of Bradford and the implications this has for the construction of their identities. The increased participation of Muslims in higher education has been hailed a maj…
There are competing models through which a dementia diagnosis can be understood, but what dominates the assessment process for dementia diagnosis is the medical model, which neglects the social, cultural, and political aspects of the diagnosis. In a Western society where value i…
In the UK, proportionally fewer men attend counselling and psychotherapy services (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2014; NHS Digital, 2018). Suggesting externalising expressions of distress, authors cite the increased rates amongst Western men of: completed…
This research examined the stories of three teachers with learning disabilities at the inception of their teaching careers. The research explored the composition of the teacher's professional knowledge, described in the literature as consisting of academic knowledge and personal…
This research explores constructions and understandings of fluctuating or recurring impairments in Higher Education in the UK. It considers ways in which institutional discourses within one UK University have shaped policy and provision for disabled students, and how students wi…
This dissertation uses positioning theory and narrative analysis to examine the relationship of culture, emotion and agency in the dramatic construction, mobilization and acceptance of an American war narrative and later of individual counter narratives. The study takes the even…
Previous studies of Jacob's story in Genesis have treated Jacob's vow to God in one of two general ways. One way sees Jacob's vow to God in Gen 28:20-22 as a consistent but isolated moment in the series of tricks Jacob plays on other characters. He makes his acceptance of Yahweh…
台灣最近期一次的海洋文化、海洋文學「復興運動」至今已二十餘年，今天的台灣究竟擁有什麼樣的海洋文化？在何種面向仍有不足？本研究藉由傅柯（Michel Foucault）的異托邦（Heterotopia）概念，爬梳台灣出版市場中國內外的海洋文學文本（包含小說、散文、科普、社普、報導），以此為材料找出海洋環境與人類的交互作用。由於異托邦是人類生活區域中的特殊空間，具有不易進入、與主流空間不同等特質，但此空間對人類而言具有特殊意義，人類可能因為進出其中而產生不同的認知，因此本研究將海洋視為人類社會的異托邦，並參考異托邦的六項原則做出分析主軸。 本研究認為，當海…
This dissertation analyzes the contents about immigrants in American history textbooks from 2001 to 2015 approved in high schools in the State of Indiana. Asserting that immigrants play an important role in American history and history curriculum, the project seeks to interpret …
Growing national attention to the importance of early childhood education (ECE) has led many cities and states to abandon debates pertaining to whether and for whom Pre-Kindergarten (PK) should be available in favor of the establishment of Universal PK (UPK). UPK programs have b…