scholarly journals Narrative Case Studies and Practice-Based Learning: Reflections on the Case of “Mr. R”

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Narrative Case Study ◽  
Narrative Case Studies ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Case Study Methods

<p>Narrative case studies tell the story of therapy from the point of view of the client or therapist. Murase's (2015) case of "Mr. R" provides a powerful example of the potential of this form of case inquiry, as a means of enabling reflection and deeper understanding around the practice and process of therapy. The distinctive contribution of the case of Mr. R is discussed in relation to the personal learning of the author in respect of a series of domains: working with the contextual and cultural meaning of the client&rsquo;s issues, creating corrective everyday life interventions, repairing therapist-induced ruptures in the therapeutic alliance, and developing new understandings of the process of client internalisation of the image of the therapist. Theoretical implications of the case are explored, and some suggestions are offered around the further development of narrative case study methods and the concept of therapist wisdom.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Poetics and subjectivities between classicism and Romanticism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn ◽  
Mark Lipovetsky ◽  
Irina Reyfman ◽  
Stephanie Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Development Of Identity ◽  
Further Development

In the context of Sentimentalism in the 1770s, literary culture opened up to representations of human subjectivity. The chapter considers genres of poetry devoted to the themes of pleasure, death, and posterity. It also considers the spaces of poetry and modes of exchange, whether through the album, the salon, and the verse epistle. Two case studies explore the use of different literary forms in the further development of identity, individual and also authorial. The first looks at Radishchev’s experiment in writing a fictional diary as a psychological exercise. The second examines the tradition of imitation of Horace’s Monument poem in Russian poetry in the eighteenth century as well as by later poets, such as Pushkin and Brodsky. The case study shows how these Russian versions express changing ideas about imitation and originality as well as poets’ concern with posterity.

Theoria Cum Praxi – Modeling Specialised Communication

Glottotheory ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-172
Author(s):  
Kristina Pelikan ◽  
Thorsten Roelcke
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
English As Lingua Franca ◽  
Further Development

Abstract As researchers from different nationalities and disciplines collaborate in research projects with joint grants, science becomes more and more global. For conducting the research, project members from several different professional and national backgrounds work together on a daily basis using English as lingua franca (ELF). This results in a very heterogenic linguistic setting, influenced by several mother tongues and languages for specific purposes (LSPs). Systematic approaches have been neglected during the last years while LSP research moved more and more towards applied approaches working on concrete case studies. The present study follows an alternative approach. Applied linguistics and further development of systematic approaches shall here be seen as a circular flow. For instance, communication optimisation during a case study benefits from system-thinking and vice versa. How could the project language of a case study be structured and which long established classifications need to be revised based on these data? Is there a need for a new understanding of applied LSP research?

Economic Institutions From a Phenomenological Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
Daniela López ◽  
Valeria Laborda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Institution

The paper aims to analyse the potentiality of Schutzian phenomenological approach on institutions. We will maintain that this point of view has to take into account at least three aspects of institutions. Firstly, institutions should be considered as objective and sedimented configurations of meaning. Secondly, the historicity and the genesis of the institutional objectified meaning should be explored. Thirdly, life in modern societies shows how reference to the generating activities has been lost in our institutions and how that process has led to the disaffection of the citizens towards them. Motivated by understanding the process through which certain actors question their relative-natural concept of economic life and institute alternative types of economic actions, the article explores a case study of an economic institution in the City of Buenos Aires belonging to the so-called “Other” economy. Following the model of the well-informed citizen, the manuscript describes a type of “economic citizen” who transforms the imposed economic relevances experienced in everyday life into the centre of interest. The emergence of that interest is analysed by tracing back this particular economic institution to the process of sedimentation and of genesis of meaning. It is demonstrated that the process of institutionalization is shaped in contrast to dominant anonymous economic institutions.

scholarly journals Framing Real-Life Experimentations as Case Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Stefano Crabu ◽  
Ilaria Mariani ◽  
Felicitas Schmittinger
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point

AbstractThe chapter describes the case studies methodology on the ground of the volume: their use and comparison are investigated from a theoretical point of view. This chapter has a twofold aim: (i) contextualise case studies and the experimentation/prototyping conducted by the pilots, then (ii) to provide a compass for going through the next chapters in which it is detailed the experience of each pilot as a case study. This reasoning is a premise for understanding and situating the relevant points emerged in the larger picture of the RRI framework.

The Migrant in English Art: Perspectives on Influence and Agency

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-237
Author(s):  
Julian Luxford
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Church Architecture ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Art And Architecture

This chapter addresses English medieval art and architecture in the long term and is of a basically methodological character. It argues for a view of immigrancy rooted in stylistic and (less urgently) iconographic influence, in favour of an approach through case studies of individual immigrant artists or particular works. In an extended introduction, the traditional, formalist nature of art history is presented as a justification of this point of view. This is followed by an object-focused section in which some of the main practical functions and ambiguities of the concept of influence are exposed, and the problems of ignoring these ambiguities suggested. A case study focused on English church architecture is then presented in order to clarify the theoretical points. The chapter concludes with a brief, essentially sceptical review of the usefulness of medieval documentation as a basis for understanding stylistic influence in art.

Teaching Project Management through an Information Technology-Based Method

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Hingorani ◽  
Chetan S. Sankar ◽  
Scott W. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
New Information ◽  
Case Study Methods

New information technology-based teaching methods are essential to bring the issues faced by a project manager to the classrooms electronically. This paper describes implementation of a method to achieve this objective and compares its learning effectiveness with lectures and written case study methods. The major findings were that the information technology-based method was more effective compared to written case studies and lectures in developing higher-level cognitive skills and triggering interest in learning about project management. This research shows that information technology-based methods need to be deployed in order to impart higher-level cognitive skills to potential project managers.

scholarly journals The Use of Examples in Philosophy of Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mithun Bantwal Rao
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Empirical Turn ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

AbstractThis paper is a contribution to a discussion in philosophy of technology by focusing on the epistemological status of the example. Of the various developments in the emerging, inchoate field of philosophy of technology, the “empirical turn” stands out as having left the most enduring mark on the trajectory contemporary research takes. From a historical point of view, the empirical turn can best be understood as a corrective to the overly “transcendentalizing” tendencies of “classical” philosophers of technology, such as Heidegger. Empirically oriented philosophy of technology emphasizes actual technologies through case-study research into the formation of technical objects and systems (constructivist studies) and how they, for example, transform our perceptions and conceptions (the phenomenological tradition) or pass on and propagate relations of power (critical theory). This paper explores the point of convergence of classical and contemporary approaches by means of the notion of the “example” or “paradigm.” It starts with a discussion of the quintessential modern philosopher of technology, Martin Heidegger, and his thinking about technology in terms of the ontological difference. Heidegger’s framing of technology in terms of this difference places the weight of intelligibility entirely on the side of being, to such an extent that his examples become heuristic rather than constitutive. The second part of the paper discusses the methodological and epistemological import of the “example” and the form of intelligibility it affords. Drawing on the work of Wittgenstein (standard metre), Foucault (panopticism), and Agamben (paradigm), we argue that the example offers an alternative way of understanding the study of technologies from that of empirical case studies.

scholarly journals Preschool children’s creation and storytelling through an element of their everyday life. The case of the program “The neighborhoods of Athens in a book”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 176-188
Author(s):  
Christina Palaiologou ◽  
Maria Poumprou
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Single Element ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Economic Problems

In recent decades, many case studies have been carried out on the ability of preschool children to tell a story. Most studies take place in a kindergarten setting. The present research was conducted on the occasion of an educational program that took place within the framework of the “Open Schools” initiative. This institution offers free recreational and education programs to the children of the Municipality of Athens in neighborhoods facing serious economic problems due to the economic crisis. This program gave the opportunity to 25 preschool children to talk about their neighborhood and create their own book. Even though the conditions were not favorable (time was not enough and the children did not know each other), in the end they were able to tell and illustrate a story by choosing a single element of their environment. In this case study, children were encouraged to create and communicate through play and free expression.

scholarly journals Mental map as a tool and an object of research in geographical education

Geografie ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateřina Novotná ◽  
Martin Hanus ◽  
Jan Hátle
Keyword(s):  
Geography Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Geographical Education ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Frequency Map ◽  
Further Development

Mental maps are an object of interest on the part of a number of academic disciplines, including geography education. The aim of this article is to discuss different concepts of mental maps in geography and pedagogical disciplines and to describe the possibilities of their use as an object and tool of geographical education. All of this is subsequently applied in a case study. From the methodological point of view, cartographic and statistical methods (aggregated mental map and geographical names frequency map) were used in order to assess the pupils’ knowledge (object) and to evaluate textbooks (tool). They enable a visual, spatial comparison of topographical terms pupils know and which appear in a textbook itself. As a result, we discuss how to use mental maps in geographical education theoretically and also practically. However, the conclusions of the case study have a limited validity (due to the limited sample), while they indicate important contexts for further development of the research.

scholarly journals The Possibility of Overcoming Barriers in International Cooperation in the Area of R&D from the Point of View of a Research Unit, Based on the Example of the Institute of Aviation

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Sylwester Wyka
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Technological Cooperation ◽  
American Partner ◽  
Further Development

Summary The article presents the possibilities of overcoming barriers in international cooperation from the point of view of a research unit. The goal of the article is the presentation of good management practices in international cooperation in the area of R&D between the Institute of Aviation and General Electric, which reduce the level of uncertainty of cooperation. In the text the results of quantitative research concerning barriers for technological cooperation between Polish entities and foreign partners were used. Case study analysis revealed the possibility of reducing these barriers. Data for the case study were collected in interviews with the managers of both the Polish and the American partner. Partner cooperation between organizations brings mutual benefits and motivates the partners to pursue further development of cooperation and reduces the transaction costs resulting from cooperation in a sensitive area. Both organizations have worked out a series of good practices of international cooperation in the area of R&D, which can be used for overcoming barriers in establishing international R&D cooperation by Polish companies.

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