scholarly journals Transitions and Transformations: Extracts from a Duoethnographic Exploration of Gender Identities in Canada and China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McNeilly ◽  
Ling Lei
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Learning Journey ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Participatory Inquiry ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Employing the research method of duoethnography, two researchers participate in a co-learning journey, making meaning of their personal stories through writing, critical reflections and theoretical discussions about gender identities. By sharing narratives concerning their significant lived experiences, the researchers compare and contrast major cultural and economic influences on themselves and their families. The authors demonstrate in vivid ways how their perceptions of their identities as girls, women, and mothers have changed over time. Through this process, they create a platform to discuss ways in which their identities and life experiences have been and continue to be influenced by societal and institutional expectations.         Keywords:  Gender identities, participatory inquiry, extended epistemology, duoethnography

scholarly journals You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pope
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Community ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World

Everyone has a ‘story’. Many different events and experiences shape our lives. Just like a book, the stories inside people are fascinating! When people share these stories with others they become a ‘living book’. We have used ‘Human Libraries’ at William Clarke College in a new, innovative way. They provide our K-6 students with a wonderful opportunity to connect with diverse members of our school community and beyond, listen to their personal stories, communicate with them, build relationships, explore and learn. By participating in a ‘Human Library’ they acquire life skills, widening their understanding of others and the world. Students are hungry for real life experiences and ‘living books’ inspire them!

scholarly journals Star Performances: Ed Roberts on the Speaking Circuit, 1983-1995

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
California Department ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Performed Identity

This article uses historical research methods to explore noted disability rights leader Ed Roberts' performances on the speaker circuit between 1983, when he left his position as director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, and his death in 1995. This article examines how he managed his performed identity, his self as presented on stage, in order to be a disability star. Using his own life story as a poignant example, he narrated an autobiography of how a paralyzed man could live a vigorous, successful, indeed a joyful life. His personal stories communicated his lived experiences of battling discrimination and stereotypes. Roberts skillfully and strategically marshalled his own growing celebrity as the most prominent disabled American while he promoted the cause of civil rights for disabled people.

scholarly journals A Learning Journey through a Heart-Centered Book

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Wendy Allen ◽  
Lori Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Collective Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Early Childhood Leadership ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Learning Journey

As faculty for a graduate program in early childhood leadership, we co-designed a course on community-based action research around Patricia Wilson’s book, The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe. In this review we share how it mirrored our own deepening sense of community engagement practices, and how our students engaged with this unique text on their individual and collective learning journeys. We share highlights from the text that reinforced our sense of liberatory pedagogy.  Wilson’s  personal  stories, as well as the stories of community-engaged practitioners across the globe , invite all of us to create our own purpose and intentions for the evolving path of facilitating change within ourselves and with others.    

Identity Construction in Latina Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 238-256
Author(s):  
Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
University Students ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Latina Students ◽  
Cultural Experiences

This chapter illuminates a literacy educator's efforts in engaging Latina adult university students with writing authentic texts in which they critically reflect on their life experiences. The study describes how critical autobiographies—by providing engaging opportunities for the writing process—also served as an initiator to articulate aspirant's difficult life experiences. The autobiographies are analyzed utilizing Howard and Alamilla's (2015) perspectives on gender identities (essentialism, socialization, social construction, and structuralism). The findings help connect with prior research that when students are allowed to write about their cultural experiences, they are (1) able to express their inadequacies and struggles using life experiences within their families and communities, and they (2) reveal multiple aspects of their cultural identities as Latina.

Digital embodiments: a two-day workshop with migrant women

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Personal Stories

This chapter draws on Digital Storytelling (DS), a process that allows research participants to tell their stories in their own words through a guided creative workshop that includes the use of digital technology, participatory approaches, and co-production of personal stories. As such, it is a method devised for bridging the gap between theory and experience and can be considered a social practice as well as a research method. During a workshop with migrant women, DS enabled all research participants to express personal truths that are worked on using technologies of telling, listening to each other's stories, writing, and giving each other comments and feedback within the group. In this chapter, DS is interpreted as embodied feminist research as it draws on repertoires of co-production that are typical of feminist activism and research.

scholarly journals Data with its boots on the ground: Datawalking as research method

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-289
Author(s):  
Karin van Es ◽  
Michiel de Lange
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
Media And Communication

This article explores datawalking as a novel method in media and communication research for studying datafication. Drawing from existing literature, datawalking is characterized as an embodied, situated and generative practice. These affordances of walking help to tackle existing research challenges and connect lived experiences to data infrastructural concerns. More specifically, contemporary research on the deep mediatized city faces challenges that pertain to the invisibility, loss of context and access to data and its infrastructures. It is argued that datawalks, as an empirical method in media and communication research, offers a much-needed anchoring of data as material and situated, and constitutive of everyday life.

scholarly journals Part 1: A review of using photovoice as a disability research method: Implications for eliciting the experiences of persons with disabilities on the Community Based Rehabilitation programme in Namibia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonderai W. Shumba ◽  
Indres Moodley
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based Rehabilitation ◽  
Disability Research ◽  
Potential Use

Background: Although the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) programme in Namibia was formally adopted in 1997, the effectiveness of the programme, including the experiences of persons with disabilities on the programme, has not been assessed to date.Objectives: To explore the need for a qualitative evaluation tool for the CBR programme that can elicit the experiences of persons with disabilities.Methods: A scoping review was conducted on the use of photovoice as a disability research method and its potential use in eliciting the experiences of persons with disabilities participating in the CBR programme. A comprehensive literature search was conducted on electronic databases as a part of the scoping review.Results: Twenty-one studies were selected for review. Six studies followed the exact steps of the traditional photovoice process, and the remaining 15 studies modified the process. Seventeen studies used photovoice as the only research method, 3 combined photovoice with a qualitative method and only one study combined photovoice with a quantitative method. Seven studies had a sample size ranging from 6 to 10 participants as suggested by the traditional photovoice process. The duration of the studies ranged from 2 weeks to 2 years. Thirteen studies investigated life experiences of persons with various disabilities and 17 studies suggested that the photovoice process increases empowerment.Conclusion: Photovoice is a versatile research method and has the potential to be utilised in effectively eliciting the experiences of persons with disabilities on the CBR programme in Namibia.

“I’ve always been the one who drops everything”: the lived experiences and life-course impacts of young adult women carers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-348
Author(s):  
Marjorie Silverman ◽  
Shari Brotman ◽  
Marc Molgat ◽  
Elizabeth Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The One

Based on findings from a Canadian-based study, this article examines the stories of young adult women carers. Young adult women caring for a parent or grandparent were interviewed using social network maps, participant-driven photography and care timelines. The findings reveal numerous impacts on the women’s lives, which we categorise according to three temporal periods: the past (how they came to be carers); the present (their daily realities of care); and the future (how they imagine what is ahead). We conclude with a discussion regarding the tensions between the women’s personal stories and the social forces that shape young women’s caring.

scholarly journals Walking a Mile in Their Shoes: Empowering Learners Through A Human Library!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pope
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
School Library ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Community ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World

Many different events and experiences shape our lives. Everyone has their own unique story.  Just like a book, the stories inside people are fascinating!  When personal stories are shared with others they can become extremely powerful resources. They provide our students with a wonderful opportunity to connect with diverse members of the school community and beyond, communicate with them, build relationships, empathise, explore, understand and learn. By participating in a ‘Human Library’ students acquire life skills, widening their understanding of others and the world. Your school library should have one!  Students are hungry for real life experiences and ‘living books’ inspire them!

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