Narrative Inquiry, Reflection, and Researcher Bias: Thinking about Interactions of Differing Educational Narratives

2012 ◽  
pp. 69-97
Author(s):  
Shijing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Researcher Bias

This paper shows how a long term process of narrative inquiry may act as a reflective tool for challenging and revising preliminary researcher frames for an inquiry. In this paper I return to a detailed set of fieldnotes taken over a several year period to show how my own assumptions and biases changed throughout the course of inquiry. This work is based on a study of newcomer Chinese family educational narratives. Several stories encountered during the first days of field work are revisited as they show up through the course of conducting field work.

What Is Peace? Being an Autoethnographic Account of Methodological Musings From the Beach

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Anandam Kavoori
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Emotional Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

This autoethnographic essay is focused on methodological space of “problematization”—the wrenching intellectual and emotional process (and lived experience) that a scholar goes through before settling into a long-term writing project—in this case travel to different parts of the world, in an attempt to explore the idea and experience of “Peace” in each of those places. Weaving through elements of family memoir, Georgia history, eco-criticism, and Peace Studies (across different sub fields), the essay illuminates the personal and liminal space of methodological engagement before field work.

scholarly journals Review of the Survey's activities in 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
M Ghisler
Keyword(s):  
Geophysical Methods ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Applied Geology ◽  
Geological Background

The Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) continued in 1986 the systematic investigation of the geology of Greenland. The work comprises geological mapping and basic research as well as applied geology and geophysics (fig. 1). The long term purpose is to establish the necessary geological background for evaluation of the potential of the non-living resources. The scientific and technical staff of 112 based in Copenhagen and 87 participating in the field work in Greenland carried out programmes of geological mapping and investigation, glaciological investigations, and mineral and oil assessments which included geochemical and geophysical methods. In April 1986 GGU celebrated its 40th anniversary. A special publication dedicated to GGU's former director, K. Ellitsgaard-Rasmussen, was issued which covers different aspects of the Survey's work in the developments in Greenland geology over the past ten years.

Palaeozoic studies in honour of Sir James Stubblefield

1981 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Stubblefield
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Current Survey ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Cambrian System

Sir James was born on 6 September 1901 at Cambridge where he attended the Perse School. He received his geological education at Chelsea Polytechnic and the Royal College of Science. In 1923 he was appointed demonstrator in geology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, where he stayed until 1928; for his last two years there he also served as Warden at the pioneer Imperial College hostel. While at Imperial College he studied the Shineton Shales of the Wrekin district of Shropshire under the guidance of W. W. Watts and in collaboration with his life-long friend O. M. B. Bulman, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1925. This work in Shropshire provided the stimulus for his continuing contribution on the Cambrian system and its faunas, and on trilobites of all ages. During this period he also recorded his observations on Tertiary crabs from Zanzibar, a group he was to return to in later years. In 1928 he obtained one of the two posts offered by the Geological Survey, being appointed Geologist. He undertook field work in the Dorking district as a prelude to an intended posting to the Survey office at York, but the death of G. W. Lee, then palaeontologist in Edinburgh, determined that Stubblefield should remain at the headquarters of the Survey at Jermyn Street in London. Internal transfers of the palaeontological staff left no member available to determine the fossils then accumulating from the current survey of the Shrewsbury district, and Stubblefield was asked by the Director to undertake this task because of his knowledge of the Lower Palaeozoic faunas of Shropshire. This transfer became long-term and thus began his association with, and eventual leadership of, the Palaeontological Department of the Survey, and secured the continuation of his notable contributions to palaeontology. The Shrewsbury commitment led to visits to the area during which new faunal horizons were discovered in the local Cambrian and Ordovician, including the Nemagraptus gracilis fauna from the Breidden Hills; other finds included the then earliest British eurypterid subsequently described by L. Størmer as the type of a new genus under the name of Brachyopterus stubblefieldi.

Professional Integrity for Educational Quality in Management Sciences

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-231
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Professional Integrity ◽  
Professional Fulfillment ◽  
Depth Interviews

The objective of this chapter is to analyze the importance of professional integrity as the improvement concept and ethics in the development of professionals in administration and management sciences. The research method employed is the ethnographic, documental, and life histories, complemented with field work supported by in-depth interviews and analyzed using a comparative method. The outcomes of the research on the application in management education demonstrate that the drama of economic efficiency is centered on dysfunctional professional integrity. This chapter provides a sound professional philosophy that empowers professionals to act with integrity, increases the probability for long-term success and professional fulfillment. The results provide also the basis to develop a code of conduct and regulation policies to sustain management education for professional integrity that can positively impact on business culture through influencing the behavior of key actors.

scholarly journals Fault-controlled dolomitization in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline (Central Apennines, Italy): record of a dominantly pre-orogenic fluid migration

Solid Earth ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1355-1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahtab Mozafari ◽  
Rudy Swennen ◽  
Fabrizio Balsamo ◽  
Hamdy El Desouky ◽  
Fabrizio Storti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Upper Triassic ◽  
Fluid Migration ◽  
Central Apennines ◽  
Elevated Salinity ◽  
Siliciclastic Rocks

Abstract. The Lower Jurassic platform and basinal deposits exposed in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline (Central Apennines, Italy) are pervasively affected by dolomitization. Based on the integration of field work, petrography, and geochemistry, two fault-related dolomitization events were recognized and interpreted as having occurred before and during the Apenninic orogeny. Fluid inclusion analysis indicates moderate to elevated salinity values of 3.5 to 20.5 and 12.8 to 18.6 eq. wt % NaCl in the first and the second event, respectively. The estimated salinities, in combination with δ18O values and 87Sr∕86Sr ratios, suggest significant involvement of evaporitic fluids in both events, most likely derived from the underlying Upper Triassic Burano Formation. In addition, the 87Sr∕86Sr ratios up to 0.70963 suggest the circulation of deep-sourced fluids that interacted with siliciclastic rocks and/or the crystalline basement during the dolomitization events. Two major dolomite types (D1 and D2) were recognized as pertaining to the first event, both postdated by high-amplitude bed-parallel stylolites, supporting a syn-burial pre-layer-parallel shortening dolomitization. A possible geodynamic framework for this dolomitization event is Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic rift-related extensional tectonism. The second dolomitization event (D3, D4, and D5) is characterized by a temperature upturn (up to 105 ∘C) and interpreted as associated with the inflow of hydrothermal fluids, possibly related to major changes in the permeability architecture of faults during early- to syn-thrusting and folding activity. Based on the timing of deformation in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline, the second dolomitization event likely occurred in Late Miocene to Pliocene times. The findings regarding characteristics and timing of dolomitization here illustrates the long-term controlling role of the evaporitic detachments in the dolomitization process. This study shows that the Mg-rich fluids that were most likely derived from evaporites may prime the tectonically involved successions for repeated dolomitization, and hence the formation of potential reservoirs during sequential tectonic modifications (extensional vs. compressional).

Nine steps towards a better water meter management

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 1273-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Arregui ◽  
J. Soriano ◽  
E. Cabrera ◽  
R. Cobacho
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Water Meters ◽  
Term Management ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Water Meter

The paper provides a comprehensive perspective of the critical aspects to be taken into account when planning the long-term management of water meters in a utility. In order to facilitate their quick understanding and practical implementation, they have been structured into nine steps. Ranging from an initial audit up to the final periodic meter replacement planning, these steps cover three aspects of the problem – field work, laboratory work and management tasks; and each one is developed in detail paying attention to the particular data needed and noting the practical outcome it will yield.

scholarly journals Fault-controlled dolomitization in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline (Central Apennines, Italy): Record of a dominantly pre-orogenic fluid migration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahtab Mozafari ◽  
Rudy Swennen ◽  
Fabrizio Balsamo ◽  
Hamdy El Desouky ◽  
Fabrizio Storti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Central Apennines ◽  
Elevated Salinity ◽  
Late Generation ◽  
Extensional Faulting ◽  
Homogenization Temperatures

Abstract. The Lower Jurassic platform and basinal deposits exposed in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline (Central Apennines, Italy) are pervasively affected by dolomitization. Based on the integration of field work, petrography, and geochemistry, two fault-related dolomitization events were recognized and interpreted as occurred before and during the Apenninic orogeny, respectively. Fluid inclusion analysis indicates moderate to elevated salinity values of 3.5 to 20.5 and 12.8 to 18.6 eq. wt. % NaCl, in the first and the second event, respectively. The estimated salinities, in combination with δ18O values and 87Sr/86Sr ratios, suggest significant involvement of evaporitic fluids in both events, most likely derived from the underlying Upper Triassic Burano Formation. In addition, the 87Sr/86Sr ratios up to 0.70963 suggest the circulation of deep-sourced fluids that interacted with siliciclastics and/or the crystalline basement during the dolomitization events. The first dolomitization event which is also considered as the most pervasive one started prior to the significant burial conditions, as reflected in homogenization temperatures of their fluid inclusions being mostly below about 40–50 °C. Two major dolomite types (D1 and D2) were recognized as pertaining to this event, both postdated by high amplitude bed-parallel stylolites. This relationship supports a syn-burial, pre layer-parallel shortening dolomitization, interpreted as controlled by the extensional fault pattern affecting the carbonate succession before its involvement in the Apenninic thrust wedge. A possible geodynamic framework for this dolomitization event is Early to Late Jurassic rift-related extensional tectonism. The second dolomitization event initiated with a dolomite type (D3) characterized by a slight temperature upturn (up to 73 °C), followed by a second type (D4) with markedly higher homogenization temperatures (up to 105 °C), interpreted as associated with the inflow of hydrothermal fluids, possibly related to major changes in the permeability architecture of faults during early- to syn-thrusting and folding activity. Eventually, D4 was overprinted by a late generation of dolomite veins (D5) interpreted as associated with late orogenic extensional faulting in the backlimb of the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline. Based on the timing of deformation in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline, D3 to D5 dolomitization likely occurred in Late Miocene to Pliocene times. The findings regarding characteristics and timing of dolomitization here illustrates the long-term controlling role of the eveporitic detachments in dolomitization process. Our data shows the Mg-rich fluids most likely derived from these evaporites may prime the tectonically involved successions for repeated dolomitization, and formation of potential reservoirs in sequential tectonic modifications (extensional vs. compressional).

scholarly journals Serbian dialectology in the past, present and future

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 85-112
Author(s):  
Slobodan Remetic
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Language Area ◽  
Joint Enterprise ◽  
Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic ◽  
Initial Results ◽  
Serbian Academy

Although the beginnings of Serbian dialectology are related to the work of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, this linguistic discipline was academically established in the early 20th century, when Milan Resetar and Aleksandar Belic appeared on the scene simultaneously. Owing to their exchange of opinions, the conceptions in classifying Serbian dialects evolved over the 1905-1910 period more noticeably than in the whole of earlier or later research. The 20th century is considered to be the golden age of Serbian dialectology, the primary academic preoccupation of the two greatest Serbian linguists of the last century: Aleksandar Belic and Pavle Ivic. Though certain milestones were hit in the mentioned period (many blank spots were removed from the dialectal maps; dozens of monographic descriptions were published on individual speech types; valuable initial results were achieved in the domain of urban dialectology; valuable studies were completed in the domain of dialectal lexicography and onomasticon, many questions were answered in Serbian historical dialectology, etc.), as things turned out, serious and comprehensive tasks were transferred into the third millennium. In order to pass the final judgement on the relevant matters of the discipline, it is necessary to define the areals of some phonological features on the territory of Serbia and eastern Bosnia, details that earlier researchers have missed. The results of the study of the Serbian dialectal complex were predominantly published in the Serbian Dialectological Review (Srpski dijalektoloski zbornik), a respectable journal established in 1905 in the Serbian Royal Academy after the publication of Aleksandar Belic?s seminal Dialects of Eastern and Southern Serbia. The paper emphasises the unequal degree of study of the Serbian dialectal mosaic, in which as a rule the area of the western republics of the former state ?takes precedence,? where the Serbian speeches did not have a priority status. During the latest war operations, the extensive zones were temporarily left without Serbs, which imposed the duty onto dialectologists to establish the language credentials of the vast areas in their study of the refugees? speech. The most important tasks of Serbian dialectology were thematically and geographically encompassed in a comprehensive long-term project ?Dialectological Research of the Serbian Language Area,? a joint enterprise of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences and its Institute of the Serbian Language. A relevant position within the project is occupied by the compilation of the Serbian Dialectological Atlas, a task facing serious, often hardly solvable problems. The historical events from the close of the last century destroyed the perspective of compiling the Serbo-Croatian Dialectological Atlas, and imposed upon us the task of additional inclusion of Serbian speeches from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia into the atlas of Serbian dialects. Particular problems arise from the impossibility of field work on the territory of Croatia, from where since the dissolution of the former state we have not inherited a single studied Serbian spot, and that considerable deficit is mostly relieved through the study of refugees? speech. Thirty-odd still unstudied spots from the mentioned area are an obstacle to the final editing and prepress of the First Lexical Volume of the Atlas. The paper stresses the unused student potential in the collection of oral linguistic heritage and appeals to the dialectologists that, in such tasks, they should assist the amateur enthusiasts in the collection and treatment of homeland oral linguistic tradition.

Long-term survivors of cardiac arrest: A narrative inquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 458-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Haydon ◽  
Pamela van der Riet ◽  
Kerry Inder
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Cardiac Health ◽  
Cardiac Arrest Survivor ◽  
Long Term Survivors

Background: Despite extensive knowledge and research in cardiac health there is limited understanding in how a cardiac arrest influences the life of long-term survivors. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how long-term survivors of a cardiac arrest adjusted to their new reality, expressed in their re-storied narratives. Methods: Seven individuals surviving a cardiac arrest 5–26 years ago were interviewed through in-depth conversations over a six-month period. These interviews were analysed using Clandinin and Connelly’s framework of narrative inquiry. Results: Seven threads were found: Disbelief, Surveillance of their body, Loss of control and desire for normality, Keeping fit and informing others, Gratefulness, Spirituality – luck and fate, and Fragility of life and dying. Conclusions: All seven long-term survivors of cardiac arrest expressed a positive attitude. Despite the nature of the cardiac arrest and the hurdles that followed, they have a heightened appreciation for life. This indicates that after the adaptation to their new reality of being a cardiac arrest survivor life returns to a new normality.

scholarly journals Narrative Inquiry Into Two Worlds of Curriculum Making

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shaun Murphy ◽  
Janice Huber ◽  
D. Jean Clandinin
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Curriculum Making

This paper draws on a long-term multi-site narrative inquiry into the curriculummaking experiences of children, families, and teachers. We draw upon our earlier understandings of two worlds of curriculum making, the familial and the school, to inquire into tensions shaped for one family, in a place of school, as they experienced the meeting of their familial curriculum-making world with the school curriculummaking world. Familial curriculum making is curriculum making in which children are engaged as they interact with family and community members. We wonder how we might move forward as we create situations with children in both curriculum-making worlds, situations in which they can find ways of making sense of the two constructions of themselves in these two worlds.

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