Search for dissertations about: "narrative identity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 115 swedish dissertations containing the words narrative identity.

  2. 21. Nation and Novel : A Study of Persian and Kurdish narrative discourse

    Author : Hashem Ahmadzadeh; Martin van Bruinessen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Iranian languages; Modern Persian literature; modern Kurdish literature; novel; Persian novel; Kurdish novel; nationalism; nation; identity; modernity; Iran; Kurdistan; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Abstract : The present work provides a description of the rise of the Persian and Kurdish novel, using as its background specific definitions and theories of the novel and its emergence. Considering the novel as an originally European genre, the study looks at the different prerequisites for its emergence, e.g. READ MORE

  4. 22. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

    Author : Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

    Abstract : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. READ MORE

  5. 23. Teacher to learner and back again : a narrative inquiry into teacher voice in professional learning

    Author : Lena Glaés-Coutts; Shelley Stagg Peterson; Canada University of Toronto; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; authentic; experienced teachers; knowledge; narrative; Ontario; professional learning; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : My research investigates how four experienced Ontario elementary teachers use their personal and professional knowledge to define what they consider to be personal, purposeful and relevant professional learning, or authentic professional learning (Mockler, 2013; Webster-Wright, 2009). Authentic learning is here understood to represent what the teachers themselves described as their lived experiences of ongoing professional learning, and what they identified as relevant and purposeful for their continued professional, as well as personal learning. READ MORE

  6. 24. Behaving as a Christ‐Believer : A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians

    Author : Rikard Roitto; Håkan Ulfgard; Bengt Holmberg; Petri Luomanen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Ephesians; norms; behavior norms; morality; social identity; social identity theory; social cognition; attribution; cognitive science; New Testament exegesis; Efesierbrevet; normer; beteendenormer; moral; social identitet; social identitetsteori; social kognition; attribution; kognitionsvetenskap; Nya testamentets exegetik; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : This study contributes to the understanding of how first century Christ-believers, particularly those who shared the imagination of Ephesians, experienced the relation between their social identity as Christ-believers and behavior norms. In order to understand this, a number of theories from the cognitive sciences are used in combination with historical-critical methods. READ MORE

  7. 25. Revisiting the Past : Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation

    Author : Lisa Strömbom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; memory institutions.; memory agents; historiography; New History ; conflict transformation; Thick reocognition; identity theory; narrative theory; nationalism; post-Zionism; Israel;

    Abstract : Intractable conflicts are by definition difficult to resolve. This study ventures into the identity dynamics of those conflicts and argues that those identity aspects must be addressed in order to locate constituencies for change. READ MORE