Written narratives enable humans to appreciate the natural world in aesthetic terms. Firstly, narratives can galvanize for the reader a sense for another person’s experience of nature through the aesthetic representation of that experience in language. Secondly, narratives can encode and document for the human appreciator as writer an experience of nature in aesthetic terms. Through different n...

Students in grades 5 to 9 (ages 10 to 14; 6 girls, 27 boys) who had persisting specific learning disabilities in transcription (handwriting and spelling) completed three kinds of composition tasks requiring translation (thought to written language) on iPads using alternating transcription modes (stylus or keyboard) across every three lessons: personal narratives (6 lessons) and written summarie...

285 Volume 14, Number 2 either the security we crave or the commercial freedom essential to our prosperity” (p. 281). With well over 100 footnotes per chapter and an extensive bibliography, this book is noteworthy for its ambitious scope and objectivity. While Contagion will certainly appeal to serious students of the history of medicine, this book may not be suitable for a general audience due...

Personal stories make our everyday experiences memorable over time. This paper presents ‘Everyday Mediated Storytelling’, a model of the casual storyteller’s process of capturing, creating and sharing personal mediated narratives. Based on this model, an online authoring and publishing application for sharing everyday rich-media narratives named ‘Confectionary’ was developed. Results from a len...

OBJECTIVE To explore how birthing and maternity care are understood and valued in a rural community. DESIGN Oral history research. SETTING The rural community of Marathon, Ont, with a population of approximately 3500. PARTICIPANTS A purposive selection of mothers, grandmothers, nurses, physicians, and community leaders in the Marathon medical catchment area. METHODS Interviews were cond...

Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian development workers, this article explores some of the different personal aspirations, ideologies and beliefs that such narratives express. The sel...

OBJECTIVE To better understand the issues and needs of adolescents with chronic health conditions, the Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) integrates video technology with qualitative research methods to obtain a patient-centered perspective on illness and health care. METHODS Young people with chronic disease are interviewed for condition-specific verbal reports (CSVRs) of their m...