This article addresses how the professional identity of a teacher is constructed through narrative with two intended goals: 1) to examine the ways in which theories of teacher education are embedded in professional identity, and 2) to suggest the inclusion of individual narrative analysis as a reflective tool in professional development and teacher education. A teacher’s spontaneous conversatio...

Big data’s diverse applications for the modern data deluge span problems and industries. While offering titular possibilities, is big data an area of serious corporate inquiry or is it a source of hype? This research seeks to add to the growing body of management literature on big data. C-suite architecture additions of a CIO and/or a CTO demonstrate an environment for and increased BDA mindset...

My reasoning behind focusing on narratives as both the object and method of inquiry should be clear from the previous considerations around ontology. To sum up: “Stories are dynamic, changeable, never the same. Yet they convey something about what we believe to be stable in the world. They say something about us as individuals, cultural creatures, historical beings. They shape our actions and a...

This article explores the design and execution of an intentionally public information ecology by focusing on three of the primary communication activities (blogging, videos, and microblogging) taking place immediately before, during, and after a small international conference of digital media professionals. Drawing on an activity theory framework for analyzing data collected via an exploratory ...

Digital technologies have fast become integral within literacy learning and teaching across contexts as students engage with a variety of digital multimodal texts. While teachers in New Zealand schools high degree autonomy the design planning programs, little is currently known about how they understand enact multiliteracies pedagogy (MLP). Using data gathered via interviews classroom observati...

This article reports on a narrative inquiry (NI) of two Norwegian polyamorous families regarding their encounters with children’s kindergartens. NI as theory and method is employed, along discourse theory, to understand the experiences these polyfamilies in Norway. Norway has declared its institutions be discrimination-free but that does not allow for formalization polyamory legitimate relation...

EFL undergraduates have been making every effort to finish their theses throughout the process of thesis proposal, proposal exam, writing thesis, oral test, and revision. This study invited four graduates English department who had finished within six months or less. They were interviewed in-depth via Zoom reveal tactics solutions they used succeed in undergraduate thesis. The authors a narrati...