The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources narrative interpretation are relevant some the key tensions challenges facing study human occupation related practices today; between an individual a social framing occupation, identifying discrete elements versus processual how occupations unfold work, finally focusing success acknowledging vulnerabili...

regarding the literary historical debates, one of the main concerns of modern historiography is the way of representing the concept of reality within the framework of a coherent narrative, a reality that is only achievable through the process of narrative that is supposed to be constructive and ordering. therefore, in order to examine this ordering process of narrative in james joyce's novel, a...

This paper reviews and critiques the different approaches to the use of narrative in quality improvement research. The defining characteristics of narrative are chronology (unfolding over time); emplotment (the literary juxtaposing of actions and events in an implicitly causal sequence); trouble (that is, harm or the risk of harm); and embeddedness (the personal story nests within a particular ...

Sociocultural perspectives of literacy emphasize the role of the larger environment in the shaping of literacy practices. As a result, some researchers theorize students don’t fail in school, but that schools fail students by denying them opportunities to practice literacy in personally meaningful ways. Evidence of such is manifest in the narrative identities of struggling adolescent readers. I...

According to Paul Ricœur the "third time" which would be likely mediate between lived time and cosmic for an individual divided identity-idem identity-ipse, narration play essential role of configuration. However, from third volume Temps et récit (1985) Soi-même comme un autre (1990), narrative identity as conceived by philosopher — in particular dialogue with A. J. Greimas’ semiotics is based ...

In recent years, historians ofmedicine in theMiddle Ages have tried to decode narratives of health and illness in their original context, attempting to uncover the meanings they may have had for the original audiences, rather than simply using these narratives to plot disease incidence. This article is a study of health, illness and traumatic injury in the chronicles of Fernão Lopes,whowrote in...

The use of Narrative Theory to analyze translations and investigate how the act translation affects construction, reconstruction, circulation narratives is a current trend. This paper scrutinizes counter-terrorism constructed in speeches King Abdullah II Jordan, by drawing on Baker's (2005) theory that all embed promoting peace or violence. scrutinization does not compare English Arabic stretch...