Reflective writing is one established method for teaching medical students empathetic interactions with patients. Most such exercises rely on students' reflecting upon clinical experiences. To effectively elicit, interpret, and translate the patient's story, however, a reflective practitioner must also be self-aware, personally and professionally. Race, gender, and other embodied sources of ide...

This paper explores how safe motherhood is effectively promoted in Zambia. Top-down pressure to improve maternal health indicators appears to motivate the prioritised allocation of available resources. Otherwise, when supportive supervision and workers' intrinsic commitment waivers, capacity-building is seldom sufficient to ensure the implementation of skills learnt. Likewise, at national level...

This article develops theoretical understanding of the involvement of wealthy entrepreneurs in socially transformative projects by offering a foundational theory of philanthropic identity narratives. We show that these narratives are structured according to the metaphorical framework of the journey, through which actors envision and make sense of personal transformation. The journey provides a ...

In studying the extended writings of the 19 century Cuban thinker José Martí, scholars in Latin American modernity have identified a number of cultural urban narratives. The most important of these narratives is the result of his almost fifteen years of residing in New York. This narrative embedded in his journalism, scrap notes, literature, political speeches, etc.), has also been identified a...

BACKGROUND In this article we describe a phenomenological lifeworld study based on the theory of communicative action of 13 women with noncommunicable disease (NCDs) in a rural area in South Africa. The purpose of the study was to generate key concepts of health care access and the management of NCDs in a rural South African context. METHODS The study employed a qualitative methodology with s...

This paper examines the teaching practices of one American Indian teacher in a high school literature class. It explores the teacher's use of narrative as an instructional strategy designed to convey abstract concepts through concrete experience. The narratives engage students in critical thinking and personal re#ection, and provide them with the opportunity to make connections between social a...

Many academics become teachers without the help of formal professional learning. This study explores how a small group of academics have done this. The research aims to uncover the informal, experiential means whereby participants have constructed the knowledge about teaching and learning that underpins their pedagogies. The research begins with the assumption that three key elements play a maj...

Computer role-playing games offer a unique opportunity to aid graduate-level analysis of hypermedia narratives. In this paper, we discuss the application of complex game authoring tools in HUCO-616: Multimedia in the Humanities, a graduate multimedia course in humanities computing (Huco) at the University of Alberta. Offered annually, this course is intended for students in the second year of t...

Service user and carer involvement is increasing in health and social care education as a result of UK policy directives and Professional Statutory and Regulatory Body requirements. The study aimed to elicit the accounts of service user and carer educators' experiences in practice-based healthcare education in the UK. The overall aim was to illustrate the impact this has had on their health and...

This study examined qualitative data from ten individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) who felt at ease with their current situations. An analysis based on the grounded theory method revealed that one's experience of coping or adjustment to the disability was represented as narratives about him or herself. Each one with TBI reconstructed certain self-narratives in coping with their chang...