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 ...

The  major  aim  of  this  paper  was  to  investigate  the  validity  of  language  and intelligence  factors  for  classifying  Iranian  English  learners`  writing  performance. Iranian  participants  of  the  study  took  three  tests  for  grammar,  breadth,  and  depth  of vocabulary, and two tests for verbal and narrative intelligence. They also produced a corpus  of  argumentative  writ...

During the last decade, curation of Islamic art and artifacts has been crossed by tensions at both theoretical practical level. Not only it continuously grappling with Orientalist legacy, but also operating in a global contemporaneity affected multiple conflicts engendering misperception Muslims Islam non-Muslims. With this heavy background, pursuing three main objectives: educating public, dec...

COVID–19 has not only resulted in nearly two and a half million deaths globally but it also spawned pandemic of misinformation conspiracies. In this article I examine conspiracies the United States (US). These have been commonly argued to be anti-science. argue, although is important rebut false information stop their spread, social scientists need analyse how such anti-science claims are discu...

While it is increasingly possible to envision "perfect" babies, it is not always the case that reproduction actually proceeds according to individual will; for example, there has been no recent reduction in rates of childhood disability. Nevertheless, in most studies of new reproductive technologies, the birth of those children whom few would actively choose-"defective" or disabled infants-is p...

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 essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has ignited a remarkably active research community, one of its main contributions being distinct narrative elements—including settings, characters, and plots. Yet, while the plot constitutes core element narrativity, it received less attention vis-à-vis other components. Existing classifications plots have been proven to possess great ability capture “univer...

Every reader, listener, or viewer of stories, from the most casual to critically attuned, intuits that between lines under surface narrated incidents there lies unspoken information and meanings various kinds, scopes, pertinence, accessibility cannot be ignored. “Goldilocks Three Bears” tells us something more than story a little girl who wanders into Bear family's house, tastes their porridge,...

This article builds on ethnographic fieldwork in shared reading groups for mentally vulnerable young people Denmark. Shared is a technique which prose and poetry are read aloud with breaks, allowing time discussion. It increasingly used Denmark mental health improvement. In our analysis, we employ Louise Rosenblatt's notion of the poem as event concept Stimmung coined by literary scholar Hans U...