Purpose - This is a discussion paper which aims to explore issues of consent and confidentiality when using life story work in clinical settings with older adults with dementia. ...Design/methodology/approach - This is a discussion paper reviewing current research, policy, guidance from regulating bodies and government recommendations. Findings - Life story work can be used in clinical practice without violating consent and confidentiality clauses in mental health practice when used appropriately. Originality/value - This paper provides insights overcoming issues of consent and confidentiality with life story work in clinical practice, reducing the challenges reported by staff. Clinical recommendations are offered to both support and empower clinical staff, enabling the full benefits of this person-centred tool to be utilised.
Although numerous research projects have examined the lives of general education teachers, relevant studies in ESL/EFL are rare. The present study intends to fill this research gap, focusing on ...Taiwanese EFL teachers’ perceptions of the impact of the political, economic, and educational contexts on their lives. Thirty-eight EFL teachers in Taiwan, from diverse backgrounds, were involved in the study. Results showed that political contexts, such as divergent ideologies, and Taiwan’s capricious cross-strait relations with China, had influenced teachers’ careers. Economic contexts such as the economic depression, the M-shaped income distribution, and the relocation of labor-intensive industries to China have caused certain English language teaching markets to shrink and have had an impact on the life stories of EFL teachers. Educational contexts including the boom in universities and teacher education programs have also altered EFL teachers’ career paths. Overall, this study demonstrates that external contexts significantly affect some EFL teachers’ lives. More research can be conducted in different countries to shed light on this issue.
In this essay, we present part of a research from which gender issues have emerged as conditioning elements of schooling trajectory, enabling the theme about the origins of inequality between genders ...in class society and how this panorama reveals woman’s devaluated condition operating society today. This reflection has emerged by a research conducted in 2013 with a group of women returning to school to join a course after a few years away from studies. In this research, the life stories of these women were heard and analyzed in order to identify their perception and expectations about their return to school, as well as to understand the various aspects that influenced, throughout their lives, their education development. In this study, we identify the difficulties they’ve encountered in the performance of their professional lives, and in addition we situate women in the labor market by noticing not only their feminine condition, but also conditions linked to ethnic nuances, race, age and social class. Maternity appears forcefully in the reported stories, turning it into a research category and reinforcing the need for further development of gender studies. The role of women was built upon a patriarchal society and although currently the equality concept is widespread, it is still not a reality in most gender relations.
Este artigo apresenta o recorte de uma pesquisa a partir da qual as questões de gênero emergiram como elementos condicionantes da trajetória de escolarização, trazendo a temática acerca das origens da desigualdade entre os sexos na sociedade de classes e de que forma este panorama revela a condição de desvalorização da mulher no funcionamento dessa sociedade, ainda hoje. Essa reflexão surgiu a partir de pesquisa realizada em 2013 com um grupo de mulheres que retornavam à escola para fazer um curso profissionalizante após alguns anos de afastamento dos estudos. Nessa pesquisa, foram ouvidas e analisadas as histórias de vida dessas mulheres com o objetivo de identificar a sua percepção acerca de seu retorno para escola e suas expectativas quanto à mesma, além de compreender os diversos aspectos que influenciaram, ao longo da vida, sua formação. Nesse estudo, identificam-se as dificuldades que elas encontram no desempenho de sua vida profissional, além de situar as mulheres no mercado de trabalho, observando não apenas a sua condição feminina, mas esta condição atrelada às nuances de etnia, raça, geração e classe social. A maternidade aparece de forma contundente nas histórias relatadas, constituindo-se numa categoria de pesquisa e reforçando a necessidade de aprofundamento dos estudos de gênero. O papel da mulher foi construído com base em uma sociedade patriarcal e, embora atualmente se fale em igualdade, esta ainda não é a realidade na maioria das relações de gênero aqui apresentadas.
Este articulo presentada el recorte de una investigación a partir de la cual emergieron las cuestiones de género como elementos condicionantes de la trayectoria de escolarización, trayendo la temática acerca de los orígenes de la desigualdad entre los sexos en la sociedad de clases y de qué forma este panorama revela la condición de desvalorización de la mujer en el funcionamiento de esa sociedad, aún hoy. Esa reflexión surgió a partir de investigación realizada en 2013 con un grupo de mujeres que regresaban a la escuela para hacer un curso profesional después de algunos años alejadas de los estudios. En esta investigación, fueron oídas y analizadas las historias de vida de esas mujeres con el objetivo de identificar su percepción acerca de su retorno a la escuela y sus expectativas em relación a la misma, además de comprender los diversos aspectos que influenciaron su formación a lo largo de la vida. En este estudio, se identifican las dificultades que ellas encuentran en el desempeño de su vida profesional, además de situar las mujeres en el mercado de trabajo, observando no apenas su condición femenina, mas esta condición conectada a las variantes de etnia, raza, generación y clase social. La maternidad aparece de forma contundente en las historias relatadas, constituyéndose en una categoría de investigación y reforzando la necesidad de profundización de los estudios de género. El papel de la mujer fue construido con base en una sociedad patriarcal y, aunque hoy en día se hable en igualdad, esta aún no es la realidad en la mayoría de las relaciones de género.Género. Historia de Vida. Trabajo. Maternidad. Educación.
Hidden Behind the Gunfire Medina, Juanjo; Ralphs, Robert; Aldridge, Judith
Violence against women,
06/2012, Volume:
18, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article uses data from a 3-year multisite ethnographic research study of gangs within an English city, to explore the different ways that “gang culture” shapes the victimization experiences and ...everyday lives of (young) women. Victims of lethal gang violence in Research City are almost exclusively young men, rendering invisible the ways in which gangs have an impact on the lives of women living in neighborhoods with a gang presence. The article also discusses how the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach could be useful in developing a holistic picture of the impact of gang-related violence on the lives of women.
Las sociedades occidentales evidencian mutaciones en los procesos de socialización y en el mercado de trabajo, que tienen su correlato en la formación de la identidad profesional. Conceptualizamos la ...identidad como un proceso continuo de producciones intersubjetivas en múltiples espacios de socialización e intercambio en un contexto de creciente singularización de las trayectorias personales. Para abordar distintas dimensiones en la dinámica de identificación profesional realizamos entrevistas en profundidad con psicólogas, médicas y médicos que integran enfoques terapéuticos alternativos en el ejercicio de su oficio en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Focalizamos en las experiencias personales y laborales que las/los conducen a realizar resignificaciones y conversiones en el ejercicio profesional distanciándose del paradigma hegemónico de sus respectivas disciplinas. Enmarcamos estas interpretaciones y decisiones de carrera en movimientos profesionales críticos de la formación y prácticas ortodoxas, así como en tendencias socioculturales más amplias que amplían el horizonte para la construcción del proyecto profesional y el trabajo identitatario.
To be a migrant woman includes different meanings: it means to be a breadwinner woman for personal or familiar decision; it means to be wife of an husband who will join her in the arrival country ...dealing with all the uncertainities of the labor market; it means to be a mother that drags her sons to an unknown new country or that fights daily to keep in touch with them when they leave overseas; but above all it means to be a woman that deals day by day with the cultural negotiation and with those stereotypes usually related with migration, doing it for herself and in order to create a better relationship with the arrival society. All these aspects are part of the interview done in february 2007 to a peruvian woman that lives in Naples since many years now and that is the main object of this article.
Through a close reading of Three Days to Walk, a memoir of disability by Chinese writer Zhang Yuncheng, this paper develops a new understanding of self-narrated life writing and its intersection with ...disability consciousness in the contemporary Chinese context. It examines the changing nature of disability life writing since the end of the early 1980s, a time when the images and voices of disabled began to emerge from effective cultural invisibility and silence. In a move away from state-sponsored 'triumph over tragedy' biographical narratives typical of the immediate post-Cultural Revolution period, Three Days to Walk is characteristic of a new popular trend to publish self-narrated life stories that reveal unique and intimate histories of disability experience both imbued with and propelled by a burgeoning sense of disability consciousness in the Chinese context.
In connection with a study relating to the diagnosing of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), youths and adults represent a particularly interesting group, partly because they have lived ...a relatively long time with the condition but without the diagnosis. In this article, I am focusing particularly on the life stories of youths and adults before they were referred for an ADHD assessment. A narrative analysis of a body of empirical data material shows that the subjects’ stories about the background for their referral are dominated by three themes: substantial health-related disorders and problems, diffuse sensations that “something” was wrong, and experiences relating to their identification with the diagnosis. The study shows that most of the respondents had been in contact with their regular general practitioner (GP)—and in many cases had tried out various diagnoses and treatments—long before the question of ADHD was raised.
This paper presents the results of a descriptive community analyses, using oral testimonies, life stories and genealogical stories, this study focuses on the role of the community in preserving and ...passing on the cultural heritage and social identity of Turkish and Tatar ethnic-cultures from Dobrudja historical region,Romania. The purpose of our research is to identify the preservation methods for the cultural patrimony and social identity dynamics in the Turkish-Tatar communities. The observations presented hereinafter are based on an investigative step which gets profiled in the paradigm of interpretative contemporary research. The data, object of analysis, were collected by using the following investigative methods: direct non-participative observation, direct individual and group interviews, document study. Our empiric research occurred along a period of two years (2012-2014) and included more than 150 interviews with Turk and Tatar ethnic individuals. This work describes the specificity of the communities from Dobrudja for several social dimensions which orient the dynamics of social identity, and that is: interethnic relations, traditional occupations and the main income sources of Turks and Tatars, spatial segregation of the multi-ethnic communities in Dobrudja, involvement of public institutions and the promotion of the cultural patrimony belonging to the Turks and Tatars from Dobrudja.
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