This interview project began with a daughter’s innocent desire to ask “Why?” but we find ourselves in an ever-looping liminality that recognizes both the impossibility of such innocence and the power ...of an “ability to live on the boundaries” of wanting-to-know and never-knowing. This article concludes by considering the implications of maintaining such a space within the context of a qualitative inquiry course and within the scholarly and personal engagements between a qualitative inquiry instructor and student. We examine the ways that this liminal space has shaped our co-writing, our course-based co-learning, and our interactions and has helped to support a “pedagogy of vulnerability” based on (intentional and unwanted) liminalities within Stephanie’s qualitative inquiry courses.
The present study builds on earlier work by Meyer and Land (2003) which introduced the generative notion of threshold concepts within (and across) disciplines, in the sense of transforming the ...internal view of subject matter or part thereof. In this earlier work such concepts were further linked to forms of knowledge that are troublesome, after the work of Perkins (1999). It was argued that these twinned sets of ideas may define critical moments of irreversible conceptual transformation in the educational experiences of learners, and their teachers. The present study aims (a) to examine the extent to which such phenomena can be located within personal understandings of discipline-specific epistemological discourses, (b) to develop more extensively notions of liminality within learning that were raised in the first paper, and (c) to propose a conceptual framework within which teachers may advance their own reflective practice. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Este artículo plantea una descripción y análisis de las prácticas y representaciones en torno a los procesos (etno)educativos de jóvenes wayuu en centros de educación básica, media y superior en La ...Guajira y Santander (Colombia). Basándonos en nuestra experiencia etnográfica sobre el terreno reflexionamos acerca del papel que las políticas (etno)educativas del Estado colombiano juegan en la conformación de las disposiciones escolares de las/os jóvenes estudiantes wayuu, de sus expectativas laborales, así como en las rupturas y continuidades con las prácticas culturales en el interior de sus familias y comunidades wayuu de origen. En nuestro análisis exploramos tres ámbitos de experiencia diferenciados (cultura wayuu, educación y empleo), que interpretamos desde la perspectiva de los distintos agentes implicados: estudiantes, docentes, familias y comunidades wayuu. A partir de nuestros resultados podemos concluir que, en el contexto de estas políticas de etnoeducación, la escolarización continuada en estos centros transforma decisivamente las cosmovisiones de los/as estudiantes, sus esquemas de autocomprensión y de relación con su comunidad. Concretamente, pensamos que se están produciendo profundos cambios colectivos y personales en las jóvenes generaciones wayuu, principalmente, en cuanto a la subjetivación de las relaciones de clase, raza y género, las estructuras familiares y la conformación de sus expectativas académicas y laborales.
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Labour market integration of refugees is seen as a major challenge in many countries. This article draws on a qualitative study focused on highly skilled refugees participating in two ...internship programmes at two large private companies in Sweden. We draw on the concepts of organisational socialisation and liminality to suggest that such programmes, when organised in collaboration between private companies and public organisations as part of the labour market integration support offered by the welfare state, further entrench the liminal position of refugees. The refugee interns find themselves in a liminal space, aspiring to secure not only a future professional role at the workplace but also the role of an integrated member of the Swedish labour market—a role that is ambiguously defined and constantly shifting as ideas of what it means to be employable shift too. This is a position that is not without its problems, ambiguities and uncertainties and requires a new perspective on organising labour market integration of refugees.
The study of history as a genre became important not only as an academic concern but to recover the lost pride and dignity of the indigenous people in a colonized land. In the late nineteenth and ...early twentieth-century Bengal, the study of the past assumed prime importance in the context of nationalism to counter the disdain of colonial historians and revive national pride. History as a ‘scientific’ discipline functioned as a tool in this regard, where the vernacular emerged as the principal medium of communication. Individuals from diverse backgrounds debated whether a more rigorous understanding of the past through Western ‘scientific’ methods could supplant the information from traditional texts and legends. Material culture or ‘hard’ evidence considered more suitable for a ‘modern’ objective historical account gained precedence over the traditional texts, dismissed as imaginary and mythical. A heated debate emerged between two groups, the archaeologists who believed in the objectivity of material evidence and the traditionalists who subscribed to the view that classical literature was not irrelevant to understanding the past. However, this division remained nebulous, and both groups remained in a liminal interstitial space engaging and contesting with their notions of ‘tradition’ and ‘science’. It was from this contested space that emerged an ambivalent archaeological method which formed an important characteristic of Indian archaeology in the post-Independence era.
Objective: Infertility is a significant concern for people with cancer and fertility preservation is often recommended. However, uptake of preservation interventions remains low. In this study, we ...examined how people with cancer construct their subjectivity - their sense of self - in relation to decision making and processes of fertility preservation.
Design: Six-hundred and ninety-three women and 185 men completed a self-report survey; 61 women and 17 men participated in semi-structured interviews. Subject positions adopted in relation to constructions of fertility preservation in transcripts and open-ended survey responses were examined using thematic decomposition.
Results: Three main discursive themes were identified: 'Limited agency and choice, or resisting risk: not taking part in fertility preservation', 'Fertility preservation as a means to retain hope and control', and 'Fertility preservation as uncertain and distressing'.
Conclusion: It is important for health professionals to provide accurate information, acknowledge the complexity of fertility preservation and implications for 'liminal' survivorship where exclusion, uncertainty or unsuccessful interventions have occurred.
This study explores the in-betweenness and the temporal freedom in leisure and intercultural experiences, particularly in the outdoor setting of a sailing expedition. An ethnography study was ...conducted to explore the in-betweenness of liminoid leisure space and self-other interculturality during an EU-exchange tall ship sail-training voyage. The physical confinement of the sailing ship blurred the boundaries of the participants' perceived and experiential leisure space, the pre-determined ship schedule and routines provided an unconventional sense of time fluidity, and the assembled socio-cultural diversity onboard formed a stage of unfamiliarity. The finding reveals that the spatial, temporal and relational features on a sailing ship enabled individuals to go through leisure hybridity together and co-negotiate meanings that promote diversity and understanding, participants' perceived and temporal freedom and satisfaction, and relational harmony.
Industries have to adapt to changes in external environment. This adaption includes the development of new professional roles that challenge established structures, roles and communities of practice. ...In order to better understand the unfolding of construction project practice in an increasingly changeful world new professional roles are explored as liminal roles. The studied professional roles are partnering manager, building logistic specialist and BIM coordinator. Liminality is used as framework to understand descriptions of liminal experiences when negotiating boundary interfaces in construction project practice. Findings are both theoretical and practical and suggest that new professional roles practice multi-liminal work and acknowledge tensions that pose challenges for liminal roles to act as change agents.
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