The Role of Narrative in Understanding Organizational Resistance to Change: A Social Construction Perspective “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.” - C.G. Jung Social Construction Theory as presented in Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s (1966) work The Social Construction of Reality presents a perspective on the nature of society that should be interesting to any change agent: first, that societies are continuously constructed by individuals…
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Narrative of Adolescence Years Abstract This paper is a narrative of my adolescent years from twelve to eighteen. I label these years of awkwardness and pain off a hit show from the early nineties called, “The Growing Pains.” Similar to the characters in the show I struggled creating a personal identity and had difficulty blending in with societal norms. As a result I suffered from much insecurity, false conceptions of beauty, and depression. Up until writing this paper I felt these ideologies…
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December 2003 Ronnie’s Story: Narrative and Belonging to Place Richard Woolley University of Western Sydney Abstract This paper emerges from doctoral research, finalised in 2003, centred on key ways in which an experience of certainty is constructed in social life. The struggle to ‘make-certain the world’ is understood as the effort to maintain the stability and durability of those social relations which construct social experience and personal identity as coherent and continuous. The focus…
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NCOIC at keith.d.wright@conus.army.mil. Authorship: CH (MAJ) George L. Wallace, 1HBCT Chaplain is the author of the paper. I wish to thank members of the 1st BDE Warrior Resilience Round Table working group for their thoughts and help in shaping my thoughts for the paper. This working group met weekly from 20 October – 8 December 2011, to study Comprehensive Soldier Fitness and Soldier Resilience. The thoughts, discussion and suggestions of the working group helped shape this paper. Our discussions…
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screaming reminds the consumer of the trailer that it is a horror film as screams and shrieks are another convention of the genre. As they cannot see what is happening on screen it encourages them to imagine what is going on and thinking the worse thus, building high expectations. The white noise of the video camera creates a sense of mystery as it feels like the audience is becoming more distant. Lighting used throughout the trailer is dark and this is typical convention of a horror genre as darkness connotes…
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the cause and effects. They remember and repeat songs and nursery rhymes. “Cognitive or intellectual development is development of the mind- the part of the brain that is used for recognising, knowing and understanding” (Meggitt, 2012, page 3). Within my practice I have observed children counting up to 10 in the correct order. They control their attention, this means they have the ability to choose to stop the activity they are doing and return to it. 4 years old: They can count up to 20 in the correct…
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Journal of English for Academic Purposes 8 (2009) 134e146 www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap Strategic, passionate, but academic: Am I allowed in my writing? Phan Le Ha Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia Abstract This article is about the struggles to sustain identity as writers while accommodating the demands of the university experienced by Arianto and his thesis supervisor, myself. It shows how critical EAP was the on-going conversation between us about how to negotiate norms…
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of South Korea due to a complex confluence of interest in procedural literacy, cultural protection against Japanese entertainment, broadband saturation, public play in cafes, new advertising models, and a millennial search for an international identity (Jin 2010). Those that are most interesting in relation to notions of generative or imaginative play, though, arose through interactions between two groups of people: 1) developers willing to open up the tools necessary to modify their games…
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explore aspects of enculturation, socio cultural adaptation, adjustment, language, communication and/or any learning difficulties encountered by the students. The seminar explores how students negotiate these aspects into their ethnic and cultural identities as well as their academic learning practices. Finally, the paper will discuss how best to cater for international student needs within the context of cross-cultural sensitivity and academic quality assurance directives. It hopes to raise discussion…
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communicate with other professionals (eg. Physicians) about this client (saving time for them to ask same q’s to the client) Only allowed w/ the client’s approval Release of information form “Communication btwn myself and this physician can only occur w/ ur approval” Supervision of counselling trainees Ph.D graduates are allowed to do accredited supervision of doctoral degrees related programs Teaching and research (see also: specialization; scientist-practitioner model) Professional development All…
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