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Sauer, Michael Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this dialogical qualitative research study was to gain insight into the process of storytelling with adults diagnosed with terminal illness as a way of making meaning of their experiences and lives. The study was informed by the conceptual frameworks of story, storytelling, and story listening which are grounded in the theory of…
Descriptors: Adults, Story Telling, Terminal Illness, Personal Narratives
Gonsalves, Allison J. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
In this article, I explore what happens when digital media activities designed to stimulate science conversations are introduced to an out-of-school-time (OST) space usually reserved for talks about girls' issues. The goals of this study were to provide a space that values youth voice and creates positive emotional energy around science-related…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Technology, Interaction, Emotional Response
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Maclellan, Effie; Soden, Rebecca – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
The emergence of what is increasingly becoming known as the knowledge age implies that higher education should prepare students to be, primarily, knowledge workers. This proposition triggered a small scale study in which structured interviews were carried out with 25 second-year undergraduates registered for a psychology module on motivational…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Structured Interviews, Undergraduate Students