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Fall 2009
The following is a qualitative exploration of place identity, wilderness and cultural tourism interpreter guides, and sustainable tourism development in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Four research sub-questions are used to glean insights and advance this study: 1) how are Yukon place identities...
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Fall 2009
The purpose of this study was to deepen our understanding of effective counsellor self-care practices. Narrative Inquiry informed the study from participant selection to data analysis. Separate conversations were held with three female psychologists and from the analysis of their interviews...
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Fall 2010
How are homeless individuals, who have no access to private space yet still have the same needs of dwelling as the rest of us, regarded when they exercise their right to dwell? This question guided my research of Edmonton’s Tent City, which emerged during the summer of 2007. Interviews with...
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Intensive narrative intervention with four inner-city children: An interrupted time series analysis
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This study investigated the effect of a two week intensive narrative intervention program on the narrative abilities of four inner-city children, using an interrupted time-series with removed treatment design. The intervention program focused on teaching five specific story grammar units. The...
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First language maintenance and attrition among young Chinese adult immigrants: a multi-case study
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The role of the first language (L1) has been generally acknowledged as having important implications for young immigrants’ linguistic, educational, socio-cultural, intellectual, career, and identity development (e.g., Cummins, 2001; Guardado, 2002; Kim 2006; Kouritzin, 1999). In this case study I...
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"Two-stones" stories: shared teachings through the narrative experiences of early school leavers
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The purpose of the research study was to inquire into the experiences of youth who leave school before graduating with a high school diploma. Through the narrative inquiries into the life and school stories of the participants, several threads are identified, providing opportunity for further...
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Fall 2010
The prevalence of event clusters in autobiographical memory was examined with an event-cueing task in two parallel experiments. Event clusters are theoretical memory structures that bind specific personal events in narrative-like configurations. Prior research has shown that young adults report...
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Fall 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine how two elite female marathon runners used narrative to describe their lived bodily experiences during pregnancy. Information for the analysis of this phenomenon was derived from two elite runners’ personal narratives obtained from their internet dairies...
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Towards the identification of linguistic characteristics of specific language impairment in Persian
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Studies on specific language impairment (SLI) have identified specific aspects of language as particularly vulnerable. However, a picture of relative strengths and weaknesses characterizing SLI in Persian has not been established. This dissertation aims at the identification of linguistic...
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Personal stories of the fluidity of sexuality and their relevance to theories of human sexual orientation
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A narrative inquiry methodology was utilized to investigate experiences of fluidity of sexuality and the broader processes of sexuality and sexual identity development. Five adult co-researchers, all members of various sexual and gender minority groups, participated in semi-structured, in-depth...