Download or read book Our Secret Selves microform a Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Secrecy and Search an Adoptees in Closed Adoptions written by Millard, Lorna and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Secret Selves a Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Secrecy and Search an Adoptees in Closed Adoptions written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Strangers written by Claudia Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagination.
Download or read book Inside Out written by Sophia Marie Mattingly and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a time in a person's life marked by many changes. These changes often affect the physical, emotional, intellectual and social state of the individual at a time where fitting in is never more important. Making sense of the developing self-identity is complicated by many factors each of which affects the individual to varying degrees. In particular, Chinese transnational adoptees face the additional challenge of searching for their place in a missing family and culture for which they have little to no information. Their narratives are often incomplete, truncated and undiscoverable before their abandonment. The primary focus of this study is to understand the extent of the influence their adoption status has on the development of cultural and ethnic self-identity development for Chinese transnational adoptees raised in American homes. Although some adoptees prefer to think of adoption as a one-time event and not an ongoing phenomena; it remains that their status as an adoptee influences the self-identity development and narrative construction challenges they face throughout their lifetime. This study asks its participants to reflect back on early memories of family and self narrative, cultural experiences and encounters of racism and early sense of self in addition to discussing the ways in which they make meaning now from these earlier experiences. This study asks the following four research questions: 1) What issues surrounding adoption do Chinese transnational adoptees raised in American homes believe to be critical in understanding their self-identity? 2) In what ways does transnational adoption affect the (co)construction of the personal and family narrative of the adoptee? 3) How does the meaning transnational adoptees make of their multi-layered early narratives impact their self-identity? 4) In what ways do American educational institutions impact ethnic/cultural identity and narrative construction on Chinese transnational adoptees? This study used an illustrative sequential mixed-methods design and grounded theory to investigate the ethnic and cultural self-identity and (co)constructed narratives of Chinese adopted adolescent females raised in American homes. It was conducted in three parts in the following order: 1) the survey (n=36), 2) the initial interviews (n=5) and 3) the case studies (n=4) from February 2013 to October 2014. This study found that identity is complex and multi-layered and that the socio-political and cultural socialization practices of the adoptive family influences its development. Additionally, early, frequent and open dialogue among the adoptive family eases later adoptee struggles with identity. This study also indicated that adoptees with an Asian adoptive parent had higher levels of authentic culture exposure and greater fluidity of identity. Furthermore, multicultural curriculum impacts how the adoptee is able to connect to their learning and provides a way to become culturally relevant to their peers. People who may find this study beneficial include; adoptees, adoptive families, adoption professionals and policy makers, mental health practitioners and educational professionals. Future research should include larger sample sizes to increase generalizability and longitudinal study for deeper understanding of identity development over time. Keywords: ethnic identity, Chinese adoptee, model minority myth, multicultural education, cultural socialization, international adoption, transracial family
Download or read book Adoptees Experiences Through a Depth Psychological Lens written by Tiffany Marie Nowlan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This depth-orientated study explores the lived experience of being adopted and how this influences identity formation, interpersonal dynamics, and the lens through which one experiences life. The research was conducted qualitatively through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) advanced by Smith, Flower, and Larkin (2009). Seven adult female adoptees were interviewed ranging from 43 to 67 years in age. Four superordinate themes emerged in the participants’ narratives: Trauma, Identity, Alienation, and Spirituality. Trauma related to initial abandonment from birth mother, adoption, as well as subsequent events of abuse and neglect all had a profound impact on the participants, resulting in trust issues. According to this study’s findings, all subsequential themes appear to derive from Trauma. Identity was shaped significantly by adoption with particular qualities of fear, guilt, over responsibility, as well as people pleasing and chameleon qualities. This constellation of self-preservation resulted in betrayal to self, essentially an unconscious reenactment of initial abandonment. Alienation exemplified feelings of grief, loneliness, and a negative or disconnected relationship with one’s body. A woman adoptee’s individuation journey through spirituality, faith, and eventually gratitude was instrumental in her growth and healing. The results of this study indicate that adoptees’ trauma and alienation were the catalyst to discovering a divine connection that brought forth authenticity, integration, peace, acceptance, and transformation, thus creating a more holistic and balanced sense of self. Keywords: female adoptees, adoption, trauma, identity, alienation, spirituality.
Download or read book An Autoethnography of an Adoptee s Search For and Reunion With Her Birth Family While Pursuing Higher Education written by Amy Elizabeth Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption has been an important way to create families over the years. While there has been a shift in recent years to encourage open adoptions, where the biological and adoptive families stay in contact after the adoption, many adoptees are coming from closed adoptions, where there is no contact or information shared about the biological family until the adoptees reach the appropriate age to search (Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association [IFAPA], 2014). These adoptees often come of legal age to search while pursuing higher education, and while there is significant research on adopted children, specific research on adopted college students who have searched, or are searching, for their biological families is lacking. In this qualitative study, I investigated my experience of searching for my biological family while pursuing higher education in both undergraduate and graduate school. This research is grounded in several methodological frameworks, including Arnett's (2000) emerging adulthood theory, Turner's (1969) concept of liminality, and Schlossberg's (2011) transition theory. I utilized autoethnography as the methodology for this study. I, the researcher, am also the primary participant in and focus of this study, and I utilized data from my own personal journal entries, documentation, publications, and photographs. Through my research, I found three themes that describe my search and reunion process: adoptee search letdown, adoptee search benefit, and adoptee search identity. This research is pertinent to higher education professionals because there will be adopted college students on every campus who will need to be supported as they might experience adoptee search letdown and adoptee search benefit. Adopted college students are experiencing identity development with an added layer of not knowing their biological family, and when the search for that biological family happens in college, it is important for them to be surrounded by higher educational practitioners who can support that search and their quest for missing pieces of their identity.
Download or read book The Belmont Report written by United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Design written by John W. Creswell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, key elements of the research process, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research applications, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. The Fifth Edition includes more coverage of: epistemological and ontological positioning in relation to the research question and chosen methodology; case study, PAR, visual and online methods in qualitative research; qualitative and quantitative data analysis software; and in quantitative methods more on power analysis to determine sample size, and more coverage of experimental and survey designs; and updated with the latest thinking and research in mixed methods.
Download or read book Social Research Methods Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Pearson New International Edition written by W. Lawrence Neuman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Research Guide written by Martyn Denscombe and published by McGraw-Hill International. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Research Guidehas been a bestselling introduction to the basics of social research since it was first published in 1998. This new second edition of the book offers the same clear guidance on how to conduct successful small-scale research projects and adds even more value by including new sections on internet research, phenomenology, grounded theory and image-based methods. The book provides: a clear summary of the relevant strategies, methods and approaches to data analysis a jargon-free coverage of the key issues an attractive layout and user-friendly presentation checklists to guide good practice. Practical and comprehensive,The Good Research Guideis an invaluable tool for students of education, health studies, business studies and other social sciences, who need to conduct small-scale research projects as part of undergraduate, postgraduate or professional studies.
Download or read book Research Methods for Sports Studies written by Chris Gratton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, accessible and practical textbook provides a complete grounding in both qualitative and quantitative research methods for the sports studies student. The book offers the reader a step-by-step guide to the research process, from designing a research project, to collecting and analyzing data, to reporting the research, and is richly illustrated throughout with sport-related case-studies and examples from around the world. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the book covers key topics such as: choosing an appropriate research design undertaking a literature review key research techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, content analysis and ethnographic studies data analysis, including an introduction to SPSS, as well as guides to descriptive and inferential statistics writing a research report ethical issues in sports research. Research Methods in Sports Studies is designed to be a complete and self-contained companion to any research methods course and contains a wealth of useful features, such as highlighted definitions of key terms, revision questions, practical research exercises, and a companion website with web links, multiple choice questions, powerpoint slides, and other learning resources. The book is also an invaluable reference for any student undertaking a dissertation or research project as part of their studies. Visit the companion website at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415493932
Download or read book The Technological Society written by Jacques Ellul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press
Download or read book Research Methods for Cultural Studies written by Michael Pickering and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:* Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.* Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.* Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.* Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.* Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.
Download or read book Practical Ethics written by Peter Singer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.
Download or read book Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce written by Charles Sanders Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plagiarism the Internet and Student Learning written by Wendy Sutherland-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for Higher Education educators, managers and policy-makers, Plagiarism, the Internet and Student Learning combines theoretical understandings with a practical model of plagiarism and aims to explain why and how plagiarism developed. It offers a new way to conceptualize plagiarism and provides a framework for professionals dealing with plagiarism in higher education. Sutherland-Smith presents a model of plagiarism, called the plagiarism continuum, which usefully informs discussion and direction of plagiarism management in most educational settings. The model was developed from a cross-disciplinary examination of plagiarism with a particular focus on understanding how educators and students perceive and respond to issues of plagiarism. The evolution of plagiarism, from its birth in Law, to a global issue, poses challenges to international educators in diverse cultural settings. The case studies included are the voices of educators and students discussing the complexity of plagiarism in policy and practice, as well as the tensions between institutional and individual responses. A review of international studies plus qualitative empirical research on plagiarism, conducted in Australia between 2004-2006, explain why it has emerged as a major issue. The book examines current teaching approaches in light of issues surrounding plagiarism, particularly Internet plagiarism. The model affords insight into ways in which teaching and learning approaches can be enhanced to cope with the ever-changing face of plagiarism. This book challenges Higher Education educators, managers and policy-makers to examine their own beliefs and practices in managing the phenomenon of plagiarism in academic writing.
Download or read book Authentic Leadership and Followership written by Dorianne Cotter-Lockard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines a spotlight on two missing foci of authentic leadership research: international and follower perspectives. The concept of ‘authenticity’ has been in vogue since the times of Greek philosophy, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that leadership scholars seriously began to study the topic of authentic leadership. This new collection brings together empirical research and theoretical contributions to provide insights into the follower perspectives of authentic leadership around the world. Covering topics such as leader self-awareness, gender, psychological capital, embodied leadership and followership, and unethical conduct, the book features a Foreword written by William L. Gardner, one of the original scholars on authentic leadership.
