Afficio 2013http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/281722024-03-29T08:26:03Z2024-03-29T08:26:03ZUniversity as narrative therapy: the reconstruction of dominant self-narrative through post-secondary educationhttp://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/281942023-11-15T15:44:17Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZUniversity as narrative therapy: the reconstruction of dominant self-narrative through post-secondary education
This research investigates the ability of post-secondary education to play a role in the reconstruction of personal identity. Drawing on White and Epston's work in narrative therapy (1990), this reconstruction is understood by placing it within a narrative framework and is therefore seen as a process of re-authoring. An in-depth interview was conducted and the recollections that the participant offered were coded by drawing on the Innovative Moment Coding System (IMCS) developed by Gonçalves, Ribeiro, Mendes, Maros, and Santos (2011). This was used to identify contradictions to the participant's previously asserted dominant self-narrative. Analysis yielded the presence of consistent themes and protonarratives, defined by ambiguity and assertion. These protonarratives inserted themselves into the participant's new self-narrative, enabling her to situate herself and her relationship to her education in a new, more meaningful way.
Winner, Social Sciences
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZThe most emblematic of all deviantshttp://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/281932023-11-15T16:00:18Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZThe most emblematic of all deviants
Within the context of the discriminatory practices and ideologies of the Third Reich, the prostitute is "the most emblematic of deviants."[1] The history of prostitutes under Nazi rule constitutes the intersection of a multitude of ethical, sexual, racial, political and historiographical issues. A look to regulation will reveal that, while the Third Reich's policy on prostitution did represent a radical break from Weimar policies of venal sexuality, one need not look far into Germany's pre-democratic past to discover the historical antecedents of the Nazis' "brothelization" of prostitution. What becomes apparent is that the ways in which prostitution was legally encoded in the Nazi state were in no way innovative; rather, it is the motivations behind regulation policy and sexual politics in general in the Third Reich that are horrifically revolutionary. The mobilization of prostitution for the sake of the Nazi war machine and racist and pronatalist policies is but one example of the ways in which sexuality was instrumentalized by Hitler to further the goals of the aggressively expansionist state.
Winner, Humanities, Best Overall Undergraduate Paper
2013-01-01T00:00:00Z