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شاهواری, معصومه, مرجان کیان, and زهرا نیکنام. "Work and Technology: Teacher's Lived Experiences." Theory and Practice in Curriculum 4, no. 8 (2017): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18869/acadpub.cstp.4.8.159.
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Tonui, Betty C., Kristen E. Ravi, and Patricia C. Rodriguez. "“COVID-19: Social Work Reflections on Challenges and Lessons”." Greenwich Social Work Review 1, no. 2 (2020): 122–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21100/gswr.v1i2.1168.
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic that has changed our lives drastically. In this reflection, we offer our experiences focusing on the disruptions and lessons from our lived experiences with hope that our shared vulnerability and collective experience that calls us to reflect more and offer compassion within ourselves, places of work, and our homes. We highlight the perspectives of a social work field liaison, a social work Ph.D. candidate, and a mother, as well as a practicing community liaison social worker.
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Waheed, Syed Abdul, Nadia Gilani, and Mehwish Raza. "Temporality: Living Through the Time While Doing Doctoral Studies." Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 6, no. 3 (2020): 1111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i3.1370.
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Doctoral students’ experiences of stay and study abroad determine how they experience and understand time in relation to other existential themes of body, space, and relation. The present study aimed to understand what meanings doctoral students’ assign to time while doing their doctoral studies in different public universities of Austria. Thirteen participants were recruited purposively to understand how did they experience time and how did their experience of time determine the way they live and study in a university and complete their doctoral studies. The questions were explored through conducting and recording the interviews in a semi-structured form and subsequently transcribing and analyzing the transcripts. The participants experienced that time continuously shaped their life experiences with respect to the space they lived in, relationality, and corporeal experiences. The students experienced time as an agent of pressure, perceived as being slow or fast in their studies, feeling connected or disconnected with their family, work and study and a tool to gauge their work performance and completion of their studies. The study has a phenomenological significance of understanding of time as experienced by a group of doctoral students that led to the way they lived, stayed and studied abroad.
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Crain, Maggie, and Corinne Koehn. "The Essence of Hope in Domestic Violence Support Work: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Inquiry." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 34, no. 2 (2012): 170–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.34.2.am6j432352416nh8.
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This study explored the lived experience of hope for domestic violence support workers. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach was used to collect and analyze the experiences of six professional women, aged 37 through 69. Four themes, each with subthemes, emerged from the findings: Hope is visceral reveals the phenomenology of hope as experienced through bodily sensations, reactions, and emotions. Hope is contextual describes how experiences of hope are enhanced by personal perspectives and social environments. Hope is mutual reveals how interactions with other people inspire hope. Hope is a journey illustrates how hope evolves over the years to reveal new understandings of what it means to live hopefully. The article discusses implications for counseling, counselor education, and service provider organizations and presents suggestions for future research.
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Smeeton, Joe, and Patrick O’Connor. "Embodied Social Work Practice Within Risk Society." Journal of Social Work 20, no. 5 (2019): 673–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017319860800.
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This paper critically discusses the limitations of theorising social work from psychological and sociological perspectives and argues that phenomenology offers more opportunity to understand the embodied experiences of service users and social workers themselves. The paper argues that psychology and sociology have a limited analysis of being-in-the-world, which ought to be social work’s primary consideration. The paper offers an overview of the sociology of risk before embarking on an extensive description and discussion of Heidegger’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology applied to the lived experience of child protection social workers working within risk society. The argument is put that phenomenology is a useful tool for understanding the lived experience of social work practitioners. Findings: The authors conclude that embodied social work practice containing fear and anxiety can be thought of as akin to taking part in extreme risk sports and that this is an unhealthy experience that is likely to skew decision-making and adversely affect the lives of social workers and service users. Applications: The authors argue that phenomenology can enhance understanding of practice and decision-making and offers insights into the lived experience of social workers. Phenomenology is useful for helping social workers negotiate risk-saturated environments, through a focus on meaning.
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Au, Wee Chan, Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Yan Soon Tan, and Pervaiz K. Ahmed. "The work-life experiences of an invisible workforce." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 39, no. 5 (2019): 567–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-02-2019-0059.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the work-life (WL) experiences of live-in women migrant domestic workers (MDWs), who represent a significant proportion of migrant workers globally. MDWs play a key role in enabling the work-life balance (WLB) of others, namely the middle-class households that employ them. Yet, their experiences have largely been invisible in mainstream WL literature. The authors draw on an intersectional approach to frame the WL experiences of this marginalized group of women at the intersection of being secondary labour segment workers, with significant legal and employment restrictions as migrant workers, who work and live in the same place as their employers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 women MDWs from Indonesia and the Philippines working in Malaysia. The women talked about the meaning of work as MDWs, how they maintain familial connections whilst working abroad, and how they negotiate their WLB as live-in workers. Thematic analysis of the interviews focused on the intersection of the women’s multiple dimensions of disadvantage, including gender, class and temporary migrant-foreigner status, in shaping their accounts of the WL interface. Findings Three thematic narratives highlight that any semblance of WLB in the MDWs’ lived experience has given way to the needs of their employers and to the imperative to earn an income for their families back home. The themes are: working as MDWs enables the women and their families back home to have a life; the co-existence of WL boundary segmentation and integration in relation to “real” and “temporary” families; and the notion of WLB being centred around the women’s ability to fulfil their multiple duties as MDWs and absent mothers/sisters/daughters. Research limitations/implications The study is based on a small sample of live-in women MDWs in Malaysia, intended to promote typically excluded voices and not to provide generalizable findings. Accessing potential participants was a considerable challenge, given the vulnerable positions of women MDWs and the invisible nature of their work. Practical implications Future research should adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to studying the WL experiences of women MDWs. In particular, links with non-governmental organizations who work directly with women MDWs should be established as a way of improving future participant access. Social implications The study underscores the existence of policies and regulations that tolerate and uphold social inequalities that benefit primary labour segment workers to the detriment of secondary labour segment workers, including women MDWs. Originality/value Extant WL literature is dominated by the experiences of “the ideal work-life balancers”, who tend to be white middle-class women, engaged in professional work. This study offers original contribution by giving voice to a taken-for-granted group of women migrant workers who make other people’s WLB possible. Moreover, the study challenges WL research by underscoring the power inequities that shape the participants’ marginal and disadvantaged lived experience of work, life, family and WLB.
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Girdzijauskienė, Rūta. "The Bodily Experiences of Music Teachers." Central European Journal of Educational Research 3, no. 1 (2021): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37441/cejer/2021/3/1/9351.
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This paper deals with the specifics of a music teacher's work in kindergarten and presents an empirical study, based on the approach of hermeneutic phenomenology. In the research outcomes, the experiences of the music teacher's work in kindergarten are presented through their stories about memorable moments of their professional activity. Initially, in accordance with the theory of Max van Manen, the research data were viewed through the prism of five dimensions (lived time, lived space, lived self-others, lived things, and lived body), typical of all phenomena. The paper discusses one of them, i.e. the teachers' experience from the perspective of the lived body. The stories demonstrate how through the looks, facial mimicry, and body language, moments of the teacher's everyday routine are revealed that would otherwise be overlooked or considered irrelevant.
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Spiteri, Georgette, and Rita Borg Xuereb. "Going back to work after childbirth: women’s lived experiences." Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 30, no. 2 (2012): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2012.693153.
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Lunkka, Nina, Ville Pietiläinen, and Marjo Suhonen. "A Discursive Sensemaking Perspective on Project-Based Work in Public Healthcare." Project Management Journal 50, no. 6 (2019): 657–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8756972819847062.
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This study investigates project participants’ sensemaking of lived work experiences during periods of organizational change within Finnish public healthcare. It introduces a discursive sensemaking perspective to investigate lived experiences, that is, reflexive practitioners’ situational thinking. Drawing upon 17 interviews, the study identifies diverse repertoires through which the lived experiences are considered meaningful. These are repertoires of: (1) transformation, (2) realism, (3) politics, (4) individuality, (5) reflexivity, and (6) senselessness. The results show that project-based work in public healthcare differs from project participants’ expectations because projects are perceived to increase rather than decrease bureaucracy and include unsustainable working conditions that have to be endured.
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Roennfeldt, Helena, and Louise Byrne. "How much 'lived experience' is enough? Understanding mental health lived experience work from a management perspective." Australian Health Review 44, no. 6 (2020): 898. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah19261.
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ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore management understanding of the lived experience required for designated lived experience or peer roles within mental health. MethodThis qualitative study used semi-structured interviews and one focus group with 29 participants employed in diverse management roles from the public and not-for-profit health and community sector in Queensland, Australia. ResultsThe findings indicate a lack of consensus in defining ‘lived experience’, including what lived experience is required to be eligible for designated roles. Although some participants were clear on what designated roles added to the workforce, uncertainty and attempts to avoid stigma led to some participants questioning the need for designated roles. ConclusionThis study suggests the ongoing expansion of the lived experience workforce is affected by challenges in defining ‘lived experience’ as a requirement for designated roles and fears regarding stigmatised identities. What is known about the topic?In the mental health sector, opportunities and challenges exist in attempting to effectively incorporate the emerging lived experience or peer workforce. Research has highlighted the need for support from senior management, the need for role clarity and the risk of ‘othering’ for the lived experience workforce. What does this paper add?This paper responds to the gap in existing research on the experiences of management in defining and articulating their understanding of lived experience and potential impact of uncertainty and inconsistency in understanding for the lived experience workforce. What are the implications for practitioners?This study identifies the need to strengthen management understanding of lived experience to facilitate ongoing development of lived experience roles.
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Morgan, Bobbette M. "The Lived Experience: A Study In Teaching Online." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 11, no. 2 (2018): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v11i2.10151.
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A researcher with five years’ experience of teaching online classes shares what she has seen and experienced while working with her students. Through the evolution of working with Tegrity, Collaborate, and ZOOM the author shares the lived experience. The work of Max van Manen, a phenomenological researcher, serves as the framework. Descriptions are included of experiences from actual online classes. Research supports the findings: communication is essential in online classes; establishing a community of learners provides support to all involved; and students need to be accountable to themselves, the class and to the professors.
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Boonabaana, Brenda. "Negotiating gender and tourism work: Women’s lived experiences in Uganda." Tourism and Hospitality Research 14, no. 1-2 (2014): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358414529578.
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Harry, Tinashe Timothy, Nicole Dodd, and Willie Chinyamurindi. "Telling tales." Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research 7, no. 1 (2019): 64–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jgm-05-2018-0024.
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PurposeSouth Africa has witnessed an increase in self-initiated academic expatriates (SIAEs) coming into the country from all over the world. This movement of labour can result in South Africa performing better than any other African country. However, expatriation is accompanied by several challenges which affect both work and non-work scopes. Given that more is needed to understand the lived experiences of the expatriates, especially self-initiated expatriates from and in Africa, the purpose of this paper is to provide the basis for interventions to assist the expatriates in overcoming challenges by understanding their lived experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe study used an interpretivist approach to understand the lived experiences of SIAEs. The data were collected through the use of unstructured interviews of 25 expatriate academics within South Africa. The individual narratives were analysed through structural and thematic analysis to develop themes.FindingsThrough the stories and narratives, the expatriation experience was one framed to be a challenging process. The lived experiences can be grouped into life and career experiences. The life experiences consist of immigration difficulties, family separation, social adjustment difficulties and unavailability of accommodation. Career experiences include remuneration differences, gender discrimination, limited professional development opportunities and communication difficulties, which affect both work and non-work experiences. Person–environment fit did not play a significant role in the experiences of the academic expatriates.Practical implicationsThe findings showed that the lived experiences of SIAEs in Africa were mostly negative. Higher education institutions looking at hiring academic expatriates should assist the expatriates to have better experiences not only for individual benefit but for institutional benefit as well. However, this role is not only placed in the hands of the organisation but may also require individual effort.Originality/valueThe findings outlined in this study provide a picture of the lived experiences of SIAEs in an African context. The findings are fundamental in understanding this neglected sample group in the extant literature. They also assist in advancing literature and proposing possible solutions. All this is important, given global talent shortages which have warranted the need for highly skilled employees in countries like South Africa.
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Riach, Kathleen, and Fiona Wilson. "Bodyspace at the pub: Sexual orientations and organizational space." Organization 21, no. 3 (2014): 329–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508413519767.
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In this article we argue that sexuality is not only an undercurrent of service environments, but is integral to the way that these workspaces are experienced and negotiated. Through drawing on Sara Ahmed’s (2006a) ‘orientation’ thesis, we develop a concept of ‘bodyspace’ to suggest that individuals understand, shape and make meaning of work spaces through complex sexually-orientated negotiations. Presenting analysis from a study of UK pubs, we explore bodyspace in the lived experience of workplace sexuality through three elements of orientation: background; bodily dwelling; and lines of directionality. Our findings show how organizational spaces afford or mitigate possibilities for particular bodies, which simultaneously shape expectations and experiences of sexuality at work. Bodyspace therefore provides one way of exposing the connection between sexual ‘orientation’ and the lived experience of service sector work.
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Dulay, Lolita A., and Elvira Sumbalan. "Phenomenological Study of Bukidnon State University Graduate Student Scholars." Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 8 - August 5, no. 8 (2020): 1741–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20aug829.
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This study explored the lived experiences of the Bukidnon State University Graduate student scholars in the Mindanao Regions during the School Year 2014-2020. The study delved into the scholars’ experiences in the six related factors, namely: students, BukSU faculty, BukSU administration, DepEd administration, work, and family. A phenomenological qualitative research design was employed. Twelve graduate student scholars were the participants of the study. The triangulation approach employing interviews, focus group discussions, and document review in the gathering of data assured the validity of the findings. Participants’ narratives on their lived experiences underwent transcriptions and analysis using Colaizzi’s method (1978). There were six (6) themes that surfaced-out from the lived experiences of the graduate student scholars, namely: Challenging yet, fulfilling Student-Learning Experiences; Satisfying Learning Experience with Wellrounded graduate faculty; Heart-warming learning experience with the BukSU Administration; Impressive support from the DepEd Administration; Pressured learning experience; and encouraging support system. A model showcasing the meaningful experiences of the graduate scholars and the attributes of how these scholars succeed in the pursuit of a graduate degree came out from these emerging themes.
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Garza, Gilbert. "Descartes in the Matrix." Janus Head 7, no. 2 (2004): 435–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh20047218.
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With the 1999 film The Martix as its point of departure, this work explores the meaning of ‘reality’ outside the scope of empirical positivism. Drawing on the phenomenological epistemology of the interplay of noetic and noematic dimensions of experience postulated by Husserl, and on the works of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, this work considers how the reality of our experience derives not from some correspondence to a universal ‘objective’ point of view, but from our concernful involvement with our lived world as the horizon of our lived and known projects. Finally, in light of Ricoeur’s work on imagination and productive reference, this work considers whether and on what grounds the distinction between so called ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ experiences is meaningful.
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Narusson, Dagmar, and Jean Pierre Wilken. "Recovery-oriented support work: the perspective of people with lived experience." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 14, no. 6 (2019): 457–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-02-2018-0011.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on individuals who experience mental health difficulties with the services they receive from “support workers” as part of a personal recovery model, this study will obtain individuals reflections, experiences and opinions on how support helps them stay well and facilitates their personal recovery process. Recovery is seen through the lens of the CHIME framework (Connectedness–Hope–Identity–Meaning–Empowerment). Design/methodology/approach The sample size included 13 people who experience mental health difficulties and are receiving support from mental health care services. The structured interview was designed based on the INSPIRE measurement and the CHIME framework structure. The qualitative content analyses, discursive framing approach and CHIME as a framework made it possible to examine the key activities of recovery-oriented support work revealed in the data. Findings Participants valued the enhancement of hope provided by support workers and also expressed it was important as they were non-judgemental. Identity and meaning in recovery could be enhanced by sharing powerful stories about the individuals’ own life and health experiences, and those of support workers or others. Inclusive behaviour in public spaces and trying out new interest-based activities together were considered as empowering. Originality/value This research helps to understand the value of personal recovery support activities given the societal changes (tension between survival vs self-expression values) and highlights the need for value-based recovery-oriented education and practice.
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Sethi, Bharati. "Using the eye of the camera to bare racism: A photovoice project." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 4 (2016): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss4id294.
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INTRODUCTION: Researchers have well established that visible minorities experience discrimination in the labour market and racism at work; however, few studies have explored the experiences of immigrant visible minority women, especially those residing outside of large urban areas. The focus of this article is to explore participants’ experiences of discrimination and racism using photovoice methodology.METHODS: This Canadian study used an arts-based qualitative method in the form of a modified photovoice where 17 participants took photographs of their work and health experiences and discussed the meaning of their photographs and narratives in the interviews.FINDINGS: Results indicate that participants experienced discrimination in the labour market, and racism at work. In the absence of language, participants found the eye of the camera as an effective methodological tool to uncover and communicate their lived experiences of discrimination and racism.CONCLUSIONS: Social workers can utilise photovoice for exploring sensitive issues such as experiences of discrimination and racism in a safe context with marginalised populations. They prevent discrimination and racism in their communities.
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Hermogenes, Mary Grace G. "Work Life Balance of Working Mothers: Phenomenological Inquiry of Work and Home Lived Experiences." Advanced Science Letters 24, no. 11 (2018): 8459–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.12588.
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Dulay, Lolita A., and Elvira Sumbalan. "Phenomenological Study of Bukidnon State University Graduate Student Scholars." CenRaPS Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (2020): 373–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/cenraps.v2i3.33.
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This study explored the lived experiences of the Bukidnon State University Graduate student scholars in the Mindanao Regions during the School Year 2014-2020. The study delved into the scholars’ experiences in the six related factors, namely: students, BukSU faculty, BukSU administration, DepEd administration, work, and family. A phenomenological qualitative research design was employed. Twelve graduate student scholars were the participants of the study. The triangulation approach employing interviews, focus group discussions, and document review in the gathering of data assured the validity of the findings. Participants’ narratives on their lived experiences underwent transcriptions and analysis using Colaizzi’s method (1978). There were six (6) themes that surfaced-out from the lived experiences of the graduate student scholars, namely: Challenging yet, fulfilling Student-Learning Experiences; Satisfying Learning Experience with Well-rounded graduate faculty; Heart-warming learning experience with the BukSU Administration; Impressive support from the DepEd Administration; Pressured learning experience; and encouraging support system. A model showcasing the meaningful experiences of the graduate scholars and the attributes of how these scholars succeed in the pursuit of a graduate degree came out from these emerging themes.
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Tomura, Miyuki. "A Prostitute's Lived Experiences of Stigma." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 40, no. 1 (2009): 51–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916209x427981.
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AbstractThis research used a semi-structured interview method and Smith and Osborn's (2003) interpretive phenomenological analysis to investigate a female prostitute's experiences of stigma associated with her work. To structure the interview schedule, Seidman's (2006) in-depth phenomenologically based interviewing method, which comprises three areas of focus, “focused life history,” “details of the experience” under investigation, and “reflection of the meaning” of the experience, was used as a general guide. Ten broad psychological themes were identified: 1) awareness of engaging in what people think is bad; (2) negative labeling by people who discover she is a prostitute; 3) hiding and lying about her identity as a prostitute to avoid being labeled negatively; 4) hiding and lying about her prostitution identity result in stress, anxiety, and exhaustion; 5) wishing she did not have to hide and lie about being a prostitute; 6) questioning and objecting to the stigmatization of prostitution; 7) managing the sense of stigmatization by persons who know about her prostitution by shifting focus away from devaluing and toward valuable qualities of prostitution; 8) developing occupational esteem and self-esteem through reflection of values; 9) compassion towards other people who suffer from stigma; and 10) resiliency.
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Beaulieu, Karen. "Lived experiences of return to paid work following a brain injury." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 82, no. 11 (2019): 658–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308022619860980.
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Ko, Yeong Ju, and Gwi-Ryung Son Hong. "Lived Experiences toward Harmful Work Environment among Clinical Nurses: Phenomenological Approach." Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 24, no. 3 (2018): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2018.24.3.173.
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Wright, Sharon, and Ruth Patrick. "Welfare Conditionality in Lived Experience: Aggregating Qualitative Longitudinal Research." Social Policy and Society 18, no. 4 (2019): 597–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746419000204.
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Punitive welfare conditionality, combining tough sanctions with minimal self-directed support, is a defining feature of contemporary UK working age social security provision. This approach has been justified by policy makers on the basis that it will increase the numbers in paid employment, and thereby offer savings for the public purse that are also beneficial for individuals who are expected to be healthier and better off financially as a result. In this article, we aggregate two qualitative longitudinal studies (Welfare Conditionality, 2014–17; and Lived Experience, 2011–16) that document lived experiences of claiming benefits and using back-to-work support services. In both studies and over time, we find, contrary to policy expectations, that coercion, including sanctions, was usually experienced as unnecessary and harmful and that poverty was prevalent, both in and out of work, tended to worsen and pushed many close to destitution. Conditionality governed encounters with employment services and, perversely, appeared to impede, rather than support, transitions into employment for participants in both studies. These constitute ‘shared typical’ aspects of lived experiences of welfare conditionality. We propose Combined Study Qualitative Longitudinal Research as a new methodological approach to extend inference beyond the usual study-specific confines of qualitative generalisation.
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Letvak, Susan. "Hurting at Work: The Lived Experience of Older Nurses." International Journal of Human Caring 13, no. 4 (2009): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.13.4.8.
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The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenologic study was to describe the experiences of older nurses who work with their own health problem of depression and/or musculoskeletal pain. The study was guided by Mayeroff’s framework of caring. Fourteen nurses over the age of 50 participated in in-depth face-to-face interviews. Analysis was guided by Moustakas’ phenomenological method. Four major themes emerged from the nurses’ voices: A Daily Struggle, My Practice of Nursing Changed, Learning To Cope, and Team Support. Study findings demonstrate the need for increased caring for nurses who work with their own health problems and have spent their careers caring for others.
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MUTISO, MOSES MUTUA, ERIC MASESE, and JAMIN MASINDE. "SEX WORKERS LIVED EXPERIENCES OF STIGMA IN NAIROBI, KENYA." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 7 (2020): 319–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.77.7348.
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Since immemorial sex work has been viewed as immoral in the society that we live in. This has made those who practise it to experience something traumatic in their life. Although sex work has been viewed by sex workers as a livelihood still the negative connotation associated with it has never faded. Similarly, studies on the stigma surrounding sex work industry are well documented and easily recognized worldwide. However, few studies examine the emic perspective of stigma among sex workers more so in Kenya. In the face of stigma, it makes sex workers adopt various strategies as a way of shading the stigma as they earn their livelihood. Using stigma narratives from 28 respondents practicing sex work, selected using purposive, snowball and direct sampling techniques, this paper shows sex work as a livelihood to sex workers and they use various means to sustain it despite the stigma they face in their everyday life. This ambiguity is evidenced by the strategies that sex workers use in resisting the perception of their work as immoral and evil and at the same time trying to (re)negotiate their threatened identity due to stigma within the larger community they live in. This paper then argues that stigma still remains a major social problem among those practising sex work despite the various constructions on sex work. This is evidenced from stigma narratives where the sex workers in Kenya are subject to various stigmatizing forces in their daily lives in their interactions with the family/relatives, neighbours, religious institutions, law enforcers, and health providers. These stigmas harm the sex workers’ health, both through apparent manifestations such as physical or verbal abuse and through subtler means such as those which generated or perpetuated vulnerability which then compel the sex workers to come with personal individualized ways or collective ways of dealing with stigma. To come up with development of interventions that may reduce stigma, it is important to understand the ways in which sex workers are stigmatized (manifestations of stigma), as well as who is doing the stigmatizing (sources of stigma) and its solution should be pegged on the various sources of stigma.
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BARRETO, Jaime Javier Villanueva. "Percepção como experiência subjetiva na constituição do mundo-da-vida na fenomenologia de Husserl." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 26, Especial (2020): 394–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2020v26ne.4.
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This work aims to show the determining role of perception in the constitution of Lifeworld and how it, despite the diversity of perceptual experiences, maintains its unity. The aim is to show, through a tour of the main works of Husserl, the profound relationship between perception and the constitution of the meaning of the unique world. The world understood as horizon allows us to retrospectively advance to the constitutive experiences among which the original lived experience of perception prevails. This highlights the subjective experience in the constitution of meaning of the Lifeworld.
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Jeong, Shinhee, Jeanne M. Bailey, Jin Lee, and Gary N. McLean. "“It’s not about me, it’s about us”: a narrative inquiry on living life as a social entrepreneur." Social Enterprise Journal 16, no. 3 (2020): 263–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-05-2019-0030.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to help us understand social entrepreneurs’ lived experiences, reflecting the comprehensive entrepreneurial processes that encompass their past, present and future. Design/methodology/approach A narrative approach was used to explore the meaning of experiences in social entrepreneurs’ professional lives through the stories retold and restructured by social entrepreneurs. A total of 11 social entrepreneurs in the Midwest region of the USA were interviewed. Findings The authors identified three time-sequential themes: past (looking backward at the origin), present (living life as a social entrepreneur) and future (looking forward). Seven sub-themes emerged, revealing social entrepreneurs’ aspiration, self-knowledge, identity-defining moments, their sustainability-oriented leadership and how they build an organizational structure, partnership and handle the burden of work and the organization. Practical implications The findings offer useful information for future social entrepreneurs as they can learn from the perspectives of experienced social entrepreneurs in terms of what to prepare for and expect so they can achieve their full entrepreneurial potential. It can also aid in further development of social entrepreneur curricula in business and non-business schools. Originality/value The existing literature does not portray sufficient detail about how social entrepreneurs live the lives they have created and chosen to understand their lived experiences. This study also provides a comprehensive definition of social entrepreneurship, incorporating “collective perspective” with a mentality of “it’s not about me, it’s about us”.
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Cheng, Mei-Li, Ying-Hua Tseng, Eric Hodges, and Fan-Hao Chou. "Lived Experiences of Novice Male Nurses in Taiwan." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 29, no. 1 (2016): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659616676318.
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Purpose: Nursing remains a female-dominated profession around the world. The masculinity and male identity of men who choose nursing careers is questioned by the general public in many countries. Few studies report the situation of novice male nurses at their first year. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of novice male nurses when they first enter the workplace. Design and Method: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using purposive and snowball sampling for recruitment. Fourteen participants, 21 to 25 years old, were recruited, all of whom had at least 5 months of work experience. On average, in-depth, face-to-face interviews lasted 1 hour, with more than one follow-up telephone interview per participant. Findings: The following six themes emerged from the transcribed verbatim data based on content analysis: choosing appropriate work departments based on personality and needs, facing the pressure and frustration of independent work, getting help, obtaining acceptance among female cliques, reflecting on the relationship between gender and profession, and concerns about dependents and financial needs. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: This study addresses masculinity issues and gender stereotyping. In addition, male nurses were very concerned about their career options and development and the likelihood of promotion. This research not only has implications for better understanding of novice male nurses’ needs and the challenges in their social life but also makes suggestions for nursing practice to attract and keep more male nurses in the nursing profession. The results illustrate how culturally congruent nursing care can be achieved when we more concern male nurses’ role pressure and address traditional gender sensitivity to promote male nurses’ career development.
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Medhurst, Adrian R., and Simon L. Albrecht. "Salesperson work engagement and flow." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 11, no. 1 (2016): 22–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-04-2015-1281.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an interpretation of the lived experiences of salespersons’ work engagement and work-related flow and how these states are related. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-methods qualitative investigation on a sample of 14 salespeople from a large Australian-based consumer goods enterprise was conducted. Using interpretative phenomenological analyses and ethnographic content analyses the antecedents and conditions for salesperson work engagement and work-related flow were investigated. Findings – The data showed that affective, cognitive and conative dimensions underpinned the experience of work engagement and work-related flow. Work engagement was interpreted as an aroused and self-regulated psychological state of energy, focus and striving aimed to address the situational and task relevant opportunities and demands encountered. Work-related flow was characterized by passion, absorption, eudaimonia and automatic self-regulation of goal pursuit. Research limitations/implications – The sample was from a single manufacturing organization with sales roles focussed primarily on business-to-business selling, and as such the generalizability of results to salespeople working in different contexts (e.g. retail sales, telesales) needs to be established. Practical implications – The research helps sales managers to take more account of the conditions that foster salesperson engagement and flow. Originality/value – This study represents one of the first attempts to interpret, compare and contrast the lived experience of salesperson work engagement with that of work-related flow. The study also adds to the relative paucity of research published on work engagement using qualitative methods.
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Phillion, JoAnn, Erik L. Malewski, Suniti Sharma, and Yuxiang Wang. "Reimagining the Curriculum in Study Abroad: Globalizing Multiculturalism to Prepare Future Teachers." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18, no. 1 (2009): 323–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v18i1.269.
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This article discusses research that indicates that the lived experience of studying abroad provides preservice teachers the intellectual and critical starting point for multicultural awareness of the educational, social, and political relationships between their lives and other cultures. With course work and field experiences that are grounded in multicultural life-experience, the authors argue that preservice teachers begin to develop the awareness, sensitivity, and skills they urgently need to bridge the gap between White teachers and their historically underprivileged student populations and to understand the rapidly diversifying classrooms in which they will teach.
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Valentine, Keri D., and Johnna Bolyard. "Lived Moments of Shift in Prospective Elementary Teachers' Mathematical Learning." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 50, no. 4 (2019): 436–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.50.4.0436.
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Past experiences as mathematics learners play a critical role in the way mathematics teachers consider what it means to know, do, and teach mathematics. Thus, understanding past experiences and ways to work with them in teacher education is a critical concern. Using phenomenological inquiry, we investigated moments of shift that occur along one's mathematics journey. The study draws on 30 prospective teachers' experiences in the form of lived-experience writing and interview data. Findings show that prospective teachers' shifts manifest in relations with others, across different time frames, and through material relations with mathematics. Most salient was the tentative and mutable nature of shifts, showing that shift might be better viewed as a possibility rather than a single event.
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Bhatta, Jyoti, Alex J. Bishop, Nadia Firdauysa, and Tanya Finchum. "GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MEANINGFUL LIVED EXPERIENCES RECALLED BY CENTENARIANS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S307—S308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1127.
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Abstract The purpose of the investigation was to conduct a retrospective examination of meaningful live experiences reported by centenarians. Data for this study originated from N=111 centenarians (n = 43 men; n = 68 women) who participated in the Oklahoma 100-Year Life Project. Applying a hierarchical convoy mapping technique commonly used in social network evaluations, IBM/SPSS 23.0 was used to conduct a descriptive analysis of N = 654 recalled lived experiences. The Mini-Mental Status Examination-SF (MMSE-SF; M = 12.55; SD = 1.55) was used to screen all participants for cognitive orientation prior to participation to ensure capacity to consent and intact memory recall. Centenarian participants recalled a total of M = 6.90; SD= 2.61 lived experiences. Centenarian men recognized a significantly greater average number of meaningful experiences (F = (1, 653) = 30.53, p < .01) compared to centenarian women (M = 4.06 vs. M = 3.43). A good proportion of centenarians (40.50%) acknowledged meaningful events as occurring during young-adulthood. However, the timing of such events occurred significantly earlier (F = (1, 357) = 7.37, p < .01) on average for men compared to women (M = 27.60 yrs. vs. M = 34.11; 1.53). Further analysis revealed that over half of lived experiences considered meaningful among centenarians proportionally fit into three domain types: Family-oriented (19.5%); Work/employment related (18.7%); and Marriage (13.7%). Results have implications relative to understanding how variation in meaningful lived experiences among centenarians. Further evidence of a gendered life course in human longevity will be highlighted.
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Koptie, Steven W., and Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux. "Inferiorizing Indigenous Communities and Intentional Colonial Poverty." First Peoples Child & Family Review 5, no. 2 (2020): 96–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1068935ar.
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This paper is a reflective topical autobiography of a man seasoned by thirty years of community and crisis work. It has been written to encourage Aboriginal peoples to reflect on their lives and share their lived-experiences with others so that we can work together to break the colonial spell that has held so many hostage to their past.
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Trabelsi-Zoghlami, Amira, and Mourad Touzani. "How real are virtual experiences?" European Journal of Marketing 53, no. 8 (2019): 1612–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-10-2017-0776.
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Purpose This paper aims to explore the virtual experience to understand its components and its effects on consumers’ real world. Design/methodology/approach Our approach relies on a rarely used projective method: “Album-on-Line” (AOL). This technique allows identifying consumers’ representations of their experience. It uses images to immerse participants in a virtual experience and to lead an individual reflection, then a group reflection. Findings Virtual experiences have utilitarian, hedonic, psychological and social dimensions. When immersing in virtual experiences, consumers’ perception and consumption of products and services change. A projection occurs leading to an identification to virtual characters. This projection also leads to a consumption aiming at finding back the excitement and challenge lived during virtual experiences. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this research relates with the fuzzy distinction between the virtual and the electronic in consumers’ minds and even in the literature. Future work should propose a multidisciplinary definition of the virtual experience, considering its specificities and components. Practical implications This research offers companies a better understanding of consumers’ motivations to live virtual experiences. It may bring insights on how to provide a more customized offering and a more adapted communication. Originality/value Compared to previous work, the present research offers a better understanding of the components of online and offline virtual experiences by considering the virtual in its broadest meaning. The use of the AOL technique enabled a closer look at the specificities of the virtual experience as perceived by consumers. It was also possible to explore the “post-experience” stage by understanding the effect of virtual experiences on consumers’ perceptions and consumptions.
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Hockey, John, and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson. "The Sensorium at Work: The Sensory Phenomenology of the Working Body." Sociological Review 57, no. 2 (2009): 217–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2009.01827.x.
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The sociology of the body and the sociology of work and occupations have both neglected to some extent the study of the ‘working body’ in paid employment, particularly with regard to empirical research into the sensory aspects of working practices. This gap is perhaps surprising given how strongly the sensory dimension features in much of working life. This article is very much a first step in calling for a more phenomenological, embodied and ‘fleshy’ perspective on the body in employment, and examines some of the theoretical and conceptual resources available to researchers wishing to focus on the lived working-body experiences of the sensorium. We also consider some possible representational forms for a more evocative, phenomenologically-inspired portrayal of sensory, lived-working-body experiences, and offer suggestions for future avenues of research.
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Ryninks, Kirsty, Vuokko Wallace, and James D. Gregory. "Older adult hoarders’ experiences of being helped by volunteers and volunteers’ experiences of helping." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 47, no. 6 (2019): 697–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135246581900016x.
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AbstractBackground:There is limited research into the experiences of receiving and providing help in the context of hoarding disorder.Aims:The present study aimed to explore the experiences of older people with hoarding difficulties receiving help and volunteers providing support to people with hoarding problems.Method:Qualitative methods were adopted to investigate the lived experience of participants. A total of seven volunteer helpers and four people with hoarding disorder were recruited and interviewed using a semi-structured interview, designed to explore experiences of providing and receiving help. Qualitative analysis of the interview data was performed using interpretive phenomenological analysis.Results:Four superordinate themes were identified: relationship between client and volunteer; ‘live life again’; challenges; and supporting volunteers. The relationship was crucial in providing a trusting foundation from which clients felt able to move forward. Volunteers provided a space for clients to talk and appropriate self-disclosure helped to build a relationship. The informal and ‘non-professional’ status of volunteers enabled clients to take the lead and feel more in control of the therapeutic process. Volunteer flexibility and lack of time constraints contributed to clients ‘making space’ for themselves, both in their home and their lives. The support from volunteers enabled clients to ‘live life again’ and created a domino effect, bringing about improvements in other areas of their lives.Conclusions:The findings are discussed in relation to the training of health professionals to work with people with hoarding difficulties and the implications of the findings for treatment approaches and service provision.
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Moss, Tamarah, Andrew M. Muriuki, Sithokozile Maposa, and Denise Kpebo. "Lived experiences of street girls in Côte d’Ivoire." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 15, no. 2 (2019): 150–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-12-2017-0052.
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Purpose The United Nations continues to identify street children as one of the most vulnerable sub-populations of children and youth globally. The purpose of this paper is to present social and contextual perspectives of 11 girls living on the streets of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Implications with respect to the development and delivery of effective sexual/reproductive and mental health interventions and services are discussed. Design/methodology/approach Through semi-structured interviews and applied qualitative thematic analysis, this paper aims to achieve in-depth understanding about the lives of 11 girls living on the street. A socio-ecological framework is utilized to interpret the experiences of the girls at the individual (micro), community (mezzo) and structural (macro) levels. Findings Six main themes evolved from the thematic analysis of interview transcripts: exposure to violence and abuse before and on the street, exposure to violence and sex work, risk and vulnerability to HIV, substance use and sex work, substance use and physical and reproductive health and ways of coping and future planning. Originality/value The interplay of experiences illustrates how girls navigate their lives, and along with an appreciation of intersectionality validates the need for an integrated approach to health and social care related to health and mental health services. Integrated interventions should focus on common issues such as improving access to HIV testing and contraceptives for young girls living on the street.
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De Bruyn, Anita Juliana. "Exploring high-performance work processes in effective virtual teams." African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 8, no. 4 (2017): 398–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajems-06-2016-0070.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bridge the void in virtual teams’ (VTs) lived experiences on the high-performance work process theme by exploring process alignment best practices for the functioning of effective VTs in the software sector of the technology industry of South Africa. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative, interpretivist case study was used to gain insight into the lived experiences of VT members. A purposive sample was selected, and data were collected through an electronic questionnaire and analysed by means of content analysis. Findings International literature corpus informed the process theme. Empirical evidence suggests that a value-driven work orientation to combat cybercrime linked with the pre-existence to specific architecture effectively contribute to the practice of VT expertise by delivering innovative new paths instead of aligning to traditional processes. Research limitations/implications The qualitative approach of this paper limits the replication possibilities beyond the information and communication technology (ICT) VTs who participated in the study. The themes, elements and the virtual nature of the study could be generalised across various technology-infused organisations in other VTs and within other knowledge working fields. Practical implications An exemplary questionnaire and method to obtain deep knowledge from the lived experiences of the virtually dispersed participants could be utilised for similar future studies. Social implications ICT software organisations trading on the African, within VT environments and South Africa, people practitioners and risk managers would benefit from the process alignment practices suggested in this study. Originality/value This paper complements seminal VT theorists, and presents suggestions towards a practical implementable novel framework for the implementation of VT processes alignment.
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McKay, Fiona Helen, and Hayley Jane McKenzie. "Life outside the garment factories: the lived experiences of Cambodian women garment factory workers." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 16, no. 4 (2020): 415–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-03-2019-0041.
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Purpose Cambodia’s workforce has shifted over time, with internal migration increasing as more people are forced to the cities to find employment. This paper aims to change in workforce participation has led to a number of challenges for people moving into urban areas, particularly women as their role in the household and workforce is changing. Design/methodology/approach This research used qualitative research to explore the experiences of 20 Cambodian women working in garment factories. Interviews were conducted in Khmer by a bilingual research assistant. Interviews were recorded and then translated into English. Data were thematically analysed following a constant comparative method. Findings Findings indicate that women experience social isolation, job stress and are vulnerable to a variety of health and well-being problems. When moving into the city for work, many rural women leave their children in the care of other family members, including grandparents and other extended families, without a network, they experience isolation and loneliness. Originality/value This is the first qualitative work of its kind to investigate the experiences of Cambodian women factory workers and their experiences of moving to urban areas for work.
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Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn, Lee Crust, and Christian Swann. "Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering: Sensing and Working with the Weather." Body & Society 25, no. 1 (2018): 90–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x18812947.
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In order to address sociological concerns with embodiment and learning, in this article we explore the ‘weathering’ body in a currently under-researched physical-cultural domain. Weather experiences, too, are under-explored in sociology, and here we examine in depth the lived experience of weather and, more specifically, ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’ in one of the most extreme and corporeally challenging environments on earth: high-altitude mountains. Drawing on a theoretical framework of phenomenological sociology, and an interview-based research project with 19 international, high-altitude mountaineers, we investigate weather as lived and experienced both corporeally and cognitively. We are particularly interested in conceptualizing and theorizing the ways in which embodied beings relate to the environment through different aspects of their being. The novel concepts of ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’, we argue, provide salient examples of the mind-body-world nexus at work, as an embodied practice and mode of thinking, strongly contoured by the physical culture of high-altitude mountaineering.
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PATRICK, RUTH. "Working on Welfare: Findings from a Qualitative Longitudinal Study Into the Lived Experiences of Welfare Reform in the UK." Journal of Social Policy 43, no. 4 (2014): 705–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279414000294.
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AbstractThis paper presents findings from a qualitative longitudinal study into the lived experiences of welfare reform in the UK. The study set out to explore how individuals directly affected by changes to the benefits system experienced and responded to these reforms. A small group of out-of-work benefits claimants were interviewed three times between 2011 and 2013. The research found that ‘getting by’ on benefits often entailed substantial hard ‘work’, which was frequently time intensive, with many participants also engaged in other forms of socially valuable contribution such as caring and volunteering. A strong orientation towards paid employment was evident across most of the sample and fluid movements in and out of work, characteristic of the ‘low-pay, no-pay’ cycle, was quite common. Alongside a discussion of these findings, this paper considers the (mis)match between the government rhetoric of benefits as a ‘lifestyle choice’ and individual lived experiences.
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Stueck, William, and Boram Yi. "To End the Unending War." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 23, no. 2 (2016): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02302003.
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The Korean War never has been a “forgotten war” for Koreans who lived through the brutal conflict and still live under the two competing states that it helped to establish as permanent entities. Yet, the experiences of the Korean people often have taken a backseat in the study of the war. This review essay introduces and assesses an important work that challenges this view. Korean scholar Dong-Choon Kim argues that the wartime experience of the Korean people needs serious analysis. By placing the Korean experience at the front and center of his examination, Kim provides a fuller understanding of this unending war.
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Mendoza-Reis, Noni, and Rosalinda Quintanar-Sarellana. "Lived Experiences of Women of Color in Education." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (2021): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29534.
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By building upon previous research of women of color in academia, this article focuses on the lived experiences and narratives of two faculty members. Their stories are presented as case studies which explicate the distinct difference between reading and researching poverty and having experiential knowledge of this circumstance. The first narrative presents a scholar from a farmworker background who understands and has lived in poverty. Because of this background, she is able to apply her own community cultural wealth to her work in education. The second narrative depicts a scholar with a rich academic background that did not have the opportunity to engage fully with her research agenda. Her life in academia was very rich and she was able to help many students, schools and communities. However, she was forced to set aside her dreams of conducting in depth research of the issues confronted by her underserved community.
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Yusuf, Ria Mardiana. "Exploring Carers' Views and Experiences of Being Involved in Research and Development Work." International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 12, no. 4 (2020): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijskd.2020100103.
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This article aims to move knowledge beyond the first response, by outlining a framework for interpreting and evaluating the experiences of carers regarding their involvement in R&D work. The study adopted a descriptive and explorative qualitative design. The inclusion criterion to enroll in the study was being a career and having participated in an FGI in the ICS consultation phase. The sample of twelve participants ranged in age from 35 to 77 years (mean value 60 years). Data collection consisted of individual interviews, via the “Zoom” videoconference system, telephone or face-to-face, depending on the preferences of the participants. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at the university or a café. The result is participants emphasized the significance of lived experience and practical knowledge. There is a limited amount of systematic research carried out that also actively takes into account possible negative experiences, barriers, and issues.
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Yeo, Caroline, Laurie Hare-Duke, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, et al. "The VOICES Typology of Curatorial Decisions in Narrative Collections of the Lived Experiences of Mental Health Service Use, Recovery, or Madness: Qualitative Study." JMIR Mental Health 7, no. 9 (2020): e16290. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16290.
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Background Collections of lived experience narratives are increasingly used in health research and medical practice. However, there is limited research with respect to the decision-making processes involved in curating narrative collections and the work that curators do as they build and publish collections. Objective This study aims to develop a typology of curatorial decisions involved in curating narrative collections presenting lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness and to document approaches selected by curators in relation to identified curatorial decisions. Methods A preliminary typology was developed by synthesizing the results of a systematic review with insights gained through an iterative consultation with an experienced curator of multiple recovery narrative collections. The preliminary typology informed the topic guide for semistructured interviews with a maximum variation sample of 30 curators from 7 different countries. All participants had the experience of curating narrative collections of the lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness. A multidisciplinary team conducted thematic analysis through constant comparison. Results The final typology identified 6 themes, collectively referred to as VOICES, which stands for values and motivations, organization, inclusion and exclusion, control and collaboration, ethics and legal, and safety and well-being. A total of 26 subthemes related to curation decisions were identified. Conclusions The VOICES typology identifies the key decisions to consider when curating narrative collections about the lived experiences of mental health service use, recovery, or madness. It might be used as a theoretical basis for a good practice resource to support curators in their efforts to balance the challenges and sometimes conflicting imperatives involved in collecting, organizing, and sharing narratives. Future research might seek to document the use of such a tool by curators and hence examine how best to use VOICES to support decision making.
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Steele, Rose. "Navigating Uncharted Territory: Experiences of Families when a Child is Dying." Journal of Palliative Care 21, no. 1 (2005): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/082585970502100106.
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In this grounded theory study, eight families moved through a process of navigating uncharted territory as they lived with their child who was dying from a neurodegenerative illness. The emotions of fear, uncertainty, and grief gave impetus to the process. Families lived much of their lives on Plateaus of relative stability, where they often felt alone and isolated from health care professionals. Periods of instability led to families dropping off the Plateau. Living with a dying child had profound physical, emotional, and financial effects on families. The process was characterized by four dimensions. Parents used strategies within these dimensions to manage the physical, cognitive, and emotional work arising from the situation. These dimensions and strategies were constrained and facilitated by four intervening conditions. In addition, the process occurred within the broader context of the acute, curative health care system and the sociocultural environment. Suggestions for practice and research are offered to assist health care professionals in providing optimal care to these families.
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Radford, Eleanor J., and Theo Fotis. "The lived experiences of operating theatre scrub nurses learning technical scrub skills ‘I’m doing this right, aren’t I? Am I doing this right?’." Journal of Perioperative Practice 28, no. 12 (2018): 355–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458918780159.
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Operating theatre scrub nurses (OTSNs) are not required to have undertaken a secondary or specialist post-registration theatre qualification to work in the operating theatre (OT) setting in the UK. From the systematic review there is only very limited literature or research in how technical scrub skills are acquired. This study explores the lived experiences of OTSNs learning technical scrub skills. The study employed the qualitative methodology of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data was collected from six participating OTSNs using semi-structured interviews. Four superordinate themes emerged: How technical scrub skills are established, Gatekeepers, How the learner feels whilst learning and, Reflections of the experienced scrub nurse. The study found that the experiences of OTSNs learning technical scrub skills are varied and a variety of teaching and learning methods are utilised. These experiences were influenced by the team, mentor and surgeon within the OT environment. Lived experiences were also influenced by organisational structure and service pressures within the NHS.
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Zelaya, Priscilla, Amy Harder, and T. Grady Roberts. "Filling in the Gap: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Agricultural Change Agents in Northern Haiti." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 25, no. 2 (2018): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2018.25205.
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In order to better understand the lived experiences of change agents in the North Department of Haiti, a hermeneutical phenomenological study was conducted. Change agents must work against a variety of barriers in order to help influence change within their spheres of influence in rural Haiti. The change agent experience in this study is collaborative, mutually benefitting, deeply cultural, and built out of necessity. Change agents in this study have found that by working together, they are able to fill in the gaps left by unequal distributions of resources within their communities such as tools, money, advisory services, or even basic agricultural knowledge. Despite holes within the agricultural support services in their areas, the change agents have mobilized community members to work together to move their communities forward. Understanding the lived experiences of change agents will help inform ongoing and future agricultural development efforts in the North Department of Haiti.
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FARA, PATRICIA. "The past as a work in progress." British Journal for the History of Science 51, no. 1 (2017): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087417001042.
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AbstractOriginating as a presidential address during the seventieth birthday celebrations of the British Society for the History of Science, this essay reiterates the society's long-standing commitment to academic autonomy and international cooperation. Drawing examples from my own research into female scientists and doctors during the First World War, I explore how narratives written by historians are related to their own lives, both past and present. In particular, I consider the influences on me of my childhood reading, my experiences as a physics graduate who deliberately left the world of science, and my involvement in programmes to improve the position of women in science. In my opinion, being a historian implies being socially engaged: the BSHS and its members have a responsibility towards the future as well as the past.Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard,Journals and Papers, 1843