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Conversations about Reading with Older Adults: Self-Knowledge and Empowerment
No full textThis article focuses on the role and possible uses of a specific practice of conversation about reading, also referred to as reading conversation or reading interview. It reveals its many benefits, especially in terms of increased self-awareness, narrative learning, interpersonal bonding, and reading motivation. The author refers to the reading interviews she has been conducting with older people and demonstrates how reflection on one’s own reading constitutes a rich source of knowledge about oneself and has a significant empowering potential. She proposes different practical implementations of such conversations as a group activity in the context of retirement homes and more broadly. Special attention is given to the development of the methodology and to the performance of these conversational sessions, as well as to the practical challenges, specifically in relation to the inclusion of different profiles of older people
Political Posters, Periperformativity, and Power: An Analysis of the Connections Between an Activist Movement\u27s Image and Sound
Get PDFThis essay argues that we can gain a better understanding of the relationship between ACT UP’s image and sound, specifically its political posters and subsequent chants, by using Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s theory of periperformativity to examine the periperformative dimension of these chants and thus the power they lend ACT UP members during civil disobedience demonstrations. Second, it argues that the periperformative has the capacity to register historical change because it is an instance of, we-work
Chronic Illness Education 2024: Resources for Smoking Cessation for Senior Adults (65+) with COPD in the US
No full textChronic Illness Education 2024: Enhancing patient communication with visual effect in cardiovascular disease management
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