6 research outputs found
Piecing together the patchwork: How a therapeutic school can help adopted children with their sense of identity
No full textThis study sought to find out how staff in a therapeutic school could support adopted children with their sense of identity. It explores whether a therapeutic school can be a helpful environment for supporting identity development. Eight members of staff from one therapeutic school were interviewed, using a semi-structured interview format. A mixture of clinical and education staff were recruited to reflect the integrated nature of the school. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings demonstrated that due to adopted children’s traumatic early experiences and multiple changes of caregivers, their sense of identity is disrupted. Therefore, they require additional support in this area in order to develop their sense of self. This study has shown that a therapeutic school is a helpful environment to provide this support. The study makes a number of recommendations for clinical and educational practice. It emphasizes the importance of parent work and the bringing together of professional networks in order support adopted children with their identity development. The study also makes a number of recommendations for further research. As the study was carried out in one specific therapeutic school, further research is needed to see if the findings are applicable to other schools for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties or mainstream settings
Piecing together the patchwork: How a therapeutic school can help adopted children with their sense of identity.
No full textThis study sought to find out how staff in a therapeutic school could support adopted children with their sense of identity. It explores whether a therapeutic school can be a helpful environment for supporting identity development. Eight members of staff from one therapeutic school were interviewed, using a semi-structured interview format. A mixture of clinical and education staff were recruited to reflect the integrated nature of the school. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings demonstrated that due to adopted children’s traumatic early experiences and multiple changes of caregivers, their sense of identity is disrupted. Therefore, they require additional support in this area in order to develop their sense of self. This study has shown that a therapeutic school is a helpful environment to provide this support. The study makes a number of recommendations for clinical and educational practice. It emphasizes the importance of parent work and the bringing together of professional networks in order support adopted children with their identity development. The study also makes a number of recommendations for further research. As the study was carried out in one specific therapeutic school, further research is needed to see if the findings are applicable to other schools for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties or mainstream settings.
Key words: adopted children, identity, therapeutic school, therapeutic milieu
Signification functions of Undomestic Goddess novel cover
No full textNovel cover is like human appearance; it is the first thing that the people will take notice of. It turned out that novel cover is quite essential in influencing the opinions and impression of the reader regarding the novel itself. Novel’s cover using symbols, fonts, and colors, construct cover signs functions. The researcher intends to analyze the novel covers sign functions. The source data of the research is selected using purposive sampling following the standard of a novel cover. This research uses three (3) covers of the novel Undomestic Goods by Sophie Kinsella as the data source. The theory of signification by Rolland Barthes is the analytical tool of this research used to determine the function of the elements in the object of research. The results of the study are both covers have their own significations functions; the first edition (1) cover function emphasizes on promoting the novel by using signification content of the novel. Cover (2) emphasizes promotion function using the author popularity and best-selling author status and promoting the novel by using signification content of the novel. Cover three (3) the latest edition function emphasizes on ‘advertises’ the novel by using the author popularity and best-selling author status
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
Nutritional aspects of sexual dimorphism in the American mink mustela vison (schreber)
No full textNutritional aspects of size-related sex differences in the diets of free-living mink were investigated in laboratory-based feeding trials with adult farm-bred mink maintained on 'natural' diets. As preliminary studies had shown that carcase utility was virtually complete, the rations presented comprised the minced whole carcasses of wild rabbit Oryctolagus cunniculus, eel Anquilla anguilla, laboratory rats and mice, and domestic fowl. Determinations of gross composition revealed significant differences between these diets; the smaller prey types, including rodents, birds and fish, were found to have a higher ratio of Apparent Digestible Energy to Nitrogen than larger items such as rabbits, although comparisons with data presented by other workers demonstrated that the variations between species within these prey groups are as great as, or greater than, those between the diets themselves. From the results of the feeding trials, it was also apparent that such diets do not differ significantly, either in digestibility or biological value and attempts to classify particular prey items in terms of their nutritional value are, therefore, of limited application in analyses of the feeding ecology of a generalist predator. Nutrient intake was related to diet composition and varied widely between trials, although the mass-specific requirements of females were higher than those of males. Comparisons of gut morphology indicated that, in females, hypertrophy of the alimentary tract may develop in response to increased energy demands. A similar adaptation was evident in both males and females from wild populations, suggesting that the natural diets of free-living mink are generally of a lower quality than the rations fed to commercially raised animals. Feeding trials were also carried out on growing kits from 56 to 105 days post partum. Sex differences in nutrient metabolism were not significant but the growth rates of males were higher than those of females. In both sexes the growth rates of kits feeding on 'natural' diets were lower than those of animals raised on commercial rations. This effect was most pronounced in males, a finding which supports the hypothesis that the degree of sexual dimorphism in this species is dependent on the extent to which the growth potential of males is constrained by dietary regime during the early phases of development
