Enactments of a Minor Inquiry

The evocative power of enactments.

The inevitability of analytic enactments, defined as symbolic interactions between patient and analyst, is discussed. Clinical material from the psychoanalysis of a latency-age child is presented to illustrate the role of enactments and to demonstrate their usefulness in furthering the analytic work.

Lying: A Minor Inquiry into the Ethics of Neurotic and Psychopathic Behavior

The Project Multiple: Enactments of systems development

This article analyzes how a pilot implementation of a maternity care record was approached very differently by potential users. It is argued that conceptualizing the ways in which the new IT system was approached as: (1) ritual, (2) controlled experiment, and (3) learning process, highlights differences in what it meant for participants to be part of the implementation. This is comparable to pa...

Inquiry in Designing Conceptual Model of Curriculum: A Synthesis Approach

Introduction: The importance and necessity of designing a conceptual model of curriculum is one of the important issues in the educational system of a country. Given the current status of the education system, which does not use a comprehensive model concept at all levels to design and formulate a curriculum, therefore, this descriptive study provides a comprehensive conceptual framework. Metho...

Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions and Enactments of Project-Based Instruction

We present results of an investigation of preservice secondary mathematics and science teachers’ conceptions of project-based instruction (PBI) and their enactments of PBI in apprentice (student) teaching. We evaluated their thinking and implementations within a composite framework based on the work of education researchers. We analyzed survey responses, both qualitatively and statistically, fr...