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Reconstructing Unruly Ecological Complexity: Science, Interpretation, and Critical, Reflective Practice

Involvement in environmental issues in the 1970s led me, as it did many fellow activists, to study the science of ecology. Having a mathematical disposition, I chose to focus less on field studies and more on quantitative analysis and theoretical modeling. I soon developed an interest that continues to this day in the challenge that ecological complexity poses to conventional scientific ways of...

Distributed Leadership in Tehran’s Elementary Schools: A Qualitative Exploration of Cultural Domains

In order to explore the cultural domains of Tehrani elementary schools vis-à-vis distributed leadership, a sample of 16 teachers, 8 assistant principals, and 8 principals was selected purposefully from districts 2, 6, and 11. The informants were interviewed in a  semi-structured fashion. Data analyses revealed 19 main factors upon which a model for the cultural domains of the elementary schools...

Making sense of traumatic experiences: telling your life with fragile X syndrome.

The discourse of individuals with fragile X syndrome has been described as fragmented, tangential, and associatively connected, resulting in autobiographical narratives that are incoherent and difficult to understand. In this article, the authors discuss the case of an adolescent female with moderate mental retardation due to fragile X syndrome. The analysis of her autobiographical stories, rat...

Interactional Positioning and Narrative Self-Construction

Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...