We explain how organizational experiences that fall outside already known experience categories pose a challenge to traditional notions of learning. We suggest that one way to learn about and from such unusual experiences is through the use of narratives. Not only do narratives help individuals make sense of unusual experiences, but, at the same time, they facilitate a process whereby others ca...

Abstract Only limited attention has been drawn to children's narrative practice of negotiating cultural ideas about who they are and what can do. This paper focuses on children living in families where adults have psychosocial problems analyses how negotiate different family‐related and/or societal master narratives their identity agency. Twenty‐two children, 6–17 years old, interviewed themsel...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to profound psychological events that can have an important impact on the experiencers' (NDErs) lives. Previous studies have shown that NDEs memories are phenomenologically rich. In the present study, we therefore aimed to extract the common themes (referred to as "features" in the NDE literature) reported by NDErs by analyzing all the concepts stored in the ...

BACKGROUND Patient experience surveys are increasingly important in the measurement of, and attempts to improve, health-care quality. To date, little research has focused upon doctors' attitudes to surveys which give them personalized feedback. AIM This paper explores doctors' perceptions of patient experience surveys in primary and secondary care settings in order to deepen understandings of...

Adolescent maternity involves relevant factors associated with each family, culture and society. This research aimed to describe the experiences in the trajectory of adolescent maternity. The oral history method was used, obtaining the narratives of 21 adolescent mothers living in a low income community located in São Paulo City, Brazil. The following descriptive categories emerged from the nar...

Narratives are the first means for categorizing experience, whether the experience is real, represented or simulated. As in many textual forms, even in computer games the narrative level is the textual level players are most aware of. Experiencing a computer game is not only a matter of playing and interacting but means being part of a narrative universe. Computer game theory cannot fail to ack...