Stories are one way that experiences, ideas and culture shared with children in educational settings. Commercially published books the standard means schools for sharing stories. Qualitative content analysis was carried out on 30 personal narrative-based children's picture books. While range of stories told is vast, our research focuses refugee light contemporary political public focus refugees...

3 This study investigated how the experiences of two elite coaches' contributed to and shaped 4 their stories of burnout and withdrawal from high performance coaching. The coaches whose 5 narratives we explore were both middle-aged head coaches, one in a major team sport at the 6 highest club level, and one in an individual Olympic sport at international level. Through a 7 thematic narrative an...

In her article "The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Turkish Women's Narratives" Adile Aslan analyzes the figure of the woman intellectual in two of the most widely praised novels written in Turkish, Adalet A!ao!lu's 1971 Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Leyla Erbil's 1985 Karanlı!ın Günü (The Day of Darkness). Aslan discusses how the two authors represent in their texts intertwine...

This paper is about a research project known as reGossip. reGossip is a network game about gossip and social status. The multi-modal network includes mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and desktop computing systems. The paper describes the interaction model, the game design and system design of reGossip, preliminary results and next steps. The primary research question is can an intera...

Michel de Montaigne, the great French humanist and inventor of the personal essay, suffered from frequent and severe renal colic. He wrote about his illness in his travel journal and in his last and greatest essay, "Of Experience." In his illness narratives, Montaigne integrated disease and suffering into his life and art. He humanized rather than conquered his disease. A mature humanism replac...

We present a data-driven technique for acquiring domain-level importance of verbs from the analysis of abstract/article pairs of world news articles. We show that existing lexical resources capture some the semantic characteristics for important words in the domain. We develop a novel characterization of the association between verbs and personal story narratives, which is descriptive of verbs ...