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Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research
explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and
methodological issues related to the introduction of intentional
imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into some or
all phases of investigation, and data integration of particular
research approaches. Although typically central to mixed,
multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating
diverse forms of data might be applied to other research
traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a
deviation from traditional scientific thinking demanding a dramatic
paradigm shift inclusive of multi-dimensional, nondiscursive,
aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes. In this
book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are
described and illustrated as approaches to investigating,
revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings
hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between
diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and
synthesis. The book will appeal to arts-based, mixed methods, and
adventurous researchers. It walks the reader through the
revisionist philosophical assumptions and offers aligned
methodological suggestions to the induction of imaginative mental
processes and arts-based practices into research.
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Mothers of Adult Children (Paperback)
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard; Contributions by Mirna E Carranza, Susan Duenke, Nancy Gerber, Trish Green, …
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Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children
come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of
work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that
this is the point in which their relationships with their children
must drastically change. Mothers often come to terms with the
changes by accepting differences and providing moral and emotional
support when needed. However, the evolutionary nature of mothers'
roles throughout the course of their children's lives is not only
determined by the mother-child dynamic. The mothering of adult
children is a transformative role, and the stories presented here
show that the dynamics between mother and child are also influenced
by cultural events. Accidents, disasters, war, and other hardships
also intervene in these stories of multicultural motherhood. This
book reveals the problems mothers of adult children face and
celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother
through hardship.
Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children
come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of
work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that
this is the point in which their relationships with their children
must drastically change. Mothers often come to terms with the
changes by accepting differences and providing moral and emotional
support when needed. However, the evolutionary nature of mothers'
roles throughout the course of their children's lives is not only
determined by the mother-child dynamic. The mothering of adult
children is a transformative role, and the stories presented here
show that the dynamics between mother and child are also influenced
by cultural events. Accidents, disasters, war, and other hardships
also intervene in these stories of multicultural motherhood. This
book reveals the problems mothers of adult children face and
celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother
through hardship.
In this thought-provoking memoir, Nancy Gerber maps the wrenching
terrain of caring for an elderly parent. In the fall of 1995, at
the age of 73, the author's father suffered a massive stroke on the
right side of the brain, rendering him permanently disabled. This
catastrophic event plunged the author and her family into a crisis
for which they were completely unprepared, one that included
financial worries; the need to hire full-time, live-in help; and
the specter of putting her father into a nursing home. Even more
wrenching was the demise of the parent she had always known. From
an active, gregarious man with hobbies and friends - a man who had
been working at the time of the stroke - her father became
withdrawn, hostile, and silent. This profound loss was aggravated
by the stress and anxiety that characterize family caregiving. In
honest, evocative prose, the author describes her struggle to
negotiate the competing demands of love, filial responsibility,
familial conflict, and personal autonomy that arise when a parent
becomes ill.
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