The researcher employed Hastings's (2000) use of fractured identities to analyze recovery in 5 married couples' narratives of parental bereavement. The research question guiding this study asked what forms of communicative support are described in bereaved parents' narratives that promote the recovery of their fractured identities. Through narratives from in-depth interviews three forms of communication that support recovery were identified: acknowledgement, compassion, and inclusion. A discussion defines recovery and delineates each communicative form. Theoretical implications for supporting fractured identities are explored, as well as practical implications for researchers and social networks. Finally, limitations and areas for future research are addressed.How do we recover from a loss that is so great it shatters our way of life, destroys our dreams, causes friends to ignore us, breaks up our family, and leaves us in seemingly endless despair? These are the realities, feelings, and communicative challenges faced by parents who have lost a child. When parents endure the death of a child, they must undergo one of the most heartbreaking and life-altering events any
The purpose of this article is to enrich our conceptual understanding of ethnography through principles of design by offering a blueprint for ethnographic ways of knowing. Drawing on published ethnographic research, this article develops and defines principles of design that help facilitate the process and product of ethnographic research. Through the metaphor of an architectural blueprint, we consider the epistemological value of identifying foundational principles supporting ethnographic research and writing. The architectural blueprint offers a foundation for creating, writing, revising, teaching, and evaluating ethnographic scholarship. The article closes with a discussion of the utility of the metaphor as well as how other metaphors that currently guide ethnographic research could be used in tandem with the blueprint metaphor.
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