Interpretive Research

Alvermann, Donna E.; Mallozzi, Christine A.

doi:10.4324/9780203853016.ch42

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“…Metaethnography is an opportunity for qualitative research to expand on theoretical approaches to the promotion of PA involving individual, social, and environmental influences [17,46]. To this end, our philosophical approach was interpretative in nature and sought to be objective and systematic by applying key criteria to ensure reliability and validity of our interpretive inferences [47,48].…”

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Physical Activity among Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status Living in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Socioecological Complexities

Rawal

Smith

Quach

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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Introduction. This article is a meta-ethnographic analysis of qualitative studies to explore complex social ecological aspects (individual, microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem) of physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups living in industrialized countries. Method. Using MeSH keywords, we searched major electronic databases including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO in order to identify relevant publications published between January 2000 and October 2018. We included 19 qualitative studies which met inclusion criteria and were focused on physical activity determinants among adults. Results. Determinants emerging from these studies were grouped into six themes: (i) urban environment, (ii) financial constraints, (iii) work-life integration, (iv) community engagement, (v) social support, and (vi) psychosocial factors. After conceptualising these six themes into a social ecological model, we identified potential research gaps for physical activity among adults with low socioeconomic status living in industrialized countries. Conclusion. Our major insight was that, in industrialized countries, physical activity overlooks potential strengths to maintain health and well-being of those people with low socioeconomic status. A more complex understanding of contradictions between positive and deficit frames would lead to more critical insights of research gaps of physical activity in adult population with low socioeconomic status.

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Physical Activity among Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status Living in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Socioecological Complexities

Rawal

Smith

Quach

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…To explore this emerging focus on group patterns, I built from Alvermann and Mallozzi's () framing of research as interpretive and infused personalized meaning‐making strategies into my research process to more fully understand the data I was studying. This approach to data analysis extended the transactional nature of meaning making (Rosenblatt, ) to the analysis of data.…”

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Composing in Public

Hall¹

2015

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Although scholars have investigated the ways youths individually enact composing practices and the impact of audience on these practices, this study examines the impact of an audience physically present while composing in a shared, public space—an ambient audience. Blurring the line between traditional notions of audience and collaborator through a process of distributed co‐construction with individual composers, the ambient audience proved generative for the composing work of individuals. This article highlights two examples of this distributed co‐construction in action: the co‐constructed framing of everyday experiences as the topic for created videos and the shared aesthetic of juxtaposition that the youth participants co‐constructed while composing individual images. The results of this study suggest future research and development of instructional approaches that address the social nature of composing with a specific look at the ways publics influence processes of composing.

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“…It values scientific inquiry and value-free science, thus rejecting ideologies, critical thought and the influences of culture or society to explain social life and perceptions (Irving, 1999). Within this framework disability has been explored as a predictable, concrete, internal, and individualistic variable influencing social reality (Alvermann & Mallozzi, 2010;Green, 2007).…”

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“…Given the intersection of selfperception with academic outcomes, this study further explores this matter, with a focus on how disability identity may impact academic self-perceptions of post-secondary students with positive academic outcomes. In doing so, this study resists a medical model of disability which has dominated social research understanding of the realities of those with LD; such studies view disability as a fixed element residing with the individual based on biological impairment and as negatively influencing how an individual may perceive the self (Alvermann & Mallozzi, 2010;Bruzy, 1997;McKenzie & Thomson, 2005). Such scholarship focuses on impairment as the basis of one's LD identity, undermining the possibilities of multiple truths and perceptions for identities (McKenzie & Thomson, 2005).…”

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“…Dominant theories located in positivist, interpretive and postmodern paradigms each offer unique and contradictory views on disability identity and impacts on perceptions. This review problematizes positivist understanding of disability as a fixed, internal identity based on deficit, negatively impacting self-perceptions and essentializing realities (Alvermann & Mallozzi, 2010;Newman, 2006). This review posits disability as a social construct, implicating identity in multiple and flexible ways, thus rejecting deficit identities and emphasizing that academic perceptions are interchangeable.…”

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The inner self-narratives and academic self-perceptions of those with learning disabilities in post-secondary settings

Bronze¹,

Alexandra²

2021

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The purpose of this study was to explore the various disabled identities of those with learning disabilities in higher educational settings, and its impact on academic self-worth. The majority of scholarship has essentialized both disabled identity and academic self-perception, fostering the victimization of those with learning disabilities in the pursuit of their education. This study problematized the medical model, viewing disability as an internal and fixed identity, negatively implicating self-worth. In contrast, this study incorporated a critical disability theory, to highlight the social construction of disability, complimented with a postmodernist lens to appreciate the fluidity of identity and perceptions. A narrative methodological approach was utilized to give voice to the experiences and stories of five self-identifying learning disabled students from Ryerson University. The findings of this research suggest that learning disabled student relate to three different types of disability narratives or identities, implicating their academic worth in many ways.

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Interpretive Research

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Physical Activity among Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status Living in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Socioecological Complexities

Physical Activity among Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status Living in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Socioecological Complexities

Composing in Public

The inner self-narratives and academic self-perceptions of those with learning disabilities in post-secondary settings

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