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A Multiple Case Exploration Of Designers And Reflection In The Design Space, Tamme L. Quinn Grzebyk
A Multiple Case Exploration Of Designers And Reflection In The Design Space, Tamme L. Quinn Grzebyk
Wayne State University Dissertations
For decades, scholars have searched for ways to more effectively teach and practice instructional design. A variety of strategies have been employed to address the ambiguity in and challenges of the field. Much of the focus in the education of instructional designers has been on teaching students how best to use the many models developed for the field (Rowling, 1992). These efforts, while meant to help the new instructional designer succeed, have often been stifled by the ever-changing landscape of what instructional designers are asked to do in their roles after graduation (Kenny, Zhang, Schwier, & Campbell, 2005). Other research …
The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity, Kendall Michelle Soucie
The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity, Kendall Michelle Soucie
Wayne State University Dissertations
The primary aim of this dissertation was to elucidate the process by which we incorporate the life events of others (vicarious events) into our own lives and, by extension, into our own sense of identity. It was hypothesized that vicarious events from within a person's social network can be as germane to identity development as autobiographical events if the vicarious event involves someone with whom the person is socially-close rather than socially-distant and is an event in which the self was more proximal (shared events) than distal (witnessed or hearsay). The extent to which age, gender, dispositional empathy, and the …