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Curriculum and Social Inquiry

Georgia Southern University

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Psychoanalysis

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Finding My Voice: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse, Diane Lafrance Jan 2017

Finding My Voice: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse, Diane Lafrance

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This autobiographical study reflects experiences of surviving child sexual abuse and my journey through curriculum studies as a route to finding power through my voices. Using currere as a lead theory to frame this work, this study reveals a first-person account of sexual abuse to detail my development to empowerment and how I learned to advocate for myself and other childhood victims. Within this work, the method of currere, psychoanalytic theory, focusing, hypnosis, and healing through writing are discussed as processes for increasing self-understanding.


Curriculum And The Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure, Leslie B. Nissen Jan 2012

Curriculum And The Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure, Leslie B. Nissen

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This dissertation examines a subset of Children of Alcoholics, whom I call Geographic Cure Children, who cope with both fermented parenting (as I have termed it) AND transient schooling. Viewed by schools and school systems simply as “highly mobile” students, their frequent school changes tell only part of the story. Geographic Cure Children arrive at their newest classrooms bearing the heavy burdens of emotional trauma and dark secrets about the Life Erratic. However, due to frequent mobility, their access to help or support is sketchy at best. Through currere, I employ autobiographical and psychoanalytic lenses to explore the intersection of …