Examines a passage written by Freud, discussing the application of psychoanalysis to education and his daughter Anna. Discusses how the passage led to diverse interpretations in France in the 1970s and 1980s when only one French language translation was available. (Author/VWL)

Submits references from a journal kept to accompany a new research project. Sheds light on the delicate relationship between life story and narrative reference. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on how the use of references and quotations has become more problematic. Uses the case of two French philosophers--Derrida and Foucault--to discuss this issue. (Author/VWL)

Presents an overview of international perspectives on referencing in educational research, reflects on a number of constants relating to the game of references that could contribute to improving research practices and education, and contemplates the semiotic aspects of referencing in education by opening a discussion on the nature of academic joy.…

Presents a concept map that is a graphic referential tool, useful not only in the ordering of the reference material of a given domain, but also as a tool where the merging of verbal and graphic representation can have an advantage over the conventional linear structure of texts. (Author/VWL)

Discusses a selection of ideas and writings by Michael Foucault into competition with those of Jacques Derrida. Consisted of a single game of references for which the references were those cited in a sample of master's theses produced recently at Queen's University. Examined master's dissertations, because these are the usual means by which…

Presents five easy games of referencing in academic writing: Risk--the art of assembling powerful coalitions; Poker--using citations to finesse a bluff; Dominoes and the logic of citations; Monopoly--using citations to create an empire; and Trivial Pursuit. (Author/VWL)

By organizing the research reference game as a mirror, educational video feedback contributes toward creating a new pleasure. The representations of teaching arouse reflection on the action among novices; joint viewing of sessions shot in classrooms are called stimulated recall sessions, case studies, or reflective practice workshops. They allow…

Considers an interactive non-linear time approach, providing a personal reflection of one individual's learning time, reflective time, reconstructed meanings and personal reorganizations. Moves from experience as an English teacher to a reflective experience, to a current state of ongoing reorganization of the signs, indices, and symbols of what…

Investigates students' writing based on theories of learning. Considers thinking as something that is built in the process of interactions and confrontations with the thoughts of others. Investigation is based on qualitative analysis of 24 student dissertations written by social workers training to become managers of community services in two…

Examines the process involved in doing a literature search and in writing a master's dissertation, as well as the progress made with regard to a new research field undertaken during doctoral research. The first undertaking was initiated with interests but no fixed subject while the second started with a subject but little or no knowledge of the…

Reports on graduate students' perspectives of their learning experience using NUD.IST--computer-aided qualitative data analysis software--to make use of narrative data. Students' comments gathered from inside classes, class assignments, and course evaluations are highlighted (Author/VWL)