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Stack, Michelle; Wilbur, Amea – International Review of Education, 2021
One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used "critical discourse analysis" to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers, Refugees, Mass Media Role
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Schryer, Catherine; McDougall, Allan; Tait, Glendon R.; Lingard, Lorelei – Written Communication, 2012
This article investigates an emerging practice in palliative care: dignity therapy. Dignity therapy is a psychotherapeutic intervention that its proponents assert has clinically significant positive impacts on dying patients. Dignity therapy consists of a physician asking a patient a set of questions about his or her life and returning to the…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Death, Patients, Ecology
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Nielsen, Marianne O.; Brown, Samantha – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
The data from a longitudinal study of seven indigenous justice service organizations in four colonized countries were analyzed to identify the characteristics that made them "indigenous." Although nine common organizational characteristics emerged, of these, four are essential and specific to indigenous organizations (dependency on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Definitions, Institutional Characteristics