‘To Have a Paddle and a Rudder’: A Postmodern Narrative Study of the Lives of Families with Disability

Crawford, Suzanna C.

‘To Have a Paddle and a Rudder’: A Postmodern Narrative Study of the Lives of Families with Disability

dc.contributor.advisor	Estefan, Andrew
dc.contributor.author	Crawford, Suzanna C.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Lashewicz, Bonnie M.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Ginn, Carla S.
dc.date	2020-11
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-16T22:30:05Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-16T22:30:05Z
dc.date.issued	2020-09-15
dc.description.abstract	This is a narrative study of daily lives for families who have a member with a disability (families with disability). Families with disability are often studied in a way that centralizes disability rather than personhood. The medical model and social models of disability work to create a framework of how disability might be viewed. However, these models are problematic because they have a tendency to cover over the smaller, more subjective stories of disability. Stories told by families with disability are important to tell, hear, and understand because they provide new and alternative ways of looking at life with disability. In this study, I interviewed families (being any group of people that consider themselves to be family) with disability. I conducted interviews with two or more members of five families who have a member with disability. Narrative analysis of data resulted in the writing of three stories that tell of daily life for families with disability. The stories are then further analyzed to reveal conventional and unconventional readings. Conventional readings show how dominant narratives shape understanding of family life with disability. Unconventional readings were derived using a postmodern lens. These readings uncover lesser heard, as well as difficult to tell and hear stories. The dissertation concludes with recommendations and suggestions for health and social care providers that work with families with disability or in other disability-related contexts.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Crawford, S. C. (2020). ‘To Have a Paddle and a Rudder’: A Postmodern Narrative Study of the Lives of Families with Disability (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38206
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112541
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Nursing	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	disability	en_US
dc.subject	families with disability	en_US
dc.subject	family	en_US
dc.subject	narrative	en_US
dc.subject	story	en_US
dc.subject	postmodern	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Nursing	en_US
dc.title	‘To Have a Paddle and a Rudder’: A Postmodern Narrative Study of the Lives of Families with Disability	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Nursing	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Nursing (MN)	en_US
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