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Amy E. Latimer-cheung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrating insights from the parasport community to understand optimal Experiences: The Quality Parasport Participation Framework
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2018Co-Authors: M. Blair Evans, Celina H Shirazipour, Veronica Allan, Mona Zanhour, Shane N Sweet, Kathleen A. Martin Ginis, Amy E. Latimer-cheungAbstract:Abstract Objectives Through parasport, adults and young athletes with disability often report increases in well-being and related psychosocial perceptions. While researchers often attribute these benefits to the positive social experiences that go along with sport Participation, optimal parasport experiences have not been comprehensively defined. Applying a conceptualization of the experiential aspects of ‘Participation’ across disability settings (Martin Ginis, Evans, Mortenson, & Noreau, 2017) we sought to generate an evidence-informed Framework of optimal parasport Participation. Design/Method The Framework was developed through a multi-step process that involved establishing the scope and purpose of the Framework, synthesizing existing literature, and constructing the Framework alongside stakeholder insights. The latter step entailed four phases based on AGREE-II reporting criteria: (a) Phase 1, where propositions about quality experiences were derived from the literature synthesis, (b) Phases 2 and 3, where we developed a provisional Framework informed by stakeholders using an expert round-table (n = 16) and an online survey (n = 80), and (c) Phase 4, where the Framework was refined through an online expert panel including researchers and sport administrators (n = 20). Results The resulting hierarchical Framework focuses on 25 conditions across the physical environment, sport activities, and social environment of parasport organizations as precursors to quality experiences that, in turn, reinforce quality Participation. Quality experience stands at the core, defined as a feeling state derived from athletes’ appraisals of whether their experiences satisfy one or more of their values and needs across six elements: belongingness, autonomy, challenge, mastery, engagement and meaning. Conclusions The ‘Quality Parasport Participation Framework’ directs future research examining parasport athletes' subjective experiences, and sets forth provisional guidelines for promoting quality experiences within parasport.
Julie A White - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cognitive spaces expanding Participation Framework by looking at signed language interpreters discourse and conceptual blending
Translation & Interpreting, 2014Co-Authors: Julie A WhiteAbstract:We know from previous research (Wadenjso, 1998; Metzger, 1999; Roy, 2000) that interpreters are active participants within the interpreting event. We know that interpreters interact with the participants, and discourse by negotiating turn-taking, and adjusting the interpretation to meet cultural expectations. According to Participation Framework, speakers align themselves with the different participants in the communication event, or shift between different types of footing (Goffman, 1981). This Framework has also been used to analyze interpreters, (Wadensjo, 1982, 1998; Metzger, 1999; Roy, 2000) to show how interpreters are not neutral participants in the event, but are interacting with many of the demands of the job, one of which is the discourse. In this research, which was an investigation of a monologue-interpreted event, the interpreters align themselves or blend the mental space of the original message with their interpreted message. In other words, the interpreters hold, at the minimum, two frames of footing active, simultaneously, instead of switching between the frames of footing. Cognitive linguistics, more specifically, the conceptual blending theory of Fauconnier & Turner (1996) can help expand the discussion of footing by using the theory of mental spaces (Fauconnier, 1985, 1997; Fauconnier & Turner, 1998). The data come from the discourse of six signed language interpreters who simultaneously interpret a lecture from English to American Sign Language (ASL). The discourse of the six interpreters supports the notion that interpreters blend a space, Narrator Space, with the author of the message. In addition to this space, interpreters also use a newly identified space, Interpreter Space. Interpreter Space is a mental space where the interpreters demonstrate their processes of their interpretations through a variety of linguistic features such as producing constructed action and dialogue in ASL when it was not present in English. In addition to these spaces being identified in the data, all six interpreters seamlessly negotiated and blended several different mental spaces by using the same types of linguistic features that Deaf signers use (i.e. eye gaze, blinking, head tilting/shifting, and body shifting) (Dudis, 1997, Thumann, 2010). This study proposes the notion of using the conceptual blending process to expand the Framework of analyzing and teaching interpreting.
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cognitive spaces expanding Participation Framework by looking at signed language interpreters discourse and conceptual blending
Publisher, 2014Co-Authors: Julie A WhiteAbstract:DOI: ti.106201.2014.a08 Abstract: We know from previous research (Metzger, 1999; Roy, 2000; Wadenjso, 1998) that interpreters are active participants within the interpreting event. We know that interpreters interact with the participants, and discourse by
Iain Hay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards a Public Participation Framework in Tourism Planning
Tourism Planning & Development, 2013Co-Authors: Azizan Marzuki, Iain HayAbstract:Public Participation in planning is regarded as a good and progressive exercise because it offers the opportunity for the diverse interests of stakeholders to be incorporated, and it accords with people's right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. Various models and typologies, such as those developed by Arnstein, Brager and Specht, and Pretty reflect similar basic characteristics. It is commonly agreed that a complete public Participation process will not exist without the elements of information availability, consultation and empowerment. However, additional elements such as knowledge of the planning process, representativeness of participants, and a high degree of political sophistication also contribute to effective public Participation. This paper reviews existing typologies of public Participation and evaluates the public Participation process for tourism planning in the Langkawi Islands, Malaysia, against them. The paper concludes by proposing an alternative public Participation fra...
M. Blair Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrating insights from the parasport community to understand optimal Experiences: The Quality Parasport Participation Framework
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2018Co-Authors: M. Blair Evans, Celina H Shirazipour, Veronica Allan, Mona Zanhour, Shane N Sweet, Kathleen A. Martin Ginis, Amy E. Latimer-cheungAbstract:Abstract Objectives Through parasport, adults and young athletes with disability often report increases in well-being and related psychosocial perceptions. While researchers often attribute these benefits to the positive social experiences that go along with sport Participation, optimal parasport experiences have not been comprehensively defined. Applying a conceptualization of the experiential aspects of ‘Participation’ across disability settings (Martin Ginis, Evans, Mortenson, & Noreau, 2017) we sought to generate an evidence-informed Framework of optimal parasport Participation. Design/Method The Framework was developed through a multi-step process that involved establishing the scope and purpose of the Framework, synthesizing existing literature, and constructing the Framework alongside stakeholder insights. The latter step entailed four phases based on AGREE-II reporting criteria: (a) Phase 1, where propositions about quality experiences were derived from the literature synthesis, (b) Phases 2 and 3, where we developed a provisional Framework informed by stakeholders using an expert round-table (n = 16) and an online survey (n = 80), and (c) Phase 4, where the Framework was refined through an online expert panel including researchers and sport administrators (n = 20). Results The resulting hierarchical Framework focuses on 25 conditions across the physical environment, sport activities, and social environment of parasport organizations as precursors to quality experiences that, in turn, reinforce quality Participation. Quality experience stands at the core, defined as a feeling state derived from athletes’ appraisals of whether their experiences satisfy one or more of their values and needs across six elements: belongingness, autonomy, challenge, mastery, engagement and meaning. Conclusions The ‘Quality Parasport Participation Framework’ directs future research examining parasport athletes' subjective experiences, and sets forth provisional guidelines for promoting quality experiences within parasport.
Azizan Marzuki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards a Public Participation Framework in Tourism Planning
Tourism Planning & Development, 2013Co-Authors: Azizan Marzuki, Iain HayAbstract:Public Participation in planning is regarded as a good and progressive exercise because it offers the opportunity for the diverse interests of stakeholders to be incorporated, and it accords with people's right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. Various models and typologies, such as those developed by Arnstein, Brager and Specht, and Pretty reflect similar basic characteristics. It is commonly agreed that a complete public Participation process will not exist without the elements of information availability, consultation and empowerment. However, additional elements such as knowledge of the planning process, representativeness of participants, and a high degree of political sophistication also contribute to effective public Participation. This paper reviews existing typologies of public Participation and evaluates the public Participation process for tourism planning in the Langkawi Islands, Malaysia, against them. The paper concludes by proposing an alternative public Participation fra...