UVM Theses and Dissertations
Format:
Print
Author:
Viray, Sydnee
Dept./Program:
College of Education and Social Services
Year:
2013
Degree:
M. Ed.
Abstract:
Sydnee Viray co-authored Our Stories Matter: Liberating the Voices of Marginalized Students Using Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing as a graduate student completing her Master of Education degree while working full-time at her University's Student Financial Services office. What outsiders might view as an insurmountable task, she details in this SPN manuscript as "the journey that became her destination." Using Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) as a research method, she suggests that SPN employs validation, empowerment, and pragmatically applied ethical tools that endow students with the privilege and honor of authorship leveraging her/his own personal narratives. The significance of achieving the status of published author, while still a student, promotes varying levels of determination, actualization, and authentic connections to the researched topic. Her thesis is a postmodern and constructivist research document that recognizes the researcher's personal experience (written as a scholarly personal narrative) as a valid object of study.