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In the twilight of and right after World War II millions of Germans were expelled from areas initially called the Recovered Territories, and later – the Western and Northern Lands in Poland. This article focuses on the property left behind by Germans. It investigates the experiences of the Poles who directly and actively took part in the practices of appropriation of German objects. The analysis is based on memoirs submitted to the contest for diaries by settlers in the Recovered Territories that was organised by the Western Institute in Poznań in December 1956. Through the analysis of the testimonies, this paper aims to explore the constellation of meanings attributed to taking over of German property by actors who directly participated in those practices, and the meanings according to which looting functioned in daily experience after the war. It argues that the internal resistance against loot is weaker than against ordinary theft because the objects are taken out of the context of the social relations in which they functioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diary methods have long been used as pedagogic tools in learning, and as part of reflective practice in teacher education, but less often as data collection instruments in educational research. This is in part due to implementation challenges emerging from the time and literacy demands they place on participants. To illustrate the use of diary methods in educational research, we juxtapose two diary studies to reflect on how to use diaries as data collection tools against a backdrop of researcher positionality. In the first example, the teacher-researcher embedded diaries in a curriculum to collect data from language learners in Japan. While learner engagement with the diaries was high, the prescriptive approach led students to tell 'the teacher what they wanted to read'. In the second example, the researcher used the diaries to collect data on out-of-class learning among language students in Germany. Engagement with the diaries was initially low but improved substantially after daily reminders were sent via mobile phone. Nonetheless, results revealed a possible self-selection bias. Both examples highlight the value in making adaptations to diary methods as the research context necessitates, so that researchers can take into account issues that might distort or produce misleading data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the impact of form on the delivery of information in Alejandra Pizarnik’s Diaries. Literary unreliability – both narrative and what I call ‘rhetorical’ – questions the one-to-one correspondence between content and form. Through rhetorical strategies such as paradox and metaphor, the Diaries subvert notions of authorial control, revisiting the ‘death of the author’, as well as the relationship between the literary and the psychological. Instead of promoting an autobiographical reading of this work as a linear story marked by tragedy, these considerations suggest an alternative, interpretive path: one in which the diaristic text tends towards the absurd and the production of a fruitful ‘nothingness’. Considering linguistic manipulation in this way allows us to situate the Diaries within Pizarnik’s aesthetic evolution, not in terms of biographical content, but according to its critical and experimental engagement with a central, theoretical issue: the (im)possibility for language to represent a reality beyond itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the diary shares common qualities with other life writing texts, I consider it as a particular kind of memory-text and witness. I therefore propose to study the way in which it mediates memory for readers and how it is later mediated to reach a wider audience. In analyzing Hélène Berr's Journal, I explore materiality and immediacy and show how the reader can experience the mediated memory of the diarist through these elements. I further explore how mediators shape, digitize, and distribute the diary in a way that emphasizes the materiality of the original and attempts to preserve authenticity.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay comprises multiple sets of dialogues between us as colleagues and friends as we revisit the question of the status of English as a global language. Through the metaphor 'multiple classrooms of life', we share reflections and narratives arising out of our experiences with English that are embedded in our professional work, scholarship, pedagogy and creative interests. Our discussion encompasses a range of artefacts, including excerpts from our diaries, poems, vignettes, visuals, letters, songs and anecdotes. This amalgam of materials represents our personal engagement with English, as distinct from treating the spread of English simply as a metanarrative played out at a remove from personal experience. We reconstruct 'sparkle moments' arising from personal encounters and social interactions that have caused us to reflect on the role of English in our lives. We thus focus on ideology as personally felt and lived from within and through inter-personal interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have witnessed a steady growth of time-use research, driven by the increased research and policy interest in population activity patterns and their associations with long-term outcomes. There is recent interest in moving beyond traditional paper-administered time diaries to use new technologies for data collection in order to reduce respondent burden and administration costs, and to improve data quality. This paper presents two novel diary instruments that were employed by a large-scale multi-disciplinary cohort study in order to obtain information on the time allocation of adolescents in the United Kingdom. A web-administered diary and a smartphone app were created, and a mixed-mode data collection approach was followed: cohort members were asked to choose between these two modes, and those who were unable or refused to use the web/app modes were offered a paper diary. Using data from a pilot survey of 86 participants, we examine diary data quality indicators across the three modes. Results suggest that the web and app modes yield an overall better time diary data quality than the paper mode, with a higher proportion of diaries with complete activity and contextual information. Results also show that the web and app modes yield a comparable number of activity episodes to the paper mode. These results suggest that the use of new technologies can improve diary data quality. Future research using larger samples should systematically investigate selection and measurement effects in mixed-mode time-use survey designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on daily time and how it is allocated has generally considered the time spent in specific activities. However, social theory suggests that time use is socially patterned whether by social organization, heterogeneity, and/or stratification. Drawing on four broad types of time (contracted, committed, necessary, and free), we use Multinomial Logit Latent Class Analysis to discuss eight daily temporal pathways and associations with individual characteristics. Our analysis highlights the variations and similarities across pathways, the impact of paid work in structuring daily life, the social patterning of sleep and leisure, and socio-demographic profiles of the pathways of working-age Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The accurate measurement of behaviour is vitally important to many disciplines and practitioners of various kinds. While different methods have been used (such as observation, diaries, questionnaire), none are able to accurately monitor behaviour over the long term in the natural context of people’s own lives. The aim of this work was therefore to develop and test a reliable system for unobtrusively monitoring various behaviours of multiple individuals within the same household over a period of several months. Methods: A commercial Real Time Location System was adapted to meet these requirements and subsequently validated in three households by monitoring various bathroom behaviours. Results: The results indicate that the system is robust, can monitor behaviours over the long-term in different households and can reliably distinguish between individuals. Precision rates were high and consistent. Recall rates were less consistent across households and behaviours, although recall rates improved considerably with practice at set-up of the system. The achieved precision and recall rates were comparable to the rates observed in more controlled environments using more valid methods of ground truthing. Conclusion: These initial findings indicate that the system is a valuable, flexible and robust system for monitoring behaviour in its natural environment that would allow new research questions to be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, and his diaries. Brezhnev's diaries were originally preserved in the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation before they were transferred to the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. His diaries were used by military historian Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov and journalist Aleksandr Evseevich Khinshtein.

Two pocket diaries kept by John Mongtomery Roberts in the early 1830s add to the limited body of knowledge regarding the early history of Cahokia and the St. Louis Mound Group. They also illustrate how even such short diary entries have the potential to provide previously unknown information that can add to our knowledge of such sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this daily diary study was to investigate whether a positive experience initiated at work (i.e., work enjoyment) may have an indirect impact on employees' significant others. Based on Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory (2001) we predicted that daily work enjoyment would be positively related to own daily well-being (spillover) and, in turn, daily well-being would be transmitted to the partner (crossover). Eighty couples participated in the study. Participants filled in a diary booklet during five consecutive working days. Overall, results supported our hypotheses. This study is the first to provide evidence for an upward spiral initiated at work and transferred at home in the form of couples' increased well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks back on the use of reflective diaries as an assessment tool in a feminist geography module over several years. It considers the ways in which reflection on practice and the valuing of the everyday could be seen as a specifically feminist pedagogic practice. It considers the alignment of module content with assessment format. The paper includes discussion of extended examples of student reflective writing and considers the practical and ethical drawbacks of using subjective modes of assessment with undergraduate geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harry Count Kessler's Diaries (1880–1937) are a singular source for the history of politics, art, literature and cultural affairs of his times. Transcriptions and a working index were prepared between 1994 and 1999. Hybrid publication is now planned: in book form with only minor editorial intervention; and on CD with full-scale search index and cross-reference functions, as well as with facsimile selections and numerous appendices. XML/TEI provide the essential structuring and working tool. XMetaL acts as central agent for data maintenance and as migration path from WYSIWYG environments to precise data structurings. This permits the use of, for example, TUSTEP without sacrifice of the advantages of the WINDOWS platforms. The project has potential not only as a prototype for similar editions, but also for archival collecting activities concerned with electronic texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective – To describe and analyse communication following the use of an illness diary method in consultations with patients suffering from longstanding illness without clinical findings. Design – Action research in own practice with qualitative formative evaluation of material provided by the use of the diary method. Analysis followed a procedure modified from phenomenologically-based methodology. Setting – The practice of the main author. Subjects – 36 consultations with 16 patients where the illness diary method was applied. Result – Communication following illness diary utilisation could be summarised as: 1) illness diaries as medical documentation, 2) making access to the insight of the patient, 3) exploring internal dialogues and locked voices, and 4) adding meaning to a spoken message through writing (creative distance). By changing the frames of conversation through illness diary utilisation towards one or more of these four levels of communication, the patient may become a more equal consultation partner. Conclusion – Illness diaries can provide clinically relevant information and may emphasise the patient's input and significance in medical dialogues on longstanding symptoms without clinical findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the relationship of diary writing and narration. Relationship between a diary and the calendar; Characterization of a diary writer; Factors in keeping a diary; Implications of secrecy on diary writing; Account on Kafka's Diaries and narrative writing.

The article offers the author's insights on various ways of organising one's time and tasks effectively to attain a less stressful life. He mentions the stages for the management process, which includes planning, organising and implementing. He cites the use of diaries, which contain records of meeting and appointment, and a to-do-list, which may include non-time-specific tasks. He suggests labeling of a filing drawer with items such as Working, A-Z and Storage drawers.

The article presents suggestions for nurses on keeping a personal journal. The best time to start writing a journal is when one has decided to begin a journal. Journal media can range from a beautifully designed journal, a spiral notebook or a word-processing file in the computer. Nurses must choose the medium that can suit their senses and time allocated for journal writing. Entries for the journal may include a dream calendar, inspiring stories, smart questions and opinions.