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Cunningham, Lawrence. "Mysticism and the intellectual life:." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104008.
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Patja, Kristiina. "Life expectancy and mortality in intellectual disability." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2001. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/laa/kliin/vk/patja/.
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McFarland, Michele. "The intellectual life of Catherine Helen Spence." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2004. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60437.
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This thesis will argue that Catherine Helen Spence, a writer, preacher and reformer who migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839, performed the role of a public intellectual in Australia similar to that played by a number of women of letters in Victorian England. While her ideas were strongly influenced by important British and European nineteenth-century intellectual figures and movements, as well as by Enlightenment thought, her work also reflects the different socio-political, historical and cultural environment of Australia. These connections and influences can be seen in her engagement with what were some of the "big ideas" of the nineteenth century, including feminism, socialism, religious scepticism, utopianism and the value of progress. In arguing that Spence was a public intellectual, I will consider the ways in which she used the literary genres of fiction and journalism, as well as her sermons, to try to help her fellow citizens make sense of the world, attempting to organise and articulate some of the significant ideas affecting the political, social and cultural climates in which they lived. Through the exploration of Spence's intellectual work, I will show how she can be regarded as making a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Australian intellectual life, one that has been under-recognised and under-valued.Doctor of Philosophy
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Braman, Brian J. "Agape Latte: Intellectual Life and Friendship with God." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:102695.
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徐來. "「洗澡」「紅色」知識話語的建構與推行: 以1951-1952年知識分子思想改造運動為例= 'Baptism": the construction and implementation of Mao's 'Red' knowledge discourse: the case of Chinese intellectuals' ideology reform movement in 1951-1952." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/290.
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一九四九年中華人民共和國成立，社會結構發生巨變，知識分子群體的階層身份與話語體系首當其衝受到劇烈衝擊--階層身份的重塑與話語體系的重構，需要盡快完成，以實現與社會主義意識形態的對接，為新政權服務。在這種情境下，高校歐美派自由主義知識分子群體對高校院系調整政策的集體抵制，觸發了建國以來中國共產黨對知識分子的第一場大規模思想改造運動。在這場以「洗澡」命名的改造運動中，毛澤東建構的「新」話語通过「批評與自我批評」的運動方式灌輸给被改造者，最終實現了對高校知識分子精英「舊」話語的全面替代。本文採取政治傳播學與話語研究相結合的研究視角，將這場發生於1951-1952年的中國知識分子思想改造運動嵌入時代发展的政治文化坐標，通過對中國傳統知識分子、五四知識分子話語體系的系譜梳理、展現毛澤東建構下的「新-舊」知識話語間的話語創新、重合與對抗，並通過改造運動中這套「新」話語之於知識分子群體思想与話語的改造，展示出建國初期毛治下知識分子思想改造運動中的話語傳播手段與權力運用策略。本文認為，毛澤東通過「破舊」與「立新」兩大步驟，以「階級論」為核心、聯合「人民」與「革命」兩大強勢話語，對「知識」及「知識分子」重下定義，創造出一套「新」的「紅色」知識話語體系，成為毛治下整體性的、無所不包的意識形態解釋體系。具體到知識分子改造實踐中，該話語運用「階級」的概念將知識分子與底層民眾的權力地位反轉，並通過將「階級」與中國傳統文化中的道德相關聯，激發知識分子的「原罪感」，加之群眾運動中不斷激化的「污名化」、暴力語言和對毛「先知」話語的崇拜等話語現象，致使高校知識分子群體紛紛與過去的知識話語體系決裂。然而，毛建構的「紅色」話語體系，是建立在脫離社會實際的「表達性現實」基礎上的，儘管隨著毛澤東這一話語權威核心的消失，整套話語體系也隨之崩塌，但運動對於知識分子群體話語、思想與精神的衝擊，成為當時崇尚「獨立之思考、自由之精神」的知識分子精英群體所共同面臨的話語困境，也是當前中國知識分子依然直面的問題。Abstract When the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949, social structure had changed dramatically and the class identity of intellectual groups was the first to be affected severely. The remodeling of class identity and reconstruction of discourse system of the intellectuals needed to be addressed as quickly as possible so as to serve the new regime. And the event that the elite liberal intellectuals in colleges and universities boycotted the adjustment on faculty policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had triggered the first large-scale ideological transforming movement after the foundation of PRC. `New' discourse mode constructed by Mao Tsetung was infused into transformers' minds being transformed in this movement, and finally the `red' revolutionary knowledge discourse had totally replaced the traditional knowledge discourse of intellectuals in colleges and universities. From the research perspectives of political communication and discourse analysis, this thesis places this Ideological Transforming Movement of Chinese Intellectuals during 1951 to 1952 into a political and cultural background of the era; manifests the innovation, overlapping and confrontation between the `new' discourse constructed by Mao Tsetung and the traditional discourse of the Chinese traditional intellectuals and the contemporary intellectuals coming into being from in the May 4th Movement; and analyses the application of `new' discourse in intellectual groups in the ideological transforming movement, reveals the discourse propagation tools and power exertion strategies in the ideological transforming movement in the new China under Mao's dominion. It is considered in this thesis that Mao took the `class' as a core discourse, populism and revolutionary narration as contents, redefined `knowledge' and `intellectual', and thus created a new set of `red' knowledge discourse and ideology system. In the intellectual ideological transforming movement, this new, systematic and coverall explanation system utilized `class' to convert the power status between elite intellectuals and people at the bottom of the society, as well as linked it with morality to stimulate the intellectuals' sense of `original sin'. Meanwhile, with the upgrading `stigmatization' and language violence as well as the idolization of `prophet language' of Mao Tsetung in the mass movement after 1949, the elite intellectuals finally discarded the previous knowledge discourse and embrace the `red' current discourse. However, the discourse system constructed by Mao based on the basis of `expressive reality' which broke away from social reality, therefore, as Mao Tsetung, the authority core of the discourse system, disappeared, the overall discourse system constructed by him also collapsed. Nevertheless, the ideological reforming movement in the 1950s exposed a discourse predicament that intellectual elites who advocated `independent thinking and spirit freedom' were jointly facing, which also persists with the Chinese intellectuals nowadays.
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Green, Ann M. "The quality of life of adults with intellectual disabilities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29128.
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The replacement of institutional care for people with intellectual disabilities with community care and accommodation has been established social policy in many countries for a number of years. Successive studies have reported improvements on various dimensions of quality of life, immediately following community resettlement and over longer periods; however, the extent to which new service models promote lifestyles and life experiences comparable with those of the general population is less well documented. The thesis comprises four related studies which explore aspects of the quality of life of adults with intellectual disabilities in hospital and community settings in the context of recent developments in Scottish social policy; compare the life experiences of intellectually disabled adults in NHS and social care with that of adult members of the general public; and describe the adaptation and development of an international measure of quality of life (the WHOQOL) for the intellectual disability population. In pilot study one, the themes relevant for comprehensive assessment of the quality of life of adults with intellectual disabilities were generated by focus groups of clients in health and social care, staff working in this specialty, and relatives of individuals with intellectual disabilities. The findings suggested that the facets of quality of life measured by the WHOQOL were relevant to adults with intellectual disabilities also, but required to be supplemented by additional themes specific to this client group. These findings informed pilot study two in which the WHOQOL-BREF (the abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100) was customised and developed for an intellectual disability population with simplified item wording (retaining semantic equivalence), the introduction of additional items (reflecting the supplementary quality of life facets), and pictorial augmentation of item response scales; and a small field trial of the adapted WHOQOL-ID was carried out, as part of which an initial analysis of the psychometric properties of the new scale was conducted. In a subsidiary study, a survey of 51 community based social care and accommodation projects for adults with intellectual disabilities was carried out; structured interviews were conducted with care staff about the suitability and effectiveness of this accommodation; and a pilot housing fit index reflecting the match between the care needs of resident clients and the characteristics of project accommodation was developed. The findings of pilot study two underpinned refinement of the WHOQOL-ID for use in the main study, which employed a three level between-groups design to compare the quality of life of 204 community clients living in the social care projects described in the subsidiary study, 213 learning disability hospital residents (matched with the community group for gender, age, and dependency) immediately prior to resettlement as part of a hospital closure programme, and 208 members of the general public (matched with both groups for gender and age, and with the community group for locality). The data collected were used to carry out a full evaluation of the psychometric properties of the final instrument also. Significant differences found between the three groups were discussed with reference to implications for social policy and service developments in intellectual disabilities; and suggestions for future research were outlined.
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Liu, Meiru. "Chinese Intellectual Dissidents." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4187.
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The concept of dissident under consideration in this study reveals that political and loyal dissent, non-conformity and well-meaning criticisms of government's wrong doings, and even the quest for democracy exist in China as they do in the West. Political struggle and the leadership's eagerness to gain the support of intellectuals provided Chinese intellectuals with the opportunity to express themselves. Similarly, power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have also become the spawning ground for some Chinese intellectuals to become dissidents.
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Dahms, Elizabeth Anne. "THE LIFE AND WORK OF GLORIA ANZALDÚA: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/6.
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The writings and life of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) have had an immense impact in a variety of disciplines. Her oft-cited text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) is included in many university courses’ reading lists for its contributions to discourses of hybridity, linguistics, intersectionality and women of color feminism, among others. Unfortunately, most scholars content themselves with the intricacies of Borderlands to the neglect of her corpus of work, which includes essays, books, edited volumes, children’s literature and fiction/autohistorias. This analysis presented here wishes to expand our understandings of Anzaldúa’s work by engaging with her pre- and post-Borderlands writings in an attempt to highlight the unrecognized contributions Anzaldúa offers to feminist theory, spirituality, spiritual activism, queer theory, expansive ideas of queerness and an articulation of alternative, non-Western epistemology. This project offers close readings of published and archival Anzaldúan text and draws parallels between her life and her writing.
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Hulbert-Williams, Stephen Lee. "Life events and psychological problems in people with intellectual disabilities." Thesis, Bangor University, 2008. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/life-events-and-psychological-problems-in-people-with-intellectual-disabilities(0dad90e4-e511-4f59-a8a1-757d86a967c7).html.
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This thesis presents a critical literature review and reports on the findings of three empirical studies, examining the relationship between life events and psychological problems in people with intellectual disabilities. An introduction is provided in Chapter 1. The critical review (Chapter 2) describes the current evidence base in relation to a critical framework that aims to establish life event exposure as a causal risk factor for psychological problems. Chapter 3 presents the results of a longitudinal study, using data from proxy informants, and begins to address the need for further longitudinal data in establishing life events as a risk factor. Chapter 4 presents the results of a self-report study of life events, psychological problems and social support, intended to establish whether valid data on life events could be obtained using self-report interviews with people with intellectual disabilities. The putative role of social support as a moderator in the relationship between life events and psychological problems is also examined. Chapter 5 presents the results of a longitudinal study of life events in children with intellectual disabilities, which begins to address the need for further studies of life events in children with intellectual disabilities, and in particular, the need for longitudinal evidence.
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Watts, Graeme H. "Intellectual disability and spirituality." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27915.
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Intellectual disability, and in particular profound intellectual disability, has an
impact on all aspects of a quality of life including that of spiritual development.
Some insight into this influence can be gained from a historical review of the
attitudes in general towards people with an intellectual disability. Such a review
may be especially pertinent when inferences can be drawn from a religious
context. References from the Bible through to contemporary sources present, at
best, a mixed record.
Contemporary responses from the church have taken the form of policies and
guidelines, as well as theological argument, encouraging the inclusion of people
with intellectual disability in many aspects of church life. Such policies support
programs both within and outside the church. In spite of such initiatives there
remains a sense of unease regarding the spiritual status of persons with a
disability and, in particular, those with an intellectual disability.
A field research study addressed the specific issue of the portrayal of disability in
the Bible. Given that for many, the Bible is a significant reference source, and for
some, literally conveying the word of God, it is a matter for some concern that a
majority of Biblical references to disability were perceived as being unfavourable.
Calls for a theology of disability are countered by a preference to find a place for
disability in an inclusive theology. An acceptance of disability as an integral part
of the human state has been supported by reflections on image Dei leading to
the concept of a Disabled God. A long-standing scholastic tradition in the church
has begun to respond to the influence which may be exerted by non-verbal, nonrational
symbolism. That such means of communication may have an influence
on the spiritual lives of people with an intellectual disability, is no more evident
than in participation in the sacraments, more particularly in the Eucharist.
A field research project focussed on possible modifications to the Eucharist such
that participation by persons with an intellectual disability may be enhanced.
Through omission of content, together with substantial editing and rewarding, a
service order was developed with the text supported by auditory, sensory and
symbolic input. For persons with a profound intellectual disability, their presence
and participation in the Eucharist epitomizes the hope of their spiritual journey.
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Caton, Susan Jane. "The transition towards adult life for school leavers with moderate learning difficulties." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248903.
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Talbot, Robert. "Alexander Morris His intellectual and political life and the numbered Treaties." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27922.
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Alexander Morris (1826--1889) is best remembered for his service as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (1872--1877), and for acting as the chief Canadian negotiator for Treaties 3--6 with the Amerindian peoples of western Canada. Ideologically speaking, Morris was a conservative, an imperialist, and a devout Christian. Historians have generally argued that Euro-Canadian officials like Morris failed to appreciate the significance of the treaties and the long-term reciprocal relationship that they entailed for Amerindian peoples. It is argued here, however, that Morris's understanding of the treaty relationship may have been much closer to the Amerindian perspective than previously believed. Over time, and through a series of interactions and intellectual exchanges with Amerindian leaders, Morris was able to transcend his social formation and empathize significantly with their viewpoint.
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MARKATOS, Kimon. "Historicizing postmodernism through the prism of cultural transfers : the case of Greece (1974-2010)." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60855.
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Defence date: 25 January 2019Examining Board: Prof. Ann Thomson, European University institute; Prof. Pavel Kolár, European University institute; Prof. Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham; Prof. Matthias Middel, Universität Leipzig
Historicizing Postmodernism through the prism of cultural transfers: The case of Greece (1974-2010), examines the various transformations of the concept of postmodernism in the Greek intellectual framework, between 1970 and 2010, and situates them in a wider transnational context. It is focused mainly on the academic fields of history, literary criticism/Philology, and social theory and it is deployed around three interrelated questions; two preliminary questions concerning the postmodern debates in the Greek context, and the central research question, which seeks to bring the debates into a transnational context: Firstly, a) what were the Greek perceptions of postmodernism? More particularly, what did the concept of postmodernism mean for the intellectuals who entered the debates around its definition and features, depending on their field of expertise, and on the particular moments they attempted to define it in the period under examination? Secondly, b) how has the debate on postmodernism affected the aforementioned subject areas, in such a way that it radically changed the terms of discussion on their regulatory epistemological foundations; and how have the changes in the social, economic and political context of the past 40 years shaped and reshaped the various different arguments regarding postmodernism in the level of ideas. Finally, c) How did the debate around postmodernism in the Greek intellectual circles relate with intellectuals of other national frameworks?
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Gibson, Nicola H. "Non-intellectual influences on success and attainment in UK adolescents." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227575.
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The growing interest in positive factors that promote thriving and flourishing in psychology research and education in recent years has prompted an increased focus on the importance of non-intellectual or transferrable skills, in particular character strengths, social, and interpersonal abilities. A recent UK government white paper was published citing the importance of character in education; however, the extant research literature is largely drawn from American and Australian populations, with the majority of studies being cross sectional. Researchers and educators should be cautious of causal interpretations and generalisation of these findings to other populations. Research from the UK, with its differing culture and education system, is limited, and there is a clear need for longitudinal, UK research to clarify both the nature of these causal relationships, and whether USA findings can be generalised to the UK. Such research is particularly important in order to accurately inform and evaluate any potential applications of strengths based approaches in education. The current thesis reports findings from a short term, longitudinal study of the influence of self-perceived strengths on teacher assessments and exam results in a cohort of UK adolescents from 3rd to 4th year across two schools in Aberdeen. Pupils completed self-report measures of strengths (Strengths Assessment Inventory – Youth; SAI-Y), coping (WOC-R), Optimism (LOT-R), and Trait Affect (PANAS) at three time points: baseline (time 1), 8 months later (time 2), and a further 5 months later (time 3). Teacher assessments of pupil progress by subject for each participant were obtained following time 2 data collection and participant exam results after time 3. Chapter 1 (study 1a) reports the psychometric validation of a relatively new strengths measure for children and young people (SAI-Y) in a UK adolescent population, based on time 1 data. Findings show the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the SAI-Y compare well with previous validation studies, indicating this measure is a valid tool for describing character strengths in UK as well as US adolescents. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to derive an empirical factor structure for the SAI-Y. The psychometric data and analyses suggest that the factorial structure of the SAI-Y is different in the study population, but that the new 12 factor structure is valid for this sample. In addition, relative to the other measures used in this study, the SAI-Y captures a range of differing constructs relative to the WOC-R, PANAS and LOT-R, so that the SAI-Y is a useful, psychometrically valid tool for measuring a wider range of non-intellectual abilities in future strengths based research. Chapter 2 (study 1b) reports findings on the predictive relationship between pupils self-reported strengths at time 1, and teacher assessments of pupil progress at time 2, as investigated using exploratory and stepwise regression analyses. Findings showed that Pupils who score highly on Functional Behaviour (SAI-Y) tend to be assessed as excelling or performing in line with expectations by teachers 8 months later. In particular, pupils who self-report higher levels of Functional Behaviour are more likely to be assessed as excelling than performing as expected, in that functional behaviour was more strongly predictive of Green (excelling) than of Amber (performing as expected) assessments. Chapter 3 (study 1c) reports the results of exploratory and stepwise regression analyses to determine the predictive relationships between pupil self-reported strengths and exam results. Findings indicate that Functional Behaviour is consistently predictive of 13 successful academic achievement, particularly for higher levels of attainment (e.g. cumulative Total Score, A and B awards at N5, and proportion of exams passed at N5 level). Chapter 4 (study 1d) addresses the predictive relationships between teacher assessments of pupil progress and exam results, based on data from time 1 and 3. Analyses of Pupil Progress assessments for pupils participating at Time 1 and 3, using both exploratory and stepwise regression, showed a consistent, predictive relationship between Green (exceeding expectations) assessments and higher levels of exam success (N5 total score, percentage of passes at N5, and number of A, B, and C grades at N5). Analyses indicate Amber pupil progress to be a consistent predictor of almost all levels of exam success. Chapter 5 (study 1e) Investigates the Influence of time on predictors of outcomes (Teacher Assessments and Exams), as well as the relative influence of Strengths and Teacher Assessments on Exam Outcomes. Longitudinal regression analyses to assesses the influence of time in the predictive relationships found between Strengths and positive outcomes (Teacher Assessments and Exams), as well as the relative predictive influence of Strengths and Teacher Assessments on Exam outcomes, were conducted based on data from Time 1 and Time 3. Findings are interpreted and discussed in the context of strengths based educating, successful learning, and positive youth development; recommendations for future research directions are considered.
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Hamilton, Christopher John. "Knowledge, ownership and life : the relationship between biopiracy and intellectual property rights." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485555.
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This thesis describes and accounts for the contemporai-y politics that take shape around the emergence of new regimes of intellectual property ~hts (IPRs) seeking patents on life fonns through an analysis of disputes that have been framed.in.tenns: ofbiopiracy. It studies biopiracy as a tenn which serves as a vector to gather to it a cascade. of concerns about the ambivalent. promises that emerge at the intersection of science, nature and IPR, but also at the intersection of , the developed and the developing· worlds. Though an analysis of the historical trajectory of the tenn coupled with a focused look at cases where allegations of biopiracy have been made by activist groups, it analyses the consequences of the concept's deployment, thus clarifying the lines of contes!ation and identifying some of their economic, political, social, cultural, legal and ethical underpinnings. The first component of this thesis builds on sociological work which addresses the nature/culture separation and extends this work to apply it to IPR regimes, thus making theoretical inroads into emerging notions of biocapital, the bioeconomy and biosociality. As such, it contributes to an understanding of the role of IPR and of the nature/culture separation therein. The second part of this thesis analyses the use of the term 'biopiracy' in the, media and demonstrates how the use of the term has been characterized by a clustering around several key cases which were deliberately chosen to exemplify the process of biopiracy. The third area addressed by this thesis deals with the specific implications that the allegation of biopiracy has had. It shows that the allegation of biopiracy has been 'taken up' widely across multiple spectra, which has led towards the generation of a variety of proposed solutions to the challenges it generates, solutions inherently bound to how biopiracy is itself problematized.
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Muir, Jovana Catriona. "Li Deyu (787-850) : his life, writing and place in intellectual history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251619.
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Barlow, Jillian A. "Satisfaction with the quality of life of persons with an intellectual disability /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsb258.pdf.
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Steczowicz, Agnieszka. "'The defence of contraries' : paradox in the late Renaissance disciplnes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2f93089-60f6-4408-aae9-2b3e595efcdc.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the meanings and functions of paradox in the late Renaissance. My understanding of Renaissance paradox, in contrast to that of most critics and historians, rests entirely on contemporary definitions of the term, rather than on its present-day meaning. Paradoxes as they are envisaged in this study begin to appear in the wake of the humanist rediscovery and dissemination of Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum. In this work, paradoxes are characterized as 'admirabilia contraque opinionem omnium', a definition that draws attention to two important traits of paradox, repeatedly invoked in the Renaissance: its association with wonder, and its opposition to common opinion. This thesis examines the history of classical paradox as it was revived, expanded beyond the narrow confines of Stoic ethics, and adapted to new purposes so successfully that it became a recognisable genre of polemical writing, with hundreds of works in Latin and the vernacular being described as paradoxes. Previous studies of Renaissance paradox have centred almost exclusively on its literary and vernacular manifestations, and on the paradoxical encomium in particular. My own work charts the rise to prominence and the ensuing transformations of paradox in a range of disciplines: rhetoric and ethics, theology, law, medicine, and natural philosophy. I compare the different associations that paradoxes acquire in all these areas, and the argumentative strategies that they deploy. My analysis of specific examples of paradox is informed by the methods of both literary analysis and intellectual history. Paradoxes, I argue, offered their authors the possibility of departing from established norms and of voicing novel views in a period of intellectual unrest. In their challenge to received and common opinion, they paved the way for more radical ideas in the following century, and they have much to tell us about dissident ways of thinking in the late Renaissance.
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Shakespeare, Alex Andriesse. "Robert Lowell, Lyric and Life." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104264.
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Thesis advisor: Paul MarianiRobert Lowell, Lyric and Life investigates the meaning of autobiography as it is represented and produced by the work of art. I begin by tracing Lowell's poetics to the highly personal Romanticism of William Wordsworth and the highly impersonal Modernism of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Allen Tate. Reading Lowell's writing in light of this dual inheritance, I am able to point out the limitations of calling Lowell's poetry "confessional" and to propose a model of the lyric self that accounts for the significant semiotic and psychological complexity that goes into the making of a lyric "I." I argue that, from a reader's point of view, Lowell's autobiographical poems are more creations of experience than they are records of experience; that, although the reader is supposed to believe he is "getting the real Robert Lowell," what he really gets is a fictive representation. Taking hold of what Robert Lowell called the "thread of autobiography" that strings together his life's work, I then trace the changing role of Lowell's autobiographical lyric self in a series of three chapters. The first of these chapters concerns the manuscript drafts and published poems of Life Studies (composed from 1953-1959) and, through attention to Lowell's revisions, demonstrates the great extent to which Lowell fictionalized his experience: for instance, by omitting some of the most personal details of the poems in favor of elegant prosodic or thematic composition. The next chapter takes up what I designate "the Notebook poems" (the sonnets published between 1967 and 1972 in the volumes Notebook 1967-68, Notebook, History, and For Lizzie & Harriet), examining the ways in which Lowell's move to New York City and his readings of Hannah Arendt, Eric Auerbach, Simone Weil, and Herbert Marcuse (among others) affected his views of the lyric self in relation to history. This chapter ends by arguing for the Dantesque contours of the Notebook poems, and again takes a close look at Lowell's drafts, including an unpublished essay on Dante. A final chapter examines two ekphrastic autobiographical poems ("Marriage" and "Epilogue"), from Lowell's final volume, Day by Day (1977), in relation to poems by Elizabeth Bishop and William Wordsworth. It concludes by showing, through a close reading of "Epilogue" and its drafts, Lowell's own retrospective concern to question and doubt the autobiographical pursuits of his poetry. A brief epilogue draws the variegated threads of these chapters together and offers a final reflection on the inextricable knot of Lowell's lyrics and his life by way of reading his final poems and the biographical record of his death
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Kober, Ralph Oliver. "The effectiveness of different methods of employment for people with intellectual disabilities." University of Western Australia. School of Economics and Commerce, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0036.
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[Truncated abstract] Background Performance measurement in the not-for-profit sector is extremely important in terms of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of organisations in achieving their goals. Performance indicators assist management in strategic decision making and fulfilling their accountability obligations for the best use of limited resources to funders, purchasers, consumers, and other stakeholder groups. Aim This thesis seeks to further the research into performance measurement in the notfor- profit sector by evaluating the effectiveness of different methods of employment (open employment and supported employment) for people with intellectual disabilities. The disability employment sector is selected as the sector in which to undertake this research, as there are hundreds of disability employment agencies across Australia, which either support people with intellectual disabilities in supported employment or place them into open employment; each of whom contracts directly with the Australian Commonwealth Government for the services they must provide in order to receive funding. Method The Eggleton (1991) performance measurement framework is used to justify the measurement of the effectiveness of the different methods of employment based on the job satisfaction and quality of life of individuals participating in each method of employment. Job satisfaction is measured using a refined version of the Barlow and Kirby (1991) job satisfaction questionnaire, while quality of life is measured using both a refined version of the Schalock and Keith (1993) quality of life questionnaire, and the original questionnaire. One hundred and seventeen people with intellectual disabilities, who were employed in either supported employment or open employment, are interviewed. Statistical analyses are conducted on the entire sample, and also on various sub-samples that control for differences between participants in open employment and supported employment in terms of the type of occupation performed, living environment, and functional work ability.
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Owen, Dawn. "The relationship between life events and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability : a preliminary study." Thesis, Bangor University, 2003. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-relationship-between-life-events-and-challenging-behaviour-in-people-with-intellectual-disability--a-preliminary-study(764bd398-daaa-4ef6-bd97-af777a53c4c2).html.
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To date there have been few studies that have explored the relationship between life events and challenging behaviour( CB) in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). The present study is preceded by a literature review that first introduces the literature devoted to the understanding of risk factors associated with the development and maintenance of CB in people with ID. It then provides a flavour of the extensive venereal life events literature, by presenting meta-analytic and review studies that examine how life events impact on psychological well-being. It finally reviews life event studies that have so far occupied ID research. The literature review concludes with implications for future research and clinical interventions. This is followed by a research study that aims to explore the range of life events encountered by people with ID residing in a long stay residential hospital and ii. explore potential associations between life events and CB. To do this a correlational design was employed. Key respondent(nursing staff) well known to the participants provided information on known correlates of CB and life events experienced by the service-user over the previous 12 months. Results suggest that for the study population the life event domains of relationship issues and staff change provided a significant additional contribution to the prediction of CB once known 41 correlates of CB were controlled. The results are discussed in light of the findings. Limitations of the study are also discussed together with the future clinical and research implications of such findings. Finally the research paper is followed by a critical review that outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the study, as well as the process issues arising during the course of the research. Clinical implications and future directions are further discussed.
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Rimmer, Matthew Rhys. "The pirate bazaar the social life of copyright law." View electronic text, 2001. http://eprints.anu.edu.au/documents/disk0/00/00/08/14/index.html.
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Available via the Australian National University Library Electronic Pre and Post Print Repository. Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 28, 2003) Includes bibliographical references. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Seto, Kwok-kin Louis, and 司徒國健. "Guangdong intellectuals in early Qing politics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4457003X.
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Ljubic, Anita. "Xenarchus of Seleucia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670168.
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Turner, Aishia. "Quality of life, psychological wellbeing and distress in those with an intellectual disability." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21581/.
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Literature review: The present study is a systematic literature review of findings from 16 studies investigating the quality of life of adults with an intellectual disability. It was concluded that those with intellectual disability experience a lower quality of life than other groups. The interrater reliability between self-reports and proxy reports were found to be fair. However, proxies were found to consistently underestimate quality of life for individuals with intellectual disability, and physical wellbeing was identified as a problematic domain for agreement between self-report and proxy reports. Employment and good social or family supports emerged as factors most important to good quality of life. Those with severe or profound intellectual disability were under represented in the literature. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are discussed. Empirical report: There is limited research into how psychological wellbeing and distress are identified in those with a severe or profound intellectual disability. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore carer’s view on how these inner emotional states are identified in those they care for. A qualitative exploratory design was used and 18 paid carers and family members participated in semi-structured interviews. Analysis of transcripts yielded eight superordinate themes relating to: relationship; physical contact; body; vocalisation, things that affect their emotions; facial expression; unknown and telling their story. Agreement between the dyads was fair. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are outlined.
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Young, Janet Louise. "Deinstitutionalisation and changes in life circumstances of adults with intellectual disability in Queensland /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16161.pdf.
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Wiese, Michele. "End-Of-Life Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Community Living Services." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9962.
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End-of-life care of people with intellectual disabilities in community living services ABSTRACT People with intellectual disability are living longer. This can result in the need for ongoing care. With the death or incapacity of parents, there has been an increased need for care in staffed community living services. While research has resulted in greater understanding about how community living staff care for people with intellectual disability as they age, research about care at the end of life is in its infancy. This study sought to explore the current status of end-of-life care, and the needs of community living staff to provide end-of-life care. The research was conducted using qualitative grounded-theory methodology. Focus groups and 1:1 interviews were conducted with a total of 33 community living staff. The findings showed five key issues reflecting the status of care from the perspective of community living services staff. Issues included knowing dying, ethical values, where of caring, how of caring, and post-death caring. Care involved a range of partners who, at any one time, might have a role in navigating these issues. Partners included the dying client, other clients, the fellow staff, external health services, and the post-death legal system. Together these issues and partners operated in relationship, resulting in a framework to understand end-of-life care to people with intellectual disability in community living services. One issue, knowing dying, was pivotal; how much staff themselves knew about dying in their professional role, and then how that influenced their approach to people with intellectual disability about knowing dying. In principle, staff were unanimous that people with intellectual disability should know about dying, however, their application of this in-principle endorsement was negligible. A paradox was therefore apparent. The thesis concludes with calls to action around policy, practice, professional development and future research, all with a view to redressing social injustice, and a contribution to society’s desequestration of death.
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Richards, Elisabeth Gurney. "An examination of the Reineke Fuchs glosses 1498-1650 in the light of the cultural history of the period." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27517.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to compare the attitudes of the anonymous authors of the four commentaries or glosses on the Reineke-Fuchs poem, the first of these, the only pre-Reformation gloss, being written in Middle Low German and printed in 1498 in Lübeck, the second, again in Middle Low German, in 1539 in Rostock, the third, in High German, in 1544 in Frankfurt, and the fourth in 1650 again in Rostock, and to investigate how far these commentators' treatment of the work reflects the cultural history of the period. The three main cultural influences ,on sixteenth-century writers were, in the literary field, that of moral-didactic literature - where so-called Speculum, "Spiegel" or "Mirror" works were common - and that of Humanism, and, in the area of religion, that of the Roman Church initially and later that of Luther. Taking into consideration the socio-historical background against which the individual glosses were written, the attempt is first made in Chapter 1., based on the authors' prefaces to their glosses, to establish their intention in writing these and the audience they were probably addressing. This is
followed in Chapter 2. by a comparison of glosses from all four editions on the same chapters in the narrative text, showing how the 1498 commentator reveals his dependence on his Dutch source for many of his general remarks, and, with regard to religious interpretation, on contemporary works printed in Lübeck in the same decade; how the 1539 commentator, while embodying most of his predecessor's general commentary in his own, illustrates this with material from a range of different sources, mostly High German; how the 1544 commentator, for his part, eschews literary illustrations and appears to be drawing from his own personal experience in what he writes, and how the 1650 commentator, on the other hand, embroiders his gloss with both Biblical quotations and tales from folklore. The main part of the investigation,
however, comprises a comparison of the chapter-glosses under subject-headings: in Chapter 3. that of Government, where their content is compared with that of contemporary Humanist works dealing with the instruction of princes and with princely courts -the so-called "Fürstenspiegel" and "Curials" - and also with Luther's teaching regarding temporal authority and the obedience due to this, and, too, of Law, where attention is drawn particularly to the reflection in the glosses of how the practice of Roman law was superseding that of customary law at that time; in Chapter 4. that of Church, where, based primarily on Luther's writings, an investigation is first made of the difference between the teaching of the Roman Church and that of Luther regarding Church practice - confession, the ban, indulgences, veneration of the saints and pilgrimages - and the status and conduct of the clergy - both of the religious orders and the secular clergy - and of how far both the differences established here and other concerns voiced in contemporary documents are reflected in the glosses; in Chapter 5. that of Society, where the attitude of the individual commentators to the social structure, to women and the family and to the economic conditions of the time are examined against the background of Humanist writing and that of Luther and the glosses considered as "Ständespiegel"; in Chapter 6, that of Literary Influences, where those of Humanism and of moral-didactic literature are given special study and the glosses assessed as "Sittenspiegel." Finally, in Chapter 7., a comparison is made between each commentator's attitude to the fox-figure and consideration given to how far this attitude reflects his outlook on life and his social status.Arts, Faculty of
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Hilberg, Eva. "Intellectual property and the genetic dispositif of life : the changing role of intellectual property law in governing participation and knowledge in the bioeconomy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61168/.
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This thesis analyses the problematic relation between intellectual property (IP) and genetic conceptions of life. The ‘gene patent' has been controversial from its inception in the 1980s, and IP's definition of genetic sequences continues to undergo surprising changes. Recent examples include the contested overturn of some forms of gene patents in the US Supreme Court Myriad judgement, and continuing international debates about access and benefit sharing arrangements in the newly established Nagoya Protocol. The Myriad case confronted an international neoliberal bioeconomy with new demands of patients, which increasingly define their understanding of health and well-being in molecular terms. This thesis argues that the issues surrounding the patenting of genetic sequences go beyond an already widely criticised ‘commodification' of life, and points out that rather IP law is becoming a highly contested site in a wider problematization of the governing of life understood in molecular terms. Relying on an updated reading of Foucault's concepts of governmentality and biopolitics, it argues that informational-genetic conceptions of life have opened up a new sphere of intensified biopolitics, based on a ‘genetic dispositif' of knowledge and power. In its engagement with this dispositif, IP manages tensions between competing scientific knowledges about life, governs the participation of patients in medical research, and determines the rights of developing countries in an international bioeconomy. The analytical framework conceptualises these tensions as a confrontation with molecular biopower on three levels: in IP's changing understanding of DNA, in IP's relation to new ‘genetic' subjects and medical research charities, and in challenges to IP's exclusionary effects regarding the international sharing of benefits from research, and on demands for increased contributions to global health agendas. These challenges show how IP tactically contributes to the normalisation of knowledge, to the inclusion/exclusion of participation in the bioeconomy, and to the control of research agendas.
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Adolfsson, Päivi. "Food Related Activities and Food Intake in Everyday Life among People with Intellectual Disabilities." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-131328.
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The aim of this thesis was to study food, eating and meals in the everyday life of 32 women and men with intellectual disabilities (IDs) who require varying levels of supervision. They lived in supported living (rather independently) or group homes in community-based home-like settings. Observations during 3 days, assisted food records and anthropometric measurements were used to collect data. Dietary intake on the group level showed a varied diet and sufficient intake of all micronutrients, but a low dietary fibre intake. On the individual level, inadequate intake of micronutrients was observed, with many participants being obese, overweight or underweight. Everyday support with food, eating and meals was seen in four praxis: foodwork by oneself for oneself, foodwork in co-operation, foodwork disciplined by staff and foodwork by staff. These four practices resulted in large variations in dietary intake. The first praxis entailed more convenience food and less vitamins, the second and third, more fresh ingredients and high energy intake, and the fourth, low energy intake but rather high intake of vitamins. Sharing of meals was least common in supported living and more common in group homes and daily activity centres. The participants’ social eating spheres consisted mostly of other people with ID and staff members, and seldom other people. Whereas some preferred solitary eating, many participants considered eating together as important, but required staff support in establishing commensality. However, disturbing behaviour, as determined by the staff, could result in solitary eating. In conclusion, supporting the group rather than the individual sometimes created less favourable dietary, eating and meal outcomes. This problem needs to be addressed in order to establish food security at the individual level. In addition, actions should be taken to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities receive sufficient support to meet their individual needs and aspirations.
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Snell, Peter R. "Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia and the role of the intellectual in public life." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0003/MQ42693.pdf.
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Mainberger, Eliaze. "The relationship between social support and quality of life of adults with intellectual handicaps /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32826.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the potential link between quality of life and social support networks, among clients with mild to borderline intellectual handicaps. This study also explored differences between how the clients assess their quality of life and support networks and how primary caseworkers asses the quality of life and support networks of their clients.Thirty intellectually handicapped adults (18 men & 12 women) and their primary caseworkers were randomly selected to participate in the study. Significant differences were found between client and primary caseworker evaluations of clients' quality of life and their social support networks. Friends as support providers was strongly associated with better quality of life. The findings also indicated that there were significant differences in female and male client satisfaction with quality of life.
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Walsh, Allison Jessie. "Psychological acceptance and family quality of life in families of children with intellectual disabilities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33297.
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In order to examine the literature on acceptance and mindfulness in parents of children with developmental disabilities a systematic review was conducted. Twelve studies were included in the review and provided some support for the relevance of these concepts in helping to support parents of children with developmental disabilities. However, general study quality was poor and methodological limitations hampered confidence in these findings. Research considerations are discussed. An empirical study was conducted to examine the relationship between psychological acceptance and family quality of life in parents of children with intellectual disabilities. One-hundred and twenty-nine parents of children with intellectual disabilities participated in a questionnaire based study. Participants completed measures of family quality of life, psychological acceptance, emotional adjustment, mental well-being and impact of the child. Parental psychological acceptance was positively associated with family quality of life and was found to account for around 1.9 per cent of its variance. Parental emotional adjustment was also positively associated with family quality of life, however, when parental psychological acceptance was added to the regression model emotional adjustment was no longer a statistically significant variable. The results of this study suggest that parental psychological acceptance may explain some of the variance in family quality of life. Further research is needed to ascertain whether interventions that improve parents' psychological acceptance also improve family quality of life.
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Simpson, Wendy. "Siblings of people with intellectual disability: Relationships and decision-making across the life span." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2417.
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A growing amount of research focuses on siblings of children with disabilities. However, limited evidence exists to provide a solid understanding and depth of knowledge of the issues that affect adult sibling relationships when one has intellectual disability. Since sibling relationships are the longest lasting family relationship, they are becoming more important because people with disability are outliving their parents or main caregivers. The increased longevity of people with disability has a societal and economic impact that has been recognised in the context of the recently introduced National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia. By exploring the experiences of siblings who have a brother or sister with intellectual disability, this study aimed to understand how family characteristics and childhood experiences influence sibling relationships and decision-making across the life span.
Utilising a mixed methods approach—predominantly a qualitative study design—a total of 79 adult siblings of a person with intellectual disability from Perth, Western Australia, completed an online survey and/or participated in an interview. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 70+ years of age. Qualitative data were analysed using a thematic analysis process, guided by Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-phase framework. Four major themes were constructed that captured the experience of growing up with a sibling with intellectual disability: relationships, knowledge and understanding of disability while growing up, siblings as carers and the consequences for family.
The findings revealed that the birth or diagnosis of a child in the family with intellectual disability resulted in a change in the family dynamics, a focus on the child with disability and parental differential treatment. Siblings reported a sense of having missed out while growing up and an ascribed or assumed role of carer. The variables that influence the relationship between siblings when one has intellectual disability were found to be broad, including individual, family and disability characteristics. In addition, this study found evidence to support findings from earlier research that correlates growing up with a sibling with disability and a propensity to follow a career path in a helping or service profession. Limited evidence was found in this study of a mutually beneficial close relationship with a sibling with intellectual disability that did not have elements of care, protection or a sense of responsibility attached. Findings also revealed that in adulthood, siblings often felt ‘disconnected’ from their sibling with intellectual disability when formal support services were in place, sometimes leading to discord between service providers and siblings regarding the nature of support for their sibling with intellectual disability.
These findings have implications for policy and practice in disability services because they highlight the importance of holistic family inclusion that includes siblings to enhance natural relationships and supported decision-making with siblings with intellectual disability. Recommendations include the recognition of siblings in policy and legislation, particularly in the NDIS; the inclusion by disability support and early intervention services of siblings in family discussions, planning and decision-making; and making readily available augmentative and alternative methods of communication as an imperative means of promoting sibling connectedness when one has intellectual disability. This study adds to the literature on adult sibling-disability research from an Australian perspective.
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Baird, Catherine 1966. "The "third way" : Russia's religious philosophers in the West, 1917-1996." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34695.
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In 1922, the Bolshevik government expelled some 160 prominent intellectuals from Russia. Numbered among these were many of the leaders of the Religious Renaissance which had flourished since the turn of the century. They advocated a "third way": neither for the Tsarist regime nor the Bolsheviks; neither for Capitalism nor Communism; neither for Materialism nor Idealism; rather, they promoted personalist, spiritual development (Godmanhood ), Christian economic ethics (Sobornost'), and a path to knowledge informed by reason, but guided by faith (Religious-Philosophy ). Forced to join the Russian diaspora, these religious philosophers continued to advance their movement with the help of the Young Men's Christian Association. Largely at the initiative of Nikolai Berdyaev (1874--1948), they also began to interact with the French intellectual milieu in Paris in order to develop inter-confessional and cultural understandings. Although Russian religious-philosophy suffered a certain decline following World War Two, many of their writings had returned to the USSR. As Soviet intellectuals discovered these works, they gradually began to revolt against dialectical materialism, and aspire to recover the religious-philosophical tradition. In 1988, this Return was at last made possible, and religious-philosophy has been enjoying a second renaissance which continues unabated today.
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Kamlager, Carolee. "Identity Making Process of Individuals with Mild Intellectual Disabilities." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/csw_etds/8.
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The shadow of stigma theory typically surrounds the research investigation of the lives of individuals with mild intellectual disabilities. McAdams’ life story theory and methodology provide a human development framework as an alternative to the prevailing framework in the field of disability. This study moves out of the shadow of otherness and examines the personal identity making process of twelve individuals with mild intellectual disabilities in the light of human development theory. Findings dispel the assumption that individuals with mild intellectual disabilities construct their lives solely through their disability. Rather, the identity making process includes the influences of socio-cultural events, religion, mentoring, advocacy, and the lived experience of disability.
In this study, twelve adults with mild intellectual disabilities completed adapted life story interviews and four quantitative measures to explore the themes and patterns of agency, communion, redemption, contamination and generativity. Additional qualitative analysis expanded the range of discovery for influences in the identity making process. Following analysis of the quantitative scores, interviewees were placed in either the Higher Generativity Group or Lower Generativity Group. Analysis occurred at three levels: within case, within group and between group.
Differences between the groups emerged, such as, involvement in human rights advocacy, presence of mentors and spiritual guides, and religious beliefs. Human rights advocacy provided a rich source of generativity and meaningful connection to others, politically, socially and emotionally. Turning point narratives often contained religious and redemptive content themes. While interviewees did not narrate the majority of scenes with disability centric content, one-half of the interviewees narrated disability content in their high point scenes, suggesting the positive internalization of their disability into their personal identity. The major findings confirm the importance of studying the life stories of this population from the perspective of human development theory. This study presents conclusions that impact research methodology for this population, as well as, social work research, policy development, practice and education.
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Taylor, Linda D. "Creative thinking and worldviews in Romania /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3311919.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008."May 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-83). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
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Heale, Nicholas. "Religious and intellectual interests at St Edmunds Abbey at Bury and the nature of English Benedictinism, c1350-1450." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241338.
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Jebari, Idriss. "The production of critical thought in the Maghrib : Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït (1965-1978)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c206441c-84cc-4332-a223-954a3c485976.
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The critical essay gained immense popularity in the sixties and seventies in the Maghrib as a way to depict national realities that had failed to live up to nationalist ideals. Their authors often shared similar attributes: young highly educated intellectuals, committed toward modernity and who steered clear of politics. Such was the case of Abdallah Laroui (born 1933) and Hichem Djaït (born 1935), two celebrated Maghribi thinkers of the post-1967 generation in Arab thought. Despite their different ideological positions, they share a similar trajectory and both wrote about the need for another Arab renaissance, in Laroui's La crise des intellectuels arabes (1974) and Djaït's La personnalité arabo-islamique (1974). The turn to critical writing is routinely dismissed for being secondary, for having a restricted audience and little political impact, yet it highlights well the Maghribi postcolonial intellectual's competing demands: to conform to an ideal representation of intellectual "commitment" through critical speech, and to secure national recognition and integration. As such, this thesis confronts the often-neglected impact of nationalism on intellectual conducts after independence around the impact of their disillusionment, and forces us to rethink critically notions of engagement, the role of intellectuals and postcolonial cultural productions that are current in Middle East studies, and problematically envisaged by postcolonial studies. These texts have been approached as dynamic objects responding to a set of questions in their time, to account for the materiality of thought production, mobilising David Scott's concept of the "problem-space of intellectual production" (1999). This thesis looks at Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït's intellectual projects from 1965 to 1978, to study the genesis and aftermaths of their critical moment, focusing on their published writings (critical essays and academic studies), press and journal articles, interviews, and fictional texts from a later period, in Arabic and French. Their writings will be read alongside several cultural journals, newspapers and memoirs dealing with this period of the Maghrib's history to account for the processes of circulation and reception by relevant audiences.
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Williams, Alwyn. "The color of sound : jazz and the American intelligentsia, 1919-1939 / Alwyn Williams." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27982.
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The Color of Sound is a history of the American intelligentsia’s response to jazz in the 20 years between the World Wars, containing analysis of the writings of both white and black thinkers, highlighting the way beliefs about jazz have changed during this period. This history demonstrates that our popular understanding—that jazz is an improvised music, based on the musical practices of African Americans— originated in the late 1920s and early 19305, when a small number of writers challenged the orthodoxy of the first decade of jazz criticism. In the 1920s, American intellectuals (both black and white), while divided over the musical significance of jazz, believed that orchestrated music, using syncopation, novel instrumentation and (sometimes) a blues tonality, was jazz in its highest form. The premier jazz artist, they argued, was an obese, white American named Paul Whiteman. Jazz’s finest composer was George Gershwin, and the most important composition of the 1920s was Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
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Mastoris, Ioannis. "The Life Cycle Management and Intellectual Capital factors that influence sustainability integration in organisational processes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270306.
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Following the suggestions of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative publications on Life Cycle Management (LCM) as a business management approach to improve sustainability performance, this research explored LCM as a promising research area that could help identify the factors that influence the integration of sustainability aspects into organisational processes. The initial research strategy was comprised of LCM literature analysis to explore LCM and identify potential factors that could direct the data collection. The analysis of the LCM literature shows that LCM is vaguely described. This research analysis puts into context the various LCM approaches through the introduction of the four LCM elements. The LCM elements were used as a frame to analyse the LCM cases found in the literature and identify the factors that influence integration of sustainability in organisational processes. The next stage of the research strategy was to conduct action research studies to explore in close proximity the integration of sustainability aspects in organisational processes. Two in depth action research studies were conducted, influenced by engaged scholarship. During Case A, the LCM elements were used in practice to influence the project whilst the LCM factors were observed in practice. Case A demonstrated the complexity of sustainability-related information integration in organisational processes and the division of information flows towards different organisational functions to inform their own decision. The analysis highlighted that developing knowledge is a key LCM factor that influences the application of LCM. As the importance of developing knowledge became apparent, a novel sustainability related intellectual capital (SrIC) framework was developed then used during Case B. This framework is shown to assist the sustainability professionals of Company B in enhancing the sustainability related intellectual capital of the company, which in turn led to more effective sustainability integration. This research used LCM as a ‘vehicle’ to explore the integration of sustainability aspects into organisational processes and hence contribute to the LCM literature with the four LCM elements framework of analysis, descriptions of the factors that influence the application of LCM, bringing a focus on the importance of developing knowledge for the effective application of LCM, and identifying the intellectual capital factors that influence the integration of sustainability aspects into organisational processes.
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Ortiz, Kaylee A. "THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO ACTIVITY SCHEDULES ON LIFE SKILLS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MILD INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY." UKnowledge, 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsrc_etds/46.
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This study used a multiple probe across settings design to evaluate the effects of video activity schedules (VidAS) on the acquisition of life skills in various settings within the home. In a technology training phase, participants were taught how to navigate a mobile application and use the pause and play feature of the video using a system of least prompts. In baseline, participants were given a task direction to complete the tasks within each setting with access to a static picture schedule. During intervention, participant task completion was evaluated when self-instructing with the use of VidAS in each setting. One participant’s settings consisted of the living room, kitchen, and outdoor schedule, the other participant’s settings consisted of a checkbook, kitchen, and laundry schedule. One participant learned to self-instruct using the mobile technology and independently complete and navigate between and within tasks within each schedule.
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Green, Jacqueline. "Parents Perceptions of Social Inclusion of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4854.
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Researchers have shown that the voices of parents of adults with intellectual disabilities can help build supports in the community. Research regarding the perceptions and lived experiences of these parents regarding social inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities is limited. Guided by positive psychology, the purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to examine parents' lived experiences of social inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities. Research questions were framed to understand and describe the meaning of how parents experience social inclusion with their adult children with intellectual disabilities. Data were elicited through 6 individual interviews with parents of adults with intellectual disabilities from Shelby County, Tennessee. Data was analyzed using a phenomenological and double hermeneutic approach that is consistent with the interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings from this study were compared with existing literature indicating that parents must facilitate social inclusion for their adult children with intellectual disabilities. Another finding from the study was that parents believe that there is a need to build relationships in the community. Including the voices of parents of adults with intellectual disabilities with those of professionals could influence policy makers in designing supports for parents and families, which could have positive social change implications. Adults with intellectual disabilities may benefit from the study, in that their parents' voices are being heard and the study draws attention to the need for continual support from service providers, policy makers, and the community itself. This study also helps to fill a gap in research regarding parents' lived experiences and perceptions concerning social inclusion of their adult children with intellectual disabilities.
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Gilhuber, Christina. "How children of parents with intellectual disabilities experience their everyday life : A systematic literature review from 1985 to 2017." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, CHILD, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36217.
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Various findings indicate that children of parents with intellectual disabilities have a higher risk for various difficulties, but only few studies interview children for an account of their experiences. This study aimed at assessing how children of parents with intellectual disabilities reflected their upbringing and their everyday life regarding their parent’s disability. Eight studies were identified through a systematic literature review, with publication ranging from 1985 to 2017. Results show that the accounts contain both positive and negative experiences and reflect an ambivalent relationship towards the parents. The small population of the analyzed studies, as well as differences in the context and the method of the studies, allowed no general conclusions to be drawn. Further research is required to allow an evaluation of the experiences of children of parents with intellectual disabilities in a bigger context.
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Lavenda, Daniel. "Disenchanted engagement : the philosophy and political praxis of Massimo Cacciari." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b322a1d4-2ec9-4d24-a847-4388832f5ba9.
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Several commentators have argued that the focus within political theory in recent decades on abstraction rather than 'reality' has left it with has nothing to say to political actors. On these grounds, some have even expressed concern regarding the discipline's future. As a reply to these concerns, I introduce in this thesis the scholarship and political career of the Italian philosopher Massimo Cacciari. Cacciari shares many goals with Anglophone political theorists, but neither his scholarship nor his practice have engaged in the kind of intellectual abstraction which they now find so troubling. Drawing from Cacciari's philosophy, political career, and interventions as a public intellectual, I show how his understanding of real-world conflicts and contradictions begins with a commitment to what I call his 'geophilosophy of the archipelago', which regards the foundations of human knowledge to be irreducibly plural. A commitment to irreducibly plural foundations means that philosophers and political actors must discard what Cacciari views as 'enchantment' with the possibility of ultimate or absolute resolution of all political discord. In return, however, he argues that hopeful political engagement is still possible, because political actors remain able to cope in material and semiotic terms with the complex realities they face. I suggest that serious consideration of Cacciari's example of recognising irreducible plurality, coupled with a disenchanted engagement with both the material and the semiotic dimensions of political life, offers a compelling alternative orientation to the world that may suggest new ways forward in political theory.
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Psomiadis, Gerry. "Temporalities, spatialities, subjectivities : Kuki Shûzô and the poetico-ontology of the nation." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23355.
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The postmodern is characterised by an incredulity towards the universal truths which mark modernity. Kuki Shuzo, like many intellectuals in Japan during the twenties and thirties, anticipates this discourse by attempting to confront the hegemonic claims and universal pretensions of modernity. Using the latest European methodologies, Kuki attempted to define a site of difference--a site that could escape the putative universality of Western modes of dealing with historical development and consciousness--through a particular reading of cultural artefacts, especially Edo poetry and painting. Yet Kuki would ultimately locate this special site within the temporal, spatial, and subjective boundaries of the modern nation implicating the geopolitics of modernity and providing an interesting context to study the complicity of art, ideology, and aesthetics in modern discourse.
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Usami, Hirokuni. "The influence of the theories of Yin-Yang and the five elements on Japanese culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1989. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26426.
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Perhaps no more than one percent of Japanese today have heard of Onmyodo or the Way of Yin and Yang. This in spite of the fact that it influenced Japanese culture and the people's way of thought as strongly as Buddhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism did. It is a system of belief based on the ancient Chinese theories of Yin and Yang and of the five elements and the magical practices that developed after it was introduced into Japan.
Its traces are still found in the life of- today's Japanese. A good illustration of these is Jikkan Junishi (the ten celestial stems and twelve branches), which comprise one of the most important aspects of Onmyödó.(1) In the last days of the year and at the beginning of the New Year, the Chinese zodiacal designs for the New Year flood the daily lives of Japanese in the form of New Year's cards, calendars and ornaments for good luck. Thereby, the Japanese become ready to greet the New Year and to bid farewell to the Old year. In the minds of modern Japanese, the New Year and the Chinese zodiacal symbols are closely associated.
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Romney, Stephanie C. "The impact of intellectual functioning and adverse life events on the psychosocial development of maltreated children /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3208618.
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Beerens, Anna. "Friends, acquaintances, pupils, and patrons Japanese intellectual life in the late eighteenth century : a prosopographical approach /." [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2006. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10302554.
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Foley, Simon James. "Intellectual disability and the right to a sexual life : a continuation of the autonomy/paternalism debate." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695340.
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As a population typically characterised by reference to their 'broken bodies' or 'damaged minds', western societies continue to systematically devalue and exclude disabled people from the good things in life. Influenced by social model thinking, there now exists an extensive literature on societal discrimination against people with disabilities when it comes to accessing material goods such as employment. education and housing. However, instead of adding to this burgeoning treasure chest of scholarly insights, this thesis changes tack in both subject matter and theoretical affinities, to examine a different, all too often ignored, material deprivation blighting the everyday lives of disabled people. Namely the fact that many disabled people are unwillingly leading celibate lives. Society's failure to grant recognition to the sexual needs of disabled people is nowhere more evident when it comes to the needs of intellectually disabled adults. In contemporary western society, to be intellectually disabled is to be infantilised and to be infantilised is to be desexualised. Amongst all the populations subsumed under the umbrella term of intellectual disability, one of the most common to be ascribed the 'Peter Pan' subject position by third parties are adults with Down syndrome. The prevalence of this 'Peter Pan' meme has bestowed adults with Down syndrome with an essentialist identity which positions them as disembodied, desexualised legal subjects. To highlight the most salient conceptual issues that constitute the dangerous discourse surrounding the debate on the rights of intellectually disabled adults to lead a non-celibate life, this thesis focuses specifically on barriers inhibiting adults with Down syndrome living in the parental home from expressing their sexuality via the medium of a sexual relationship.