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Cavanagh, Lorraine Marie. "Meaning and transformation in the life of the Anglican Communion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619986.
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Fox, Barbara F. "The Dark Night of the Soul| Conscious Suffering, Meaning, and Transformation." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527431.
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This thesis explores Spanish Christian mystic John of the Cross’s concept of the dark night of the soul as a process of conscious suffering that leads to empowerment, meaning in life, and enhanced wholeness. In addition, this thesis considers depth psychological concepts of individuation and Self, and the depth psychological notions of the teleological function of suffering and conscious suffering in relation to the dark night of the soul. The work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Thomas Moore, James Hollis, and Barbara Sullivan, among others, is considered. Using heuristic methodology, this thesis presents the story of the author’s personal experience in the darkness to illustrate how conscious suffering leads to personal transformation. Finally, the author provides a guideline for therapists working with clients who are experiencing a dark night of the soul.
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O'Keefe, Greg, and gregokeefe@netspace net au. "The Meaning of UML Models." The Australian National University. Computer Science Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, 2010. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20100614.175427.
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The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to express complex ideas
in an intuitive and easily understood way. It is important because it is widely
used in software engineering and other disciplines. Although an official definition
document exists, there is much debate over the precise meaning of UML models.
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In response, the academic community have put forward many different proposals
for formalising UML, but it is not at all obvious how to decide between
them. Indeed, given that UML practitioners are inclined to reject formalisms as
non-intuitive, it is not even obvious that the definition should be formal at all.
Rather than searching for yet another formalisation of UML, our main aim is to
determine what would constitute a good definition of UML.
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The first chapter sets the UML definition problem in a broad context, relating
it to work in logic and the philosophy of science. More specific conclusions about
the nature of model driven development are reached in the beginning of Chapter 2.
We then develop criteria for a definition of UML. Applying these criteria to the
existing definition, we find that it is lacking in clarity. We then set out to test the
precision of the definition. The test is to take an apparently inconsistent model, and
determine whether it really is inconsistent according to the definition.
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Many people have proposed that UML models are graphs, but few have justified
this choice using the official definition of UML. We begin Chapter 3 by arguing
from the official definition that UML models are graphs and that instantiation
is a graph homomorphism into an interpretation functor. The official definition of
UML defines the semantics against its abstract syntax, which is in turn defined by
a UML model. Chapters 3 and 4 prepare for our test by resolving this apparent
circularity. The result is a semantics for the metamodel fragment of the language.
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In Chapter 5, we find, contrary to popular belief, that the official definition does
provide sufficient semantics to classify the example model as inconsistent. Moreover,
the sustained study of the semantics in Chapters 3 to 5 confirms our initial
argument that the semantic domain is graphs. The Actions are the building blocks
of UMLs prescriptive dynamics. We see that they can be naturally defined as graph
transformation rules. Sequence diagrams are the main example of descriptive dynamics,
but we find that their official semantics are broken. The recorded history
approach should be replaced, we suggest, by a graph-oriented dynamic logic.
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Chapter 6 presents our early work on dynamic logic for UML sequence diagrams
and further explores the proposed semantic repairs. In Chapter 7, guided
by the criteria developed in Chapter 2, we critically survey the UML formalisation
literature and conclude that an existing body of graph transformation based work
known as dynamic metamodelling is very close to what is required.
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The final chapter draws together our conclusions. It proposes a category theoretic
construction to merge models of the syntax and semantic domain, yielding
a type graph for the graph transformation system which defines the dynamic semantics
of the language. Finally, it outlines the further work required to realise a
satisfactory definition of UML.
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Winstone, Claire Lilian. "The meaning of the mentoring relationship which facilitates transformation of the protégé." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25536.
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This study investigated the question: What is the meaning of the mentoring relationship which facilitates transformation of the protégé? This was accomplished using an existential-phenomenological approach. The study included five adult "co-researchers" who had experienced the phenomenon being investigated and were capable of describing their experience to the researcher. The co-researchers were asked to describe their experience of the relationship with their mentor and to validate the analysis within the context of three interviews. The descriptions were tape recorded and transcribed and used as the data for the study. The analysis was conducted according to the method described by Colaizzi (1978). The themes derived from the co-researchers' descriptions were described and woven into an exhaustive phenomenological description of the mentoring relationship which facilitates transformation of the protégé. The essential structure derived from the exhaustive description was presented in a condensed statement of the meaning of the experience for the five co-researchers.
Twenty-eight themes or dimensions of the experience were identified. The pattern described is a more profound and complete picture of the meaning of the experience of the mentoring relationship which facilitates transformation of the protégé than previously available in the literature.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Kelly, Edward Joseph. "Transformation in meaning-making : selected examples from Warren Buffett's life, a mixed methods study." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553713.
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The primary research question addressed in this study is: has Warren Buffett's 'meaning-making-in-action' changed over his life, as predicted by developmental theory? Meaning-making is defined within Constructive-developmental theory (Cook- Greuter, 1999,2005; Kegan, 1980,1994; Loevinger, 1976; McCauley et at., 2006; Torbert & Ass., 2004; Wilber, 2000) to mean the internal organising system individuals use to make sense of their experience. The question highlights the importance of vertical development which for Jean Piaget (1954) "was not the gradual accumulation of new knowledge or experience but a process of moving through qualitatively distinct stages of growth, a process that transforms knowledge itself" (McCauley et al., 2006, p. 635). Applying a constructive-developmental framework this study tracks the transformation in Buffett's meaning-making-inaction across thirty-two representative examples from his life that are then compared to one or more of seven developmental action-logics in developmental theory (Cook-Greuter, 2005; Fisher, Rooke & Torbert, 2003; Torbert & Ass., 2004). The study concludes that Buffett's meaning-making-in-action has transformed over his life and in a sequence predicted by the action-logics in developmental theory. This is reflected in a Spearman correlation coefficient of p. 93 which indicates a strong relationship between the predicted order of development and the actual order. While the principle contribution from this study is a methodological one within the field of developmental theory, the research also makes an original contribution to our understanding of the importance of Buffett's development to his effectiveness as 2 a leader. By implication developmental theory has important things to say about how others may develop their leadership as well. Next steps in this research include simplifying the application of the method.
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Dunworth, Felicity Elizabeth. "Motherhood and meaning : the transformation of tradition and convention in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408426.
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Spash, Clive L. "The Need for and Meaning of Social Ecological Economics." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5500/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2017_02.pdf.
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Ecological economics has arisen over a period of three decades with a strong emphasis on the
essential need to recognise the embeddedness of the economy in the biophysical. However,
that element of realism is not matched by an equally well informed social theory. Indeed the
tendency has been to adopt mainstream economic concepts, theories and models formulated
of the basis of a formal mathematical deductivist approach that pays little or no attention to
social reality. Similarly mainstream economic methods are employed as pragmatic devices
for communication. As a result ecological economics has failed to develop its own consistent
and coherent theory and failed to make the link between the social and the economic. In
order to reverse this situation the social and political economy must be put to the fore and that
is the aim of social ecological economics. This paper provides a brief overview of the
arguments for such a development. The prospect is of unifying a range of critical thought on
the social and environmental crises with the aim of informing the necessary social ecological
transformation of the economy.Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Bardill, Lindiwe. "'Feminisation and outsourced work' : a case study of the meaning of 'transformation' through the lived experience of non-core work at the University of Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10085.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-202).This dissertation examines the meaning of university 'transformation' from the perspective of workers in 'non-core' zones of work. Mergers, outsourcing, retrenching and rightsizing, have become features of the post-apartheid higher education landscape; and they seem set to remain. Through higher education restructuring work has been divided into 'core' and 'non-core' zones of work and 'non-core' work has largely been outsourced. The men and women working in the outsourced zones of 'non-core' work engage in the 'reproductive work' of the university and yet they largely remain hidden from institutional debates of transformation.
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Skalski, Jonathan Edward. "The Epistemic Qualities of Quantum Transformation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2258.
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Growth and development are central constituents of the human experience. Although the American Psychological Association aims to understand change and behavior in ways that embrace all aspects of experience (APA, 2008), sudden, life-altering or quantum transformation has been disregarded throughout the history of psychology until recently (see Miller & C' de Baca, 1994, 2001). Quantum transformation is similar to self-surrender conversion (James, 1902), but different from peak experiences (Maslow, 1964) and near death experiences (Lorimer, 1990) because quantum transformation, by definition, involves lasting change. Quantum transformation contains epistemic qualities, which refer to the content and process of knowing (Miller & C' de Baca, 2001), but little is known about these qualities. The current study employed a qualitative method to better understand the epistemic qualities of quantum transformation. Fourteen participants were extensively interviewed about their experience. Analysis involved hermeneutic methods (Kvale, 1996) and phenomenological description (Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003). Quantum transformation is essentially a process of knowing that unfolded in the form of Disintegration, Insight, and Integration in the present study. First, Disintegration is presented by themes of Overwhelming stress, Relational struggle, Hopelessness, Holding-on, Control, Psychological turmoil, Self-discrepancy, and Guilt. Second, Insight is presented by the Content and Tacit knowing of the experience. Third, Integration is presented by Changes in values, Other-orientation, and A process of development. The results suggest that the disintegration and the suffering that characterizes the pre-transformation milieu inform how quantum transformation relates to lasting change. Therapists that automatically aim to alleviate moral-emotional sorrow or guilt should consider whether the emotional experience can bring about positive transformation. Overall, quantum transformation has potentially major implications for our understanding of personality change and moral development.
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West, Simon. "Meaning and Action in Sustainability Science : Interpretive approaches for social-ecological systems research." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135463.
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Social-ecological systems research is interventionist by nature. As a subset of sustainability science, social-ecological systems research aims to generate knowledge and introduce concepts that will bring about transformation. Yet scientific concepts diverge in innumerable ways when they are put to work in the world. Why are concepts used in quite different ways to the intended purpose? Why do some appear to fail and others succeed? What do the answers to these questions tell us about the nature of science-society engagement, and what implications do they have for social-ecological systems research and sustainability science? This thesis addresses these questions from an interpretive perspective, focusing on the meanings that shape human actions. In particular, the thesis examines how meaning, interpretation and experience shape the enactment of four action-oriented sustainability concepts: adaptive management, biosphere reserves, biodiversity corridors and planetary boundaries/reconnecting to the biosphere. In so doing, the thesis provides in-depth empirical applications of three interpretive traditions – hermeneutic, discursive and dialogical – that together articulate a broadly interpretive approach to studying social-ecological complexity. In the hermeneutic tradition, Paper I presents a ‘rich narrative’ case study of a single practitioner tasked with enacting adaptive management in an Australian land management agency, and Paper II provides a qualitative multi-case study of learning among 177 participants in 11 UNESCO biosphere reserves. In the discursive tradition, Paper III uses Q-method to explore interpretations of ‘successful’ biodiversity corridors among 20 practitioners, scientists and community representatives in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. In the dialogical tradition, Paper IV reworks conventional understandings of knowledge-action relationships by using three concepts from contemporary practice theory – ‘actionable understanding,’ ‘ongoing business’ and the ‘eternally unfolding present’ – to explore the enactment of adaptive management in an Australian national park. Paper V explores ideas of human-environment connection in the concepts planetary boundaries and reconnecting to the biosphere, and develops an ‘embodied connection’ where human-environment relations emerge through interactivity between mind, body and environment over time. Overall, the thesis extends the frontiers of social-ecological systems research by highlighting the meanings that shape social-ecological complexity; by contributing theories and methods that treat social-ecological change as a relational and holistic process; and by providing entry points to address knowledge, politics and power. The thesis contributes to sustainability science more broadly by introducing novel understandings of knowledge-action relationships; by providing advice on how to make sustainability interventions more useful and effective; by introducing tools that can improve co-production and outcome assessment in the global research platform Future Earth; and by helping to generate robust forms of justification for transdisciplinary knowledge production. The interventionist, actionable nature of social-ecological systems research means that interpretive approaches are an essential complement to existing structural, institutional and behavioural perspectives. Interpretive research can help build a scientifically robust, normatively committed and critically reflexive sustainability science.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.
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Upton, Robert John Peter. ""Punk goes pop" : a post-semiotic theory of gestural transformation as signifier of style, meaning, and authenticity." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43538/.
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The study of gesture offers a promising extension of semiotic theory. Naomi Cumming (2001), Robert Hatten (2004), and David Lidov (2005), and others have laid the foundations for a critical examination of gestures in music. Their work is, however, married to notated scores of the Western art music tradition: a fact that Giles Hooper (2013) regards as an ironic circling back towards music conceived through implicit analytical-structuralist assumptions. In this thesis, I re-evaluate and develop current models of gesture into a theory of gestural transformation. I explore its practical applications as a tool for interpreting popular music by comparing two or more recorded performances of the same song to establish which alterations may transform perceptions of style, meaning, and authenticity. The small number of musicological studies that analyse recorded tracks are complicit in distorting the relative influence of particular musical features when defining musical meaning; these include analyses by David Brackett (2000) and Keir Keightley (2001). In confining discussion of the sonic artefact to readily definable aspects such as instrumentation, harmony and lyrics, these analyses oppose the common-sense view that musical meaning is contingent on the listener’s perceptual-imaginative interpretation of how a musical unit is performed. To explore an alternative analytical method, I focus on case studies drawn from the "Punk Goes ..." series of compilation albums, in which contemporary punk- rock artists re-record popular songs. These albums contain cover-versions by bands such as A Day To Remember, Woe, Is Me, and We Came As Romans, and demonstrate numerous approaches to creating a cover-version. This allows for a comprehensive application of the gestural transformation theory. The analyses within this thesis challenge assumptions that equate musical phrases with fixed nodes of musical meaning, suggesting instead that the interpreted manner of performance is more significant than syntactical concerns. In addition, the analyses investigate a new concept of play that exposes the problems with established musicological taxonomies and plays a significant part in the construction of stylistic, subcultural, and personal authenticities.
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Karpelowsky, Belinda Jodi. "Imagery and the transformation of meaning in psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: a hermeneutic case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002509.
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This study discusses the assessment and treatment of a 21-year old male who had suffered multiple traumas, which had culminated in the death of his younger brother. He presented with Acute Stress Disorder. The literature review examines a diverse range of theorists and discourses, that have addressed the psychological consequences of trauma and highlights the complexity of the phenomena involved. The case study, located in the South African context, aims to sensitise the reader to the unique dilemmas facing each trauma survivor, and serves to highlight specifically those areas, which are pertinent and further more contribute significantly to the recovery process. The case narrative consists of a detailed synopsis of the therapy process, extracted from the session record notes documented at the time. Several other sources of information, including contributions from the participant, were used to verify and validate the accuracy of the data included. The narrative is written in a style that conveys the intensity of the nature of trauma work and the manner in which both patient and clinician are frequently confronted with very difficult emotional work. Finally the discussion examines the case narrative through the use of a set of carefully selected hermeneutic questions. These focused on (I) key concepts from the work of Robert Lifton who highlights the existential dimensions of the impact of trauma; (2) the role of the image in encapsulating the complex traumatic and post-traumatic experience of the survivor as well as facilitating the emotional processing of the trauma is examined; (3) the contribution to the process of therapy of aspects of the therapeutic relationship; and (4) the concept of recovery in relation to the question of what constitutes 'trauma work'. In conclusion, several meta-theoretical issues related to trauma, the strengths and weaknesses inherent to the research and relevant future areas of research are highlighted.
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Kulozu, Neslihan. "Transformation Of Public Space: The Case Of Hacibayram Square." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609668/index.pdf.
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Public space has been an important social and political space throughout the history. Although there are various definitions of the term public space in the literature, it can be defined as a place of interaction and social contact among different groups and individuals. Besides, the meaning, form and function of public spaces differ due to different socio-cultural structures of societies. The form of a public space is an essential urban design issue. Moreover, the meaning and function of a space have been also considered as the urban spatial form through the urban design processes.
Since the period when Ankara has been conceived and designed as a spatial project of the Turkish Republic in 1924, Hacibayram Square has been transformed within the historical meaning, urban function and spatial form. Through changing contradictions and actors, these transformations have been experienced. Hacibayram Square with its meaning, function and form in the 1930s shows differences from Hacibayram Square in the first map of Ankara (1839), which is drawn by Von Vincke. However, although the meaning, function and form of the Square have been transformed with the effects of every urban project, the political character of the square transformed but protected itself. Through this study, it is aimed to analyze how the historical meaning, urban function and spatial form of Hacibayram Square have been transformed within a historical perspective.
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Frichtel, Monica Jordan Cameron. "Freedom, Transformation, and Community: Student Meanings of Engagement in a Dance-Based General Education Course." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/194665.
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My interest in student engagement stems from my own experiences as a student and educator. Desire to better understand student experiences of engagement, to develop my own pedagogical practices, and to contribute to theory of dance pedagogy has motivated this work. Stemming from the traditions of Husserl and Heidegger, specifically their studies of lived human experience, this study is grounded in hermeneutic and educational phenomenological approaches such as those suggested by van Manen (1990a, 1990b, 1997, 2002). This qualitative inquiry seeks to illuminate student experiential meanings and develop broader understanding of engagement by recognizing underrepresented voices of general education dance students in a dance-based course exploring pluralism in America (see also Bond & Etwaroo, 2005). Participants were enrolled in five separate sections of dance pluralism courses fulfilling the Race and Diversity Studies requirement for undergraduate students at Temple University. Data were collected from 64 students enrolled in dance pluralism between fall 2007 and fall 2008. Written assignments, movement reflections, and mid-semester and end-of-semester course reflections were all data sources. Additionally, 4 of these students were interviewed between 12 and 18 months after completion of the course. Lived experience descriptions, as per van Manen (1990a), were extracted from students' written work and interview transcriptions for detailed analysis. Illumination of dance student engagement was achieved in this study through a rigorous qualitative research process in which I endeavored to suspend preexisting assumptions in order to openly engage with data. More than four cycles of data analysis and a writing process that embraced a model of knowing through writing (Richardson, 1994) generated three culminating themes pertaining to student experiences of engagement: freedom, transformation, and community. Data suggest that these themes have to do with authentic ways of being: experiencing, expressing, relating, and evolving. Acknowledging a connection between these themes and values of critical pedagogy, I theorized this relationship. Immersion in critical and other transformative pedagogical literatures suggested that overarching principles of critical discourse are the very ways in which students in this study experience engagement. I concluded this study by reflecting on findings and making suggestions for educators and future research.
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Haskins, J. "'Handle with care' : working 'wisely' with the shamed client : an evidence-based exploration of the transformation of meaning." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2019. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/37932/.
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Toxic shame is experienced as an extremely painful affective state where both external and internal worlds are seen as persecutory, and this drives many other emotional experiences and can hinder therapeutic growth. This thesis is a scoping study that considers how toxic shame experiences might be transformed in therapy through using 'Wise' interventions, an exciting development borne out of social psychological research (Walton, 2014). Wise interventions work on underlying psychological processes to change the meaning of subjective experiences. Two rapid evidence assessments were conducted; one to explore how shame is experienced between therapist and client, and the second on what works in reducing toxic shame in therapy. These findings were synthesised to inform creation of a range of intervention techniques based on 'Wise' principles, which were refined through consultation with five counselling psychologists in training. Seven themes were produced from the experiential review, covering aspects such as identity, fear, and relational ruptures. The review on shame reduction found limited evidence of impact, but provided a range of therapeutic modalities from which to draw strategies. Consultees noted that the research brought insight in to experiences that might be tapping in to shame, and welcomed 'Wise' strategies that might help alleviate and transform clients toxic experiences. The thesis provides a tentative first step in producing Wise interventions that would benefit from further, broader consultation, and testing in therapeutic settings. They provide a novel way of thinking about, and working with, shame, especially in pluralistic/integrative therapy. The principle driven nature of interventions means that they may have wide applicability given that the shame experiences discussed can occur in a broad range of contexts and may underpin a range of psychological problems, impacting on the efficacy of therapy. Further implications and caveats around Wise interventions in relation to counselling psychology are discussed.
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Chen, Wen-chiang Rita. "Exploring children's identity formation through their daily routines in a multi-aged classroom constructing a valid self, meaning-making and transformation /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3219919.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Language Education, 2006."Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 26, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2057. Adviser: Jerome C. Harste.
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Wennermo, Frederika. "A search for the sacred - contemporary shamanism in the north of Norway and Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-298335.
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The research I present within this thesis is a meaning analysis of contemporary shamanism for practitioners in the north of Norway and Sweden. I have used ethnographic research methods of observation, participation, conversations, interviews, context research and analysis of written texts. My aim has been to research the meaning of the sacred in the lives of contemporary shamanic practitioners, by using a theoretical framework from psychology of religion made by Paloutzian (2005). By using this frame I have focused on practitioners understanding of spiritual beliefs and ultimate concerns. As to view how these come forth in expressions of self-definition, values, goals, purposes and attitudes. My conclusions have been that contemporary shamanism is viewed as a spiritual understanding of the world that is expressing itself differently within cultural practices and geographical spaces. It is a worldview that is connecting people through shared beliefs and understandings. These understandings create strong values on how we should act with eachother, nature and our own self, as we are viewed as belonging to each other in a spiritual perspective. These values come in conflict with social and political structures built on other values and attitudes. Practitioners speak of a call for change in structures, the need of understanding our history and our belonging with eachother and nature for our own wellbeing and our world to survive. As some engage in social activism and other social engagements, others view their goal as to”walk in beauty”(Gaup 2007).
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Warm, Richard. "Leading Deeply: A Heroic Journey Toward Wisdom and Transformation." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1338487715.
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Rowland, Beverly Dianne. "Conceptualization of factors that have meaning for newly licensed registered nurses completing nurse residency programs in acute care settings." Thesis, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10241295.
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Nurse residency programs (NRPs) have been identified as a means to promote transitioning of new nurses into the professional nursing role. Questions have arisen related to which elements within those programs are most meaningful to the development of new nurses. As the nursing shortage drives the need for quick transition and development of nurses to meet workforce needs, nursing must identify what is meaningful to nurses in their transition to practice. The purpose of this multi-site study was to explicate meaning from the experiences of newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs) who have just completed NRPs. The research question was “What factors have meaning for NLRNs who have experienced transition to practice in nurse residency programs in acute care settings?”
Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from six NLRNs from three different NRPs after completion of their programs. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, themes and variations within those themes were derived from the descriptive narratives provided from participant interviews. Overarching themes identified were Relationships, Reflection, Active Learning, Resources and Organizational Systems. Findings have implications for practice and education as the nursing profession strives to find ways to transform nurses in an effective and efficient manner.
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Quinn, Rapin, and rapin quinn@dest gov au. "NGOs, Peasants and the State: Transformation and Intervention in Rural Thailand, 1970-1990." The Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20060227.084102.
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This study examines people-centred Thai NGOs trying to help peasants empower themselves in order to compete better in conflicts over land, water, forest, and capital, during the 1970s to 1990s. The study investigates how the NGOs contested asymmetric power relations among government officials, private entrepreneurs and ordinary people while helping raise the peoples confidence in their own power to negotiate their demands with other actors.¶
The thesis argues that the NGOs are able to play an interventionist role when a number of key factors coexist. First, the NGOs are able to understand local situations, which contain asymmetric power relations between different actors, in relation to current changes in the wider context of the Thai political economy and seize the time to take action. Secondly, the NGOs are able to articulate a social meaning beyond the dominating rhetoric of the state and the capitalists which encourages the peoples participation in collective activities. Thirdly, while dealing with one problem in social relations and negotiation with local environment, the NGOs are able to recognise new problems as they arise and rapidly identify a new political space for the actors to renegotiate their conflicting interests and demands. Fourthly, the NGOs are able to recreate new meanings, new actors and reform their organisations and networks to deal with new situations. Finally, the NGOs are able to effectively use three pillars of their movement, namely individuals, organisations and networks to deal with everyday politics and collective protest.¶
The case studies in three villages in Northern Thailand reveal that the NGOs were able to play an interventionist role in specific situations through their alternative development strategies somewhat influenced by structural Marxism. The thesis recommends that the NGO interventionist role be continued so as to overcome tensions within the NGO community, for instance, between the NGOs working at the grass-roots level and the NGOs working at regional and national levels (including NGO funding agencies); local everyday conflicts; and the bipolar views of a society among the NGOs expressed in dichotomous thinking between rural and urban, community and state, conflict and order, actor and system.¶
The fragmentation of NGO social and environmental movements showed that there is no single formula or easy solution to the problems. If the NGOs want to continue their interventionist role to help empower ordinary people and help them gain access to productive resources, they must move beyond their bipolar views of a society to discover the middle ground to search for new meanings, new actors, new issues and to create again and again counter-hegemony movements. This could be done by having abstract development theories assessed and enriched by concrete development practices and vice versa. Both theorists and practitioners need to use their own imagination to invent and reinvent what and how best to continue.
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Xie, Jiahua. "Moment beyond moment." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/452.
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This practice-based project explores the photographic phenomenon of ‘moment beyond moment’, which refers to the combined representations of an existing image in an environment, together with the real-life situation at the moment the photograph is taken. I call this photograph an ‘extended photograph’. Employing practical works of extended photographs and focusing on interactions between the moment in real-life and the moment in an existing image, the research explores the transformation of meanings caused by the interactions of these moments in an extended photograph. The research owes its approach to grounded theory, contrary thinking and Chinese Buddhist ‘Sudden Enlightenment’ to further its aim of exploring the unpredictable interaction of these moments, and to disclose the potentials of meaning transformation. My research outcome intends to initiate a discourse with photographic practitioners and theorists on the phenomenon of moment beyond moment in a working environment that is encaged by the excessive existence of displayed images. The thesis is composed as a creative work that consists of a series of photographic images accompanied by an exegesis component. The images represent a nominal 80%, and the exegesis 20% of the final submission.
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Lizakoski, Isabel Cristina Vetter. "Um olhar para o outro : sensibilidade e cidadania." Faculdades EST, 2007. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=59.
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O espaço de vivência da solidariedade é possível na medida em que existirem corpos e mentes consagrados e também os saberes procurando vincular-se na busca do bem comum. Esse espaço de amor existe no desejo do ser humano, que compreende a presença do outro com significado na sua existência e com o universo que o circunda. Assim, o presente estudo norteia suas reflexões em alguns questionamentos. Qual é a contribuição do programa social na construção da identidade do adolescente? Ele fornece referenciais que permitem a estruturação nessa etapa de vida, convivendo com as diferenças sociais e seu aprimoramento para a fase adulta? Até onde a subjetividade expressa pelo adolescente, com suas vulnerabilidades, é escutada e validada, assim como a das pessoas assistidas em situação de vulnerabilidade, podendo contribuir mutuamente para o crescimento? O programa social desenvolvido na escola é o espaço que oportuniza a vivência dos projetos e práticas de atividades de cunho social. O presente trabalho está dividido em três capítulos. No primeiro capítulo, apresenta-se o Programa Social Um olhar para o outro, com as vivências das ações solidárias, envolvendo os 120 jovens adolescentes do Ensino Médio e seus desdobramentos. No segundo capítulo, o adolescente e as peculiaridades do seu desenvolvimento é o objeto de estudo, com os aportes teóricos para esclarecimento e compreensão dos jovens da escola, no contexto atual e sua contribuição em ações voltadas à solidariedade. No terceiro capítulo, o relato das vivências dos jovens adolescentes no programa social funde-se com demais vivências, entre elas, filmes, questionários e demais atividades de aula, para teorizar e problematizar as questões que envolvem o presente estudo. Concomitantemente, visa contribuir significativamente para o processo de mudanças na área social, com o incentivo ao protagonismo do adolescente, bem como oportunizar o desenvolvimento de significados para o sentido de vida, com fundamentos na fé e, dessa maneira, contribuir na transformação da sociedade, tornando-a mais justa e fraterna.The solidarity experience space is possible wherever consecrated bodies and minds exist, as well as the knowledge linked by the common good. This space of love exists in the wish of the human being that understands the presence of the other with a meaning in his own existence and with the surrounding world. Thus, the present study leads the reflections in some questions. Which is the contribution of the social program in the construction of the adolescent identity? Does it provide references that allow structuring in this stage of life, living together with social differences and his improving for the adult stage? How far the subjectivity stated by the adolescent, with his vulnerabilities is listened to and validated, so as the one from the people attended in vulnerability situation, mutually contributing for the growth? The social program developed in the school is the space that gives the opportunity for living the projects and the practices of social activities. The present study is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the Social Program Recognizing the other, is introduced, with the experience of the solidarity actions, involving 120 High School students and their implications. In the second chapter, the adolescent and his development peculiarities are the object of study with the theoretical support for explanation and comprehension of the students from school, in the current context and their contribution to actions concerning solidarity. In the third chapter, the report of the young adolescents experiences in the social program mixes with the other experiences, among them, movies, questionnaires, and other classroom activities, for theorizing and problemizing the questions that involve the present study. At the same time, it aims to significantly contribute for the changing processes in the social area, with the incentive to the adolescent protagonism, as well as, give the opportunity for developing meanings for the meaning of life, based on faith and, this way, contributing for the transformation of society, making it more just and fraternal.
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Ödman, Sofia. "Jag lär mig mer när jag får skådespela och se bilder och inte bara läsa : En undersökning av design för och i lärande i läromedlet Bibeläventyret utifrån ett multimodalt perspektiv." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-139742.
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Den här studien undersöker utifrån ett multimodalt, designteoretiskt perspektiv den didaktiska designen i läromedlet Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet. Syftet med studien är att visa de teckensystem som används i designen för lärande i Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet och den mening som deras semiotiska resurser erbjuder i lärandet. Dessutom tar studien upp det engagemang som eleverna visar, som ett tecken på transformation. Med transformation menas hur eleverna börjar bearbeta den erbjudna meningen och formar den till kunskap. Undersökningen är genomförd i en åk 4 på en svensk grundskola med hjälp av videoobservationer, lektionsanteckningar samt själva läromedlets utrustning. Resultatet blev att Bibeläventyret Gamlas testamentet fungerar multimodalt med många olika teckensystem och artefakter, där vissa är bärande och andra stöttande. Klassrummets spatiala möjligheter, instruktörens muntliga berättande med stöd av intonation, gester, blickar, kroppsspråk och förflyttningar, samt elevernas deltagande i meningsskapandet används om vartannat. Studien tyder på att den multimodala designen erbjuder stor mening och i det engagemang som eleverna visar finns en början till transformation och formation till ny kunskap. Tidigare forskning har kommit fram till att det finns signifikanta tecken på lärande i multimodala miljöer, ofta med inslag av digitala medier. Där bidrar studien till att visa att många fler teckensystem än vad som ofta används multimodalt kan kombineras och utöka möjligheten till lärande, särskilt i undervisningen av Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet.This study analyses, from a multimodal, design theoretical perspective, the design for learning in the educational material Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet (The Bible Adventure – The Old Testament). The aim is to display the modes that are used in the design for learning in Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet and the meaning that is offered in learning by semiotic resources of these modes. The study also presents the involvement that the students show, as a sign of transformation. Transformation refers to how the students start to process offered meaning and form it into knowledge. The study was conducted in 4th grade classes in a Swedish compulsory school and is based on video observations of two hours of teaching, field notes and the analysis of the teaching material. The study shows that teaching Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet is multimodally conducted with many different modes and artefacts, where some bear more meaning and others are more supportive. The spatial opportunities of the classroom, the oral narrative of the instructor, including prosody in talk, body movements, gesture and gaze, as well as the students’ involvement in meaning making are used variously. The study shows that the multimodal design offers a significant meaning for learning and the involvement of the students shows how they make an initial transformation and formation of new knowledge. Previous research points to major signs of learning in multimodal environments, where digital media is often included. This study contributes to previous research in showing that many more modes can be used and combined multimodally at the same time compared to what is usually done and so extend the learning possibility particularly in teaching Bibeläventyret Gamla testamentet.
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Sim, Patrick Puay-I. "A Sociocultural Investigation of Learning and Transition in SFEC." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-14905.
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With the advent of globalisation driving the People.s Republic of China to embrace its future, the local government has shown great enthusiasm promulgating one of the oldest industries. Foreign higher educational providers that operate in China through the mode of joint venture cooperatives between a Chinese and foreign institution of higher learning are becoming increasingly .knowledgeable-hungry. public or private universities and colleges. Such operations commonly known as Sino-foreign educational cooperatives
(SFEC), are hotly spawned on the mainland, enrolling Chinese students through the division of responsibilities, roles and resources. The Chinese party is mostly responsible for the hardware support, supplying facilities and logistics as the part of the bargain, whereas the foreign party provides the intellectual software of academic programs. The locus of this qualitative study aims to present and investigate a distinct phenomenon of learning in SFEC through the theories of sociocultural perspective encumbered in a transitional context; Sino-foreign (SF) graduates to other workplace communities. Without common interests of social interaction, co-participation, and transformation, SFEC are often discredited due to various factors. The learning aims will feature participative and transformative themes that feature qualitative and interpretive methods. Thus, this research involves interviewing four relevant participants from the likes of two Chinese nationals and two non-Chinese, and how they view learning in SFEC applied to a transitional context, the workplace. My furtherance of analysis will generally stress learning, co-participation and transformative learning in activities that circumvents discriminatory elements of artifacts, identity profiling, relationships, commitment and workplace employment for the necessary transition. In the initial research phase, it did seem that putting learning into community practice in China was essential. In the closing stages, thoughts will flow to the legitimisation of participative and transformative learning, which forms the backdrop of this original theme of research gathered through previous works of similar purview. Prawatt and Floden (1994) remark that knowledge, and the belief that knowledge is the result of social interaction and language usage, and thus is a shared, rather than an individual, experience. Presumably, my chosen theories frame the interactive and shared communal nature of the Chinese society and learning systems.
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Josefsson, Fredrik, and Maria Magnusson. "Om alla, för alla : Hur ett meningsskapande kring mångfald kommer till uttryck på Sveriges Television." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226375.
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För att mångfalden av människor i arbetslivet ska kunna tillvaratas, uppskattas och erkännas krävs ett organisationsklimat ochettledarskap som möjliggör detta. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ett meningsskapande kring mångfald kommer tilluttryck inom Sveriges Television, då produkten ska nå en mångfaldig publik.Sveriges Television är ett public service-företag vars uppdrag är att nå ut till tv-tittare i hela Sverige, vilket förutsätter en mångfaldig produkt. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med anställda på Sveriges Television. Intervjuerna har transkriberats och resultatet hartolkats utifrån Piagets konstruktivistiska lärandeteori och Mezirows teori om transformativt lärande. Våra viktigaste resultat visar att det som upplevs som meningsskapande kommer till uttryck i relationen mellan det som anses värdefullt och det lärande som de anställda får ta del av. Det är engagemanget för mångfaldsfrågor och på vilket sätt det talas om mångfald som gör det värdefullt. Förutsättningar för lärande kan vara att organisationen stödjer mångfaldsarbetet och medarbetarna har en öppen syn för olikheter.
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Jakobson, Britt. "Learning Science Through Aesthetic Experience in Elementary School : Aesthetic Judgement, Metaphor and Art." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8160.
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This thesis considers the role of aesthetic meaning-making in elementary school science learning. Children’s aesthetic experiences are traced through their use of aesthetic judgements, spontaneous metaphors and art activities. The thesis is based on four empirical studies: the first two examining children’s language use, i.e. the role of aesthetic judgements and the significance of spontaneous metaphors while learning science and the latter two dealing with how art activities mediate what elementary school children learn in science and what a variety of art activities with different purposes afford elementary school children to learn in science. The theoretical stance emanates from pragmatist theories and includes Dewey’s definition of an aesthetic experience, Wittgenstein’s later work on language-games, and socio-cultural perspectives. The analytic approach used is a practical epistemology analysis developed by Wickman and Östman. The empirical data consists of audio- and video recordings of elementary school children’s (aged 6–10 years) discussions in pairs or small groups during science lessons and photographs of children’s pictures, sculptures and poems from a total of 14 different elementary school classes. The main findings of the empirical studies show how aesthetic meaning-making is continuous with elementary school children’s scientific learning. The thesis shows how elementary school children’s aesthetic experiences are related to whole activities and are crucial for the direction that learning takes. Aesthetic experience is important in terms of how and what elementary school children learn aesthetically and normatively in science class, which has consequences for cognitive learning, the possibility of participating in science class and learning the genre of science. Moreover, it can be seen how children’s prior experiences are recurrently reconstructed and transformed through imaginative processes.
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Lerique, Sébastien. "Epidemiology of representations : an empirical approach." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0114/document.
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Nous proposons une contribution empirique aux tentatives récentes d'unification des sciences cognitives et des sciences sociales.La Théorie de l'Attraction Culturelle (CAT) propose de s'atteler à des questions interdisciplinaires en utilisant une ontologie commune faite de représentations.D'après la CAT, malgré des transformations au niveau micro, la distribution globale des représentations peut rester stable grâce à des attracteurs culturels.Cette hypothèse est difficile à tester, mais les technologies du web permettent de combiner les avantages des techniques existantes pour étendre le champ des études possibles.Nous présentons deux études de cas sur de courts énoncés écrits.La première examine les changements que des citations subissent lorsqu'elles sont copiées en ligne.En combinant psycholinguistique et fouille de données, nous montrons que les substitutions de mots sont cohérentes avec l'hypothèse des attracteurs culturels, et avec les effets connus de variables lexicales.La deuxième étude étend ces résultats, et utilise une expérience web permettant de récolter des chaînes de transmission de qualité et en grande quantité.En étendant un algorithme bioinformatique, nous décomposons les transformations en des opérations plus simples, et proposons un premier modèle descriptif du processus qui relie les connaissances psycholinguistiques sur la transformation de phrases aux tendances de haut niveau identifiées dans la littérature sur l'évolution culturelle.Enfin, nous montrons que la compréhension de l'évolution de telles représentations nécessite une théorie du sens des énoncés, une tâche pour laquelle nous explorons les approches empiriques possiblesWe propose an empirical contribution to recent attempts to unify cognitive science and social science.We focus on Cultural Attraction Theory (CAT), a framework that proposes a common ontology made of representations for cognitive and social science to address interdisciplinary questions.CAT hypothesizes that in spite of important transformations at the micro-level, the overall distribution of representations remains stable due to dynamical attractors.Testing this hypothesis is challenging and existing approaches have several shortcomings.Yet, by taking advantage of web technologies one can combine the advantages of existing techniques to expand the range of possible empirical studies.We develop two case studies to show this with short written utterances.The first examines transformations that quotations undergo as they are propagated online.By connecting data mining tools with psycholinguistics, we show that word substitutions in quotations are consistent with the hypothesis of cultural attractors and with known effects of lexical features.The second case study expands these results, and makes use of a purposefully developed web experiment to gather quality transmission chain data sets.By extending a bioinformatics alignment algorithm, we decompose transformations into simpler operations, and propose a first descriptive model which relates psycholinguistic knowledge of sentence transformation to evolutionary trends elicited in the cultural evolution literature.Finally, we show that further understanding the evolution of such representations requires an account of meaning in context, a task for which we flesh out possible empirical approaches
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Jones, Denise. "Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Perceived Meaning in Work." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6341.
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Researchers have conducted correlational studies on transformational leadership and perceived meaning in work; however, researchers have not used an experimental design to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and perceived meaning in work. The purpose of this study was to determine whether reading information on transformational leadership, which focused on charisma and individualized consideration, influenced participants' hypothetical judgment of perceived meaning in work. The quantitative study included a 2 x 2 between-subjects design in which information on the independent variables of charisma and individualized consideration was manipulated in a description of a hypothetical leader. The dependent variable was the hypothetical judgment of meaning in work based on the hypothetical description of the leader. The study was a randomized experiment including survey data from 106 participants. Data were analyzed using a 2-way ANOVA. Findings showed reading information on charisma significantly increased participants' perceived meaning in work whereas reading information on individualized consideration decreased participants' perceived meaning in work. Findings may help organizations hire transformational leaders who possess charisma and have the ability to develop followers to become future leaders.
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Koch, Katharina. "Creating spaces – producing meanings." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17709.
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Die Ethnographie basiert auf der Annahme, dass Kunstakteur_innen in Umbruchszeiten wesentliches Potenzial freisetzen können, um gesellschaftliche Prozesse mitzugestalten. Indem sie künstlerische und soziale Entwürfe formulieren, sind sie am Entwickeln von Strukturen und Debatten beteiligt. An Hand zweier Initiativen in Rumänien, der Künstlerinnengruppe h.arta und dem Kunstprojekt The KNOT, untersucht die Arbeit, wie diese Räume und Öffentlichkeiten herstellen. Dazu wird nach den Verständnissen der Akteur_innen von Öffentlichkeiten-Schaffen als politischem Handeln gefragt und nach ihren künstlerischen Praktiken und Strategien. Des Weiteren wird erörtert, inwiefern ihre Erfahrungen mit Transformation und prekären Bedingungen dabei von Bedeutung sind und welche Narrative hinsichtlich symbolischer Zuschreibungen ehemals sozialistischer Kontexte sichtbar werden. Die Arbeit verortet sich in der politischen Anthropologie. Sie verknüpft die Forschungsfelder „Kunst als soziales/politisches Handlungsfeld“ und „Transformation/Europäisierung“ und untersucht sie als eine „Formation des Politischen“ (Adam/Vonderau 2014). Dazu macht sie ein plurales Öffentlichkeitskonzept sowie feministische Perspektiven auf das Kunstfeld stark. Mit einem post-Kalter-Krieg-Ansatz erörtert sie zudem die Verflechtungen postsozialistischer und postkolonialer Prozesse. Abschließend werden die Praxen der Kunstakteur_innen aus einer dezentrierenden Perspektive auf Europäisierung analysiert. Dazu folgt die Arbeit Ansätzen, Europa von seinen „Rändern“ her zu denken und es somit zu dezentrieren und bezieht diese auf das lokale Kunstproduzieren im europäischen Kontext. Es wird gezeigt, wie die rumänischen Kunstakteur_innen, exemplarisch für die „Ränder“ (EU)Europas, aus ihrer oft prekären Situation heraus Räume der Selbstermächtigung schaffen. Diese sind in sich brüchig tragen jedoch zur Imagination und Dezentrierung eines europäischen Kunstfeldes bei und zeigen Alternativen zum neoliberalen EU-Europa auf.The ethnography is based on the assumption that artists can unleash a substantial potential to contribute to social processes in times of upheaval. By formulating artistic and social conceptions, they participate in the development of structures and debates. This dissertation investigates how two Romanian initiatives, the artist group h.arta and the art project The KNOT, create publics and spaces respectively public space. It portrays the artists’ understandings of “creation of public as a political act” and analyzes their practices and strategies. Further, it examines the significance of the artists’ personal experiences with transformation and precarious conditions, and analyzes the narratives governing the ascription of symbolism to formerly socialist contexts. The dissertation is located in the field of political anthropology. It combines the research areas “Art as a Social/Political Field of Action” and “Transformation/Europeanization”, and investigates them as a “Formation of the Political” (Adam/Vonderau 2014). It thereby advocates a concept of plural publicities and feminist perspectives on art. Moreover, it explores the entanglement of post-socialist and postcolonial processes by adapting a post-Cold War approach. Finally, the dissertation examines the artists’ practices from a decentering perspective on Europeanization. It thus applies approaches, which understand Europe from its “margins”, to the local production of art in the European context. As a result, the dissertation illustrates how these Romanian artists, generic for the “margins” of (EU-)Europe, create spaces of self-empowerment out of their frequently precarious situations. Although fragile, these spaces contribute to the imagination and decentering of the European field of art and offer alternatives to neoliberal EU-Europe.
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Armborg, Dennis, and Markus Ögren. "Känner du dig taggad att ”gå” till jobbet? : En kvalitativ studie om upplevelsen av medarbetarskap i en digital arbetsmiljö." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20194.
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Bakgrund: Digitaliseringen är ett aktuellt fenomen som förändrar samhället, organisationer och hur människor organiserar sig och lever sina liv. När digitalisering förändrar organisatoriska processer och det sätt människor arbetar suddas gränserna mellan arbete och det övriga livet allt mera ut. För att hantera denna förändring behöver organisationer ett kollektivt initiativtagande där relationer mellan medarbetare, ledare och chefer måste hanteras, något som i en svensk kontext kallas medarbetarskap. Den digitala omställningen har accelererat till följd av Covid-19 pandemin där en omväxling till digitala hjälpmedel tagit plats. Uppfattningar om digitaliseringen kan anses vara positivt eller negativt för medarbetare är delade. Det finns en viss avsaknad av forskning inom medarbetarskap, synnerligt i en mer modern och digitaliserad kontext. Med mer digitaliserade organisationer finns det fortfarande frågetecken kring medarbetarskapet. Detta skapar ett intresse att undersöka medarbetares upplevelser av medarbetarskap i en digital arbetsmiljö. Problemformulering: PF1: Hur upplever medarbetare medarbetarskapet i en digitaliserad arbetsmiljö? PF2: Vilken betydelse har den digitaliserade arbetsmiljön för medarbetarnas upplevelse av engagemang och meningsfullhet? Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka medarbetares upplevelser för att skapa en utökad förståelse kring medarbetarskap i en digital arbetsmiljö samt betydelsen detta har för engagemang och meningsfullhet. Metod: Då syftet med studien är att undersöka upplevelser har en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod använts. Detta har skett genom sju semistrukturerade digitala intervjuer med medarbetare från både privata och offentliga organisationer med hjälp av Zoom och Microsoft Teams. Resultat: Majoriteten av medarbetarna upplevde en effektivisering av arbetet och ett ökat deltagande, men till en förlust av den sociala kontakten. Det fanns även inslag av att den digitala arbetsmiljön skapat koncentrationssvårigheter och störningsmoment vilket minskar engagemanget. Medarbetarna upplever att arbetsuppgiften i sig, gemenskap och samhällsnytta är vad som ger arbetet mening. Den digitala arbetsmiljön underlättar vardagspusslet men till en bekostnad av förlorad social kontakt som upplevs minska meningsfullheten hos medarbetarna. Slutsats: Slutsatsen för studien är att upplevelsen medarbetarskapet i den digitala arbetsmiljön är skild, vilket kan liknas med ett tveeggat svärd. Den digitala arbetsmiljön för med sig såväl positiva inslag, som effektivisering och ökat deltagande, och negativa inslag som försämrad kommunikation och gemenskap. Betydelsen av engagemang och meningsfullhet är fortsatt stor men studien framhäver samtidigt vikten av att beakta gemenskap och samarbete för ett konstruktivt medarbetarskap i en digital arbetsmiljö.Background: Digitalization is a contemporary phenomenon that is changing how the society, organizations and people live their lives and organize themselves. When digitalization changes organizational processes and the way people work, the boundaries between work and the ‘rest of life’ are being erased. To handle this change, organizations need a collective initiative where relationships between employees, leaders and managers must be handled, which is something that is called employeeship in a Swedish context. The digital transition has been accelerated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, where a major shift to digital tools has taken place. Employees' conceptions about digitalization are divided and can be considered both positive and negative. There is a certain lack of research in employeeship, especially in a more modern and digitized context. With more digitized organizations, there are still questions about how it affects the employeeship. This creates an interest in examining employees' experiences of employeeship in a digital work environment. Research questions: RQ1: How do employees experience employeeship in a digital work environment? RQ2: Which importance does the digital work environment have for employees’ experience of commitment and meaningfulness? Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine the meaning of employeeship in a digital work environment and value the importance of engagement and meaningfulness to gain an enhanced understanding. Method: Since the purpose of the study is to examine experiences a qualitative methodology has been used. This has been done through seven semi-structured digital interviews with employees from both private and public organizations through Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Results: A majority of employees experienced an increase in effectiveness and participation, however they also experienced a loss of social contact with their colleagues. A tendency of increased difficulties of concentration and new distractions was embossed when working in a digital work environment which lowered their commitment. Employees experienced meaningfulness from work duties, fellowship and contributing to society. The digital work environment eases the puzzle of everyday life however at a cost of lost social contact which employees experienced reducing the meaningfulness of work. Conclusion: The conclusion of the study is that the experiences of employeeship in a digital work environment are different and can be described as a double-edged sword. The digital work environment brings positive elements, such as efficiency and increased participation, as well as negative elements of impaired communication and fellowship. The importance of commitment and meaningfulness remains great, but the study also emphasized the importance of considering fellowship and cooperation for a constructive employeeship in a digital work environment.
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Richter, Beate. "Bildung relational denken." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16937.
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Eingebettet in die Theorie der Weiterbildung nimmt die Dissertation die Forderung der bildungstheoretisch orientierten Biographieforschung auf, den transformatorischen Bildungsbegriff zu präzisieren. Aus der Diagnose einer Stagnation in diesem Bereich wird der Wechsel vom interpretativen zum relationalen Paradigma vorgeschlagen und eine relationale Entwicklungslogik als methodologische Basis relationalen Denkens eingeführt. Mit der Übertragung der Ergebnisse der informellen Axiomatisierung von Robert Kegans strukturaler Entwicklungstheorie auf den Bildungsbegriff wird unter Verwendung weiterer Referenztheorien aus dem Bereich der relationalen Kommunikationstheorien die Präzisierung des Begriffs möglich. Bildung wird als Prozess der Transformation der Regel der Bedeutungsbildung einer Person unter Konfrontation mit der Regel der Bedeutungsbildung nächsthöherer Ordnung definiert und als eine Struktur der Übergänge zwischen Kontext-Regeln beschrieben, die ein Beobachter der Person im Interaktionsprozess zuschreibt. Mit dem hier entwickelten Kontext-Ebenen-Modell der Bedeutungsbildung lassen sich zum einen Zeichen-Arten ZA definieren, die eine empirische Beschreibung des Bildungsprozesses einer Person zulassen, und zum anderen drei Typen von Kontext-Regeln XR bestimmen, die aus der relationalen Entwicklungslogik abgeleitet, die Prinzipien der Bedeutungsbildung als Regeln der Zeichenrelationierung darstellen. Das Kontext-Ebenen-Modell der Bedeutungsbildung steht als Ergebnis einerseits für eine erfolgreiche Präzisierung des transformatorischen Bildungsbegriffs, andererseits für die Leistungsfähigkeit der strukturalistischen Methode im Rahmen des Programms der relationalen Weiterbildungsforschung.Embedded in the theory of adult education (andragogy) this PhD-thesis takes up the challenge proclaimed by the biography research based on the concept of Bildung and seeks to define the concept of transformational Bildung more precisely. To overcome the identified stagnation in this research field, this thesis proposes a change from qualitative research paradigm to relational paradigm and introduces the relational logic of development as methodology of relational thinking. The application of the results of the informal axiomatization of Robert Kegan’s theory of human development to the concept of transformational Bildung as well as the use of various approaches based on relational communication theories allowed to provide a more precise definition of the concept of transformational Bildung. In this thesis Bildung is defined as a process of transformation of individual’s rules of meaning making caused by a person’s confrontation with the rules of meaning making of a higher order. From the observer’s perspective the structure of the Bildung process can be described as a transition from one context rule to another. The developed model of context levels of meaning making allows defining types of signs (ZA) that enable to measure the levels in the process of Bildung. Furthermore, this model allows determining three types of context rules (XR), which – according to the relational logic of development – represent principles of meaning making seen as rules for relating signs. Thus, on the one hand, the model of context levels of meaning making has succeeded to specify the concept of transformational Bildung and, on the other hand, has proven the effectiveness of the structuralist method for the relational adult education research.
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Aljebreen, Fahad Mohammad. "A Narrative Study about the Transformative Visual Cultural Dialogue beyond Women's Veils." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862731/.
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In this narrative study, I explore the transformative visual cultural dialogue behind the sight of the veil or veiled women in Denton, Texas as a Western culture. The narrative is constructed from the experiences of three Western non-Muslim women participants who wore the veil publicly in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, especially Denton, Texas, for about two weeks, in the spring of 2014. The main question for this study is: How do veiled Western women incite transformative visual cultural dialogue and ideas concerning veiled women? To gather rich data to answer the study's question, I utilized qualitative narrative inquiry to explore the transformative dialogue that the veil, as a visual culture object, can incite in non-Muslim Western women's narratives. The study involves three participants who are non-Muslim American women who voluntarily wore the veil in public and recorded their own and other's reactions. The participants' interviews and diaries demonstrated that the veil incited a particular perceptive dialogue and often transferred negative meanings. For example, the sight of the veil suggested the notion of being Muslim, and consequently, the ideas of not belonging. The reactions the participants received were either negative verbal interactions or physical ones, both of which are limited in this study to face gestures or some form of negative body language that is meant to be a message of disliking. In summation, this study shows that the women's veil is a visual culture symbol that transfers negative meaning in the DFW area in Texas.
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Collinge, William Henry. "Briefing as meaning making practice through signs : client requirement representations and transformations in construction project design." Thesis, University of Reading, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625484.
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Hospitals are functionally complex projects for design and construction professionals due to the multiplicity of requirements and diversity of stakeholder interests embraced. Hospital construction projects are challenging as designers need to produce solutions that reflect advances in medical technologies, the needs of future generations and shifting policy directives of the NHS. Briefing and design practices must meet NHS Trust client expectations, facilitate the clarification and questioning of requirements and enable suitable designs to be formulated in a competitive and constrained process. The thesis contributes to understandings of briefing and design practice by analysing how Trust stakeholder needs are represented, understood and transformed into design solutions. The study examines how meanings are made and shared in briefing practice and how parties interpret and understand the communicative interactions within which they are immersed. The role of representations such as the client brief, schematic drawings, visual images and objects is examined and analysed: the thesis contending that design work is characterized by the generation, use and exchange of communicative signs between parties that are both significant and important. A social semiotic informed analysis of briefing and design resources from PFI hospital projects clarifies the role of sign constructs in the communicative process. A variety of materials and their associated work practices are analysed and supplemented through interviewee insights into briefing and design interactions from hospital construction professionals and NHS Trust client representatives. The thesis argues that briefing is characterized by communicative sign use around which issues of meaning, interpretation and understanding revolve; semiotic resources being employed for the representation and transformation of client requirements, the formulation of meanings and the building of relationships between parties. The social semiotic analysis informs understanding of stakeholder management and design communications as it is contended that briefing is meaning making practice where both NHS Trust client and design teams employ design resources with motivational and strategic intent in a competitive and temporally constrained process. The significance of multiple and potentially contrasting stakeholder interpretations of design, the representation and transformation of client requirements and the role of sign communications in a social briefing process is highlighted as the thesis enhances more linear and process driven understandings of briefing practice.
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Abdulla, Afrah. "Readiness or resistance? : Newly arrived adult migrants' experiences, meaning making, and learning in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142934.
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This thesis is about newly arrived adult migrants’ meaning making and learning in Swedish society during the two years’ introduction period, after they have received the residence permit. I have specifically studied Arabic speaking adults’ meaning making and learning, by carrying out observations and individual in-depth interviews with 12 migrants. The introduction period consists mainly of three so called introduction measures; the civic orientation course, Swedish for immigrants (SFI), and different work related activities, such as internship at different work places. The results show that etablering is about shaping the newly arrived adult migrants into ”good” citizens, through the introduction measures, among other things in the civic orientation course, which is regulated through the policy documents, and which so to say provides meaning to the newly arrived. The “good” citizen has some specific characteristics, which, roughly, are that he or she is independent (and advocates individuality), free, equality thinking, secularized, law-abiding (which includes being honest), responsible, and a “good” parent. These characteristics are expressed in different ways in the civic orientation course, for instance through the course material. The Swedish society is described as something desirable, and different from what is implied to be ”Arabic” values and ways of thinking. The idea of the “good” citizen appears to aim at constructing the adult migrants’ (and their families’) identity, something which many of the study’s respondents make a resistance to. As concerns the migrant’s new experiences, it is, for example, those which the migrant get through the contact with the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) that affect the meaning making in the new society. The meaning which most of the respondents have made of the SPES’s measures for them is that this authority only offers “prepackaged” solutions, and does not provide the help or support that they need. Also the experiences which the migrant has in the civic orientation course, and the meaning which ”old” migrants give to him or her, play a role when he or she makes meaning of Sweden and Swedes, and of his or her new life situation. Further, it has been shown that it is those experiences that the adult individual has been socialized through, and those which he or she has gained through work or education in his or her country of origin, which affect his or her meaning making in Sweden. It is mostly values which concern child upbringing and religion that lead to a certain understanding and construction of one’s new life. These values, when related to the values which are included in the ”good” citizen idea, also lead to either a resistance or a readiness towards the meaning giving that is embedded in the ”good” citizen notion.Denna studie handlar om nyanlända vuxna migranters meningsskapande och lärande i det svenska samhället under deras tvååriga introduktionsperiod, efter att de har fått uppehållstillstånd. Jag har specifikt studerat arabisktalande vuxnas meningsskapande och lärande, genom observationer och enskilda djupintervjuer med 12 nyanlända. Introduktionsperioden består främst av tre s.k. etableringsinsatser; kursen i samhällsorientering, svenska för invandrare (SFI) samt olika arbetsrelaterade och arbetsfrämjande insatser, såsom praktik på olika arbetsplatser. Resultatet visar att etablering handlar om att forma de vuxna nyanlända till ”goda” medborgare, genom etableringsinsatserna, bl.a. i samhällsorienteringskursen, som regleras genom policydokumenten, och som s.a.s. tillhandahåller mening för de nyanlända. Den ”goda” medborgaren har vissa specifika kännetecken, vilka, i grova drag, är att han eller hon är självständig (och förespråkar individualitet), fri, jämlikhetstänkande, sekulariserad, laglydig (vilket inkluderar ärlig), ansvarsfull, och en ”god” förälder. Dessa karaktärsdrag kommer på olika sätt till uttryck i samhällsorienteringskursen, exempelvis genom kursmaterialet. Det svenska samhället framställs då också som något eftersträvansvärt, och skilt från det som antyds vara ”arabiska” värderingar och tänkesätt. Föreställningen om den ”goda” medborgaren verka syfta till att konstruera den vuxna nyanländas (och dennas familjs) identitet, något som många av studiens respondenter gör motstånd mot. Vad gäller migrantens nya erfarenheter, är det exempelvis de som migranten har fått genom kontakt med Arbetsförmedlingen som påverkar meningsskapandet i det nya samhället. Den mening som de flesta av respondenterna har gjort om Arbetsförmedlingens insatser för dem är att denna myndighet enbart erbjuder dem ”förpaketerade” lösningar, och inte tillhandahåller den hjälp eller det stöd som de behöver. Även erfarenheter som migranten gör i samhällsorienteringskursen, samt den mening som ”gamla” migranter förmedlar till honom eller henne, spelar roll för hur vederbörande skapar mening om Sverige och svenskar, och om sin nya livssituation. Dessutom har det visat sig att det är de erfarenheter som den vuxna har blivit socialiserad genom, samt de som han eller hon har fått genom utbildning eller arbete i ursprungslandet, som påverkar migrantens meningsskapande i Sverige. Det är främst värderingar som är knutna till barnuppfostran och religion som leder till en viss förståelse och konstruktion av ens nya liv. Dessa värderingar leder också, när de stöts mot de värderingar som ingår i föreställningen om den ”goda” medborgaren, antingen till ett motstånd mot eller en beredvillighet inför det meningsgivande som ingår i den ”goda” medborgaren.
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Haertel, Nilza Belita Grau. "Landscape and nature in American prints : transformations in form and meaning in the work of contemporary women artists /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3240649.
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Schlechter, Anton Francois. "The influence of transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, trust, meaning and intention to quit on organisational citizenship behaviour /." Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1191.
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Schlechter, Anton Francois. "The influence of transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, trust, meaning and intention to quit on organisational citizenship behaviour." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1194.
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Thesis (PhD (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005South African organisations have to survive in an increasingly competitive and globalised environment. Many believe that South African organisations are ill prepared for these challenges, based on the fact that many organisations are plagued by low productivity, low levels of trust between employees and employers, as well as low levels of organisational commitment, effectiveness and efficiency. Solutions must be found for these problems and the present study offers one such solution. Organisational citizenship behaviour is essentially pro-social organisational behaviour that is characterised by going beyond what is expected in role requirements or role descriptions and is seen as a key driver of individual and organisational performance. Furthermore, an organisation’s ability to elicit organisational citizenship behaviour is believed to be a vital asset that is difficult for competitors to imitate and which provides the organisation with a competitive advantage. Having completed a literature study concerning possible antecedents of organisational citizenship behaviour, and taking into account various suggested future directions for organisational citizenship behaviour research, it was decided that the present study would focus on five variables: three variables that are characteristic of employees, and two that are characteristic of the management or leadership in the organisation. The primary goal of the present study was to design and conduct a scientific investigation that would attempt to determine the relationships between leader emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, trust, meaning intention to quit, and organisational citizenship behaviour, as well as to further determine the role that these five constructs play in influencing organisational citizenship behaviour. A study of the available literature was made to learn as much as possible about each of these six constructs and to determine what is known about the relationships that exist between them. The knowledge gained from the literature study was used to propose several hypotheses and a conceptual model explaining the relationships between these constructs. The relationships and the conceptual model were then empirically tested, using various (mostly confirmatory) statistical methods. This makes the present study confirmatory in nature. Existing measuring instruments were used to measure each of the constructs in a South African sample (n=496). This sample represented a wide range of organisations. Each of the measuring instruments (excepting the intention to quit scale) was subjected to a double cross-validation Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis procedure to test its construct validity. Internal reliability was determined for all of the instruments and their subscales. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis and internal reliability results were then compared to those obtained when the original measurement model was studied, using these same methods (i.e. Confirmatory Factor Analysis and internal reliability) and the data from the present sample. It was found, in all cases, that the derived factorial configuration differed, in some to a lesser degree and in others radically, from that proposed by the original author/s. It was also found that the EFA-derived measurement models and configurations had a better fit to the data than the original measurement model and its configuration. Once the criteria for construct validity and internal reliability were satisfied, the rest of the statistical analyses could be conducted. The next step was to test the hypotheses concerning the individual relationships that made up the conceptual model. Pearson correlations and Standard Multiple Regression was used to study these bivariate relationships. Several indirect or mediating relationships followed from these direct relationships and these were tested using Path Analysis. In a similar vein, four prediction hypotheses were formulated from the conceptual model and these were also tested, using Standard Multiple Regression. Lastly, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to see to what extent the conceptual model fitted the data obtained from the sample and to test the relationships between the constructs when taking the complete conceptual model into account. Both trust and meaning were found to individually mediate the relationships between transformational leadership and organisational citizenship behaviour, and leader emotional intelligence and organisational citizenship behaviour. The relationship between leader emotional intelligence and organisational citizenship behaviour was further found to be mediated by transformational leadership and trust, while this relationship was also found to be mediated by transformational leadership and meaning. No significant direct relationships could be found between leader emotional intelligence and organisational citizenship behaviour, or between transformational leadership and both organisational citizenship behaviour and intention to quit. No significant correlation was found between intention to quit and organisational citizenship behaviour either. This meant that several postulated mediating hypotheses could not be corroborated. The SEM result shows that the conceptual model did not fit the data very well, therefore an alternative model was recommended. The results in essence show that effective leaders who are emotionally intelligent and make use of the transformational leadership style can positively influence trust and meaning among followers. This, in turn, will motivate followers to display organisational citizenship behaviour and reduce their intention to quit. These are believed to positively influence organisational effectiveness and performance. Further conclusions were drawn from the obtained results and recommendations are made for future studies. New insights were gained through the results and it is believed that the present study has contributed to the field of organisational psychology and Industrial Psychology in general, on both the academic and the practioner level.
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Picková, Iva. "Transformation of identities in international educational milieu of university in Sweden." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83459.
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This thesis focuses on the transformation of identities of international master students attending Örebro University along with their perception of how this experience will affect their future. A qualitative content analysis of 10 semi-structured interviews was employed to explore the topic and answer the research questions. The thesis is guided by the theoretical background that stands on the synthesis of Jenkins’ perception of identity and the identity theory, supplemented by the understanding of international students as ‘student travellers’. The analysis of respondents’ narratives revealed that all aspects of their identity were affected. International students, throughout their stay abroad, live in a certain bubble as they distance themselves from the society on one hand and identify with the international students’ group on the other, affecting their social identity. However, before a new identity is formed and while the old one is being changed, the students experience a state of limbo during which uncertainty of roles emerges. Their person identity is influenced as well due to the international experience providing an opportunity to consciously alter some aspects of personality and, furthermore, to promote their independence, open-mindedness, and awareness of other cultures. Additionally, through contact with these other cultures, the international student develops into a person of two minds – international and of the country of their origin. In regards to the students’ perception of the future, the desire to stay international, to travel and live abroad is essential in creating something of a nomad life. Moreover, the respondents considered the international experience to have a positive impact on their career through an advantageous position over others along with the acquisition of an international network.
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Otubanjo, Babasola Olutayo. "Industry construction of the meaning of corporate identity in Nigeria's banking services sector : an interpretive analysis of corporate advertisements, 1970-2005." Thesis, Brunel University, 2008. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4979.
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This thesis seeks to examine how the meaning of corporate identity was constructed through the corporate advertisements that were published in Nigeria's national press media between 1970 and 2005 by the major operators in the Nigerian banking industry. In order to accomplish this task, this research has been divided into ten chapters. The first chapter introduces the research. It conceptualises a research question and provides an overall trajectory for this thesis. Chapter two established four ontologically grounded reasons for pursuing this research from the social constructionist perspective and chapter three sought to examine how the meaning of corporate identity was constructed (in theoretical literature) between 1970 and 2008. Chapter four presents an analysis of the construction of the meaning of the concept of corporate identity in the Nigerian banking industry between 1970 and 2005. Chapter six concerns research methodology and the specific research method drawn to address the question being investigated in this research. Chapters seven and eight presents the empirical findings and chapter nine makes an attempt to establish what has been accomplished in the process of this research by discussing its outcomes. Chapter ten concludes the thesis. It considers the contributions emerging from this research and its implications in terms of relevance for corporate identity theory and practice. In addition, it examines the limitations of the research as well as possible future research directions of this study. Finally, the thesis ends with a summary and conclusion. Findings from this research indicate the emergence of four new scholarships, namely generic, distinctive, innovative and transformative corporate personalities. Importantly, the outcome of this study provides ample evidence to argue that the industry construction of the meaning of corporate identity witnessed an ongoing flow of changes and stabilities, which run through these new scholarships.
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos. "Designing the Edge : An Inquiry into the Psychospatial Nature of Meaning in the Architecture of the Urban Waterfront." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kritiska studier i arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39031.
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The initial goal of this effort is to develop a discussion on urban design process and thinking that acknowledges the needs of places with meaning in the design of the urban waterfront. The thesis addresses the fact that the problematic of the coastal formulation is intricate, comprising not only aspects related to the spatial organization and design of its domain but also shared properties originated by the presence and movement of the perceiving subject in the area. In this framework, the research attempts to provide an understanding of the main relationships that the subject cultivates inside the coastal space and to offer a broader spatial reading of its narrative function. On the hypothesis that this function is susceptible of interpretation, the thesis develops an interest in examining the effects of the psychospatial nature of meaning on the design and experience of the urban edge, for to interpret a narrative spatial construct is to specify its meaning. To explore the issue of waterfront places that speak of the subject, the research conceives the coastal space as a field of mediated parameters that pertain to three crucial operational premises: the symbolic function of the urban space near the water, the meaning behind the coastal form, and the engagement of the perceiving subject in the conscious or reflexive appropriation of the waterfront setting. These premises, traced as psychophysiological spaces, determine the intermediary, the integrative, and the expressive discourses for the development of places with meaning near the water. Through them, the thesis attempts a reading of the coastal domain based upon the material interpretation of the meanings and messages associated with the immediate experience of the onset of water‐born notions, concepts, and images. Writing about the dialectics between the psychospatial inquiry and the spatial experience of the edge, this thesis suggests that, contrary to the established preconception, the psychology of human‐edge relations submits the perceiving subject to the conception of the coastal form and shape.QC 20110907
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Richard, Frève Emilie. "Du bâton de berger à la souris d’ordinateur : les bergers ovins transhumants du sud-est de la France aux prises avec la bureaucratisation d’un métier-passion (2000-2020)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0188.
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Cette recherche traite de l’évolution du métier de berger de moutons transhumant en Provence entre le début des années 2000 et 2020, une profession confrontée à une normification et une bureaucratisation croissantes de leur travail du fait notamment des réformes successives de la Politique Agricole Commune. À partir du début des années 2000, l’accent politique mis sur la « multifonctionnalité » de l’agriculture, d’une part, et le« découplage » des aides de la production, d’autre part, accroissent le montant « des primes » dans le revenu des bergers, et imposent davantage de contraintes dans le fait de devoir respecter diverses normes et les principes de l’« éco-conditionnalités » qui modifient le travail. Ces « normes publiques » multiples concernent différents secteurs d’activités (transport, sanitaire, environnement…) à différents niveaux de gouvernance (local, national, européen…) qui souvent se contredisent et se superposent. Le berger ne les gère pas seulement comme un individu seul dans son travail, mais aussi en tenant compte d’un « groupe professionnel localisé » (GPL) (Darré 1985), auquel il appartient, et qui intègre différents statuts de bergers (éleveurs/salariés), une Pastrille, qui s’étend sur un vaste espace de transhumance et d’interconnaissance (la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur et ses franges). Ce groupe composé de bergers aux profils et aux trajectoires diversifiés définit aussi par des normes professionnelles ce qu’il est possible de faire dans le travail et ce qu’il est possible d’être en tant que berger. Cette recherche analyse la confrontation de ces normes diverses (publiques et professionnelles) que vivent ces bergers, partagés entre leur volonté de suivre un éthos professionnel particulier qui, au début des années 2000, encourage le maintien de la tradition, et le respect de ces nouvelles normes, qui le remet en cause. Dans le cadre de cette recherche réalisée en immersion en étant bergère pendant 15 ans, j’analyse l’évolution de l’ethos de ce groupe professionnel localisé. Cette thèse identifie trois moments de cette confrontation normative. À une première période d’incompréhension, et de rejet face à des mesures jugées absurdes, succèdent une phase de confrontation brutale lorsque les contrôles et les sanctions se durcissent, puis une phase d’apaisement relatif, lorsque les nouvelles normes sont davantage intériorisées par choix ou par résignation. J’analyse dans cette recherche les différentes stratégies (actives ou passives) mises en place par ces pastres pour gérer cette confrontation de normes, et la façon dont, au cours de ces quinze années, les représentations et les pratiques du métier ont été recomposées. Comment un groupe qui priorisait le maintien de la communauté à l’affirmation individuelle se transforme avec le temps pour laisser plus de latitude individuelle notamment dans la gestion des normes publiques imposées ? Comment la part croissante des primes dans le revenu des bergers conduit, par résignation ou par choix, à en faire un élément central dans le choix des pratiques, au détriment parfois de l’ancienne éthique du métier ? Comment les nouvelles générations de bergers s’accommodent différemment de ces changements ? Comment un métier-passion pratiqué par des bergers proches du troupeau devient progressivement un métier-professionnel pratiqué par des éleveurs plus distancés des bêtes ? Comment cette perception d’intervention de développement autrefois perçu comme extérieur au groupe devient plus familière et intérieure à celui-ci à mesure que ce groupe change de forme d’organisation, de frontières identitaires et qu’une intériorisation des normes a lieu ? À travers le cas des bergers de la région PACA, cette thèse est une contribution aux débats sur la bureaucratisation des sociétés contemporaines, l’inflation normative et ses impacts sur les groupes professionnels et le sens au travailThis dissertation examines how transhumance shepherding in Provence was transformed from the early 2000s to 2020 by a series of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that increasingly normalized and bureaucratized the profession. Early in the 2000s, the policy focus placed on the “multifunctional” character of agriculture combined with the “decoupling” of agricultural aid increased shepherds’ economic dependance on “premiums” that were linked to stricter rules and norms. This shift changed shepherds’ work by requiring cross-compliance with environmental standards. These “public norms”cut across multiple sectors (transportation, health, environment) at different levels of governance (local, national, European), which often overlapped and contradicted one another. Shepherds responded to these norms not only as individuals working alone but also as part of a “localized professional group” (LPG) (Darré 1985) that includes shepherds with differing professional statuses (farmers, salaried workers). This Pastrille covers a vast area of transhumance and knowledge-sharing that spans the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and its borderlands. The group includes shepherds of diverse social backgrounds and career paths who collectively define who shepherds can be and determine what work shepherds can do by establishing professional norms. This research focuses on how the confrontation between the “public norms” and the professional norms affected shepherds torn between the double bind of their desire for a specific work ethos that promoted the preservation of tradition and the demand to comply with new norms that undermined it.This research was conducted in immersion as a shepherd over a period of 15 years. I analyzed change in the ethos of this “localized professional group” and identified three phases of normative confrontation. An initial phase of incomprehension and rejection of measures deemed absurd was followed by a phase of violent confrontation when inspections and sanctions tightened. The final phase of relative appeasement came when shepherds chose to internalize new norms or resigned themselves to doing so. I considered the active and passive strategies implemented by shepherds to deal with the confrontation of norms and look at how representations and professional practices were reconfigured.How did a group that placed preservation of the community above self-affirmation change with time, leaving greater individual latitude in managing imposed “public norms”? How did greater economic dependence on premiums influence shepherds’ practices, by acceptance or by choice, to the detriment of the prior professional ethics? Furthermore, how did younger generations of shepherds adapt to them differently than their elders? How did a career pursued passionately by shepherds close to their herds progressively become a more professionalized occupation taken up by breeders who distance themselves from their livestock? How did development-driven changes, formerly perceived as external to the group, become more familiar and internal as the group’s structure and the contours of its identitychanged and “public norms” were internalized? By examining shepherds in the PACA region, this dissertation contributes to debates on bureaucratization of contemporary societies and considers the impact of rapidly cumulating norms and standards on professional groups and the meaning of work
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Nakhaeï, Bentolhoda. "Critical Analysis of the Stylistic Transformations in the 19th and 20th-century English and French Translations of Omar Khayyám’s Rubáiyát : exploring the Common Quatrains in FitzGerald, Arberry, Nicolas, and Lazard." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA144.
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Cette thèse vise à procéder à une analyse minutieuse de la transformation de la forme et du sens dans la traduction des Robâïât de Omar Khayyám, dans quatre importantes traductions – deux en anglais et deux en français, des XIXe et XXe siècles. Les traducteurs des traductions sélectionnées sont Edward FitzGerald, Arthur John Arberry, Jean-Baptiste Nicolas et Gilbert Lazard. Les traductions réalisées par ces traducteurs ont offert des possibilités d’investigation dans un cadre linguistique donné. En effet, on peut se demander si les traducteurs ont transformé la signification et la forme des quatrains perses. Si oui, quelles procédures ont-ils utilisées ? Plus précisément, comment les réseaux signifiants sous-jacents ont-ils été rendus par les plus importants traducteurs anglais et français des XIXe et XXe siècles ? Par ailleurs, il s’agira d’essayer d’évaluer la qualité de l’écriture dans la langue cible de chaque traduction. En somme, cette thèse cherche à comprendre si les traducteurs sont parvenus à saisir l’importance de la signification du sous-texte et l’élégance de la forme poétique des Robâïât. Cette thèse propose une application scientifique des concepts théoriques de différents chercheurs en traductologie, linguistique et littérature. Les théories dominantes utilisées dans la présente étude sont celles d’Antoine Berman, de Henri Meschonnic, Peter Newmark, Eugene Albert Nida, Susan Bassnett, Mona Baker, Geoffrey N. Leech, I.A. Richards, Roger T. Bell, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Michael Hanne, et Max Black. En outre, il doit être indiqué que cette thèse vise à créer un équilibre entre deux pôles de la traductologie, à savoir celui qui s’intéresse aux traductions orientées vers la langue cible et celui qui s’intéresse aux traductions orientées vers la langue source.La traduction des Robâïât dans les langues germaniques et romanes est un sujet digne d’intérêt et propice à la discussion. Cette recherche vise à montrer que l’étude des traductions des Robâïât pourrait contribuer à mettre en évidence les difficultés et même l’impossibilité qu’il y a à rendre certaines caractéristiques de l’original persan en anglais et en françaisThis thesis aims to carry out a meticulous analysis of the transformation of form and meaning in the rendition of the Rubáiyát in four significant 19th and 20th-century translations—two in English and two in French. The translators of the selected translations are Edward FitzGerald, Arthur John Arberry, Jean-Baptiste Nicolas, and Gilbert Lazard. The translations produced by these translators have offered opportunities of investigation within linguistic boundaries. In fact, one may wonder if the translators have transformed the meaning and the form of the Persian quatrains. If so, which procedures have they employed? More precisely, how are the underlying networks of signification rendered by the most significant English and French translators of the 19th and 20th centuries? Furthermore, what is the quality of the writing in the target language in each translation? On the whole, this thesis seeks to appreciate whether the translators have been successful in understanding the significance of the subtext and the elegance of the poetic form of the Rubáiyát.This dissertation provides its readers with a scientific application of the theoretical concepts of different theorists in translation studies, linguistics, and literature. The most salient theories employed in the present research are those of Antoine Berman, Henri Meschonnic, Peter Newmark, Eugene Albert Nida, Susan Bassnett, Mona Baker, Geoffrey N. Leech, I.A. Richards, Roger T. Bell, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Michael Hanne, and Max Black. In addition, it must be indicated that this thesis sets out to create a balance between two poles in translation studies, i.e. target-oriented and source-oriented translations.The translation of Omar Khayyám’s Rubáiyát into Germanic and Romance languages is an interesting and controversial subject to discuss. This research seeks to prove that the study of the translations of the Rubáiyát can contribute to highlighting the difficulties and the impossibilities of the rendition of certain issues from Persian into English or French
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K'Bidy, Julie. "Comprendre - Transformer - Comprendre : Analyse de la dynamique interactive entraîneurs experts – badistes de Haut Niveau et étude de l’impact d’un dispositif transformatif sur le développement professionnel des entraîneurs experts." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021BORD0006.
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Qu’est-ce qu’un entraîneur expert ? Le manque de consensus autour de cette question impacte régulièrement le recrutement des entraîneurs de Haut Niveau souvent plébiscités pour leur succès en tant qu’athlète et non par la qualité de leurs formations (Gilbert et al., 2006). Le choix de la Fédération Française de Badminton en avril 2015 de renouveler la quasi-totalité des entraîneurs nationaux de l’INSEP par une nouvelle équipe avec à sa tête, le Danois Peter Gade, ancien n°1 mondial, en est un parfait exemple. Ce manque de critères objectifs (Abraham et al., 2006) amène aussi régulièrement à évaluer les entraîneurs experts à travers la performance de leurs athlètes, elle-même fréquemment résumée aux résultats de ces derniers en compétition. En effet, il est difficile de rendre compte de l’activité des entraîneurs experts, tant elle paraît guidée par des connaissances tacites (Saury & Sève, 2004), amenant même à les considérer comme des alchimistes de la performance (Ripoll, 2012). Pour alimenter les travaux visant à délimiter les contours de l’expertise, cette recherche vise tout d’abord à analyser l’activité des entraîneurs dits experts in situ à travers un programme de recherche en anthropologie culturaliste (Bertone & Chaliès, 2015). Ce programme permet de comprendre les fondements de l’activité des entraîneurs (i) en conceptualisant les significations que les acteurs associent aux expériences qu’ils vivent et (ii) en appréciant les accords de significations entre les acteurs. Le premier volet de cette étude a été mené en collaboration avec trois badistes masculins de l’équipe de France sénior et deux entraîneurs dits experts (un entraîneur national de l’INSEP et un ancien entraîneur national bulgare). Les données ont été recueillies à partir d’enregistrements audio-vidéo (EAV) de chaque séance d’entraînement suivi d’entretiens d’auto-confrontation (EAC) avec l’entraîneur et le badiste. Les premiers résultats ont montré que les interactions entraîneur-athlète étaient régulièrement le lieu de désaccords entre les acteurs amenant une collaboration improductive et desservant par conséquent l’objectif de performance poursuivie. Ces premiers résultats nous ont amené à prolonger cette étude par un second volet visant à offrir aux entraîneurs experts un espace de développement professionnel. À cet effet, un dispositif de recherche transformatif a été construit afin de leur donner accès au vécu de l’athlète et ainsi leur permettre de prendre conscience de certains aspects de leur activité et de ses effets sur celle du badiste. Menées en collaboration avec les badistes et les entraîneurs nationaux des Pôles France Relève de Bordeaux et Strasbourg, les données ont de nouveau été recueillies à partir des EAV de séances d’entraînements individuels suivis d’EAC menés avec l’entraîneur et le badiste. Un entretien aménagé a ensuite été mené avec l’entraîneur afin de le confronter aux propos tenus par le badiste lors de son EAC. Il lui était alors demandé d’interpréter le désaccord observé et de s’engager dans d’éventuelles pistes de transformation de son activité. Un EAV de la séance d’entraînement suivante a ensuite été réalisé pour observer de possibles traces de développement professionnel chez l’entraîneur. Les résultats ont montré qu’un tel dispositif consistant à donner accès à l’entraîneur au vécu de l’athlète peut permettre à la dyade de tendre vers un plus haut niveau d’intersubjectivité (Jowett, 2006). En tentant de rendre accessible les schémas d’expériences et d’actions habituellement non-conscientisés (Alheit & Dausien, 2005) en vue d’accompagner une dynamique de développement professionnel, ce dispositif s’inscrit dans la problématique de l’articulation entre les situations de formation et les situations de travail (Durand & Fillietaz, 2009) dans la perspective d’un apprentissage tout au long de la vieWhat’s an expert coach ? The shortage of consensus around this question regularly has an impact on the high level coaches’ recruitment who are frequently recruit for their athlete success and not for their schooling (Gilbert et al., 2006). The Badminton French Federation’s choice in April 2015 to change almost all the national coaches by a new team takes in charged by the danish Peter Gade, retire player, previously number 1 in the world, is a perfect example. The shortage of unbiased norms (Abraham et al., 2006) also regularly leads to assess the experts coaches through their athletes’ performances, themselves frequently summarized by theirs tournaments’ results. Indeed, it’s difficult to assess the experts coaches’ activity, so much it seems to be guided by tacit knowledge (Saury & Sève, 2004), leading to considerate them as alchemists of performance (Ripoll, 2012). To flow into the studies aim for delimited the expertise’s contours, first this research aims for analyze expert coaches activity in situ through a research program in culturalist anthropology (Bertone & Chaliès, 2015). This program allows to understand the base of coaches’ activity (i) by conceptualized the significations the actors associate to their lived experiences and (ii) by appreciated the agreements of significations between the actors. The first part of this study was conducted in collaboration with three male players’ member of the French senior national team and two experts coaches (an INSEP national coach and a former national Bulgarian coach). The data was collected from audio-video recordings (AVR) of each training session follow by autoconfrontation interviews (ACI) with the coach and the athlete. The first results showed that the coach-athlete interactions are regularly the place of disagreements between the actors causing an unproductive collaboration and harming the performance. This first results lead us to extend this study with a second part aims to offer to expert coaches a professional development space. For that, a transformative research design was constructed for giving them access of the athlete’s life and thus allow them to become aware of some aspects of their activity and the effects on the athlete’s one. Conducted in collaboration with the badminton players and the national coaches of the national center for young players based in Bordeaux and Strasbourg, the data has been collected from AVR of individual trainings sessions follow by ACI with the coach and the athlete again. A special interview was then be lead with the coach to confront him with the athlete’s words held during his ACI. It was then asked him to interpret the observed disagreements and to get involved in eventual transformation leads of his activity. An AVR of the next training session was then be made to observe possible marks of professional development in the coach’s work. The results show that such a design, involving to give access for the coach of the athlete’s life, can allow the dyad to tend towards a high level of intersubjectivity (Jowett, 2006). Trying to get accessible the experiences and actions patterns, ordinary unaware (Alheit & Dausien, 2005) in order to guide a professional development dynamic, this design is inscribed in problematic of the articulation between the education situations and the work situations (Durand & Fillietaz, 2009) in a perspective of a lifelong learning
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Jacobs, Anthea Hydi Maxine. "Pluralist perspectives of a literacy policy in the Western Cape Province." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1730.
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Thesis (MEd (Education Policy Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.This thesis explores pluralist perspectives on literacy in the context of the Literacy and Numeracy (LITNUM) Strategy of the Western Cape Education Department. My argument is that we need to move beyond functional or technical conceptions of literacy towards a recognition of its transformative potential. That is, the concept of literacy needs to be stretched to incorporate pluralist perspectives in order to achieve developmental aspirations. Following a literature review approach, I construct three constitutive meanings of literacy, namely “cognitive skills”, “social context” and “development”, and I investigate how the LITNUM Strategy conforms to these constitutive meanings of literacy. My finding is that LITNUM is based on a constructivist learning theory. I caution that when understandings of learning theories are viewed exclusively from one perspective, literacy becomes “compacted”, and we miss out on important considerations of literacy and its transformative potential. I show that LITNUM discusses several social contextual factors related to literacy; a recognition of the impact of social issues on literacy. Regarding LITNUM’s concern with development, I conclude that both functional and critical literacy as important aspects of development are not sufficiently addressed. In a nutshell: LITNUM focuses on technical skills, which need to be balanced with the notion that literacy is a social act, and that it has the potential to transform societies. I propose a “literacy of thoughtfulness”, based on compassion, love and care. This proposition forms the basis for possible future research.
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Cavalcanti, Bianor Scelza. "The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public Sector." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26644.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the managerial â actionâ of public administrators in the management of their organizations within the brazilian context.
It seeks to understand the relationships between managers and formal management mechanisms by exploring the complementary nature of the effective managerial action in the face of structural deficiencies and flaws, considering the possibility of overcoming the structuralism-subjectivism dichotomy present in the construction of the Theory of Organizations.
Initially, the study provides a review of the literature on organizational design. It highlights the â goodness of fitâ proposition on strategic choice issues concerning the main organizational variables design and organizational goal attainment. It also calls special attention to the emerging interest of designing theorists on interpretivist aproachs to the matter, such that of Karl Weick.
A review of the the administrative reforms in Brazil is made from the perspective of the main stream organizational design conceptual framework. It highlights the complex dynamics of a constant search for differenciation and flexibilization subject to patherns of advances and reversals, due to the centrality, streng and pervasiveness of the bureaucratic model. It is concluded that in no single given moment, a public manager and his team, may count on a formal organizational design wich attends the â congruencyâ criteria, devised by organizational design conceptual frameworks, to explain organizational results in different environmental sets. Although this conclusion may explain failure at the public sector, it can not provide understanding on the many instances of significative success attained by government operations in spite of inadequate formal administrative structures. This point calls for a better understanding from the interpretivist aproach, on how public administrators, strongly associated with good organizational results, engage into transformative action, in order to superate administrative structures flaws and disfuncional cultural patherns of conduct, structurally present and constantly reproduced, in vigorous develloping countries, such as Brazil.
The dissertation transcribes the testimony of four outstanding public administrators, doing a deep incursion in the managerial real world of public administration, as subjectivelly defined by them and transformed by their engagement into action.Through the thematic version of the Oral History methodology, full segments of the complete enterviews are
cathegorized into the thirty two managerial strategies captured wich are presented on a recathegorized manner under eight main strategies: (1) Interchanging Frames of Reference; (2) Exploring the Formal Limits; (3) Playing the Bureaucracy Game; (4) Inducing the Inclusion of Others (5)Promoting Internal Cohesion; (6) Creating Shields against Transgressions; (7) Overcoming Internal Restrictions; (8) Letting the Structures Blossom. Each one of these eight blocks of strategies presented, deserves further reflexive interpretation by the author, on the light of the interpretivist aproach to organizational design.
A final effort is made, now on theory building, for improuving understanding on the matter. In order to find a significant meaning underlining all the strategies extracted from the â practical constiounessâ of the enterviweers as revealed in their report, the author resort to a methafor. This methafor helps to: (1) better describe and understand a not adequately treated phenomenon, namely, good results under inadequate structural social and organizational conditions; (2) reveal the logic and the meaning underlining all the strategies adopted to generate results under these unfaithfull conditions; (3) name, accordingly to the nature of the managerial transformative social action envolved, an open ended class of managerial interventions of a pragmatic sort driven by an ethics of results much common to good managers, that is, the concept of â managerial equalizationâ ; and (4) give back to public administrators, represented by the enterviwees, to be incorporated in their â discursive counciousnessâ , something the most effective and experienced public managers already have as tacit knowledge built in their â practical counsciousnessâ , and so, help the education and development of new talents.Ph. D.
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Jakobsh, Doris R. "Relocating gender in Sikh history : transformation, meaning and identity." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11197.
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The term 'gender' has been defined as an evolutionary, fluid construct;
gendered realities are thus open to the vicissitudes of circumstance and time,
emerging and developing with the shifting needs of the community within which
they unfold. An analysis of gender construction is thus a useful mechanism to
interpret the historical process on the whole. This theoretical position forms the
framework for a reinterpretation of the Sikh community in the colonial context.
The Sikh tradition itself has been part of an evolutionary process. From a
primary focus on interior religiosity upon its inception, Sikhism developed into an
increasingly militaristic order with highly prescribed exterior symbols and rituals.
Accompanying this shift was a 'theology of difference', giving religious, symbolic
and ritual sanctioning to a specific gender hierarchy. With a primary focus on male
Sikh identity, female religious identity was relegated to a secondary position.
Under-girding the annexation of Punjab into the British Empire were
Victorian notions of the 'manly Christian', Christianized imperialism and chivalry,
alongside rigid female ideals such as the 'helpmate'. The Sikhs came to be highly
favoured by their imperial masters for their monotheistic ideals and what was
perceived as their 'manly' and militaristic character. This hyper-masculine,
militaristic construct, already enshrined within Sikh history through the creation of
the Khalsa in 1699 received renewed emphasis by the British administration. The
Singh Sabha reform movement initiated in the late-nineteenth century ingeniously
accommodated selected aspects of the Victorian worldview into their reform agenda,
particularly with regard to gender constructs.
Leaders of the Singh Sabha began to actively safeguard Sikh interests in a
political milieu increasingly defined by communal rivalry. A Sikh renaissance was
born, bringing about a successful focus on linguistic concerns of the Sikhs,
education, literature and a highly selective interpretive process of Sikh history and
religion.
Gender politics were pivotal to virtually all aspects of this endeavour. Novel
interpretations and in certain instances 'inventions' of distinct female ritual
traditions and symbolism alongside female educational initiatives fostering the
'ideal' Sikh woman were central to the objectives of the Singh Sabha reform
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Sotani, Yuriko, and 曾谷百合子. "The Meaning of Modern Japanese Women’s Make-up Transformation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15112855442116926934.
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The Meaning of Modern Japanese Women’s Make-up Transformation Summary Make-up is one of the most popular human cultural behaviors ever since. Within different generations, belonging enterprises and cultures, the idea of make-up changes over time. Enthusiastic make-up persons arose from the changes of cosmetics symbolization and cosmetics circulation, in 1990’s, Clothing symbolization had been satisfied in the end of 1980’s; thus, the culture switched to cosmetics symbolization in 1990’s. The symbolized cosmetics were varied, and it was divided into several functions like clothes which can be collocated to each other. Meanwhile, there were also changes in the market. Consumers can touch and try on those cosmetics from expensive ones in the department stores & open-shelf ones in drug stores, and then they decided to buy it or not. Therefore, consumers can freely choose various cosmetics. Besides, they changed from accepting “Symbol” into “Collocating” cosmetics. Thus, women’s souls were inspired by cosmetics, and some of them were enthusiastic “acceptable” make-up fans. Hence, make-up is becoming an important issue which we can not igore. In this research, I select “Japanese make-up fans” as the objectors to discuss their unique “reading”, “writing”& “discussing” articles, and it reveals the meaning of modern Japanese women’s make-up tranformation.
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HAN, CHANG SHEN, and 張慎涵. "The Transformation and Meaning of the Image of India’s Śiva in The Transformation and Meaning of the Image of India’s Śiva in Buddhism." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43038567129920700637.
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Wu, Ke-ming, and 吳可名. "The Transformation of the Texture Meaning in Chinese Rock Music(1986~2011)." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96612845403444648744.
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