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Bloesser, Fabian R. "Chemiluminescent self-reporting macromolecular transformation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211480/1/Fabian%20Raphael_Bloesser_Thesis.pdf.
Full textHwang, Sohin. "Resisting technology : self-transformation and its catalysts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65549.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
As with utopian promises, where technology contributes to the convenience and welfare of human society, technology also has the contradictory consequences of enforcing humans to conform to a biased politics often without negotiation. How do I, as an individual, challenge such unwanted enforcement? Can I meet this challenge without producing yet another coercive technology? In this thesis, I argue that technologies for transforming the self can function as emancipatory strategies against such coercive technologies, without reproducing them. My hypothesis is that these technologies for transforming the self can be achieved through strategizing and experimenting with the self. This strategizing and experimentation involve identifying and exploring the following conditions: standing on the border of both sides of ambivalence in the self-technology relationship, taking the risk of failure in this position, and expanding these conditions to multiple selves. The repetition of strategizing and experimenting with the self can generate constant self-transformations. To test/experiment this hypothesis, I design and activate performative situations for self-transformative experiences of an individual, and a group. In these situations, objects act as catalysts and structures for action and dialogue, while revealing the ambivalence in them-as technologies of coercion and freedom.
by Sohin Hwang.
S.M.
Bolanakis, Panos. "The ecstasy of transformation : self-transformation and ecstasy in Hesychasm and Theravāda Buddhism." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.743018.
Full textBerryman, Mere. "Repositioning within indigenous discourses of transformation and self-determination." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2565.
Full textFusaro, Anaïs. "Mourning, writing, (self-)transformation : the autofiction of Serge Doubrovsky." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15583.
Full textHanson, Kelly Ann. "U for social justice : a self-study examining teacher transformation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/48522.
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Honeywell, David. "Ex-prisoners and the transformation of self through higher education." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22109/.
Full textSun, Ning. "The Transformation of Self: A Study of Classic American Pragmatism." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/703.
Full textWaterbright, Siall Hope. "The coming." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/34446/1/Siall_Waterbright_Exegesis.pdf.
Full textErichsen, Elizabeth Anne. "Reinventing selves international students' conceptions of self and learning for transformation /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939512041&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textTSuwan, Chaiyatorn, and nakrop99@gmail com. "Buddhist Perspectives on Sustainability: Towards Radical Transformation of Self and World." RMIT University. Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090527.095110.
Full textFoster, Lei. "Narrative self-inquiry to capture transformation in mental health nursing practice." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/322297.
Full textKhan, Tareef Hayat. "Living with transformation a study of self-built houses in Dhaka /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40987711.
Full textMaximick, Lorna Anne. "The experience of transformation of self as revealed in a counselling relationship." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0009/MQ52800.pdf.
Full textNowacka, K. Janine, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Women's journeys of transformation through self-other relationships : a phenomenological-hermeneutics investigation." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2537.
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Streatfield, Philip John. "Informal self-organising transformation of a manufacturing organisation : a management practitioner's perspective." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340041.
Full textHanaki, Toru. "Transformation of self-identity through intercultural experience : stories of self from Japanese students in a U.S. midwestern university /." View abstract, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3205448.
Full textSwan, Elaine. "Worked up selves : personal development, self-transformation and therapeutic cultures in contemporary Britain." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428651.
Full textZhu, Feng. "Computer games and the aesthetic practices of the self : wandering, transformation, and transfiguration." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/computer-games-and-the-aesthetic-practices-of-the-self-wandering-transformation-and-transfiguration(786b152a-feea-4610-ae94-02df7be588ea).html.
Full textSzalas, Beatrice Carleton University Dissertation Law. "Battered women who kill; storytelling, social transformation and the law of self-defence." Ottawa, 1996.
Find full textSymmes, Breanna. "The heroes we mistake for villains the truth behind self-sacrifice and transformation /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2009. http://165.236.235.140/lib/BSymmes2009.pdf.
Full textYildirim, Umut. "Militant experts : a study of the transformation of the revolutionary self in Diyarbakir, Turkey." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252225.
Full textHeiden, Kathleen Ann. "Exploration of the influence of a diverse appearance course on students' transformation of self." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
Find full textKardash, Hala Saad. "The transformation of public housing provision in Egypt and the role of self help." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/290.
Full textRinkenberger, Jan. "Context of Self-Service Business Intelligence : A case study of IT-enabled organizational transformation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172376.
Full textBrierley, Donald. "Reflexivity imagined as art practice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15006.
Full textMpendukana, Sibonile. "Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2567_1318493246.
Full textMuch language planning and policy in recent years in South Africa tends to overlook linguistic situations and practices, and focuses on notions of top-down language policy and implementation. This does not fit easily with the current multilingualism dynamics of late post-modern societies, which are increasingly characterized by a culture of consumerism and politics of aspiration. Taking its point of departure from a critical analysis of linguistic practices, in the form of visual literacies (billboards) in a township in South Africa, this thesis aims to draw forth alternative approaches that focus on the notion of sociolinguistic consumption, politics of aspiration and stylization of self, as a means of addressing the linguistic situation, and highlighting implications for language planning and multilingualism.
Seidl, David. "Organisational identity and self-transformation : an exploratory study from the perspective of new systems theory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409737.
Full textHallam, Cory R. A. "Lean enterprise self-assessment as a leading indicator for accelerating transformation in the aerospace industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29216.
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The research contained in this thesis explores leading indicators of lean enterprise transformation in the aerospace industry, as part of the greater body of work associated with MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI). Arguments from literature are made in support of the assumption that a lean enterprise can outperform a less lean enterprise, permitting the research to focus on identifying potential means for achieving and accelerating lean enterprise transformation in the aerospace industry. Senior enterprise leaders and their leadership committees from thirty-one enterprises in the US and UK aerospace industry utilized the LAI Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) as a means for measuring their current state of leanness in leadership/transformation processes, lifecycle processes, and enabling infrastructure. Cross-sectional LESAT data, two-period time series LESAT data, and directed interviews and site visits were utilized to formulate the conclusions drawn in this thesis. There are four primary empirical findings of this research. First, the aerospace industry as a whole exhibits lowest maturity in practices related to establishing and deploying a lean enterprise vision, even in the presence of high maturity in lean production. Second, enterprises exhibiting high lean enterprise maturity in leadership/transformation processes also exhibit high maturity in lifecycle processes and enabling infrastructure. Third, strong leadership commitment (LC) correlates highly with setting a lean enterprise change environment (CE), which then correlates highly with lean change activities in practice (CP).
(cont.) Finally, there is evidence that the highest lean maturity enterprises have established formal information feedback mechanisms that allow the enterprise to strategically build on the lean capabilities of the enterprise, while prioritizing lean improvement activities within the context of enterprise strategic needs. From the perspective of industry, this research suggests that there must be a formal decision to pursue the lean enterprise as an operational strategy in order to achieve successful transformation. This decision will be founded on strong leadership commitment, which if established, can help support the leadership/transformation practices as a means for improving lifecycle processes and enabling infrastructure. The LAI Transition-to-Lean (TTL) roadmap provides a logical sequencing of lean enterprise transformation activities, to which formal information feedback mechanisms should be added based on the model proposed in this thesis for accelerating lean enterprise transformation. Most importantly, this model suggests a new mode of operating, not a one-time improvement effort. Further research is needed to empirically validate the model as a means for accelerating lean enterprise transformation.
by Cory R.A. Hallam.
Ph.D.
Crowther, Rebecca Louise. "Journeys to the ideal self : personal transformation through group encounters of rural landscape in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28941.
Full textRoderick, Martin. "Work, self and the transformation of identity : a sociological study of the careers of professional footballers." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30710.
Full textGrace, Cynthia L. "The second-chance self| Transformation as the gift of life for maternal caregivers of transplant children." Thesis, Argosy University/San Francisco Bay Area, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3583499.
Full textIn this qualitative study, I explored the phenomenon of positive growth in maternal caregivers of children who have undergone a kidney transplant. Semistructured interviews were conducted with seven mothers who shared narrative accounts of their experience. Through a phenomenological analysis of the interview data, the fundamental structure of positive growth in caregivers of transplant children was illuminated. Both negative themes and trauma and positive themes and growth were found to contribute to maternal caregiver positive growth.
Participants revealed that being a caregiver for a transplant child is an endless quest that entails layers of loss, and with each loss there is the need to start anew. The experience of loss and renewal is recursive and at times seemingly endless. Thus, the overarching theme describing positive growth in transplant caregivers was a “journey of endless beginnings.” There were three metathemes: encountering loss, transitioning through loss, and reconciling loss. Six themes composed the first leg of the journey, which was laden with trauma; however, months before and after the child’s transplant a transitional period unfolded. Three major themes made up this pivotal point: the secondchance search, transplantation as the gift of life, and facing posttransplant loss. It was at this juncture that profound connections with others were made, leading to the possibility for caregivers to transcend their trauma and have the opportunity to experience positive growth. The third leg of the journey, comprising six themes, entailed additional losses but also presented a time of renewal where caregivers reconciled ongoing losses, embraced new ways of being, and experienced lasting positive change.
Reissig, SJ. "Developing empathic leadership through self-transformation." Thesis, 2007. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/21368/7/whole_ReissigStevenJoseph2007_thesis.pdf.
Full textLiu, Lih-Jiuan, and 劉麗娟. "Self-transformation of unmarried women in relationships." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53429472912583183137.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
輔導研究所
90
Abstract The thesis intends to discover unmarried woman’s self developing and changing in relationships. The in-depth interview and the narrative inquiry are used as the methods to collect the material and to analyze the content. Through the narrating of the story, it explores the factors of self-developing in relationships, and the reasons and ways of activating self-transformation. The results are as follows: 1.Self-developing in relationships: For females, relationships are the foundation of developing the self. The interaction among the relationships can also influence the constructing of the self. The factors include individual characteristics, the experiences from the original family, education pursuing problems, gender bias, and the stereotypical impression of the sex. 2.Self-transformation: The transformation often comes from the unbalanced situation of the self. Such unbalance may be based on the further knowledge of the self, or on the unsatisfying of the needs. To reach an agreement and a balance, the adjustment is made by transforming. The matters include self-understanding, personal maturity, the interaction of the relationship, and working experience. 3.Ways of Self-transformation in relationships: The ways of self transforming in relationships in terms of the self and the relationship are as follows: (1)Self and self-transformation: The changing of individual’s attitude towards oneself involves the process from negative denial to positive acceptance, and the process from the idealistic me to the realistic me. Such changing represents the adjustment of the self. (2)Self and the changing of relationships: It concerns the expectations for relationships, the tangled affections for relationships, the managing of relationships, and the self-locating in relationships. (3)Relationships and the self-transformation: It can be explained in two aspects. First, it’s a process from viewing oneself and things from others’ views to re-defining things from personal views. Second, it’s a process from catering to others’ expectation to gradually internalizing to become a part of self-characteristics. (4)The changing of each other in relationships: Namely, it’s the reverse of the roles of the adult woman and her parents, from being looked after and obeying the opinions to giving attention and advices to her parents. Besides, a grown-up woman starts to identify herself from her mother. Such identification comes from the occurrence of female consciousness and the maturing of the self. She views her mother as a woman from an adult female’s point of view and then reaches a new connection.. In the end, some reflections and suggestions are provided according to this study.
Chen, Mei-Li, and 陳美莉. "Extraordinarily Thirty--A Woman’s Self- Transformation Process." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45384886603861032772.
Full text東吳大學
心理學系
93
The approach the author took in this thesis is “self-narrative”. It started with the accomplishment agitation the author faced at her age of thirty, then narrated six themes from life events: “Looking Back, Thoughts of Home: expectations and disappointments”, “Extraordinariness Found in Simplicity, agitation and exploration at age of 30”, “Companion, Hinderer and Companion, my mother”, “The friendly sentiments is deeper than the sisters ”, “ Running, Tai-Chi, Me and Myself” and “ This is the Fact!”. By following these six self-narratives, the context of “I therefore become me” was explored. The thesis adopting philosopher Feng Youlan's Life Prospect view, Dialectical Analysis, and Kegan’s Self-Evolving, were thoroughly applied to examine the life of the author. The finding was a Self-Evolving process comprising three major dialectical aspects: “Original Formalized Family vs. Hiding family between sisters'”, “Inner – accomplishments vs. Outer – accomplishments”, “Meaning of Work v.s. Value of life”, which were empowered from the critical reflection on dialogues of “the mainstream and the marginality” and “ordinary and extraordinary”, then evolved next life prospect through the recycling writing and reflection process of self-narratives. Lastly, the author has concluded the thesis with a new concept of life development by integration of Life Prospect, Dialectical analysis, and Self-Evolving. Other than presenting the picture of typical life evolving that thirty-something females in Taiwan’s society, another major purpose of the thesis is to stir thoughts of readers, therefore to think ,even starts to narrate their life stories , and enable this generation the feminine life transformation course to have more richer presenting.
Chen, Ding-Yuan, and 陳鼎元. "Transformation and self-creation of Christian art." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46536969988811102163.
Full text中國文化大學
美術學系
102
In this thesis,Christianity began to explore the art of painting abstract art Contemplative Christian,From deep causes of abstract interpretation of Western culture. Further to the mark and icons of early Christian art Christian paintings opened chapters, Analysis is not between the statue and the statue of the dilemma is how to develop Christian painting out. At the time to explore the Christian art of painting, but also to self-painting and experience to do the learning phase of the Institute integration. Thereby reflect upon their own growth process of painting and painting the attitude of learning. All in all, the artistic value lies in its innovative creative ideas for this, Giotto painting ideas put forward: "Man can actually through their senses and perception, rather than concepts or instructions by others learned to know God and God created this world!" The author thus also affected by its creation and religion, have the motivation to write this article, hoping to write papers, to explore the mysteries of Giotto's paintings that expression of its deep meaning of the paintings, To add creativity and imagination of self-painting the picture. Of course, most importantly, to have more breakthroughs in the future development of self-creation, and then sway the self-life painting hidden energy.
Yu, Chiu Kai, and 裘凱宇. "Awareness:the process and praxis of self-transformation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29723631919211703925.
Full textLiu, Jen-Lan, and 劉貞蘭. "Cocoon-A Life Story of Self-transformation." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47876272126164665321.
Full text國立交通大學
教育研究所
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The paper was based upon the personal narrative of the author and the reflection upon these multiple woman roles. After operating these roles in the stage of my life very hard for many years, I felt confused when losing the applause. The questions lingered in my mind. "What exactly happens?" Through the process of self- narrative , I could renew my strength for action, which made me "discovering" and "clarifying" the cocoon of my heart. Through the point of critical sociology, I explored "Who am I "from "ugly duckling" childhood and study experiences to "Swan" teaching processes. I felt bound by the recognized mainstream culture framework. To study the literature and the dialogue with the students, I perceived the external authority of myself but the inferiority of my inner side. Through spiritual curriculum, learning to dialogue with my inner, I found that "fearfulness" and "courtship" had guided my life model over thirty years. Although I was eager to other's applause, but I often had to work behind the scenes because of fear. Through the study of psychology, I learned to accept and support the unique of each person's life. I had gone through this process of deconstruction and reconstructed the framework of my inner .I got more understanding to seek love and accepted myself. With the feelings of pleasure, I will continue playing my multiple roles in my stage of life.
Chang, Hsiao-Ni, and 張筱妮. "Process of Self-Transformation in Superficial Harmony." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/454tgh.
Full text國立臺灣大學
心理學研究所
106
Previous studies focused on the harmonization process of interpersonal relationship. Is it always a good idea to get back into the relationship? This study aimed to explore the process of self-transformation in superficial harmony friendship with adopting “the dynamic model of interpersonal harmony and conflict” and the perspective of “transformative learning”, which shows more interpersonal possibilities. Fourteen participants (20-30 years;6 males, 8 females) were interviewed to gather data on their self-transformation experiences in the superficial harmony friendship. The results showed that the core of self-transformation was to enhance one’s self-concern, which affected interaction(s) with others in the future. Once individual realized the discord in the relationship, it is the initial point of transformation. In self-transformation stage, individual wandered back and forth repeatedly between reflective thinking and re-assessment. After making the decision, he/she felt relieved, no matter what choice was made. Findings suggested that self-transformation is an opportunity for self-growth. Furthermore, the results after self-transformation present more possibilities in relationship, which cannot be discovered from the viewpoint of harmonization process.
You, Wensi. "Disruption and reintegration — self-transformation in shamanistic healing." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34784.
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T’Kenye, Caddie Bellis. "Learning a new self : ileogastrostomy and perspective transformation." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4442.
Full texthui, Chen Chia, and 陳佳輝. "The aim to discuss filiations and self-transformation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69859006696228348669.
Full text國防大學政治作戰學院
心理碩士班
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This thesis is aim to discuss filiations and self-transformation. This thesis is motivated by the filiations of the author and hopes to inquire the factors influencing the husband and father characters, and the sequence of self-transformation. By the biographical writing process, the thesis hopes to achieve self-awareness and self-understanding in the filiations of the author’s own experience. In the writing process, the thesis is to find new possibilities in de-facto events. Moreover, new thoughts are aroused from self-dialoguing process via different time, spaces, characters, and views. The thesis will not abide by the tradition framework and regulations. The reckless theme of the thesis is resulted by the native and inner aspiration of the author. Nevertheless, the courage and motive of continuing thesis writing process are aroused from responding to the author’s inner thoughts. Facing the real side of oneself, the describing process of stories of the author and his father endows the author abilities to touch one’s memory and soul with the enormous power deriving from the self-describing process. Furthermore, the description of life is given in the subjective process. At the end of thesis, how the power of transformation is arouse and the influences and values to the author are explained in the describing process of the author’s filiations. In conclusion, in the tortuous process of self-description, not only the inspiration and self-awareness but also self-confession are acquired by the author in the process of writing.
O'Neill, Eimear. "Holding flames : women illuminating knowledge of s/Self transformation /." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=370745&T=F.
Full textYu-Chien, Chen, and 陳昱蒨. "The Wind Beneath My Wings:Family Stories and Self-transformation." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hg863p.
Full text輔仁大學
心理學系
102
This is a story about a broken home, it’s healing and the process of my self-transformation. Using self-narrative method, I describe my life course and family stories. With my mother’s death, I experience my first big break down in life. After experiencing two years of single parent life, my father got married again. With this new marriage I started a new stepfamily life. However, this new life did not fulfill my emptiness. The stepfamily life was also about adapting, conflicts and silence, this made me want more to get away from home. At the same time, the accidentally discovered sickness of my brother created a opportunity for me to get close to may father and the long distanced family. Due to the change of my point of view toward my life, it guided me to a self-transformation, giving me the opportunity destruct and restructure my knowing about family and myself, also made me accept myself the way that I’m now.
Nan, Hwang Jinn, and 黃進南. "A narrative research of the abused women's self transformation." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73294207847488518798.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
輔導與諮商研究所
95
Abstract The main purpose of this research was to explore the self-transformation process of five abused women. Based on the narrative approach and holistic -content perspective, the findings of this research were as follows: 1. These abused women’s self-evaluation before marriage included women were supposed to be married; women were supposed to sacrifice themselves and to take care of others. Their families of origin, school education, and working experiences influenced these concepts. 2. These abused women’s self evaluation during the stage of abused was such as: I was valueless, I was helpless, I could be changed, and I was a delinquent mother. It was to pay attention to these abused women who did not focus themselves, they endeavored to change themselves to satisfy husband’s or other’s expectation, not themselves. 3. These abused women’s self-evaluation after the abused period was such as: I was capable, I was valuable. However, not all the abused women had the positive evaluation after the abused period, especially those who had just finished their violent marriage or those were still going through a lawsuit. 4. The mechanism of self-transformation for these abused women had two factors: personal one and environmental one. Based on the findings, some suggestions were made. Key words: violent marriage, abused women, self-transformation, narrative approach
Yang, Ya-Ting, and 楊雅婷. "The study on the College Volunteers’ Self-concept Transformation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06411069712032141696.
Full text國立中正大學
成人及繼續教育研究所
103
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the study on the college volunteers’ self-concept transformation. The purposes of the research are as follows: 1. To understand the college students’ self-concept before being volunteers. 2. To explore the disorienting dilemmas when the college students engaged in voluntary service. 3. To analyze the college students’ self-concept transformation progress by being volunteers. 4. To explore the relations of the college students’ self-concept transformation and personal actions in the future. This study is based on qualitative research method with semi-structured interviews. Analysis are made by interviewing three college volunteers. The research conclusion is obtained as follows. 1. Family of origin and school environment affected students’ self-concept before college education. 2. The disorienting dilemmas made the college volunteers learn transformative learning. 3. College volunteers found personal worthy value from helping others and got others’ positive reactions which helped volunteers increase their positive self-concept. 4. Being leaders in the volunteer service group helped college volunteers learn how to reflect and examine themselves from facing frustration and increase personal development. 5. The discourse in experiential learning promoted the college volunteers’ transformative learning. 6. The college students found their self-affirmation from engaging in voluntary service. 7. College volunteers with negative self-concept transformed obviously by engaging in voluntary service. Keywords: voluntary service,self-concept,transformative learning
Chung, Cheng-Wen, and 鍾政文. "Self-protection ─ Defense through transformation and imitation in clothing." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96449784974886725204.
Full text實踐大學
時尚與媒體設計研究所
96
Abstract Self-protection is the conception behaviorism diversed from emotion and desire Conception behaviorism. Besides the definition of defense, the other definition of self-protection is delivering messages. Clothing is the second skin for human beings, making up natural flaws and improving the ability of self-defense. Meanwhile, people deliver messages via clothes they wear. Researchers apply the internal attitudes and external appearances of animals on the process of designing which includes the paradigm shift. By using this aspect, designers construct spaces for creating and designing. The expect to express abstract conceptions through concrete materials. This research is divided into three parts which is discussed and creation. I. literature reviews In the discussion, animals' ability of self-defense is the first focus. Furthermore, based on theory of psychology, human's motivation and requirement of clothing is discussed. This study focuses on three levels of using clothes as self-defense/protection which is developed in terms of psychology and the assumption of self-defense combined with animal instinct and human mentality. II. Conceptions and experiments The main theory and experiment (of design) are inspired by the discussion on the meaning of skin toward human's self-defense. Characteristics of surface construction-including cover, stretch and texture, is designed base on the elements of surface construction of skin. This conception weaves the forms of skin by combining simple materials, it also conveys the tension of self-defense by covering human body. Characteristics of dissected construction-including layer, space and three dimension. Builds the techniques and influences of sewing pattern toward human's figure by using the traits of materials, it also constructs designers' conception of self-defense in the space, and researchers imitate the construction of skin through their interpretation. They seek the possibility of additional space on skin in the way of three dimensions. III. Imitative design The main aspect of imitative design is base on observing the construction, situation and behavior of animals. It combines principles of designing plank creation and construction of clothes and create a novel garments forms, spaces and atmosphere through the process from original to deductive thinking. Meanwhile, it transports the idea of self-defense.
CHENG-SHEN, HUANG, and 黃振生. "Beautiful and Plaintive Throb— Transformation of the depression self-creative fashion designBeautiful and Plaintive Throb— Transformation of the depression self-creative fashion designBeautiful and Plaintive Throb— Transformation of the depressi." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59803919990595522160.
Full text實踐大學
時尚與媒體設計研究所碩士在職專班
98
Human emotions are omnipresent, emotion is often hidden, people have not figure buy it. The sadness, fear, despair, is the fear of negative emotions, the wounds of our hearts, living in this world, this is everyone is bound to experience grief. For a long time, evolved from the depressive symptoms by the image, in the minds of those suffering from various pessimistic full of ideas and thoughts, like a fossil-like potholes, are swallowed by the black hole of life. The origins of writing paper of the transfer to emotional state, depression, heart throb of the transformation of self-creation, through the experience themselves to realize, through literature, experimental operation, creative performances in three stages. Context to explore images from the depression, the rise to creation. Hopes to continue to create a deeper spiritual relationship, and interpretation of body language by the human body works, expressed in the clothing creation and installation carried out by the head meaning of life and imagination. (1), Literature Theoretical basis for depression theory and poet, artist, painter, fashion designer's combination of literature review, as inspired by the concept of transfer into the link. (2), Experimental operation Emotional transformation experiment works by the author published in the transformation of performance and behavior, emotional response to visual presentation, as a preliminary concept, and then use such as hair, cotton, linen, cotton and other material they have touched the experimental texture, presented in writing Among the works. (3), Creation and Performance By the winding, reversing the experimental conversion and other techniques, prove the concept and depression, through the dancer's body showed the expression of the characteristics of creative works, and the use of exhibition space to show a wide range of designs.
Warren, Zhane. "From paper to performance: embodied ritualised actions towards self-transformation." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/994.
Full textChang, LI-Chen, and 張麗珍. "The Transformation of Self Identity of People with Facial Burns." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19102838673581340136.
Full text東海大學
社會工作學系
98
Abstract Facial burns refer to the facial injuries which have the highest visibility on the human body and, technically, are characterized by difficulties in hiding the appearance. People with facial burns have unique facial features, and, under the judgment of the healthy, the general public believe they are ugly for their facial damage. They are, therefore, easier to experience the stigmatization than people with disabilities of other categories in social life. People with facial burns are different from those who suffer the life-long disability in the fact that the former are forced to give up their social identity and normal life they used to have right after the injury. The particularity derived from the occasion for people to get their facial burns and the injured spots shapes their experiences in being disabled, and the process is quite unique. The subject of this study is people with facial burns, and it starts from their subjective personal experience with a focus on how they shape their new self-identity and their social interaction after the injuries. The research applies qualitative interviews, twelve of which with people with facial burns are included for data collection. The text uses the concept of social stigma of Goffman to analyze the negative interaction experience that people with facial burns encounter in the process of social interaction. The major findings of the research are that most respondents suffer the social stigma attached to the body and that they are under direct judgment from the aesthetic values of society. The respondents have to do something to cover up the injuries, to make themselves up, to whiten the facial skin, or to undergo surgery for reconstruction in order to deal with abnormalities caused by facial injuries. The result of the study finds that the expectation of fix appearance goes beyond the gender experience. The appearance change in the face, regardless of gender, develops a mechanism for processing and adjustment, and such a mechanism has no gender difference. The interaction of the experience of stigmatization and the social bias impact the respondents’ development of a new self-identity after they were injured. The respondents reshape a new self-identity with features of disability, and their inner transition course features as follows: (1) to accept the negative impact of self-image damage, (2) to seek rationalization for facial injuries, (3) to get the strength to reshape self-identification. From the self-adjustment experiences of the respondents, we can summarize that their self-identification from a person with normal ability to a person with physical and mental disabilities involves two major types: negative identity and positive identity which enables them to accept themselves as individuals with disability. The respondents identify themselves as “normal people with physical function injuries.” The process of respondents’ self-identification from a person with normal ability to one with disability is a transaction between “disability world” and “normal world” with injury components of life experience. The respondents agree that the biggest difference between now and then is the change appearing in the facial feature; however, such a difference is not bound to create another physical and mental function disorder. The normality and the abnormality are decided by psychological conditions rather than functional problems. The conclusion of this study offers some reflections and preliminary recommendations for people with facial burns and social workers, and also for the benefits of social work research and education, social work practice, and social welfare policies.