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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.
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The present doctoral thesis established advanced optical read-out and characterisation methods for the in-depth analysis of chemical reactions, such as the quantification of reaction events or kinetic analysis, via state-of-the-art chemiluminescence systems. Critically, an optical read-out for the quantification of para-fluoro – thiol reaction events was established employing the chemiluminescence of Schaap’s dioxetane on the one hand, and peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence was employed for the qualitative assessment of single-chain nanoparticle unfolding on the other hand. Both chemiluminescence systems present promising tools for the in-depth characterisation of macromolecular architectures and their transformations.
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Hwang, 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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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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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.
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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.
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Berryman, Mere. "Repositioning within indigenous discourses of transformation and self-determination." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2565.
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This thesis reflectively and critically examines a series of research case studies initiated by a research-whānau. It explores the thinking, experiences and reflections of this research-whānau, as they worked to enhance the educational achievement of Māori students. Authorship of the thesis was undertaken by me (Mere Berryman). However, the methodology involved a collaborative, retrospective and critical reflection of research-whānau experiences and thinking, in the light of the research findings and experiences since the inception of this research-whānau in 1991. In the course of this work, the research-whānau have been able to explore what it has meant to put the principles of kaupapa Māori research into practice while working within a mainstream organisation (Specialist Education Services then the Ministry of Education). Our research work has involved repositioning ourselves from dependence on Western research methodologies to a better understanding and application of kaupapa Māori conceptualisations of research. The thesis begins by identifying mainstream and kaupapa Māori events that have historically and still continue to impact upon Māori students' educational experiences. These events provide the wider context for the work of this research-whānau at the interface of Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā, and for the 11 case studies that exemplify changes in our thinking and research practice over a period of 15 years. The thesis employs an indigenous (and specifically Māori) worldview as the framework for description, critical reflection, and theorising around these case studies. Common themes are collaboratively co-constructed then each theme is explained in relation to relevant Māori theory. The thesis concludes with the shifts in theorising and practice made by the research-whānau during the course of our work as we sought to contribute in ways that were more transformative and self-determining. We argue that these shifts in theorising and practice are also required of others if we are to change the status quo and contribute constructively to improving Māori students' potential.
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Fusaro, Anaïs. "Mourning, writing, (self-)transformation : the autofiction of Serge Doubrovsky." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15583.
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This thesis investigates the capacity of mourning to transform one's life into writing. Since mourning impacts each individual in a very unique way, its effect in the field of life-writing is incommensurable. In this respect, the changes brought about in the 20th century by the works of Serge Doubrovsky are remarkable: through the exploration of his eight autofictions (word which he coined in 1977) in addition to his six essays on literature, this study demonstrates how his experience of mourning has challenged and redefined the borders of autobiography. This investigation starts with the observation of the writer-narrator's writing drive, which emerges from a threefold experience of death: the loss of his mother, the trauma of World War II, and the perspective of his own death. The first section argues that writing transforms the private experience of mourning into memory. Since forgetfulness threatens memory, memory must be saved and disseminated; this is why Serge Doubrovsky composes his autofiction as literature which is made of, and which belongs to, memories. The second section observes how mourning transforms the experience of writing and reading: a focus on ‘ressassement' shows the impact of mourning on writing and how the writer-narrator turns this uncontrollable sign of trauma into his own distinct writing style, called ‘écriture consonnantique'. These transformations participate in the mutation of the writer-reader, fiction-reality, and autobiography-autofiction relationships. The last section observes these abnormal alloys through the lens of the monster. Autofiction could be considered as a monstrous genre, insofar as it recognises the work of the writer to fashion a whole new story out of fragmented and repeated memories in a creative process. Overall, this study assesses Serge Doubrovsky's ability to challenge existing literary boundaries, and to create, beyond the breach of mourning and within the splits of language, an interdisciplinary work that deeps on renewing literature.
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Hanson, 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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The purpose of this self-study research was to create new knowledge about teacher transformation and social justice education. The research was guided by the overarching question: What is the relationship between self-knowledge and social justice education? Over the course of the two-year study, using teaching journals to develop a disciplined practice of self- reflection on social justice practices in teaching, the researcher found that the practice of teaching for social justice is enhanced through an awareness of self. The researcher described transformation with language from Theory U (Scharmer, 2009). Theory U is a learning organization model for transformational leadership. The study is framed within the research literature on critical pedagogy and transformative leadership. The primary data for this self-study research were journal entries, which were coded and analyzed using a grounded theory method
to allow for patterns and themes to emerge. This research establishes a new theoretical framework for social justice teaching that weaves self-study, critical pedagogy, transformative leadership theory (U for Social Justice). One of the significant findings of this research is that cultivating a sustained attention to self-awareness through intentional reflective and contemplative practices is a key aspect of developing authentic social justice pedagogy and publicly claiming a role as a transformative leader for social justice.Education, Faculty of (Okanagan)
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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/.
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This study explores how experiences of higher education among ex-prisoner’s impact upon their path to desistance. It examines their initial catalysts for change and how education enabled them to re-evaluate their sense of selves and provide them with new identities. Through the use of 24 face-to-face semi-structured interviews examining the experiences of ex-prisoners who are studying for degrees, have graduated and in some cases gained successful academic positions, the participants were asked to talk about their life experiences including their childhoods, offending, prison, desistance, employment and the reasons behind why they chose to enter higher education. Their catalysts for change ranged from their experiences of prison where they encountered existential crises created by the pains of imprisonment; how others viewed them; the strengthening of social bonds; to the belief and trust afforded by others being prepared to give them a second chance. Beyond prison, they experienced prolonged periods of liminality where they became trapped in limbo between two social worlds caused by stigma, labelling and rejection. But their unfaltering resilience, persistence and belief and hope for a better future eventually enabled them to develop new identities which were further transformed by external influences as they made their transitions into ‘conventional society’. Some preferred to reject their past identities, while others merged their past and new identities to become successful in their chosen career paths. Some have remained in academe where they continue to use their past experiences to inform their teaching and research while others have become counselling professionals viewing themselves as ‘wounded healers’ by helping others with substance and alcohol issues and homelessness. But all of them used higher education as their conduit to aspire towards self-betterment, a renewed self-belief and self-concept which enabled them to transform their lives.
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Sun, Ning. "The Transformation of Self: A Study of Classic American Pragmatism." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/703.
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This dissertation focuses on the understanding of self from the perspective of classic American pragmatism, of which I select James, Peirce, Mead, and Dewey as representative figures. The central concept of this study is the transformation of self. It is in this particular aspect, which I take also as a major theme of classic American pragmatism, that I find a possibility of fresh and revivifying approach to the old problem of self-knowledge and the ongoing debate of selfhood. I try to demonstrate that for pragmatists, the question What is a self? cannot be answered without placing it into the context of the process of self-transformation and reconstruction. To achieve this, I examine the notions of self and self-transformation in each thinker, while at the same time trying to weave them into a larger picture. Classic American pragmatists, as I try to illuminate, by their unique takes on experience, others, and community, provide us not only a theoretical approach to keep the old project of self-inquiry vibrating, but also a practical possibility to reconstruct an enterprise of humanity.
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Waterbright, Siall Hope. "The coming." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/34446/1/Siall_Waterbright_Exegesis.pdf.
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Through an exploration of representations of metamorphosis and the creation of a body of written work, this thesis uses a critical examination of theoretical approaches to metamorphosis in combination with textual analysis of representations of metamorphosis and creative practice as research to arrive at the beginnings of an ethic of writing. The creative work, The Coming, consists of a collection of short fiction, The Coming, and two collections of poetry, Orison and Milagros. The exegesis, Transhuman Change: towards an ethic of writing, explores theories about metamorphosis as a figure for writing, as a trope, and as a motif for exploring identity to contextualise the analysis of representations of metamorphosis from which the ethic is developed. With reference to the psychosexual development theory of Jacques Lacan and Elaine Scarry’s philosophy of the body, pain, language and creativity, the exegesis examines existing approaches to metamorphosis and uses supplementary textual analysis of influential representations of metamorphosis from Ovid to Pygmalion, X-Men and Extreme Makeover to explore assumptions about the body, language, the self, gender in western culture. The limitations of the performance of representations of metamorphosis as a figure for the self’s survival of death are considered in the light of voice as metonym for self to propose an ethic which valorises life. The experience of sex and the construction of gender in representations of metamorphosis are considered in the light of Lacan’s theory of desire and Scarry’s theory of the body and language to propose an ethic of representing gender ironically. The motif of the faithless lover and the Pygmalion myth are considered in the light of the (m)other’s role in language to propose an ethic in which indeterminacy constitutes the condition for being aware of oneself among selves. Each of the three proposals is discussed in relation to the short fiction, memoir and poems produced in the course of this research to test their limits and possibilities as the foundation of an emerging ethic of writing.
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Erichsen, 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.
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TSuwan, 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.
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This thesis concerns the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability. It explores the impacts of Buddhism on the lives of nine individuals and the implications of these impacts for a sustainable world. This thesis regards sustainability as the most pressing issue at this junction in human history. It believes that the shift to sustainability requires profound individual and social transformations throughout the world and that such transformations necessitate the involvement of the spiritual traditions of the world. As one such tradition, Buddhism has the ability to impart principles and practices that have been applied in daily living for over 2,500 years to contemporary sustainability discourse. The modern idea of sustainability first became prominent in the international arena in 1980s when the Brundtland Commission enunciated its vision of the path to sustainability and referred to it as 'sustainable development'. However, this thesis contends that the concept of sustainable development was flawed from the beginning because it was founded on the idea of perpetual economic growth as the solution to environmental and social problems. Instead, the thesis forwards a holistic, systems approach to sustainability that regards human well-being as the ultimate goal. It adopts two theoretical conceptions of sustainability developed by Donella Meadows - the pyramidal framework for sustainability and the scheme of leverage points - as tools to analyse the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability. This thesis examines the literature on Buddhism and sustainability. It finds that Buddhism espouses many ecological and social values conducive to a sustainable philosophy of life. In addition, Buddhist economics has experienced rich theoretical developments in recent years and provides an alternative to mainstream economics based on growth. Buddhist economics has helped propel two Buddhist developmental paradigms - Bhutan's Gross National Happiness and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy - to the forefront of national agendas in their respective countries, thus demonstrating the renaissance of the application of Buddhist thinking in society. At the micro level, many communities around the world are attempting to translate the most fundamental principles of Buddhism into ways for harmonious living and in an attempt to combat the tide of environmental and social degradation. Thus, Buddhism is making an impact on sustainability at many levels around the world. However, this thesis finds little empirical evidence to demonstrate the effect of Buddhism on forms of personal transformation that leads to sustainable behaviour. This is despite the importance of the idea of transformation and personal growth in Buddhism. This empirical void leads to the aim of the thesis, which is to explore the ways in which the beliefs, practices and transformational tools within Buddhism can contribute to living sustainably. To achieve this aim, the methodology of mindful inquiry was employed. Mindful inquiry is a methodological union of East and West and integrates four perspectives: critical theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology and Buddhism. It is appropriate for a values-based research such as this one where the orientation of the researcher is critical to the outcome of the research. A method consistent with mindful inquiry is the basic interpretive qualitative study. The basic interpretive qualitative study used in this study combines elements from ethnography, case study, phenomenology and critical research. It was used to explore the lifeworlds of nine Buddhist participants in order to understand the impact of Buddhism on their lives. The major data gathering technique was in-depth interviews although participant observation and document collection were also used. Analysis of data proceeded through the constant comparative method. The findings from this thesis are divided into three themes. Firstly, the idea of personal sustainability is forwarded as a concept to help understand the impact of Buddhism. Personal sustainability concerns the psychological 'integratedness' of individuals to enable the achievement of higher levels of well-being. The findings suggest that Buddhism has significantly enhanced the personal sustainability level of all nine participants. Secondly, Meadows' ideas of paradigm shift and paradigm transcendence are explored. The findings suggest that paradigm shifts or paradigm transcendence have occurred among the participants through the adoption of Buddhist principles and meditative practices. Thirdly, the notions of happiness and purpose in life are investigated. The findings highlight radical changes in the participants' understandings of these notions and the nature of these understandings that are significantly different from conventional views. As a result of these findings, the thesis argues that the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability can be considerable because Buddhism contributes to the protection of natural capital, the enrichment of social and human capitals, and a deepened understanding of well-being, which is divorced from simplistic ideas such as material accumulation and sensual gratification. The thesis concludes by highlighting the potentials of Buddhism to instigate profound personal and social transformations that could lead to a sustainable world.
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Foster, Lei. "Narrative self-inquiry to capture transformation in mental health nursing practice." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/322297.
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The aim of the study is to identify and map the process of transformation of the practice of a mental health nurse from everyday practice to desirable practice (that is, the realisation of mental health Recovery) through self-inquiry into a series of narratives derived from that practice. Recovery is desirable in terms of clinical governance and is also desirable practice for mental health nurses as a standard to which they should practice. A series of reflexive narratives signposted the transformative journey and also captured the lived experience of transformation. Experiences from practice were captured as spontaneous stories. Guided reflection obtained insights from these stories, and the insights derived from the stories were subsequently reflexively deepened by inquiring into them. In time the cues in the model of guided reflection became internalized to the extent that practitioner narratives arose that already embedded insights. Self-inquiry into these practitioner narratives indicated the nature and the felt affect of constraints met within practice. The affect of these constraints upon the individual practitioner and upon the ability of the individual practitioner to achieve desirable practice is indicated by self-inquiry into them. The result of the study was the realisation that transformation is unable to take place without the individual practitioner being fully aware of who one is, in order that s/he may effect transformation and change. Whilst self-inquiry into the narratives indicated the constraints upon the individual practitioner, the psychological unpreparedness also indicated by that self-inquiry indicated why that the tension between the reality of practice and desirable practice could not be adequately explored. The thesis takes the form of a narrative about writing narratives. The narratives illustrate the norms and values that affect individual practice both vertically (that is, from the organisation and the government), and horizontally (that is, from colleagues and managers), and how an individual practitioner experiences these as obstructive to delivering the service they desire. There have been no narratives written by practitioners about the journey to realise Recovery in their practice; and the structure of the narratives as performances is unique to this subject of thesis by a mental health nurse.
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Khan, 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.
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Maximick, 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.
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Nowacka, 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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In contemporary transpersonal theory, women‟s experiences of transformation have largely been overlooked. This study seeks to answer the question, what are women‟s lived experiences of the path of transformation through self-other relationships? In setting the stage for the study, the researcher identifies two transpersonal theorists, Wilber and Almaas, and describes their models of consciousness development. She then outlines the feminist critique of existing psychological literature and the need for exclusively female research. Following is an inclusion of themes that have been extracted from the existing literature, themes which represent the biases of the researcher in what she expected to encounter in the current research. Further is a description of existentialism and the role it plays in inviting women to embark on a journey of transformation. The methods employed by the researcher were qualitative phenomenological-hermeneutics. Seven females participated in a three-stage interview process, whereby information was gathered via interviews, then further transcribed and interpreted. This information was then synthesized and presented in a thematic analysis where women‟s experiences were categorized into four separate stages. Finally, the sub-themes of each stage were compared to the stages of development as illustrated by Wilber and Almaas. Ultimately it is concluded that women‟s experiences are highlighted by the relational nature of self-development, and the cyclical process of the journey itself.ix, 218 leaves ; 29 cm
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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.
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Hanaki, 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.
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Swan, 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.
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Zhu, 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.
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This thesis draws on Michel Foucault's late work on the practices of the self to ask whether the ascetic practices and patterns of action suggested by contemporary computer games, which afford players the opportunities to pursue their own self-set goals, further what might be called a 'wandering' away from ourselves, a 'transformation' or 'transfiguration' of what we are. If self-formation is now a terrain on which power and resistance plays out, it is critical to be able to identify pernicious practices that may bind us to the individualising techniques of power, as opposed to transformative ones that enable us to refuse who we are in the move towards freedom. Broaching this question leads to considerations of the implicit ethical foundations presupposed by Foucault's anti-normative ethico-aesthetics, and the limitations of its appeal to a coherence or style seemingly without rules. These considerations have implications for the way in which we understand the practices of self-constitution in computer games. I question whether there is an isomorphism between the way in which power - understood through Foucault's concept of 'governmentality' - works in the present, and the way in which computer games set the conditions under which player practices take place. We are prompted by both to develop a non-coercive relation to a 'truth' through an impetus that originates from us. Computer games are about our identification with processes, which are strengthened by the feedback loops in the game and by the mode of being we elect to adopt as a hexis. Such a structure, however, is insufficiently rigid for computer games to produce discrete subjectivities, and analyses of them must be sensitive as to whether there are any systematic concatenation of player responses. To this end, I suggest a framework, based on Foucault's orthogonal understanding of power-subject, for uncovering the 'rationalities' within games, which are the conditions under which players' practices of the self take place, and which give rise to certain practices of self-constitution over others. It depends on our being able to find or infer player typologies, which are then analysed for their similar patterns of action. This framework is applied to a case study: levelling-up in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. On the basis of six typologies, a prominent structure of calculative anticipation and deferral emerges, as well as the existence of what is called a super-instrumental approach. In order to disambiguate these findings with respect to their transformative potential, I turn to the transcendental signifiers in Foucault's work and consider the practices of the self as seeking a balance between reason and sense - they are revisited through the lens of Schiller's play drive. This concretises the argument that if the practices of the self are thought capable of moving us towards freedom, we must assume the existence of non-cognitive faculties within us that, when engaged, enable us to be able to distinguish between positive and pernicious self-formation. Given that these judgments cannot be cognitively communicated, we ought to refrain from prescriptivism, yet do have recourse to standards. However, our efforts to cognitively understand this aesthetic interplay between reason and sense are certainly not without importance.
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Szalas, Beatrice Carleton University Dissertation Law. "Battered women who kill; storytelling, social transformation and the law of self-defence." Ottawa, 1996.
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Symmes, 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.
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Yildirim, 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.
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Heiden, Kathleen Ann. "Exploration of the influence of a diverse appearance course on students' transformation of self." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Kardash, 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.
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Egypt faces a great challenge in relation to the provision of housing for its urban poor. Not only has the right formula to be found of how to satisy the escalating demand, both in terms of quantity and quality, but also of where to locate such housing. The New Cities and Settlements in the desert seem to be the only option left in order to combat the continuous loss of the agricultural land to the expanding existing urban centres. The New Cities however, initiated in the late 70's, failed to attract the low income groups of settlers. This was mainly due to the lack of affordable housing for such groups. Whilst thousands of finished residential units remain unoccupied, the workers employed in some of the New Cities' factories are commuting on a daily basis to and from the closest urban or agricultural centres near Cairo. This research argues that aided self-help and user interventions in general could offer an appropriate answer. When most of the New Cities and Settlements were planned many self-help schemes were proposed but were frequently abandoned in favour of the conventional medium rise mass housing approach. Little or no research has been carried out to evaluate the very few schemes which were implemented. The decision to cancel self-help schemes was entirely political and seemed to stem from the governments fear of the creation of sub-standard and poor image built environments within the New Cities. The research based its defence on projects which allow user interventions and participation in two Case Studies. The first concerns multi-storey extensions informally built by the residents in 5 storey walk-up public housing flats located in Heiwan and El Tebeen. The second deals with a core housing project located in The Tenth of Ramadan, one of the New Cities. The multi-storey extensions of Helwan and El Tebeen provided clear . evidence on the potentialities and capabilities of low income users working and living in positive and supportive circumstances. The Tenth of Ramadan Core Housing Scheme provides explicit and substantiated proof of the benefits of self-help and user intervention approaches, in contrast to the views of the Government and Local Authority who condemn the process as negative development leading to a lowering of standards and poor quality envi ronments. The research argues that self-help has succeeded where the mass housing approach has failed.The involvement of the household and community group are seen as integral decison makers in the planning and design process. The user's efforts to transform and consolidate their housing requirements should be appreciated and encouraged and to achieve this the research concludes that a review of management and design procedures would be the first step towards achieving this aim.
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Rinkenberger, 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.
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Fast evolving digital technologies lead to a rapidly changing environment where decisions have to be made in a short time. The promised solution is data-driven decision making and business intelligence. However, business intelligence has until now only been available to executives and managers whereas many of the workers' wishes for their own business analytics could not be fulfilled. The concept of self-service business intelligence (SSBI) opens the gates to democratized business intelligence for everybody. Yet the implementation of SSBI tools is proving to be extremely difficult and has led to the consequence that many SSBI projects remain unsuccessful. This thesis therefore examines the influence of self-service business intelligence on organizational structures and business processes. Furthermore, assumptions made by contemporary industry studies and best practice reports are evaluated. The case study of the Power BI implementation project at a German medical and safety technology manufacturer successfully identifies real-life challenges. Moreover, the thesis stresses the importance of data governance and data infrastructures in the context of SSBI.
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Brierley, Donald. "Reflexivity imagined as art practice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15006.
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A consideration of the relationship between conscious self-aware systems and art. I introduce my art practice and demonstrate the connections language has to self-conscious reflexivity. The document of research can be considered part of a creative practice that also uses language as a material. Being able to imagine re-duplications and proceed with reiterations using available materials including existing ideas is correlated with my art practice. This adaptive and emergent methodology uses a group of simple components and a flexible recursive process that can be modified to suit changing contexts. The research describes a circular two-way methodological framework that informs my art practice, where perceptions of the environment that surround me are repeatedly folded back into the process. Ideas about the origins of conscious self-awareness from Julian Jaynes and Humberto Maturana Romesín are introduced. The use of available materials, that includes working with pre-existing ideas, considerations of process and outcome based methodologies citing the artist Kim Jones and the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. The term ‘spiritual masochism’ used by the philosopher/anthropologist, Bruno Latour is compared and contrasted with the ‘Holy Fool’ from philosopher, artist, Michael Leunig in a discussion about the indirect search for antidotes and the subversion of human endeavor. Selected viewpoints from the cybernetician Norbert Wiener and artist Santiago Sierra elaborate the influences that have contributed to the strategic use of restriction and access as part of my art practice. The specialist use and subversive manipulation of information in science and art as practiced in the service of culture are discussed to show how this informed the creation of Access Restricted-Operational Reasons as a response to my environment.
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Mpendukana, 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.
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Much 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.
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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.
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Hallam, 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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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology, Management, and Policy Program, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-322).
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.
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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.
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This thesis focuses on explaining why group encounters with rural landscapes in Scotland are deemed to be positive for mental wellbeing. The relationship between greenspace and human wellbeing is a phenomenon that researchers across multiple disciplines are grappling with, though little research engages qualitatively. This thesis clarifies, ethnographically, why some people make excursions into rural spaces and why these excursions are believed to be positively transformational and associated with mental wellbeing. It outlines motivations for engaging in excursions from urban central Scotland to areas in rural Scotland. My research explores the intangible, ineffable and ephemeral experience of case study groups in ‘natural’ rural landscapes and what is relevant in the relations between the self and non-human in these circumstances. This thesis describes how and why group interactions within ‘natural’ space is adopted as a positive self-transformation strategy. It considers the ‘nature experience’ as relational between the self, the social and place - with what constitutes the social as ambiguous within case study interaction. This project was multi-sited: I travelled with my case study groups to rural spaces around the lowlands, highlands, and islands of Scotland. Case studies were multiple and diverse: A community living initiative, a youth development project, a mental health initiative, a forestry management project, and a loose community of artistic, neo-shamanic and psychotherapeutic practitioners. To remain responsive to my research communities and their activities I have developed a framework for a serendipitous ethnography which is outlined within the thesis. This project adopted a transdisciplinary research strategy, engaging with a theoretical framework spanning psychotherapy, psychology and eco-psychology, sociology, philosophy, human geography, anthropology and outdoor education as well as landscape and performance studies. This transdisciplinary thesis contributes to understandings of human and nature connectedness providing an account of cognitive, social and cultural experience. Primarily, this research was concerned with the self, the perception of the ideal and ought self in relation to motivations to journey in this manner and the self as part of a group and within the landscape as a dynamic and relational subject. I have considered the sense of self within these experiences as a metaphorical liminal site. I have discussed the group collectively as a site of dynamism and thus liminality. I then argue that this allows for the way that the landscape is perceived to be a site of liminality. With this we see the importance of temporality and structure, or indeed anti-structure, within these excursions as something which aids in the perspective that they are transformative. I have considered notions of perceived affordance and how this changes throughout experience with the increasing ability to associate ideas and abstract experience within one’s personal narrative. I explain how each group differs in how they perceive the rural landscape as something to instrumentalise, personify or anthropomorphise. With this comes an exploration of complex anthropocentric mindsets and the influence of these ways of thinking on experience. I suggest that individuals choose to journey to ‘natural’ rural environments to self-verify an aspect of their ought or ideal self with a desire to re-imagine the self through engagement with others. In self-verifying one’s ideal or ought sense of self, finding a sense of belonging within a group and believing oneself to be doing something good in relation to the ‘natural’ rural space, individuals and groups experience a sense of personal and social transformation.
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Roderick, 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.
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The traditional focus for sociologists studying occupations has been on manual workers in the main as their work is assumed to be laborious and unimaginative, yet footballers are almost never considered in this way despite the immensely physical nature of their work. Far from tedious, their job, by contrast, is thought of as a labour of love. This study is an interactionist analysis of the careers of male professional footballers in England, which provides sociological insights into the realities of their working lives. Professional football is a contingent and highly physical form of employment. Players' careers may be terminated involuntarily as a result of a severe injury. It is a short-term vocation in which ageing inevitably reduces physical capital. Professional football is characterised by an extremely competitive labour market, for there is an oversupply of aspirants 'chasing the big-time'. This qualitative study is based on data obtained via semi-structured interviews with forty-seven present and former professional footballers. The central theme of this thesis concerns an understanding of the ways in which the orientations of players to their work change over the course of their careers. The players were asked about turning points in their work histories, such as long-term injuries, transfers from one club to another, and other key moments in which they felt uncertain about what their futures may hold. In part, the focus of the interviews concerned the subjective meanings the players impute to their experiences. An examination of the drama of work is undertaken. The ways in which players deal with the workplace insecurities that are an inbuilt characteristic of their occupation are examined and an explanation of why they continue to pursue a career in the professional game, despite developing cynical attitudes towards their work and their employers, is attempted.
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Grace, 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.
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In 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.
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Reissig, SJ. "Developing empathic leadership through self-transformation." Thesis, 2007. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/21368/7/whole_ReissigStevenJoseph2007_thesis.pdf.
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This thesis works to deepen my understandings of empathic intelligence in relation to leadership. It builds upon experiences I have had as an education leader and as a fellowship holder in the United States where I discussed strategy and practice with key theorists, visited and observed at selected schools, and interviewed students and teachers, as well as principals who uniquely led their educational communities. The professional relationships formed during this experience provoked questions about my own leadership style and practice as principal of a rural Tasmanian High School. From these experiences I have developed a thesis that excellent school leaders demonstrate high degrees of empathic intelligence. This work explores the theory of empathic intelligence and how it can elucidate understanding of teaching and leadership. This thesis is structured by five key intentions, which are to:
• unfold an understanding of empathic intelligence informed by Arnold (2005);
• explore how empathic intelligence might be understood and enacted in a Tasmanian high school;
• use these understandings to unfold a concept of effective leadership at a range of levels in the Tasmanian system;
• reflect upon how I might extend my ability as an empathic leader; and
• critique and deepen the theory of empathic intelligence (Arnold 2005).
To inform this study and support my personal theorising of highly effective empathic leadership, I critique theories of intelligence and leadership developed by Duignan (2004, 2003, 2002), Arnold (2005), Gardner (2000, 1993, 1991), Blythe et al. (1998) and Perkins (1992).
I respond to my thesis intentions through processes of interpreting conversations (Davis et al. 2000; Van Manen 1990), narratives (Eakin 1999; Richardson 2000) and fictionalised letters (Ospina & Dodge 2005; Ellis & Bochner 2000). The processes of inquiry support me to: uncover four key elements of powerful empathic leadership (enthusiasm, engagement, expertise and, of course, empathy); deepen this theory by including the additional elements of trust and honesty; and suggest that links need to be developed through professional relationships.
The inquiry then uncovers new questions about how empathic leadership is enacted in a Tasmanian High School. This inquiry suggests how powerful empathic leadership might work at personal, school and systemic levels. The inquiry is drawn to a close as I unfold a set of new questions that reflect my deepened understanding of empathic leadership.
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Liu, Lih-Jiuan, and 劉麗娟. "Self-transformation of unmarried women in relationships." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53429472912583183137.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
輔導研究所
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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.
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Chen, Mei-Li, and 陳美莉. "Extraordinarily Thirty--A Woman’s Self- Transformation Process." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45384886603861032772.
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碩士東吳大學
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.
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Chen, Ding-Yuan, and 陳鼎元. "Transformation and self-creation of Christian art." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46536969988811102163.
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碩士中國文化大學
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.
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Yu, Chiu Kai, and 裘凱宇. "Awareness:the process and praxis of self-transformation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29723631919211703925.
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Liu, Jen-Lan, and 劉貞蘭. "Cocoon-A Life Story of Self-transformation." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47876272126164665321.
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碩士國立交通大學
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.
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Chang, Hsiao-Ni, and 張筱妮. "Process of Self-Transformation in Superficial Harmony." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/454tgh.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
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.
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You, Wensi. "Disruption and reintegration — self-transformation in shamanistic healing." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34784.
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This dissertation investigates the efficacy of shamanistic healing by exploring the self-transformation process as mediated through ritual practices and symbolic narratives. It has long been observed that self-transformation is a common occurrence in shamanistic healing, but the mechanisms contributing to this transformation are not well understood. By integrating findings from contemporary scientific research on self and adapting earlier frameworks to reconsider both theoretical formulations of and empirical data on self-transformation, this dissertation constructs a computational model capable of identifying these mechanisms, which are articulated and tested using simulation.
Studying shamanistic healing within a broader evolutionary, informational, and physical context and by means of computer modeling, the gap between the contemporary science of self and the understanding of self in religious studies has been partially bridged. As simulation results show, self-transformation consists of two stages, disruption and reintegration. High-arousal shamanistic healing rituals exhaust cognitive resources and weaken the self-organizing integration tendency of the self-system, leaving self vulnerable to external influence and therefore providing a window of opportunity for symbolic narratives to exert their guiding influence on the reintegration process. As such, the self-transformation achieves optimal results when ritual practices and symbolic narratives are both involved in the healing process. By employing computational modeling, this dissertation demonstrates the potential and relevance of simulation for exploring the mechanisms that underlie shamanistic healing and constitutes a case study for how computational approaches may apply to topics in religious studies.2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
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T’Kenye, Caddie Bellis. "Learning a new self : ileogastrostomy and perspective transformation." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4442.
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Women who are morbidly obese have a well developed set of beliefs about
themselves and their place in the world. Their beliefs grow out of and are shared by the
society in which they live. Because obesity is viewed negatively, much of such women's
interaction with the world is associated with being the victim of stigmatization. Because
of this and the well documented medical complications of such a condition, some women
will accept surgical assistance, in the form of ileogastrostomy, to correct it.
After ileogastrostomy, women must adjust to a radically altered pattern of
physical functioning, in the context of social upheaval related to and caused by their loss
of weight. Such change is disturbing to the underlying beliefs they hold about
themselves and the 'givens' of life. In education, profound and wide-ranging change in
the fundamental structures of one's belief systems, that is, in the way that one views the
world, is perspective transformation. Perspective transformation is often associated with
trauma or 'massive change' situations.
This study was undertaken with the assistance of eight women who had
undergone ileogastrostomy procedures at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, in conjunction with a participant researcher. Following her own
ileogastrostomy surgery, the researcher questioned whether her own experience was that
of perspective transformation. Co-researchers were interviewed and the resultant
narratives analysed across cases to investigate both the women's experience and the
learning moments and needs they identified. Holistic perspective transformation was found to be associated with
ileogastrostomy in three cases. Partial transformation, or perspective shifting, was found
in all cases. Perspective transformation was strongly associated with a proactive stance
closely following surgery, as well as a preoperative self-description of similar behavior.
All women identified learning strategies and learning moments crucial to
effective progress through post-ileogastrostomy adjustment, particularly the need to be
networked with others like themselves, the need to be kept informed of developments
related to their procedure, and the need to feel supported, over the long term, by health
care professionals.
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hui, Chen Chia, and 陳佳輝. "The aim to discuss filiations and self-transformation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69859006696228348669.
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碩士國防大學政治作戰學院
心理碩士班
97
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.
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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.
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Yu-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.
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碩士輔仁大學
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.
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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.
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博士國立高雄師範大學
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
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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.
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碩士國立中正大學
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
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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.
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碩士實踐大學
時尚與媒體設計研究所
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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.
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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.
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碩士實踐大學
時尚與媒體設計研究所碩士在職專班
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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.
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Warren, Zhane. "From paper to performance: embodied ritualised actions towards self-transformation." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/994.
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Chang, 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.
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博士東海大學
社會工作學系
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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.