Rozprawy doktorskie: „Reflection-in-action”

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Posthuma, Anna Barbara. "The nature of mathematics teachers’ reflective practice". Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24143.

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Thoughts about reflection and reflective practice have evolved over many decades, through carefully constructed theory and research applications, mainly based on the work of Dewey (1933) and Schön (1983). Evidence also exists in the literature that the ability to reflect on practice is considered a necessity for effective instruction (Sowder, 2007). By reflecting critically teachers become more positive in the search for a new understanding of their teaching practice and design more ways to deal with the challenges that confront them daily. When teachers act reflectively, they consider carefully the problems in their own teaching and think about how those problems are related to their educational or social context. They are aware of the consequences of their teaching and how their own assumptions or beliefs can influence their teaching. This main purpose of my research study was to explore the nature of mathematics teachers’ reflective practice in the context of lesson study. To achieve this aim, an in-depth exploration of five mathematics teachers’ reflection before, during and after teaching a lesson was conducted. The possible relationship between these teachers’ reflection and their classroom practice was also examined. The research also aimed to explore whether and how mathematics teachers’ reflections differ from the conceptualisations of reflection in classroom practice as found in the literature. Contextual factors that might influence the nature of mathematics teachers’ reflective practice were also investigated. My findings indicate that the mathematics teachers in my sample have a limited understanding of the concept of reflection. Furthermore, based on lesson plan analysis, there was no evidence that these teachers reflect-for-action. However, they all reflected on-action verbally and in writing, and three of the five teachers reflected-in-action while teaching. They all reflected on Level R1 (recall level of reflection) and Level R2 (rationalisation level of reflection) and three teachers reflected critically on their learners’ understanding of mathematics and their own teaching of concepts towards the end of the research project (Lee, 2005). Language and the lesson study group experience emerged as contextual factors that seemed to influence the teachers’ reflection. Although the research study’s results cannot be generalised due to the small sample, I believe that through engaging in the lesson study experience the five teachers of this study improved their reflective practice, reporting an increase in self-knowledge and finding new ways of teaching mathematics to learners.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
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Scott, Fiona Marie. "Action-reflection-learning in a lean production environment /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17167.pdf.

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Broadbent, Fiona. "Action-reflection-learning in a lean production environment /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19334.pdf.

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Knecht, Anke. "Action research adn reflection in preservice teacher education". The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250705468.

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Knecht, Anke. "Action research and reflection in preservice teacher education /". Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1250705468.

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Stoner, Alexis Marino. "A Conceptual Model Incorporating Mindfulness to Enhance Reflection in a Situated Learning Environment". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70885.

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Key to designing instruction for situated learning is ensuring the ability of learners to transfer acquired knowledge to a variety of situations. Common to models of instruction and frameworks for situated learning is the importance of including activities for promoting reflection within the design of the learning environment. However, these models currently do not include detailed support for reflective practice that will help instructional designers prepare learners to meet the demands of situated learning. One method to meet the demand of the ill-structured nature of situated learning and provide adaptability for instructional design is through reflection-in-action and mindfulness. The purpose of this study was to apply design and development research methodologies to develop a conceptual model of reflection that incorporates mindfulness to enhance reflection-in-action within a situated learning environment. This model illustrates the relationship of incorporating mindfulness to help learners increase and direct attention to the present moment in order to improve performance through reflection-in-action. Based on the results of the study, mindfulness and reflection strategies are incorporated before, during, and after the learning experience to enhance reflection-in-action.
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SILVA, BRUNO SANTANA DA. "USING CASES IN REFLECTION IN ACTION IN HCI DESIGN ACTIVITIES". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16990@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
O processo de design envolve investigar a situação atual para definir um problema de design, elaborar uma proposta de intervenção na forma de uma solução e avaliar se ela é satisfatória (Lawson, 2006). Schön (1983) investiga a epistemologia da prática de design como um processo de reflexão em ação. Nesse contexto, exploramos conceitos de raciocínio baseado em casos (Kolodner e Leake, 1996) para indexar e recuperar casos de design de IHC. Um caso de design de IHC pode ser compreendido como uma definição do problema e da solução de IHC registrada em representações e modelos durante a atividade design. Schön argumenta que um designer pode enriquecer seu processo de reflexão em ação quando identifica similaridades e diferenças do caso de design atual em relação a outros casos que já conhece. Esta tese apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa qualitativa sobre os efeitos da consulta a casos de design no processo de reflexão em ação de alunos de graduação e pós-graduação em Informática durante atividades de design de IHC. Em particular, consideramos uma base de casos com contribuições de terceiros, ou seja, aqueles que consultaram os casos não participaram da definição do problema, nem da solução. Nas sessões de design observadas, a consulta a casos de design existentes enriqueceu o processo de reflexão dos participantes através de uma conversa com artefatos de design. Esse resultado estende os resultados de Schön porque trata da consulta a vários casos de design vivenciados por terceiros. Além disso, percebemos que as diferenças e semelhanças entre as soluções de IHC propostas e as consultadas dependem do julgamento dos participantes sobre os casos de design consultados, podendo variar em diferentes momentos do mesmo processo de design realizado pela mesma pessoa.
The design process involves investigating the current situation to define a design problem, to propose an intervention in form of a solution and to evaluate whether it is satisfactory (Lawson, 2006). Schön (1983) investigates the design practice epistemology as a process of reflection in action. In this context, we explore case-based reasoning concepts (Kolodner e Leake, 1996) to index and recover HCI design cases. An HCI design case can be understood as an HCI problem and solution definition recorded in representations and models during the design activity. Schön (1983) argues that a designer can enrich his reflection in action process when he/she identifies similarities and differences between the current case and other cases he/she already knows. This thesis presents the results of a qualitative research study about the effects of consulting design cases in the reflection in action process of undergraduate and graduate Computer Science students during HCI design activities. In particular, we consider a base of cases with contributions of third parties, that is, those who consulted the cases did not participate in the definition of the problem nor of the solution. In the observed sessions, consulting existing design cases enriches the participants’ reflection in action process through conversation with design artifacts. This result extends Schön’s result considering the consultation of several design cases experienced by third parties. Furthermore, we realized that differences and similarities between the proposed HCI solutions and those consulted depend on the participants’ judgment on the consulted design cases. This judgment may vary at different moments of a design process conducted by the same person.

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Gray, Andrew Lee. "Embodied reflective practice : the embodied nature of reflection-in-action". Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2014. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/946/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the applicability of aspects of Schön’s (1983) theories of reflection-in-action in relation to visual art practice. Schön’s (1983) theories demonstrate that whilst they are written with design disciplines in mind, they do not extend to consider the appropriateness of its use in visual art practice. Scrivener (2000: 10) draws the distinction that whilst Schön’s (1983) use of scientific language in reflection-in-action is considered applicable for problem-solving projects in design, aspects of it are problematic for creative production research projects and recommends focusing reflection on the underlying experience of creative production. This thesis proposes that this and other issues, such as the emphasis on problem solving, and particularly, a reliance on a conversational metaphor, is likewise problematic for visual art practice. This thesis therefore moves to examine what is distinct about the application of reflective methods in visual art practice, in relation to design and research in the arts, through a series of text-based and documentary case studies. Analysis of the case studies suggest that there is an emphasis on embodiment essential to visual art processes, which is experiential in nature rather than problem-solving. A thorough examination of recent theories of embodied mind, which provide empirical evidence from a broad range of knowledge fields for the pervasive role of embodiment in shaping human experience, is presented. The primary research method is a review of two existing sets of theories and a synthesis of aspects of them in an original context, a process offered as an original contribution to knowledge. The context in question is the assessment of the applicability of the resulting synthesis to visual art practice, a domain for which neither theory was written. Knowing-in-action (Schön, 1983) describes the tacit knowing implicit in skillful performance when practice is going well, reflection-inaction (Schön, 1983) takes over, and describes the processes cycled through, only when problems are encountered in practice. Through an analysis of theories of embodied mind, and the documentary cases studies, the conclusion is drawn that in addition to these descriptions there is a rich layer of non-verbal embodied experience shaping action, conceptual meaning and verbal articulations of practice. This thesis therefore suggests modifications to theories of reflective practice in the visual arts, by incorporating theories of embodied mind in the development of additional reflective methods to supplement Schön’s theories (1983). Two methods are proposed as worthy of further study. The first researches Mark Johnson’s (1987) theory of metaphorical projection, which is presented as a means of mapping aspects of visual arts practitioners' verbal articulations of practice, back onto source domains in their embodied experiences of practice. The second explores a recommendation from within theories of embodied mind (Varela, Thompson and Rosch, 1993: 27) that mindfulness training could help develop a mindful, open-ended reflection. Taken together, this thesis proposes that an Embodied Reflective Practice could be developed to the benefit of visual art practitioners.

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Leeson, Bernard Alan. "Managing to learn - learning to change : reflection and refraction in action". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10243/.

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This qualitative practitioner research is set in a mixed, rural 11-16 Church of England Comprehensive School. It embraces reflective action enquiry into leadership and management of innovation in a turbulent period of national educational change. It is founded on the belief that if change processes are to be understood widely, practitioners must share experience emanating from reflective and analytical practice. This study is about "managing to learn" It embraces concepts of managing personal learning; managing colleagues' and students' learning; and managing processes leading to the emergence of the school as a "learning organisation" It is also about "learning to change" and espouses learning to promote personal change; learning to facilitate change in others; and learning to establish institutional change as a natural on-going characteristic of organisational life. This study is founded on a process of "reflection", as characterised by Schön (1983). Consequently, it employs a process of personal reflection on leadership roles in managing change and learning processes. It employs processes of reflection on cultural and political aspects of organisational life and resultant manifestations and implications of introducing, implementing, and institutionalising organisational and cultural change. This research utilises "refraction"- that is, convergence and divergence. Firstly, it promotes divergent and creative ways of organising which encourage and facilitate innovative processes. Secondly, it employs processes of converging, focusing, and concentrating on taken-for-granted "critical incidents" in the life of a developing school, to elicit meanings of events as understood by participants. Thirdly, it applies cultural and political prisms to school organisation, together with autocratic, bureaucratic, adhocratic, and reticular-democratic lenses in order to elucidate important cultural, political and organisational data. Finally this research is about "action" It is about doing, intervening, intending, committing, motivating, accomplishing, fulfilling and achieving. The essential concept and understanding of "action" is that it should be informed action.

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Evans, Moyra. "Action research enquiry into reflection in action as part of my role as a deputy headteacher". Thesis, Kingston University, 1995. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20584/.

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This thesis is based on a four year research study, in which I have looked at my own practice as a deputy head in a large comprehensive school, using action research methodology. I was concerned about the quality of support the school offered its teachers in the form of staff development for which I was responsible. Once I started the study, I was able to put into operation technical solutions to the problems identified in my everyday working practices but realised that the way in which I worked with the teachers was a much more fundamental issue. The study shows how I addressed, within the action research methodology itself, the ethical dilemmas that arose when I worked with departments, middle managers and individuals; in particular how I resolved the difficult issues of confidentiality and informed consent from not only an insider researcher perspective, but also that of the deputy head. Within a hierarchically organised institution, I learned to work with teachers collaboratively, enabling us all to participate in a dialogical learning community, in which we took control of our learning so that we owned our development, establishing value positions and supporting and nurturing each other through empathising with each other's experiences. We learnt to recognise, value and express our feelings about our action and our learning, using 'story' to transform our understanding of a situation and to engage others in exploring new perspectives of it. In this thesis l show how teachers can effect changes which lead to improved professional practices, greater understanding of each other and increased motivation and how their school-based work was legitimated by the Academy in the form of Post Graduate Diplomas. This thesis describes and explains how I established learning communities of teachers in order to improve the educational experiences of our students. I have used Schon's (1983) work on reflecting-in -action to theorise about the nature of the reframing teachers need to undertake in order to understand and put into effect practical interventions which result in them living their educational values more consistently in their practice. The enquiry is contextualised as a study of my leadership role as a woman deputy head action researcher in a comprehensive school, acknowledging that I see my work through a 'female lens' as l present an authentic description and account of my educational practice.

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O'Mara, Joanne, i jomara@deakin edu au. "Unravelling the Mystery: A Study of Reflection-in-Action in Process Drama Teaching". Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 1999. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030228.103642.

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Unravelling the Mystery is a qualitative case study that examines the teacher researcher's reflection-in-action as she teaches using process drama. The teacher-researcher taught a class of Year Seven students for a school year. She worked with the students using process drama from 2-5 hours per week. All sessions were recorded and transcribed as part of the reflective practice research. They were then examined to study how the teacher might use reflection-in-action. The data is written as a series of vignettes. The vignettes are used to illustrate reflection-in-action and as a basis for discussion and analysis. In the thesis the data from five of these sessions is presented as vignettes-these vignettes illustrating the teacher's reflection-in-action process. The analysis focuses on the reflection-in-action for the teacher. The vignettes and accompanying analysis for the basis for an illustrative model of the scope of the teacher' reflection-in-action as she works using process drama. The study addresses the following questions: · How might reflective practice inform my teaching? · How can I as a researcher describe and document my reflection-in-action when working as a teacher in process drama? · What is the scope of my reflection-in-action when working as the teacher in process drama? · How might an increased understanding of reflection-in-action be useful to teachers of process drama? These questions are considered in light of the analysis and literature review. The study concludes that reflective practice is valuable to enable teachers to develop their practice. It recommends that this type of research is beneficial to both develop models of practice and to improve the practice of individual practitioners.

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Nguyen, Thanh Thuy. "The use of Donald Schön's conceptualization of reflection-in-action in Vietnamese teacher education". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0026/MQ51433.pdf.

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RIBAS, CRISTINA MARIA FLORES. "A REFLECTION ON THE CONCEPT OF MIMESIS AND TRAGIC ACTION IN ARISTOTLENULLS POETICS". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4749@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A presente dissertação de mestrado tem como tema de investigação dois dos principais aspectos da poesia trágica do mundo grego antigo apontados pela reflexão desenvolvida por Aristóteles, na Poética: a noção de mimesis, que figura na própria definição da poesia trágica - tragédia é mimesis de ação - e a natureza da ação da qual a poesia trágica é mimesis; ou seja, o quê constitui uma ação verdadeiramente trágica. Com isso, o que procuramos foi a afirmação, não apenas da grandeza do olhar lançado por Aristóteles sobre a poesia trágica e o modo original como a tratou ao considerá-la enquanto um domínio próprio, enquanto um Cosmos, mas, sobretudo, a afirmação da Poética de Aristóteles, não obstante o seu caráter fragmentário, como obra originária de uma significativa reflexão acerca da essência da poesia trágica.
The present dissertation investigates two of the most important aspects of ancient Greek poetry examined by Aristotle in the Poetics: the concept of mimesis, which constitutes part of the definition of tragic poetry - tragedy is mimesis of action - and the nature of the action of which tragic poetry is mimesis; what comprises a truly tragic action. Thus the aim was to affirm, not only the greatness of the ideas about tragic poetry that Aristotle proposed and the originality with which he treated the subject as independent of other forms, like a Cosmos, but also, above all, to affirm that Aristotle s Poetics, despite its fragmentary nature, could be thought as the first significant reflection about the essence of tragic poetry.

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Leone, Elsa. "Solidarity with Migrants in and Around Grenoble - Volunteer Commitment: from Reflection to Action". Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21524.

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This thesis explores the drivers of the commitment of volunteers that support migrants. It aims at investigating the reasons that lead people to decide to get involved in solidarity action with migrants through the case study of Grenoble and the Isère department, in France. Through qualitative interviews with volunteers and coordinators from solidarity organizations in the geographical area, this ethnographically inspired research identifies factors participating to the birth of solidarity action. Beyond finding that there is never one reason for people to get involved, the study identifies internal and external drivers of the commitment and the mechanisms within which they operate. It concludes that a combination of internal and external factors resulted in the volunteers getting involved physically in helping migrants. Additionally, it contributed to the discussion on solidarity, including its political dimension, and generated findings about motives for volunteering that may benefit civil society actors supporting migrants.

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Gross, Mara. "Reflection in action : a practitioner's study of four high school students' experience in community service /". Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11042345.

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Thesis (Ed.D)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen C. Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Joann Jacullo-Noto. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-206).

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Brownsword, Neil. "Action/reflection [multimedia]: a creative response to transition and change in British ceramic manufacture". Thesis, Bucks New University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426324.

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Birch, Jill. "Reflection in action, an enquiry into how CEOs learn to lead and learn to learn". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0020/MQ53312.pdf.

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Sirizzotti, Catherine Elizabeth. "Caught in Action: A Study of Christiane Baumgartner's Treatment of Technique, Movement, and Self-reflection". Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/189929.

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Art History
M.A.
In my master's thesis, I examine Baumgartner's work in regards to her treatment of technique, movement, and self-reflection. This research demonstrates how she has mastered early, traditional German woodcuts and introduced them into a new, contemporary context by combining them with video and photography. I begin with a discussion of Baumgartner's use of materials and techniques. I focus especially on her emulation of Albrecht Dürer and adherence to many early fifteenth-century rules and standards for creating prints, while also exploring the print history of Leipzig where Baumgartner received her foundational training. Through a study of works such as Dürer's large-scale woodcut titled Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I (1515) and Baumgartner's Transall (2002-04), I examine how her methods also differ from traditional approaches and the ways in which she places particular value on how the labor of producing the print fits into its creation. I then focus on how Baumgartner unites the slow process of woodcut with the fast paced mediums of video and photography in order to produce distinctive physical and visual encapsulations of movement. This includes an exploration of French author Paul Virilio's influence and the ways in which she captures motion through images of transportation, cutting techniques, and optical illusions. I also consider the role that her personal history plays in her works, as well as her Russian influences such as the writings of the Russian-American poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky. This is displayed by an examination of how Baumgartner's prints illustrate the significance of introspection by demonstrating its relation to one's background, physical surroundings, and connection to the past and memory, as well as the significance of reassessing one's perspective of the modern experience.
Temple University--Theses

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Atkinson, D. "Form and action in art education : A reflection upon theory and practice in the teaching of art". Thesis, University of Southampton, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382177.

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Kizilcik-eren, Hale Hatice Hatice. "A Constructivist Approach To The Integration Of Systematic Reflection In Eap Courses: An Action Research Study". Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614011/index.pdf.

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The aim of the study was to investigate to what extent integrating systematic reflection into the academic English courses at the tertiary level fosters learning. To this end, the teacher-researcher designed an action research study and carried it out with seventy-one students in the three sections of ENG 101 she taught at the Middle East Technical University. In the course of the action research, the teacher-researcher developed an interactive reflection model in which the teacher and students engage in a collaborative process of reflection to improve their performance. For each writing and speaking task in the syllabus, a related reflective task was developed, and the reflective writing assessment rubric was created. Students wrote reflective paragraphs through which they explored their strengths and weaknesses in their performance. Moreover, the teacher-researcher and students engaged in reflective dialogue. In their reflections, students were expected to develop an action plan for further improvement. The teacher-researcher kept a reflective journal in which she reflected on the research and her teaching skills. At the end of the semester, the students evaluated the effectiveness of the reflective activities. The data collection tools were student questionnaire, student work, transcripts of the reflective dialogues, students&rsquo
evaluation of reflective activities and teacher&rsquo
s reflective journal. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data revealed that the integration of reflection in the course increased students&rsquo
awareness of their strengths and weaknesses in relation to the tasks they performed, improved their self-assessment skills and increased their self-confidence. Reflecting with students and on students&rsquo
reflections became a journey of discovery for the teacher-researcher. She developed an action plan and put it into implementation.

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Kline, Kimberly A. "The use of action theories, social justice issues and reflection in a student affairs master's course". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162975.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2004.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 2, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0513. Chair: Edward P. St. John.

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Åkerstedt, Zandra. "Guided reflection in Simulator-Based Crisis Management Training : Examining the possibility to implement After Action Reviews in the CCRAAAFFFTING project". Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157632.

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Reflection is an important team learning activity, allowing team members to process feedback and to learn from experiences. Debriefing methods such as the After Action Review (AAR), proved to increase learning, can be used to guide teams through the process of reflection. This thesis, commissioned by the Creating Collaborative Resilience Awareness, Analysis and Action for Finance, Food and Fuel Systems in INteractive Games (CCRAAAFFFTING) project, aims to investigating how current post-exercise discussions within the CCRAAAFFFTING project support reflection and whether or not AAR could be implemented. This study used an explorative, semi-experimental research design, containing two conditions - the current post-exercise discussions (condition 1) and AAR’s (condition 2). Data was collected through observations and questionnaires. Due to issues regarding validity, data from questionnaires given to participants, as well as comparisons of participants' subjective experiences between the two conditions, could not be used to provide any support for choosing one post-exercise discussion over the other. However, observations showed that the current post-exercise discussion did not support reflection, thus, making it beneficial to implement AAR. Proper implementation of AAR could not only support team learning, but also organizational learning by facilitating the transference of knowledge back to participants home organizations. This transferred knowledge, if used right by the organizations, could help increased resilience. However, AAR cannot simply be implemented, and this thesis concludes with a list of identified recommendations.

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Edlmann, Tessa Margaret. "An action learning based reflection on participative drama as a tool for transformation of identity in the spirals programme". Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008202.

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This thesis is a reflection on both the conceptual frameworks and the personal narratives that have shaped the development of the Spirals Programme. The Programme is a participatory drama and creative arts based initiative established in 2000 in Grahamstown, South Africa, to explore issues of identity in the emerging democratic context of South African society - and support both personal and contextual processes of transformation. Working within a poststructuralist and social constructionist paradigm, Spirals works with groups and communities to facilitate and enable experiential links between the drama based and performative nature of identity construction - and the possibilities for transformation and healing provided by participative drama methodologies. The structure of the thesis follows the principles of the Freirian based Action Learning praxis within which Spirals works. It begins with an account of the contextual dynamics and events that gave rise to the development of the Programme, followed by a reflection on the conceptual frameworks regarding both identity construction and participative drama methodologies that informed Spirals' development. These paradigms are then analysed in relation to the articulated experiences of three workshop participants using critical discourse analysis. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the issues emerging from this analysis - the aspects of the Programme that need to be strengthened and sustained, those that need to be changed and possible new strategies that could be developed.
Also known as: Edlmann, Theresa

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Mhembere, Tarisai Valerie. "The protection of minority shareholders in South Africa: a reflection on the derivative action, appraisal rights and oppression remedy". Master's thesis, Faculty of Law, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31715.

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This thesis will be conducted by reviewing South African literature that is published in various primary and secondary sources. The research will refer to key South African statutes namely, the South African Companies Act, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereafter referred to as the Constitution) and the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000. Parallel statutes of Zimbabwe, Canada, and the United States of America will also be referenced throughout this thesis. Additionally, this thesis will review case law relating to the subject and the ratio of those cases will be analysed. The role of the courts in interpreting certain legal provisions will be important in assessing whether the courts have adopted a liberal or restrictive approach to the issue of protecting minority shareholders. A comparative analysis will be conducted to evaluate how South African company law has dealt with the issue of the protection of minority shareholders. This thesis will therefore compare and contrast South African and Zimbabwean legislation and case law on minority shareholder remedies. This will be achieved by evaluating how the two nations implement and apply legislation providing for the protection of minority shareholders. As part of this analysis, this thesis will review what Zimbabwe can learn from the South African system.

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Lenord, Christiane. "“Positive action through positive reinforcement”: An example of performance-based music education in contrast to a reflection-based music lesson". Georg Olms Verlag, 2018. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34613.

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This article deals with the differences of a performance-based approach of music education in the USA and a reflection-based approach in Germany. The lessons represent very different ways to reach students through music. The students respond either more enthusiastic or more rational, but always positively.

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Moilanen, Jon H. "Intuitive decisionmaking: tacit knowing in action by U.S. Armed Forces officers in 2011". Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13577.

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Doctor of Education
Department of Educational Leadership
Sarah Jane Fishback
This qualitative inquiry was a naturalistic exploration of participants’ perception or understanding of their intuitive decisionmaking processes. A bounded case study explored how a purposeful sampling of U.S. Armed Forces officers−primarily U.S. Army officers−perceived or understood intuitive decisionmaking in the context of their experiences in contemporary military missions. The purposeful sample was comprised of ten volunteer participants attending their professional Intermediate Level Education (ILE) course in 2011 at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. The review of relevant literature used Polanyi's (1958) theory of tacit knowing and personal knowledge [intuition] in making decisions as a philosophical and psychological baseline. U.S. Army doctrine promoted implicit [intuitive] and analytical [deliberate] decisionmaking. Army doctrinal guidance stated that in situations severely constrained in time and requiring an immediate decision, Army leaders rely significantly on intution. A complementary concept advocated creative and critical thinking in order to adaptively solve problems. However, minimal emphasis on intuitive processes and rescinding the term intuitive decisionmaking in Army doctrine indicated a significant gap in Army leader development. This research augmented professional literature on the art and science of military leadership and decisionmaking in the second decade of the 21st century. The exploratory study encouraged further research on how U.S. Armed Forces officers perceive discrete elements or emergent patterns among complex environmental stimuli; understand their tacit knowledge to sense situational cues affecting a problem; and develop their intuitive acumen as a complement to experience and learning toward professional expertise. The participants’ candid insights on their lived and vicarious experiences in intuitive decisionmaking suggested similar leadership value to the adult education community. Other practical benefits included an improved self-efficacy of participants to trust their personal intuition and expertise, and to further explore their tacit knowledge for effective day-to-day living in an ever-changing complex and uncertain world. The experiences of participants indicated the believability of Polanyi’s premise that “we can know more than we can tell.” (Polanyi, 1964, p. x).

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Mills, Nancy Fosdick. "Riding the winds of their interest : exploring the teachable moment in college classrooms". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003028.

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Heiskanen, Ari. "Issues and factors affecting the success and failure of a student record system development process a longitudinal investigation based on Reflection-in-Action /". [Helsinki] : EDP Office, Offices of the Rector, University of Helsinki, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/71258256.html.

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Lundquist, Coey Åsa Margaretha. "Exploring uncomfortable situations in the practice of a Swedish leadership consultant". Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17120.

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This research examines the practice of process consultancy in Sweden with a particular emphasis on working in disturbing and uncomfortable situations. The managerial discourses that consultants are working in are dominated by an abstract language with a relentless eye towards imaginative futures in the form of visions, missions, strategies, and goals (Stacey 2011, Mowles 2014). Based on linear casuality thinking that comes from the natural sciences, the assumption is of predictability and control. Therefore, disturbing, uncomfortable, or conflicting situations arising in practice are generally overlooked, avoided, or suppressed as they - per definition - are neither predictable nor controllable. Although process consultancy in many respects gradually has changed from delivery/expertise of ready made concepts into more of conversational facilitation, speaking partnerships, inquiry and coaching, disturbing and uncomfortable moments are still generally being avoided or overlooked. This research is a narrative-based inquiry that has served as a basis for engagement in literature, reflections, reflexive inquiries, and conversations with fellow researchers, members of faculty, and other practitioners. Out of this iterative and intese process, the arguments have emerged and developed. In describing a multitude of uncomfortable and disturbing situations from my practice, and while paying close attention to them in local context, a view of these situations as problematic and avoidable has moved into a wider and deeper understanding regarding what might be taking place among us. Interpreting directives, policies, and strategies - what to do and how to do it - in order to find the most functional ways forward is imperative in organisations. Hence, corrigibility and definite inquiries into worlds of practice and relations are necessities. As ideologies and intentions among people differ, problems and disturbances are inevitably encountered in processes of particularising (making concrete in specific contexts) generalised plans and strategies, which, in turn, creates different and new generalisations (Stacey 2011, p. 358). Utilising process consultancy in order to 'deal' with the above situation may, however, paradoxically enhance anxiety and disturbancies even more. In drawing attention to disturbances as central, 'normal', and generative (normforming), I have come to think of the actual process in process consultancy as having felt dissolving qualities. As 'states' of body/mind are temporary, shifting, and changing when we are being influenced and influence others and ourselves (constrain and enable) at the same time as we speak, a sense of solution often occurs in the process. Rather than solving or resolving issues - a more traditional approach, intentionally aiming at fixing something - acts of conversations and reflexive inquiries are not aiming anywhere in particular. They are explorative and mind-moving and make us re-identify or re-form our sense of self. Hence, in the process of 'loosening up or breaking apart' identity, a sense of solution (I refer to as dissolution) is felt to emerge. This process can be disturbing per se, and the newly gained thinking - also of a temporary kind - can be felt as 'better' or 'worse' or neither, as movements and outcomes are unpredictable. In process consultancy, the understanding of people as an elusive science - changeable, fluid, and plural (messy and needy rather than tidy and rational) - is helpful in order to understand 'stuckness' and enable movement by taking experience seriously rather than engaging in excessive quantification or being futuristic and idealising.

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Jones, Indra. "Reflective practice and the learning of health care students". Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/3471.

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Reflective practice, though ill-defined, has become an accepted educational concept within many health care disciplines particularly in nursing. Subsequently it has become benchmarked within Paramedic Sciences as a professional requirement for continuing education and clinical practice. However, despite the vast literature in nursing and the increasing growth of reflective practice in paramedic curricula it is unclear how it influences the students’ learning in preparation for graduate practice as future reflective practitioners. This research explored ‘to what extent does reflective practice in the paramedic curriculum influence the students’ academic and clinical learning leading to graduate practice’? A mixed methods approach with cohort samples of undergraduate health care students comprised four studies including surveys and non-participant observations of clinical simulation that were conducted in a university learning environment. The results showed overall that Paramedic students believed that they understood reflective practice and perceived it to be useful for their academic studies and clinical practice; although this is probably influenced more by formal teaching rather than the result of their own views. Students were able to describe reflective practice in ideal theoretical terms and were positive towards it regardless of their individual learning styles. However, in a clinical context, they applied it differently with significant emphasis on technical reflection. Evidence of the nature of reflective practice as it occurred during and after clinical simulation scenarios highlights a need for revised approaches to existing learning/teaching strategies with paramedic students. An extended understanding and refinement of reflective practice concepts including a new pedagogic framework to promote enhanced reflectivity are proposed. This theoretical framework is designed to accommodate reflective learning for both personal and collaborative learning related to curriculum outcomes. The use of clinical simulation for the development of reflective practice in the paramedic curriculum is supported with recommendations for further studies in academic and clinical settings.

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Correia, C?cero Gomes. "As a??es pol?tico-pedag?gicas do Servi?o de Assist?ncia Rural-SAR". Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2005. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14610.

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This program resumes the history of the political-pedagogic actions on the Servi?o de Assist?ncia Rural SAR, of Natal archdiocese, and analyses the contributions of this actions on the process of rural workers organization in the social movements on the countryside. The educative actions of the RAS are happening in a permanent tension between the pedagogic project of a church in change and, a pedagogy of the groups, communities and social movements, that is centered in the cultural action, in the culture lived from its condition of citizens. This research reveals that this entity fulfilled a strategic attribution for the Natal s church on the formation of the community leaderships, at a first moment and leaderships for social movements. Before the military dictatorship, the work methodology of this entity had as priority, begin from the reality leaved by the rural workers in the expectation that these became to qualify themselves for a more citizen participation in the call development. During the military regime, the entity goes measuring theirs activities in the new context, until the moment that redefines the work line. Goes then defining regions and thematic of operation supporting the fights for land, salary campaigns, women agricultural workers organizations. The pedagogy of work has as one of its supporters the Paulo Freire s pedagogy, privileging the dialog as a source of production of knowledge from the reality leaved in a permanent transformation. The actions of this entity, with the groups and social movements, produces the necessary knowledge for the organization of the rural workers while individual and social subjects of a changing world. The process of action-reflection of the activities intended, by a creative form, a permanent production of strategies of fight of the workers. Research ever, not to make accommodate itself to the new knowledge acquired in the action-reflection it is part of the pedagogical idea of this Institution. One searched in this process of formation of the man and the woman to question the reality, to create actionreflection-action spaces on the fights for a possible transition of an ingenuous conscience for a critical conscience, in view of the transformation of the structures that oppresses them
Este trabalho resgata a hist?ria das a??es pol?tico-pedag?gicas do Servi?o de Assist?ncia Rural-SAR, da Arquidiocese de Natal, e analisa a contribui??o dessas a??es no processo de organiza??o dos trabalhadores rurais nos movimentos sociais do campo. As a??es educativas do SAR v?o se dando numa permanente tens?o entre o projeto pedag?gico de uma Igreja em transforma??o e, uma pedagogia dos grupos, comunidades e movimentos sociais, que est? centrada na a??o cultural, na cultura vivida a partir de sua condi??o de sujeitos. Esta pesquisa revela que esta entidade cumpriu um papel estrat?gico para a Igreja de Natal na forma??o de lideran?as de comunidade, num primeiro momento e de lideran?as para os movimentos sociais. Antes da Ditadura Militar, a metodologia de trabalho desta entidade tinha como prioridade, partir da realidade vivida pelos trabalhadores rurais na perspectiva de que estes viessem a se qualificar para uma participa??o mais cidad? no chamado desenvolvimentismo. Durante o Regime Militar, a entidade vai avaliando suas atividades no novo contexto, at? o momento em que redefine a linha de trabalho. Passa ent?o a definir regi?es e tem?ticas de atua??o apoiando as lutas pela terra, campanhas salariais, organiza??o de mulheres trabalhadoras rurais. A pedagogia de trabalho tem como um de seus suportes a pedagogia de Paulo Freire, privilegiando o di?logo como uma fonte de produ??o de conhecimentos da realidade vivida e em permanente transforma??o. As a??es desta Entidade, junto aos grupos e movimentos sociais, produzem conhecimentos necess?rios para a organiza??o dos trabalhadores rurais enquanto sujeitos individuais e sociais de um mundo em transforma??o. O processo de a??o-reflex?o das atividades pretendia, de forma criativa, a permanente produ??o de estrat?gias de luta dos trabalhadores. Pesquisar sempre, n?o se acomodar ao novo conhecimento adquirido na a??o-reflex?o, faz parte do ide?rio pedag?gico desta Institui??o. Buscava-se nesse processo de forma??o do homem e da mulher problematizar a realidade, criar espa?os de a??o-reflex?o-a??o sobre as lutas para uma poss?vel transi??o de uma consci?ncia ing?nua para uma consci?ncia cr?tica, tendo em vista a transforma??o das estruturas que os oprime

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Denaro, Chris. "Dialogues with the prototype". Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16553/.

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This exegesis traces a path through the production of an animated work, and discusses the evolution of an individual production workflow that refigures the industrial animation process of prototyping. By incorporating spontaneity within the animation workflow, the creative output of the project focusses on the development of a series of non-narrative, process-driven temporal constructions that fuse form and process. The creative work occupies 75% of this Masters project, and the exegesis 25% (7500 Words)

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Garre, Rubio Soledad Pilar. "Shifting paradigms of practice in 'Interpretación Gestual' : integrating bodymind training with Michael Chekhov's acting techniques within the context of training professional actors in Spain". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8281.

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This thesis examines the implementation of an actor-training programme in the context of Spanish drama schools during 2004-2005. Reflecting through the student's practice as well as my own practice as a teacher, actor and director, I investigate how a bodymind training based on martial arts disciplines and designed by Phillip Zarrilli may contribute to understand the theory and the practice of an actor's use of the imagination as Michael Chekhov proposes it. Core questions arise from the evaluation of what is the professional knowledge that the integration of both systems of training brings to the students. The action of research is placed in how the process of learning such competencies take place and become informative of both the research and the acting practice. The concept of acting is being analysed by looking at the significance of the actor's imagination from a phenomenological rather than a psychological perspective. The discussion includes the challenge that developing a new pedagogy in a drama school brings up to a better understanding of contemporary paradigms of theatre practice and education.'Interpretación Gestual' is since 1992 an established branch in the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (RESAD). Acting in physical (gestural) theatre conveys some problematic issues concerning its theory and practice within both professional and pedagogical contexts. Implementing a new and specific teaching programme for the preparation of professional actors in the context of the RESAD urges me to clarify inpractice certain issues about these two different approaches to actor training, as well as their presence in today's education within the curriculum of official drama schools in Spain.

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Strüber, Katrin [Verfasser], Robert [Akademischer Betreuer] Prohl i Volker [Akademischer Betreuer] Scheid. "Bewegungspädagogische Professionalität und Professionalisierung von Erzieherinnen in Tageseinrichtungen für Kinder : qualitative Fallstudien über Veränderungen von Subjektiven Theorien, Bewegungspädagogischem Handeln und "reflection-on-action" in Abhängigkeit zu einer eintägigen Fortbildungsmaßnahme und wiederholter Selbstreflexion / Katrin Strüber. Gutachter: Robert Prohl ; Volker Scheid. Betreuer: Robert Prohl". Frankfurt am Main : Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1044276096/34.

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Martoo, Gladys Vivian. "Reculturing a school as a learning organisation: investigative narratives in two Queensland schools". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16294/1/Gladys_Martoo_Thesis.pdf.

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The focus of this study has been to connect the idea of developing schools as learning organisations with the notion of developing learning leaders and building school capacity for our knowledge economy. Therefore, this action-inquiry self-study has examined the issues of curriculum reform in the context of more general organisational reform. It has explored the notion of schools being recultured or reconstructed to work as learning organisations in a climate that focuses on the improved social and academic learning outcomes of their students. This self-study represents two significant chapters in my professional life and captures approximately four years of professional snapshots. It has allowed me to examine my practice of partnering, conversing, arranging and developing shared vision across two schools. This study recognized these as powerful reculturing mechanisms and affirmed that conversations about learning, shared beliefs mission and vision, enabling leadership that reflects parallel learning relationships and enabling organisational arrangements are critical for sustainable reform. Consequently the exploration of the relationship between teacher learning, teacher leadership and a professional learning culture has been the main focus for this research. Analytical processes for this study first explored the relationship between teacher learning, teacher leadership and a professional learning culture through an examination of current curriculum reforms. This is followed by a layered analysis of the two narratives based on my leadership in two different school settings. A rigorous mapping and scanning process then assisted the analysis of these narratives. This process was supported by a number of specific conceptual frameworks that underpin the school reculturing process and reflect key qualities of schools that work as learning organisations. Six significant snapshots emerged from the analysis of the two narratives. The deeper analysis of these snapshots, which have been referred to as close-ups, formed a number of my first tentative propositions. These layers of investigation were also supported by the responses of several key snapshot participants and reader respondents, before the final propositions were made. These responses recognised that an organisation that works together, learns together; and that there is strength and powerful learning when leadership can assist practitioners to work as a learning community. These qualities were found to be directly related to this study's proposed reconstructed model for developing schools as learning organisations. The reconstructed model recognised a number of other less visible elements that can be seen in a school working as a learning organisation. These elements relate directly to enabling/capacity building leadership and the associated relationship skills of leaders. They were found to be necessary elements for effective collaboration and for creating spaces for conversation, reflection, spontaneity and risk-taking. This study also recognised that any deconstruction and reconstruction of a school as a learning organisation is first a reconstruction of core beliefs and values. These beliefs and values are reflected in a school's culture and are inclusive of the visible and less visible elements. The constant examination of one's assumptions, ideas, values and beliefs has been considered to be essential to the analysis process, as well as to the process of reform and achieving organisational change. The study revealed, therefore, that enabling/capacity-building leadership is a key to the process of reculturing a school as a learning organisation. The data from respondents also indicates that this notion of leadership as being enabling/capacity building has also been a primary focus for answering the second of the key research questions: 'How does a process of deconstruction and reconstruction take place?' The additional points of difference/interest that emerged from the various respondents suggest that the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of a school as a learning organisation would be assisted by realising that energy and passion are needed for enabling/capacity building leadership. This form of leadership requires moving from being top-down and become more parallel with renewed learning relationships. This study affirmed that this focus on establishing parallel learning relationships assists in the development of parallel learning leadership and parallel learning partnerships. Enabling/capacity building leaders working in parallel with their teachers can also play an important role in developing/supporting flexible and imaginative school organisation. In this way enabling/capacity building leaders can work as learning leaders and brokers to assist the development of other learning partnerships/alliances. This community building strategy can consequently develop opportunities for teachers to work and learn collaboratively as learning leaders. Enabling/capacity building leadership is correctly placed as the key to considering how the deconstruction and reconstruction process takes place. Further, the reconstruction process taking place reflect a culture of dynamic inquiry. This is made possible when enabling/capacity building leaders share and commit to similar notions of schools working as learning organisations and teachers are assisted/brokered to work collaboratively for professional alliances and professional growth. Consequently this study proposes that teachers cope better with the ever-increasing demands of curriculum reforms if: * schools can work as learning organisations * schools allow teachers to work as learning leaders * administrative leaders support/enable and model risk-taking, spontaneous and collaborative practices * there are shared beliefs, mission and vision; organisational arrangements/support; conversations for learning; shared approaches to pedagogy, and parallel relationships * enabling/capacity-building leadership for learning alliances allows for a professional culture of dynamic inquiry that can evolve with a renewed focus on conversations for learning. The findings of this study have theoretical, methodological and practical significance. In the first instance it presents as theoretical significance, the reconstruction of a theoretical framework for schools working as learning organisations. The methodological significance is reflected in this study's emphasis on theorising through layers. The methodological contribution acknowledges a legitimate and rigorous form of practitioner research, revealing self-study methodology at a level that is more then mere self-indulgence. In presenting its final contribution, the thesis acknowledges the practical contribution of the study by emphasising the process involved in creating a culture of dynamic inquiry. The transformative nature of this action- inquiry self-study is therefore confirmed in this study. The layered analysis reflects a process of making sense of the messiness of practitioner research, and consequently provides a true sense of this established form of practical theorising in the teaching profession. These characteristics should be seen not as limitations, but rather as authentic strengths.

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Martoo, Gladys Vivian. "Reculturing a school as a learning organisation: investigative narratives in two Queensland schools". Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16294/.

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The focus of this study has been to connect the idea of developing schools as learning organisations with the notion of developing learning leaders and building school capacity for our knowledge economy. Therefore, this action-inquiry self-study has examined the issues of curriculum reform in the context of more general organisational reform. It has explored the notion of schools being recultured or reconstructed to work as learning organisations in a climate that focuses on the improved social and academic learning outcomes of their students. This self-study represents two significant chapters in my professional life and captures approximately four years of professional snapshots. It has allowed me to examine my practice of partnering, conversing, arranging and developing shared vision across two schools. This study recognized these as powerful reculturing mechanisms and affirmed that conversations about learning, shared beliefs mission and vision, enabling leadership that reflects parallel learning relationships and enabling organisational arrangements are critical for sustainable reform. Consequently the exploration of the relationship between teacher learning, teacher leadership and a professional learning culture has been the main focus for this research. Analytical processes for this study first explored the relationship between teacher learning, teacher leadership and a professional learning culture through an examination of current curriculum reforms. This is followed by a layered analysis of the two narratives based on my leadership in two different school settings. A rigorous mapping and scanning process then assisted the analysis of these narratives. This process was supported by a number of specific conceptual frameworks that underpin the school reculturing process and reflect key qualities of schools that work as learning organisations. Six significant snapshots emerged from the analysis of the two narratives. The deeper analysis of these snapshots, which have been referred to as close-ups, formed a number of my first tentative propositions. These layers of investigation were also supported by the responses of several key snapshot participants and reader respondents, before the final propositions were made. These responses recognised that an organisation that works together, learns together; and that there is strength and powerful learning when leadership can assist practitioners to work as a learning community. These qualities were found to be directly related to this study's proposed reconstructed model for developing schools as learning organisations. The reconstructed model recognised a number of other less visible elements that can be seen in a school working as a learning organisation. These elements relate directly to enabling/capacity building leadership and the associated relationship skills of leaders. They were found to be necessary elements for effective collaboration and for creating spaces for conversation, reflection, spontaneity and risk-taking. This study also recognised that any deconstruction and reconstruction of a school as a learning organisation is first a reconstruction of core beliefs and values. These beliefs and values are reflected in a school's culture and are inclusive of the visible and less visible elements. The constant examination of one's assumptions, ideas, values and beliefs has been considered to be essential to the analysis process, as well as to the process of reform and achieving organisational change. The study revealed, therefore, that enabling/capacity-building leadership is a key to the process of reculturing a school as a learning organisation. The data from respondents also indicates that this notion of leadership as being enabling/capacity building has also been a primary focus for answering the second of the key research questions: 'How does a process of deconstruction and reconstruction take place?' The additional points of difference/interest that emerged from the various respondents suggest that the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of a school as a learning organisation would be assisted by realising that energy and passion are needed for enabling/capacity building leadership. This form of leadership requires moving from being top-down and become more parallel with renewed learning relationships. This study affirmed that this focus on establishing parallel learning relationships assists in the development of parallel learning leadership and parallel learning partnerships. Enabling/capacity building leaders working in parallel with their teachers can also play an important role in developing/supporting flexible and imaginative school organisation. In this way enabling/capacity building leaders can work as learning leaders and brokers to assist the development of other learning partnerships/alliances. This community building strategy can consequently develop opportunities for teachers to work and learn collaboratively as learning leaders. Enabling/capacity building leadership is correctly placed as the key to considering how the deconstruction and reconstruction process takes place. Further, the reconstruction process taking place reflect a culture of dynamic inquiry. This is made possible when enabling/capacity building leaders share and commit to similar notions of schools working as learning organisations and teachers are assisted/brokered to work collaboratively for professional alliances and professional growth. Consequently this study proposes that teachers cope better with the ever-increasing demands of curriculum reforms if: * schools can work as learning organisations * schools allow teachers to work as learning leaders * administrative leaders support/enable and model risk-taking, spontaneous and collaborative practices * there are shared beliefs, mission and vision; organisational arrangements/support; conversations for learning; shared approaches to pedagogy, and parallel relationships * enabling/capacity-building leadership for learning alliances allows for a professional culture of dynamic inquiry that can evolve with a renewed focus on conversations for learning. The findings of this study have theoretical, methodological and practical significance. In the first instance it presents as theoretical significance, the reconstruction of a theoretical framework for schools working as learning organisations. The methodological significance is reflected in this study's emphasis on theorising through layers. The methodological contribution acknowledges a legitimate and rigorous form of practitioner research, revealing self-study methodology at a level that is more then mere self-indulgence. In presenting its final contribution, the thesis acknowledges the practical contribution of the study by emphasising the process involved in creating a culture of dynamic inquiry. The transformative nature of this action- inquiry self-study is therefore confirmed in this study. The layered analysis reflects a process of making sense of the messiness of practitioner research, and consequently provides a true sense of this established form of practical theorising in the teaching profession. These characteristics should be seen not as limitations, but rather as authentic strengths.

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Arbolea, Tânia Aparecida. "Educação continuada de professores de língua portuguesa: em busca de subsídios para uma proposta de formação centrada na escola". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14618.

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The subject continued formation of teachers of Portuguese Language elapsed of experiences in a professional passage of years of work as formadora, becoming possible to verify that the continued education already if placed as a process of permanent education for the professional development in face of the speed of information that modifies the educational field. With the objectives to know and to make a reflexiva reading on proposals developed in Portugal; to retake for a reading retrospect, projects developed in the PUC-SP, from proposals of the Secretariat of the Education of the State of São Paulo; e to search in the models subsidies for a proposal of continued action; the research searched basement in referring bibliographical research to the continued education of professors, mainly, in studious as Shön (1992), Nóvoa (1991, 1992) and Alarcão (1991, 1998), prioritizing the reflection in the action. For the aspects of the Literal Linguística, the theoretical support is based on Adam (2008), Beaugrande (1997), Koch (2006) and Fávero and Koch (2002), in virtue of approaches come back toward the concept of text, the textualidade and its principles. Also in them we are valid Serafini (2001) and Pear tree (2000, 2001ª, 2001b and 2002), a time that its works in offer endorsement to them regarding the education of the literal production under the optics of the process. The hypothesis of that the knowledge of projects implemented in the two countries and the reflection on its parameters would allow to elaborate subsidies for proposals of a continued formation of professors of centered Portuguese Language in the school was confirmed, still partially, a time that the research if abided only by the education of the literal production. In synthesis, it is concluded that the formation centered in the school is capable to make possible the professor to reflect on practical its for the resolution of problems, stimulating it the personal and professional development
O tema formação continuada de professores de Língua Portuguesa decorreu de experiências num percurso profissional de anos de trabalho como formadora, tornando possível verificar que a educação continuada já se colocava como um processo de educação permanente para o desenvolvimento profissional em face da velocidade de informações que modifica o campo educacional. Com os objetivos de conhecer e fazer uma leitura reflexiva sobre propostas desenvolvidas em Portugal; de retomar para uma leitura retrospectiva, projetos desenvolvidos na PUC-SP, a partir de propostas da Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo; e de buscar nos modelos subsídios para uma proposta de ação continuada; a pesquisa buscou embasamento em pesquisa bibliográfica referente à educação continuada de professores, principalmente, em estudiosos como Shön (1992), Nóvoa (1991, 1992) e Alarcão (1991, 1998), priorizando a reflexão na ação. Para os aspectos da Linguística Textual, o apoio teórico está baseado em Adam (2008), Beaugrande (1997), Koch (2006) e Fávero e Koch (2002), em virtude de enfoques voltados para o conceito de texto, a textualidade e seus princípios. Também nos valemos de Serafini (2001) e Pereira (2000, 2001ª, 2001b e 2002), uma vez que seus trabalhos nos oferecem respaldo a respeito do ensino da produção textual sob a ótica do processo. A hipótese de que o conhecimento de projetos implementados nos dois países e a reflexão sobre seus parâmetros permitiria elaborar subsídios para propostas de uma formação continuada de professores de Língua Portuguesa centrada na escola foi confirmada, ainda parcialmente, uma vez que a pesquisa se ateve apenas ao ensino da produção textual. Em síntese, conclui-se que a formação centrada na escola é capaz de possibilitar ao professor refletir sobre sua prática pela resolução de problemas, incentivando-o ao desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional

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Graeff, Erhardt (Erhardt Charles). "Action path : a location-based tool for civic reflection and engagement". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95604.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-80).
Many platforms for civic engagement, whether online or offline, require that citizens leave the places they normally inhabit physically or virtually and commit to a separate space and set of processes. Examples include town hall meetings, occurring during specific times and in specific places, and online forums, where deliberation occurs within profile-based websites for which you need to sign up and to regularly return. This thesis responds to the design challenge and research question: How do you address barriers to minimum effective engagement in community projects, and ensure that all citizens can contribute their input on how to improve their local communities? In order to raise levels of participation in community projects and expand the range of voices heard in governmental decision-making, there is a need for a civic engagement platform that is lightweight and compelling enough to enjoy continued use. To this end, I have developed a theoretical basis for effective citizenship through monitorial actions aided by mobile computing, finding connections between various theories of citizenship and learning to fill a gap in the literature and in terms of civic technology design. My argument and design goals for such a system are reinforced by findings from a needs assessment of Boston-area municipalities that confirmed a desire to use new technologies to elicit feedback on community issues from a more diverse demographic than those who currently attend public meetings. Based my analysis of the literature and the distilled design goals, I built and completed early-stage user testing of a prototype smartphone app-based civic engagement platform called Action Path, which uses location-awareness in the form of geo-fences along with push notifications to prompt users to respond to one-item surveys dotting their urban landscape. Interviews with users suggest Action Path might help people see their communities as filled with opportunities for civic intervention, and might increase their sense of efficacy. Additionally, workshops about geo-fence design and curricular design with potential stakeholders showed how Action Path might be effectively deployed through civic technologists and in schools.
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Talucci, Sam. "Leadership development as reflexive practice". Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8966.

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This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects of the natural sciences. These methods are critiqued in terms of usability and applicability in the context of human relating. An alternative approach is investigated based on nonlinear causality and the complex responsive process of relating using the work of Stacey (2003, 2007, 2010), Stacey and Griffin (2005), Stacey et al. (2000). What is explored is the Leader as expert and the ability through communication, decision making, and planning to create certainty. What is problematized is the fantasy that this creates in ongoing day-to-day interactions. The work explores interactions between a leadership consultant/coach and clients in varied domains: the role of the practitioner in the delivery and creation of theory, models, best practices and standard operating procedures; and the reflections of both the practitioner and clients that what is emerging cannot be foreseen. This leads to a further exploration cycle of the human experience in organizations and how reification, the uncanny, and the struggle for recognition might offer other ways of making sense of the experience. The work examines the role of the consultant/teacher and the client/student and the emergence of knowledge. It further investigates the relationship of time and causality and how this is connected to theoretical knowledge and knowledge in action. This leads to a further connection of thinking, reflecting and reflexivity and what this means as practice for leadership development. Using the context of leadership coaching for management teams and connecting the reflexive aspect of knowledge, what is argued is that sensemaking as developed by Weick (1995, 2001, 2009), Weick and Sutcliffe (2007) is not a sufficient practice to explain and create best practices, standard operating procedures, models, and theories. What is also necessary, and is identified as sensemaking and connected to Elias (1987) work, is our own involvement and detachment as we abstract to understand what is happening in the moment between human agents. It is argued that paying attention to these aspects of ongoing human relating offer the possibility of thicker and a more contextualized understanding of the emergent unpredictable outcomes that leaders deal with every day.

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Reeves, Cheryl Ann. "An analysis of the impact of a transformative action reflection inset model on teachers' understanding and classroom behaviour". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17550.

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Includes bibliography.
This dissertation tests the core assumptions of a particular model for INSET (teacher in-service education and training). The study uses as an illustrative case study an INSET programme for junior primary teachers which self-consciously aligns itself with the assumptions underpinning the transformative action reflection model. The assumption of this model is that it is the impact of Courses on teachers' understanding and classroom behaviour of the model both in terms of technical practice and in terms of teachers' ability to employ appropriate practices which will bring about improvement in the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms. The enquiry entailed operationalising measures through which the core assumptions of the model could be tested. In particular the research entailed measuring whether an INSET course based on this model impacts on 1. a) teachers' understanding of a model for teaching; b) teachers' practice of the model in the classroom; and 2. assessing whether the impact can be judged as improvement in teaching quality. Instruments to measure the impact of the course on teachers' understanding and practice of new pedagogies have been constructed on the basis of explicit criteria drawn from the objectives of two Courses from the particular INSET programme used for the study. Qualitative and quantitative data are used to measure the impact of the two Courses on teachers' understanding and practice of the model. Assessing whether the impact can be said to be improvement in the quality of teaching involved using two independent experts in the field of junior primary teacher training. The craft experts used specially constructed schedules to observe videos of the lessons of a mixed sample of teachers who had attended the INSET course and judge the appropriateness of teachers' practices within specific contexts. Data from the study reveals reasonable evidence to support the assumption that, in terms of its objectives, the claims of the INSET model appear to be valid. The appropriateness of the classroom behaviour of those teachers who according to the study have demonstrated evidence of adequate understanding and practice or mastery of the model was singled out by the craft experts. However, data from the study also reveals that overall only a small band of teachers demonstrate adequate understanding and practice of the model and that, in spite of a quality intervention based on the INSET model, the focus of the teaching of most teachers in the sample selected is on teaching content and vocabulary rather than on teaching concepts, skills and strategies.

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Xenos, Anthony J. "Teacher Learning in Action: Using Self-Study to Connect Practice with Theory". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416422110.

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Brouard, Susanna. "Using theological action research to embed Catholic social teaching in a Catholic development agency: abseiling on the road to Emmaus". Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/580464/1/FullThesis%20Susanna%20Brouard.pdf.

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Little has been written on the pedagogy of Catholic Social Teaching and how to teach it in a way that encourages a living out of its main principles. Working for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), I was interested in how staff of diverse faith backgrounds might be encouraged to live out, in their work, the espoused values of the organisation, rooted as they are in the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. My research question asked how effective Theological Action Research is in enabling CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s values in their work. As an insider-researcher, I set up a research project called Reflecting on Values and invited 12 members of staff, from three different parts of the organisation, to conduct their own research on one of CAFOD’s values in conversation with their practice. Theological Action Research was both the research methodology and a tool under investigation. My findings were threefold. First, Theological Action Research revealed itself to be a strong tool of adult theological education, which allowed CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s espoused values in their work. Second, the research process identified practices that enhanced the confidence and competence of staff in ecclesiology, in religious and faith language, and in theological reflection. Third, the data revealed an operant Eucharistic theology rooted in CAFOD’s practice of responding to poverty and injustice pastorally, politically, and in partnership. The research is original in that it demonstrates how CAFOD’s practices embody Catholic Social Teaching and can contribute to its development. It also offers the first systematic evaluation of Theological Action Research as a tool for adult theological education which is rooted in both theory and practice. The findings affirm the importance of allowing space for theological reflection within CAFOD, and that for this organisation, the practice of theological reflection is an essential dimension of living out its Catholic identity.

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Brouard, Susanna. "Using theological action research to embed Catholic social teaching in a Catholic development agency : abseiling on the road to Emmaus". Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/580464/.

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Little has been written on the pedagogy of Catholic Social Teaching and how to teach it in a way that encourages a living out of its main principles. Working for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), I was interested in how staff of diverse faith backgrounds might be encouraged to live out, in their work, the espoused values of the organisation, rooted as they are in the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. My research question asked how effective Theological Action Research is in enabling CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s values in their work. As an insider-researcher, I set up a research project called Reflecting on Values and invited 12 members of staff, from three different parts of the organisation, to conduct their own research on one of CAFOD’s values in conversation with their practice. Theological Action Research was both the research methodology and a tool under investigation. My findings were threefold. First, Theological Action Research revealed itself to be a strong tool of adult theological education, which allowed CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s espoused values in their work. Second, the research process identified practices that enhanced the confidence and competence of staff in ecclesiology, in religious and faith language, and in theological reflection. Third, the data revealed an operant Eucharistic theology rooted in CAFOD’s practice of responding to poverty and injustice pastorally, politically, and in partnership. The research is original in that it demonstrates how CAFOD’s practices embody Catholic Social Teaching and can contribute to its development. It also offers the first systematic evaluation of Theological Action Research as a tool for adult theological education which is rooted in both theory and practice. The findings affirm the importance of allowing space for theological reflection within CAFOD, and that for this organisation, the practice of theological reflection is an essential dimension of living out its Catholic identity.

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Chiang, Ching-Kuei. "Introducing action research as a vehicle to bring about change to a psychiatric nursing curriculum in Taiwan". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41704/1/Ching-Kuei_Chiang_Thesis.pdf.

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The focus of this study is on curriculum change within a School of Nursing in Taiwan where there is a growing demand for educational reform in order to meet the new accreditation standards and demands of the Taiwan Nursing Accreditation Council (TNAC). The aim of this study was to transform the Psychiatric Nursing curriculum in ways that are empowering, generative and sustainable. This study introduced Action Research as a vehicle to bring about curriculum transformation. I conceptualised a framework to guide the transformation process based on the notions of learner-centredness, conceptual change, pedagogical knowledge, reflection, collaboration, reculturing and empowerment. The Action Plan was developed in accordance with the conceptual framework, and was developed in five steps through which team members explored and became aware of our conceptions of teaching and learning, and then planned and implemented actions to change our curriculum, and examined and reflected on the curriculum transformation. The study demonstrated the value of working collaboratively to solve educational problems. This study also suggested that experiential knowledge, when shared and integrated with theoretical knowledge, can constructively contribute to all aspects of curriculum transformation. This study further supported the value of including clinical facilitators in the development and transformation of curricula. It confirmed that academics and clinical facilitators can work together to create new learning for students. This study is significant for both practical and political reasons. Its practical significance lies in its direct utility to the learners and teachers who were involved in the study. The political significance lies in the potential of the study to lead to further changes or improvements in other, similar contexts. The study is limited in that any interpretations cannot be generalised to other contexts. However, what emerged adds to the body of knowledge in such a way that it would constitute the basis for better informed educational practice.

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Amollo, Rebecca. "A critical reflection on the African Women's Protocol as a means to combat HIV/AIDS among women in Africa". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3083_1190369553.

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It is within the context of the persistent feminisation of the HIV and AIDS pandemic that this study, based on the normative provisions of the African Women's Protocol, focused on gender, sex and sexuality in the context of HIV and AIDS. The regime of the African Women's Protocol embodies a framework that can be utilised to combat HIV/AIDS amongst women in Africa by addressing some of the most important issues that need to be tackled if women are to live through this epidemic.

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Boyce, Tara Brock. "Kenneth Burke as Educator: What His Theories of Aesthetic Form and (Non-Symbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action Suggest for Teachers in the Literature Classroom". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3708.

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Burke scholars oftentimes overlook Burke's fundamental role as educator and how his work can and should be applied to the classroom. This paper explores Burke's theoretical works and centers on two concepts important to developing rhetorical skills necessary for functioning and participating in a democratic society: his theory of aesthetic form and his distinction between motion and action. Specifically, this paper (1) clarifies these concepts and explains how they relate to each other and the emotional experience of literature, and (2) demonstrates how these concepts work together to imply a new method of practicing rhetorical criticism in the literature classroom necessary to meet Burke's goals of education: to help students become critically aware of the symbolic influences working upon them and to make critical judgments about them. To do that, I explain Burke's theory of form outlined in Counter-Statement, as clarified in additional texts, and how this form engages readers in a sequential and dialogical process, which creates in readers a specific emotional experience. I discuss how this experience subjects those who encounter form to what I describe in Burke's terms as a "motional" and consequently passive experience. I then discuss how practicing a method of reflection during and after the experience of form can help subject this experience to critique, into what Burke defined as the realm of "action"—conscious, deliberative choice.

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Goings, Carolyn Smith. "Racial Integration in One Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation: Intentionality and Reflection in Small Group". Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1479350273590395.

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Bagherpour, Samiramis. "Sustainability of psycho-social support by teachers to enhance resilience in a school". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25346.

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The purpose of this study was to report on the sustainability of school-based psycho-social support projects that have been initiated in a school in the Eastern Cape. More specifically, the study explored how insights into sustainable psycho-social support by teachers might inform knowledge on resilience in schools. The study forms part of the broad STAR (Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience) research project that has been ongoing since 2003. The current study utilised Interpretivism as metatheory and Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) as methodological paradigm. A case study design was selected, with eight purposefully selected primary school teachers as participants, who have been involved in the STAR project since 2003. Two field visits were undertaken for data collection purposes. The participants took part in two PRA-based workshops, with the second workshop taking the form of a member checking session. In addition to the PRA-based workshops, I relied on observations, field notes, photographs, audio-recordings and a research diary as data collection and documentation strategies. Subsequent to thematic data analysis four main themes emerged. Firstly the importance of teamwork in sustaining psycho-social support initiatives was identified, with the various roles and responsibilities within the team, and school management acting as a silent partner emerging as sub-themes. Secondly, participants highlighted collaboration (with the University of Pretoria, community and other schools) as underlying reasons for sustaining support efforts. Thirdly, participants regarded acknowledgement by others as motivating factors, with reference to acknowledgement on multiple levels and acknowledgement resulting in self-confidence as sub-themes. Finally, participants focused on teacher identity as the determining factor for sustaining psycho-social support initiatives, referring to being in a caring profession, putting children first, being change agents in the community and being committed and dedicated. Based on the findings of the study, I can conclude that sustaining psycho-social support seemed to establish the school as a protective resource to promote resilience. The acknowledgement of teachers’ abilities and capabilities similarly had a positive effect on teachers’ identification and mobilisation of assets and resources in collaboration with community partners, which in turn positively impacted teachers’ confidence. Additional information available on a CD stored at the Merensky Library on Level 3
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
Educational Psychology
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Martin, Stephen Timothy. "Carnivore : an investigation into the ways that serial killers in the Silence of the Lambs, American Psycho and Darkly Dreaming Dexter are representative of consumers". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61071/1/Stephen_Martin_Thesis.pdf.

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Serial killers are among the most popular and enduring character types in contemporary culture. In this exegesis I investigate one of the reasons for this popularity by examining the representational relationships between serial killers and serial consumers. I initially establish that all monsters, whether they are vampires, werewolves or serial killers, emerge from cultural anxieties and signify the anxiety which gave them birth. I go on to identify that the cultural anxiety at play with serial killers is consumerism and in doing so, I identify two key parallels between the serial killer and the consumer, namely a sense of lack and a desire for transformation. I then examine the ways in which the serial killer is representative of the consumer in three exemplar texts, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. I go on to self-reflexively examine the creation of my novel Carnivore, the accompanying draft of which has been influenced by both the exemplar texts and the findings of the exegesis.

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Daniels, Ardela. "The practice of school systems consultation by the educational psychologist : a reflection on the process at a school for specialised education". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17450.

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Bibliography: pages 71-78.
Educational Psychology has been defined in the past as an interventionist profession, mainly focused on the alleviation of educational problems that interfere with the educational process. Currently a paradigm shift seems to herald new opportunities for the profession to develop whole school approaches and devote less of its time to individual case work. Educational psychologists world-wide foresee a broadening in the focus of their work to include a larger commitment to consultancy and school systems development. The benefits are seen in terms of the more efficient use of time, eliciting wider ranging change and the opportunity for offering a preventative approach to service delivery. School systems consultation represents such an approach. This study explores the practice of school systems consultation using an action research approach. It is argued that action research methodology provides a framework to contain and guide the complex developments which emerge once the consultation gets under way. Central concepts in an action research approach such as collaboration, participation and reflection are analysed and reflected upon in terms of the opportunities and constraints they presented to school systems consultation as a service delivery option for the educational psychologist. The role of the educational psychologist in South Africa has been conservative and the shift towards a more socially accountable one seems inevitable if such services are to be regarded as appropriate. The role of the educational psychologist as change agent in the transformation process in the South African education system is explored in this study.

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