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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Critical Hermeneutics"”.
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Feeding identity: The critical hermeneutics of contemporary Kleinian psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy from the perspective of a novice
… Analysis, methodological hermeneutic and critical hermeneutic theory as expounded by Kögler, nine characteristics of CKPP are articulated and shown to meet the criteria of a critical hermeneutics. As a critical hermeneutic "language game" CKPP facilitates the (re)formation of the subject …
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Understanding Risks to Patient Safety from the Perspective of Nurse Practitioners Delivering Primary Health Care Using Telemedicine
… risks and (2) a qualitative study informed by critical hermeneutics to explore NP-PHCs’ experiences and perceptions. Results. The scoping review (22 studies) identified both safety benefits and barriers associated with telemedicine. In the qualitative phase, nine NP-PHCs from diverse practice …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
… A bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnography, critical hermeneutics and cultural studies lenses will analyze how the performances of participants and the power exercised by the beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls' identities. Analysis will also include how power …
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Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation
… phenomenological tenor in order to advance a critical hermeneutics of the sacrament. Further, the revisionist theological method of David Tracy is employed in order to conduct the processes of phenomenological description, followed by that of transcendental reflection, to assess the status of …
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Psychotherapy Training and Ethics: A Liberatory Response to Ideology for the Clinic and the Classroom
… of ethics for psychotherapy. Employing the critical hermeneutic philosophy of Miranda Fricker and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, I problematize ‘checkbox’ approaches to ethics. Specifically, I contest the prevalent notion that ‘justice’ and ‘the good’ of therapy is therapy with all the …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… theological interpretation of images, drawing on critical hermeneutics in theology and literary studies, the approaches of reader criticism, reception theory, and cultural history, the insights of art historical analysis, and a Christian understanding of religious art and sacred place. It …
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Interpreting Japan; Central European Design and Architecture 1920-1940
… in the process. Transnational theory as well as critical hermeneutics proved to be a useful methodology for appraising the dynamics of communication between members of transnational networks of the period under examination as well as for subsequent analysis of art works produced within this …
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Presence in Nursing Practice: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis
… and Protocol</p> <p>This research is grounded in critical hermeneutics and follows an interpretive approach to field research and data analysis (Herda 1999). This orientation places the researcher and participants in a collaborative relationship that exemplifies the power of conversation and the …
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Sustainability with an Ethical Aim: Lessons from an American Nun in Amazonia
… <p>This research is grounded in critical hermeneutics and follows an interpretive approach to field research and data analysis (Herda 1999). This orientation places the researcher and participants in a collaborative relationship that exemplifies the power of conversation and the …
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Transforming researchers and practitioners: The unanticipated consequences (significance) of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
… and Habermasian theories of conscientization and critical hermeneutics would assume that those engaged with the project have changed in some way through their learning experience and that change may be emancipatory. The change builds on a core tenet of PAR in developing relational knowledge while …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
… framework derived from Andrew Feenberg’s critical theory of technology, the thesis unpacks and problematizes the innovation process in order to understand how the outcomes of these schemes support the way of life of one or another influential social group. The philosophical orientation of …
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Strategic Consequences: How Executive and Organizational Decision-Making Impacts the Outcome of Unconventional Warfare
… and contextual deconstruction in the spirit of critical hermeneutics, provided the intellectual rigor to substantiate the findings.</p> <p>Ultimately, the evidence demonstrates that Intent Coherence is a necessary condition for a successful outcome. Unity of Effort is also necessary but is …
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Understanding accountability in an ever-changing New Zealand health system
… adopted a qualitative methodology and took a critical hermeneutics approach in order to explore the reasons for, and formats of, public health reform, and the experience of health policy implementers in dealing with reforms, policy changes, and accountability. To develop new insights about …
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The Re-Imagining of Rapa Nui Traditional Healing Arts: Explorations of Narrative Identity, Mimesis, and the Public Sphere
… and Protocol</p> <p>This research is grounded in critical hermeneutics and follows an interpretive approach to field research and data analysis (Herda 1999).</p> <p>Research Categories</p> <p>Three primary critical hermeneutic concepts drawn from the theoretical works of Paul Ricoeur (mimesis and …
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Leadership in Africa: A hermeneutic dialogue with Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere on equality and human development
… inequalities. The methodological choice is critical hermeneutics (Gadamer 1990, 2013; Ricoeur 1991b; Habermas 1992b, 1996), which allows a multi-cultural historical and contemporary dialogue with Nkrumah and Nyerere through their text. Hermeneutics also has relevance in Africa (Oruka 1990; …
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'A Rich Man's Sickness': A Critical Hermeneutic Study on What It Is Like To Live with Diabetes in Liberia
… manage their illness. As such, the aim of this critical hermeneutic study was to explore what it is like to live with diabetes in Liberia. I recruited 10 participants from a publicly funded hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, to partake in this study. Photovoice, a well-established participatory data …
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(RE)MAKING MESTIZAJE: THE ROLE OF RACE AND GENDER NORMS IN LATINA COLLEGE STUDENTS DISCOURSE
… these norms inside and outside of school. A critical hermeneutic methodological framework was employed in the interpretation of the participants' interviews. Discourse transcriptions were coded first for general themes and next for hermeneutical themes generated by Atlas Ti software. …
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Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education
… their academic goals.</p> <p>I employed critical hermeneutic theory within a framework of participatory research to conduct this study. Herda (1999:82) writes, "the purpose of participatory research is to create conditions whereby people can engage in discourse so that truth can be …