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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Epiphanies"”.
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Environmental Epiphanies: Exploring the Shifts in Human-Nature Interactions
The experience of epiphanies accompanied by intense emotions is a common occurrence in the context of natural environments. The occurrence of epiphanies is usually reported as a very memorable episode that has significant influences on subsequent cognition and behavior. Despite the fact that …
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Epiphanies of the Principalship: A Study of Passages in Educational Administration.
<p>This scrapbook of biographical sketches serves as an exhibition of portraits in the elementary school principalship through experiencing a gallery of leadership interviews. Perspectives have been framed in compositions that represent the practical realist, the idealist, and at times even a …
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<em>The Meaning of the Moment</em>: A Collection of Short Stories.
… at the lives of its protagonists culminating in epiphanies. One of these epiphanies is intended solely for the reader, but in two cases, the reader and character gains the insight. “The Tears of Angels” looks at the effect one person in a moment, even a stranger, can have on the protagonist’s …
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Becoming a grower: World view transformation among committed members of a mutual help group
… focused particularly on personal testimonies and epiphanies and how members incorporated the group's world view as their own.
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Ren Leadership: An Interpretive Biography of Bai Fangli
… of interpretive biography by exploring Bai's epiphanies to offer multiple perspectives on the significance of the epiphanies and their impact on Bai's life and his influence as a modern Chinese leader. This study was guided by the central question: What is the essence of the life and …
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Ren Leadership: An Interpretive Biography of Bai Fangli
… of interpretive biography by exploring Bai's epiphanies to offer multiple perspectives on the significance of the epiphanies and their impact on Bai's life and his influence as a modern Chinese leader. This study was guided by the central question: What is the essence of the life and …
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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces
… identity, migrancy, technologies of control, epiphanies, events and objects.
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The Death of King David or, The Abishag Rag
… at the end of his life, recounting his exploits, epiphanies, sins, insights and triumphs to his last love, Abishag, who was chosen, as the most beautiful from all twelve tribes, to keep the old man warm. It emphasizes his personal relationships and demonstrates the complexity of a character whose …
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The Humanity Strain: Diagnosing the Self in Walker Percy's Fiction
… and theologians alike have noted the spiritual epiphanies crucial to the different protagonists' development in Walker Percy's novels, they have focused more on Percy's Christian agenda than the medical healing that occurs in his fiction. Conversely, when scholars have observed the influence of …
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Lies I've Told Myself
… the process that leads to life-changing epiphanies. One through-line is how vulnerability leads to meaningful connection with others. So what happens in the end? The author finds her humanity.</p>
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The Personal Is Pedagogical: A Critical Teacher Educator’s Self-Reflexive Dialogue on Adultism
… which I refer to as the three E’s–education, epiphanies, and experiences–that allow this process to occur. Concomitantly, there are constraining factors, or three C’s–constructs, contexts, and curricula–that challenge this process. To illustrate how I am becoming critically aware of adultism, …
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Looking back in time, staring into history: an autobiographical sketch of an elementary school teacher from Appalachia
… memories, curious turning point moments, strange epiphanies and numerous significant others, this autobiographical sketch is the story of an oppressed young man from Appalachia who shunned his roots searching for answers. Ethnographically, it is the study and story of a disadvantaged student who …
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Sport retirement: Personal troubles, public faces
… frustration, and anguish, and are classified as epiphanies because their resolution changes the course of our lives. Such moments in sport include injuries, performance slumps, and missed goals. These setbacks can be devastating and threaten an athlete's sense of worth, and force him/her to …
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Anti-Oppressive Education Through English Language Arts: A Recollecting Journey
… the world. Students articulated any struggles, epiphanies, growth, enlightenment, or thoughts on their (re)produced ideologies that have been developed and shaped from childhood experiences and educational experiences. KEYWORDS: anti-oppressive pedagogy, narrative, Indigenous methodologies, …
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A qualitative narrative inquiry of the experience of accessing community supports among women who have experienced trauma
… a narrative inquiry method were used to explore epiphanies, customs, routines, images, and everyday experiences (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) among the women. A Three-Dimensional Space Narrative Structure was used to explore the participants' personal or internal conditions, feelings, hopes and …
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Journeys in feedback: undergraduate primary student teachers’ uses of personal and professional social networks to gather and interpret feedback, and the extent to which feedback influenced their reflective practices
… through light, darkness, obstacles and ‘personal epiphanies’ (Denzin, 1989) with collegial explorations and prompt feedback usage facilitating progress. Models identified that production-level and content-level peer feedback, when used with tutor feedback and artefacts, enabled deeper …
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Thirteen ways of looking : a theoretical inquiry in computational creative thinking
… of thoughts leading to creativity and epiphanies (the aha moments). I posit that Shape Grammar, with its ability to fluidly restructure computation, can be used to study and demonstrate cognitive diversity and interaction. If we conceive thoughts as shapes and ideas as configurations of …
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Drawing questions
… exploration to absorb the viewer in multiple epiphanies that lead to questions, self-reflection and a state of being conscious of consciousness. My art practice is inspired by the mutual arising or transactional interaction between the viewer, myself and the art experience.
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Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational
… and my personal experience to describe three epiphanies-interactional moments that significantly change the trajectory of a person's life-of gay identity: (1) "Learning the Closet," a moment when a person first becomes familiar with the metaphorical space; (2) "Living the Closet," a moment …
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
… arbitrary signs (Nietzsche)—by showing how the epiphanies of modern lyric poetry remain grounded in the metaphysics of analogia, even where (as in Mörike) the writer seems to have left such entanglements behind. The modern poet’s desire to unveil a significant reality beyond subjective …
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