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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Personal Construct Psychology"”.
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Creative Explorations in Experiential Personal Construct Psychology: Accessing Nonverbal Meanings in Dreams
… image, and world. Framed by a background of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP; Kelly, 1955), Experiential Personal Construct Psychology (EPCP; Leitner, 1988), Archetypal Psychology (Hillman, 1975), and the aesthetic perspective in EPCP (Thomas & Schlutsmeyer, 2004), my aim in this study was …
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The development, implementation and evaluation of a Constructivist learning approach based on personal construct psychology
… development, implementation and evaluation of a constructivist learning model based on Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). The thesis begins with a rationale for the use of PCP and then the instructional approach is derived from this theoretical basis. Following the derivation, …
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The Management of Pupils' Disruptive and Challenging Behaviour: facilitating Newly Qualified Teacher thinking through Personal Construct Psychology
… and focus groups. Phase two investigates NQTs' personal theories about the management of pupils' behaviour utilising tools from Personal Construct Psychology. Data for this phase came from a series of linked case studies as the researcher followed the progress of four NQTs throughout their …
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Problem structuring: a personal construct theory perspective
… as a cognitive process, and George Kelly's personal construct psychology is adopted as the theoretical basis to develop a problem structuring method. The method developed uses Kelly's repertory grid technique in a particular form that is modified for the specific needs of problem structuring …
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The influence of a student centred approach to teaching on the achievement of students’ career goals and personal aspirations
… in the direction of their career goals and personal aspirations when a humanistic/student centred approach to teaching is used in a Competency-Based program. Nineteen students in Certificate III, Community Services Education (Aged Care Work) participated in the study. Information was …
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An action research approach to initial teacher education in Norway
… education and stimulus in their professional and personal growth, I argue that the teaching and learning activities in the process of learning and learning to teach have to be carefully chosen and creatively implemented. Through this Action Research I conclude that the pedagogical tools derived …
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Investigating the factors associated with emotionally-based non-attendance at school from young people’s perspective.
… were elicited, using techniques derived from personal construct psychology (Kelly, 1955). These girls were from a non-clinical sample, and were identified as ‘at risk’ of developing more severe and persistent forms of emotionally-based non-attendance in the future. The results are discussed in …
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A study of the moral development, beliefs and relationships of the criminal entrepreneur
… reducing recidivism. Based on an epistemological constructivist approach, the methodology used was a phenomenological one and included a moral dilemma, an ethics questionnaire and personal construct psychology linked with case studies. This is a novel approach in that it uses Kelly’s (1955) …
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Exploration of how children and young people self-construe following a traumatic experience
… (Kelly, 1955; Ravenette, 1996), based on personal construct psychology, was used to encourage a creative and developmentally appropriate exploration of how they construed. These included four overarching themes which were developed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006): The …
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'Doesn't matter what we think we are doing, it's how it is perceived.' Exploring the usefulness of the Ideal Teacher Drawing technique with students and teachers in a Pupil Referral Unit.
… Referral Unit (PRU) aiming to explore pupils' constructs of an ideal and non-ideal teacher through the application of the Personal Construct Psychology based Ideal Teaching Drawing (ITD) technique. The study aimed to understand how the collated information from the pupils is understood and used …
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Online pedagogy: the pedagogical variation model for asynchronous online teaching
… - collaborative capability and knowledge construction ability. These are utilised to create a new model, the 'model of Pedagogical Variation', where online teaching is viewed as situational, and e-learners of varying degrees of capability can be given opportunities to maximise their online …
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Description of the Trio/Upward Bound Students' Construction of Vocations Using George Kelly's Rep Test Method
… generation college students). This study used Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) to access representations of students' thinking by means of a repertory-test grid methodology. Using the traditional constructivist repertory-test method, a custom designed instrument called the WOAR (Weingarten …
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Personal constructs in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a dependency grid analysis
This thesis presents an investigation into the personal constructs that people with type 2 diabetes use, to live and manage their condition. The approach adopted was underpinned by personal construct psychology, utilising qualitative and dependency grid methods to determine individual personal …
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Participatory design process engaging intergenerational cohorts: using value elicitation to co-create interactive media experience
… with the theoretical underpinning from personal construct psychology (PCP) applied to data analysis and modeling in this work.
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To Boldly Go: How do women in senior positions in the Church of England construe their leadership?
… Repertory Grids, which derive from a theory of personality proposed by George Kelly known as Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). From the standpoint of those who are interviewed, it enables the discovery of some of the key issues and perspectives, as well as giving insight into both the …