Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1762 for “"Transformative"”.
-
Transformative copy
… The concept of the copy is inherently transformative, even if just as the transformation from "the One into the Many ". However, until the recent transition from analog to digital media, the perfectly identical copy was not possible, every reproduction resulted in transformation. While …
-
Accountability and transformative literacy
… conceptual study of accountability measures and transformative teaching practices, this extensive literature review investigates the accountability measures in schools such as high-stakes tests and teacher evaluation methods. The study also examines how teachers and schools can meet obligations …
-
The meaning of transformative dreams
… answer the question, "What is the meaning of the transformative dream for people who do not experience resolution of their problem immediately upon awakening?". Existential-phenomenology from the perspective of a story was used to describe the meaning of the experience for ten individuals, nine …
-
Transformative Technology: Staff Perceptions, Attitudes, And Behaviors Related To The Use Of Learning Management Transformative Technologies
… of staff relate to the effective use of transformative learning management technologies to support personalized/customized learning. Additionally, this study sought to understand the stories of individuals using the learning management system Empower as staff transformed to a …
-
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide
… a full account of what I call <em>environmental transformative justice</em>. To achieve this the dissertation establishes the context in which <em>environmental transformative justice</em> is operative because of harm suffered (i.e., social death and loss of vital interests stemming from …
-
Transformative infrastructures: retrofitting the apartheid city
This dissertation is a speculation on the role of infrastructure in shaping the city. By reimagining infrastructure in terms of its social, economic and topographical effects rather than purely on functional terms, the project proposes a method of intervention that transforms the city by …
-
Transformative Leadership In Nature-Based Preschool Education
… children, which was explored through the lens of transformative leadership and its key principles: equity, inclusion, and democracy. The purpose was to examine nature-based preschool leaders’ perceptions of leadership. The research questions that guided this study were: a.) what are educational …
-
Do-It-Together: Informal Transformative Sustainability Education
… for their sakes but also because collective and transformative change is required. Transformative sustainability education provides one pathway to this transformation and focuses on radically altering students’ perceptions about the world and their agency in effecting change on ecological issues. …
-
Virginia Gravity Flow Winery: A Transformative Journey
This thesis is embodied by the design of a new gravity flow winery on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Northern Virginia. The 100 acre site is home to an existing winery with grape vines aged over a decade. From its initial inception, this thesis has been in part a response to the …
-
Transformative Effects of Learning & Assessment-Focused Educational Development
… educational development might facilitate transformative professional learning. Sixteen college and university faculty members with whom I had engaged in learning&assessment-focused educational development, and who were familiar with the ICE (Ideas, Connections and Extensions) model of …
-
Design and Democracy: Transformative Agency within Indigenous Structure
South African democracy is perceived and evidenced to be under duress. This research questions how design, when underpinned by transdisciplinarity and abduction, can articulate and address this problem. <br></br><br></br>The literature is reviewed to map how designed objects, processes, and …
-
“Transformative Constitutionalism” : the best tactic to achieve it
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
-
An existential formulation of transformative experiences in nature
This was a qualitative research study looking at transformative experiences in nature. The aim was to explore and describe these experiences and reflect on their place and impact from an existential perspective, considering implications for psychotherapy and counselling theory and practice. This …
-
Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
This dissertation research focuses on post-colonial storytelling practice, theorizing a framework I call Narrative Justice Playmaking which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- …
-
Building transformative school-community collaboration : a critical paradigm
… and validate a comprehensive framework for transformative school-community collaboration based on a critical paradigm and its corresponding theories. Using school survey data, an exploratory factor analysis identified the four dimensions of transformative school community collaboration, …
-
Curriculum and Resistance: Exploring Possibilities for Transformative Teaching
… high school in the South. Possibilities for transformative teaching, as well as acts of resistance against barriers to teacher effectiveness and student achievement, are explored. The pedagogies of Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, and Maxine Greene formed the theoretical framework used …
-
An Investigation of Transformative Tourism Outcomes and Strategies
Transformative tourism is investigated as a potential solution to the challenges currently facing the tourism industry. Tourism is facing a defining time as societies are attempting to manage the effect of fast path globalization and are confronted with the pressing issues of climate change that …
Page 1 of 89