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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Transformative Experiences"”.
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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 …
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The Transformative Experiences of Female Educators as a Catalyst for Social Change in the World
… of the participants revealed the Connectivity of Transformative Conditions (CTC)- situationality, positionality, self-efficacy, agency, and praxis- illuminating our human capacity to further fracture barriers related to power, class, race, and gender through social change endeavors.</p>
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Effects of a Green Chemistry Laboratory Design on First- Semester General Chemistry Students' Transformative Experiences in Chemistry
… laboratory design facilitated students’ transformative experiences in a first-semester general chemistry course for science majors. The study population consisted of 18 college students enrolled in the course at a small, rural, mid-Atlantic university. Traditional chemistry laboratories …
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Trainee teachers’ (in-service, post 16yrs) and teacher trainers’ perspectives on the significant transformative experiences that inform transformation from trainee to early career teacher - A Case Study
… and teacher trainers’ perspectives of the transformative experiences from current self, as trainee, to future self, as an early career teacher on in-service, post 16yrs Initial Teacher Training (ITT). A case study of 29 trainees and three teacher trainers, situated in a convergent …
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
There are transformative experiences of altered states of consciousness common to the human condition that exist across cultures, belief systems and appear in both religious and secular literature. These experiences can hold profound meaning to the individuals that hold them and cause tremendous …
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El Camino de Santiago: a catalyst for transformative tourism in the secular space
This thesis explores the phenomenon of secular transformative tourism on the Camino de Santiago, identifying catalysts that facilitate the experience. As primary motivations for walking the Camino have shifted from religious and spiritual towards secular, this research corroborates that many modern …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… in Las Vegas are engaged in religious-like and transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors. Those which are religious-like are categorized into separate groups. These separate groups are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent …
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Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others
<p>At the core of this study, at the core the transformative experiences that will be described, is agency and what can occur when it is at the forefront of development and learning. I discuss educational spaces that give young learners the opportunity to recognize their ability to shift their …
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Conversion as transformative experience: a sociological study of identity formation and transformation processes
… theoretical framework is constructed from which transformative experiences can be analysed. The particular experience at the heart of this study is the phenomenon of conversion and the dynamics involved in the construction of that process. Establishing the axial age as the horizon from which the …
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Composing the self: examining dynamics of meaning and agency in narratives of authenticity and self-transformation
… narratives of authentic, inauthentic, and transformative experiences relate to retrospective self-attributions of meaning and agency. Narratives were analyzed using established deductive thematic coding schemes alongside a novel system designed to capture state-level indicators of …
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Thacher Gallery
… is how I thank Thacher for the resources and transformative experiences it has given me over the last five years. After working at Gleeson Library's Periodicals Department for three years, Thacher was my distraction, lunch break room , and temporary office. Most importantly, it was my …
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THE EMPRESS OF ROME & OTHER STORIES THAT MAKE ME POSSIBLE
… altering during HRT, piercings, and other transformative experiences. With flourishes of lyricism, pessimism, comedy, and mournfulness, this tight-knit multi-genre patchwork ultimately renders a hopeful picture of living as a transsexual woman, finding agency through sex, and learning to …
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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. …
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Resisting technology : self-transformation and its catalysts
… and activate performative situations for self-transformative experiences of an individual, and a group. In these situations, objects act as catalysts and structures for action and dialogue, while revealing the ambivalence in them-as technologies of coercion and freedom.
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF EDUCATION AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY
… study, I examined the educational experiences of six international doctoral students of Education at a Midwestern university. The purpose of this study is to understand how the participants make meaning of their educational experiences. Several theories influenced this study. These …
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What I learned from missionaries in the Dominican Republic : loosen the agenda, hold onto the vision; cherchando is an important part of transformational development
… and how student participants evaluate their experiences, it seemed that, at least for the agricultural site, some of the most interesting insights, meaningful connections and transformative experiences happen outside of the planned activities, and are realized afterwards through reflection …
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Libraries and the Missing Narrative: Practitioner Explorations in the use of Design Psychology and Environmental Autobiography for Library Buildings and Designs
… Psychology informs this study of the meaning and experiences of libraries described by six library-building design practitioners. Participants were guided through an adaptation of Toby Israel’s (2010) Design Psychology Toolbox (hereafter known as the DPT or the “Toolbox”) exercises. The research …
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Conscience in recovery from drug addiction: a theoretical and empirical study of spiritual conscientious transformation for the formulation of conscience therapy
… and its influences through spiritually transformative experiences. The scholarly research in substance addiction and recovery suffers internal tensions and underdevelopment related to the understanding of addiction, morality, spirituality and conscience. The aims of the study are to …
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All about 'attacks' and remaining 'mindless' to feelings - psychoanalytic reflections in playtherapy
… rather than remaining mindless to emotional experiences. How children communicate their experiences in therapy is frequently beyond words and can only be gauged by means of symbolic expressions, nonverbal responses, and primitive projective identification processes. The therapist's …
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