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 14 of 14 for “"View of self"”.
-
An Analysis of the Influence of Lesson Study on Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers' View of Self-As Mathematics Expert
This research seeks to investigate the influence of lesson study on preservice secondary mathematics teachers' view of self as mathematics expert. The study acknowledges the commonly held belief that prospective mathematics teachers have that they know and understand secondary mathematics. The …
-
Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement
The two traditional views in the epistemology of disagreement have offered distinct responses to the challenge of epistemic conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge these responses and offer a satisfactory position. This position is congruent with social epistemology as well as …
-
A Portfolio on Family Experiences and the Motivation to Become Counselling Psychologists
… role family experiences play in the motivation of those pursing a career in counselling psychology. METHOD: Eight trainee-counselling psychologists were recruited and interviewed about their family experiences and the influence they perceived their family had or had not on their motivation to …
-
Mindfulness, stress and self: an ontological shift
… is delivered to twenty nine health care professionals. Research questions address: what participants’ discourse can tell us about their experiences of stress over the course of the programme, what the changes in discourse suggest that is theoretically useful to the study of mindfulness, and …
-
A Qualitative Study of College Cadet Women's Leadership Identity Development in a Military Training Environment
In December 2015, the United States' Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, issued a directive that each branch of military avail every position to women (Pellerin, 2015). Given this and the dearth of literature on women's leader development in military environments, it was imperative to research if and …
-
The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the product of consciousness but its …
-
Developing Leaders: The Use Of Challenge And Support To Develop USMA Cadets
… fell short in their performance as leaders of character. USMA has changed its leader development strategy to an outcomes-based program. Contemporary literature suggests that identity development should be the goal of any leadership program as a leader with a strong leadership identity will …
-
Limitlessness of Queer Performance: On-stage Performances and the Construction of Off-stage Identities
… and alternative identities in the context of performance has alluded to the various social effects of these performances such as forming communities, demonstrating the possibility of living outside normative ideas of existing, and spatial transformation. However, little research has focused …
-
Crossing borders: conscious journeys with my family
This work of creative non-fiction encompasses episodes of travel motivated by the author’s desire to expose her children to different cultures and philosophies as an antidote to her own experiences of growing up during apartheid. The journeys are undertaken over a period of 18 years, starting in …
-
Ego Depletion and Boredom: Does Boredom Compromise Future Acts of Self-control?
… study explored how boredom might influence self-control when participants believed that willpower is unlimited or limited. After completing one of two questionnaires, which induced the belief that willpower is either unlimited or limited, participants then completed one of three tasks. The …
-
The Female Adolescent Incest Victim : Personality, Self-Esteem, and Family Orientation
… understand and help the female adolescent victim of intrafamilial sexual abuse. The purpose of the study was to identify her personality profile, gain information about her self-esteem, and discover her view of self within her family.</p> <p>Method. The High School Personality Questionnaire, the …
-
Investigating the Impact of Enterprise Social Media on Job Satisfaction of Chinese Employees in Public Sector: Empirical Study on DingTalk
Over past decades, the digital wave of various technology tools, such as enterprise social media (ESM), has disrupted the routine practices, structures, and relationships of contemporary organisations in China in novel ways. The emerging ESM, such as DingTalk, now prevails and is adopted by …
-
Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… thesis is in two sections: Section I is a work of Creative Writing comprising a novel entitled Sunnyland; Section II is a self-reflective commentary on the writing of the novel which explores some of its formal decisions and attempts to place Sunnyland within a contemporary context. Section I …
-
A critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian insights into transformative possibilities
This study investigates the ‘self’ of six Irish working-class women, all parenting alone and all returned to the field of adult education. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field and capital are the backdrop for the study of the ‘self’, which is viewed through his lens. This study commenced in …