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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"first-person inquiry"”.
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Art-based knowing: first-person inquiry into epistemology, voice and agency from a gendered perspective
A first-person action research inquiry into feminine epistemological development, voice and voiceless-ness; working with art-based approaches, with metaphor and with embodied ways of knowing.
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… Being a pragmatic, action-oriented person, I experience that my walking practice was valuable in the change processes that I facilitate. Wondering why these walks in the ‘friluft’ were so valuable, I engaged in a first-person inquiry to explore my main question: “How does my practice …
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Guts, brains, complexity and creativity: immersive living and learning through the critical lens of first-person inquiry
… activities, and research projects as vehicles of inquiry that I look at them through the critical lens of first-person action research. I embrace radical creativity and “heartful autoethnography” and storytelling as devices to help reveal diffractive patterns in my behaviour with the purpose of …
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Being Superconnected: A First-Person Inquiry into the Influence of the Embodied Principles of Aikido on the Practice of Leading Self
… has no real value” (Saotome, 1993, p. 237), this inquiry explored the value of aikido beyond a martial art and in the context of leadership development. Through first-person action research methodology involving journaling and meditation, focus group discussions with two feedback partners, and …
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Bringing the shadow out: a first-person inquiry on wholeness explored through the (un) silenced narratives of a Kenyan woman working in multinational organisations
… working in multinational organisations, this first-person inquiry provides a perspective on action inquiry informed by an African epistemology of Utu. It reveals the invisible work done to be in relation with others while negotiating subtle power relations, constructions of gender, the …
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Out of the shadows: from forlorn to flourishing (using self as instrument of care for helping)
… effectively requires self-awareness. I argue for first-person inquiry, supported by a community-of-inquiry, as the practice for developing the range of attention crucial for greater self-awareness and attunement to others. I present examples of using living life as inquiry, stories as …
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Getting in, getting on, getting out, getting over it. An exploration into the inner work of an executive team coach
… a pragmatic action research approach, this first person inquiry draws from practice vignettes, autoethnography, five-factor analysis, personal reflection, and literature to explore the research question. I show that resourcing from within is central to the ability to work systemically with …
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Leading from Within: A First-Person Study on How Meditation Might Enrich Leadership Praxis
… is from this embodied dialogue that the central inquiry of this study emerged: How might meditation enrich my leadership praxis? Motivated by a desire to deepen my awareness of my physiological responses and their triggers while working in a dynamic and often stressful environment, I sought to …
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Being good enough? A first-person action research inquiry into the experience of shame in professional practice
This thesis is a first-person action research inquiry into the phenomenon of shame within my professional practice in leadership and management development, in the context of experiential and experience-based learning. Shame has received little consideration within the field of organisational …
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Enactive Agnosis: The playful use of form as a bodily activity of (not) knowing
This is an action research inquiry that takes place within the National Health Service in the UK. I am an NHS consultant, working primarily clinically, who has been involved and interested in change and improvement since 2010. I embarked on this doctorate with the intention of knowing how to do …
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
… and change management, I came to doctoral inquiry in 2017. I realised early on that I had been living in a taken-for-granted positivist world with neoliberal expectations of utilisation and normative compliance. It became clear that challenges of being a female in professional life were far …
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Unleashing the power of reflection, action and collaboration in health care improvement
… improvement. The research is in the form of a first-person inquiry (into my life as the researcher – Reason & Torbet, 2001) and a second-person inquiry (with others, into issues of mutual concern – Reason & Bradbury, 2008) including learning and sharing with others beyond NWL. This thesis …
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Practising-as-inquiry: developing self-as-practitioner
My first-person inquiry is into my professional practice and my development as a practitioner. It is an inductive inquiry, from which I draw universal conclusions from my unique reflections on my sense-of-self and my experiences of my practice. Through practising-as-inquiry I interpret, discover …
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Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: a participative inquiry that seeks to create change through generating artful representations and curating new ideas using ‘Bridging, Making and Curating’
The question this inquiry asks is ‘How can we hear what people have to say, have their words represented for others to hear and for them to be organised in a such a way that positive action can emerge into their world?’. This is an Action Research inquiry set in the industrial modernist world. The …
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Toward a contemplative cyberspace: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemplation, social media and peace-building
… an integrated methodology, it begins with a first-person inquiry: examining my own practices of inner peace through contemplation. This examination is then expanded to a spiritual co-operative inquiry with six participants with similar experiences; of sacred and inner peace. It concludes with …
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A feminist action research inquiry into the hermeneutical injusticeof ‘being silenced’ in everyday conversational life
… ‘social silencing’ happens are exposed. Using first-person inquiry and co-operative inquiry methods, the women involved in this research revealed the context, dynamics, and impact of their experience of social silencing. This contributes to our understanding of interactive social experiences …
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Practice, Interrupted Narratively exploring a pedagogy for leadership development with emphasis on knowledge and power
… as thesis title encapsulates the profoundly personal nature of this scholarly journey for me as a practitioner and researcher as I seek to go to the heart of my life's work in a way I never have before. As a Leadership Development (LD) Practitioner, I create and facilitate learning workspace …