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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"identity transformation"”.
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Interrogating Artist-Teacher Identity Transformation in Adult Community Learning
… substantive theory of artist-teachers in ACL identity transformation using second-generation and constructivist grounded theory approaches. This methodology chronicles how an artist-teacher in ACL comes to be. Additionally, autoethnography is used throughout to position my lived experiences …
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The Sojourner experience: An exploration of identity transformation through communication
… on the relationship between communication and identity transformation in the sojourner experience. It inquires the following: RQ1: How does communication affect the identity transformation process of sojourners? RQ2: How does identity transformation affect the way sojourners communicate? Ten …
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Indian physiotherapists' global Mobility: a grounded theory journey of professional identity transformation
… global mobility is a journey of professional identity transformation that consists of four stages 'forming', 'storming', 'transforming' and 'returning'. Identity formation occurs through professional socialisation during their degree training. 'Storming' occurs as they transition into work and …
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Flexible Habits of Race and Gender: Political Agency and Identity Transformation in Schools
… be prevented and current social structures of identity based privilege can be positively transformed. Through flexible habits, students can achieve agency in the ways in which they are identified by themselves and others and can effect political change in the systems of oppression that rely …
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Life being an International Student in the United States: Acculturation, Culture Shock, and Identity Transformation
… to analyze the culture shock and cultural identity changes they experienced, this paper intends to seek ways to help this group of students to ease their acculturative stress and to maximize their study abroad experience. Two focus groups with a total of eight international students were …
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The creation of the Khalsa : a study into the rhetorical strategies of collective identity transformation
… the creation of the Khalsa was a momentous and transformational step in that evolutionary process.</p> <p>Using Kenneth Burke's guilt-redemption cycle as a model, this study analyses the events that created the Khalsa. The study found that historical and social pressures provided the rhetorical …
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Recognition of prior learning and identity transformation: Experiences of social work graduates in the Western Cape, South Africa
… in RPL and studying social work influences identity transformation at a micro level. The researcher intended to address the lacuna in extant knowledge on RPL which focusses on the macro and pedagogical considerations linked to RPL. She is confident that the study provides new knowledge on …
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Not a Cinematic Hair Out of Place: Examinations in Identity (Transformation) as Evidenced through Haircuts in The Crying Game
This thesis asks a question: Can transformations to a cinematic character's hair be indicative of a realignment or shifting of that character's identity? As an attempt to answer this question, I introduce three new concepts: the Opaque Movement (OM), the Transparent Violent Moment (TVM), and the …
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Identity Crafting: A Study of a Pedagogy of Identity Transformation using Experiential Learning Approaches in a Leader Development Context
… leadership and arguing for the importance of identity-based transformational leader development programmes. Yet scholarship is fragmented on if and how identity transformation happens in leaders longitudinally post-interventions. Little is known on how potential changes are implemented in …
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At the crossroads of the identity (re)construction process: an analysis of 'fateful moments' in the lives of Coloured students within an equity development programme at UCT
… has made valuable contributions in the area of identity theory. Recent research into the identity transformation process has seen much emphasis being placed on developing specific conceptual tools to unpack the variable nature of these transformations. These conceptual tools have been extremely …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
… the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then it addresses the concept of enunciation as a way to facilitate English learners to establish their confidence in, and ownership of, the target language. This project is designed not only …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
… the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then it addresses the concept of enunciation as a way to facilitate English learners to establish their confidence in, and ownership of, the target language. This project is designed not only …
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I am a Lifer: An ethnographic study of the impact of long-term incarceration on Lifers' identity.
… the impact of the prison environment on Lifers' identity. It was hypothesized that individuals exposed to a prison environment, especially for long periods of time, are likely to experience conversion, or transformation to a "convict" or "inmate" identity. Using a symbolic interactionist …
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Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships
… Education (HE), mature women students experience identity change and transformation which could lead to conflict and strain on marital relationships. The aims of this thesis are to explore the effects of identity transformation on mature women and the family unit as a whole, through a …
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Replacing identity: Evangelical Christianity's role in identity creation and restoration
… understanding the difference between successful identity reconfiguration and the community’s role in confirming identity. This three-article dissertation explores how identities are impacted after experiencing a damaging experience by examining Evangelical Christianity’s role in identity creation …
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Through the Wire: Examining the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Students in Prison Education Programs and the Wraparound Services Needed to Support Their Success
… criteria. Participation in PEPs promoted identity transformation, skill development, and resilience. Both formal and informal support networks shaped persistence and completion, though institutional resource gaps were noted.</p> <p>Implications highlight the need for trauma-informed, …
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Transnationalization of Professional Identities: A Study of Five Vietnamese TESOL Educators
… While this policy process narrates the transformation of professional practice, it does not account for the ways professional identity transformation is a key part of this process. Following James Paul Gee's (2001) suggestion to use "identity as a theoretical lens for education …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis investigation into the subjective experience of being diagnosed with dyslexia in adulthood
… of experiential processes that culminated to ‘identity transformation’. These findings can help in deepening understandings of the effect of adult dyslexia diagnosis on identity; contribute to existing practices in counselling psychology, educational institutions and employment agencies …
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… epistemic agency as STEM learners as a result of identity transformation through the engagement of the epistemic practices of engineering. This study used qualitative methodology to explore how student participants demonstrate epistemic development in their artifacts and discourse when engaging in …
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