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Showing 1 to 20 of 558 for “"personal experience"”.
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Counselor’s Personal Experience with Counseling
… this exploratory study by the author about their experiences with personal therapy and whether they believe they are more effective counselors as a result of their own therapy. The participants in the study were given two surveys. The first survey consisted of five multiple choice questions to …
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Personal experience narratives in the deaf community: Identifying deaf-world typicality
… (BSL) to communicate and who share similar lived experiences. The storied lives of Deaf people, told in the community through personal experience narratives, provide insight into the issues that arise from being Deaf in a primarily hearing world. This thesis explores personal experience narratives …
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From personal experience to design : externalizing the homeowner's needs assessment process
… the resulting houses are not just custom, but personally meaningful. The particular focus of this work is on how to externalize the layperson's task of establishing needs and setting goals as an essential stage within a sophisticated design process. The work is informed by interviews with …
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Difficulties in the learning and teaching of linear algebra : a personal experience
Two different personal experiences of teaching Linear Algebra are analyzed: (1) teaching a college-level linear algebra course and (2) being the instructor in a predesigned experiment that investigates a geometric approach to the concepts of vector and linear transformations using the dynamic …
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Cosmology and Personal Experience: Representations of the Sacred Landscape in Salasaca, Ecuador
… not only what people say, but also how they experience the landscape. Cosmological aspects of the landscape, I show, are created and recreated through experience, social interaction, memory, and narrative.
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Oral narratives of personal experience : a developmental sociolinguistic study of Cape Flats children
Bibliography: leaves 268-282.
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Expectation vs. Perspective: A personal experience of completing transition from high school to community
… with each of the three participants about their experiences during the secondary transition. Three themes emerged from the data, including "I had no expectations": Expectations of the parent and transition plan; "He can do all those self-help things": Goal and skill development to support …
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Working with mentally handicapped people : different layers of intra-personal and inter personal experience
… The case study focuses on the subjective experiences of professional caregivers while working in a non-governmental organisation which provided protective employment to mentally handicapped adults. The participants who were employed as staff a group protective v,rorkshops, participated in …
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Stories Women Tell: An Ethnographic Study of Personal Experience Stories in a Women's Rap Group
This study explores communication in a women's rap group focusing on storytelling. Using a symbolic interactionist approach, storytelling was analyzed as a linguistic and a social interactional phenomenon. For nine months, the researcher acted as a participant/observer in a group of eleven young …
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A phenomenological exploration into the personal experience and impact of therapist self-disclosure on the therapist
… gap in this area, namely what was the impact and personal experience of therapist self-disclosure on the disclosing therapist? A Qualitative methodology encompassing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) felt appropriate as it allowed for non-intrusive enquiries whilst giving participants …
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The Effect of Geography and Personal Experience on Attitudes and Perceptions of the Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction
… can reveal whether cultural biases or personal experience with the vi wolves play more important role in affecting attitudes and perceptions and why. This information can be important in designing a successful wolf reintroduction program. The initial hypothesis for this research was …
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The personal experience of carers of individuals with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and their experiences of services
… adult couples. The empirical paper explores the experiences of individuals with a partners diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Lastly, a public domain provides a summary of the empirical paper.
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"It's not a Collective; It's a Personal Experience that Happens to be Shared": How Philosophical Systems of Individualism are Sustained through Masonic Collaboration.
This dissertation examines the experience of Freemasonry, as practiced in the United States, Colombia, and through Masonic literature, from an anthropological perspective. The Freemasons are a fraternal society with a global presence. In this work, the experience of Freemasonry, as both an …
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An investigation of the metaphoric potential of the relationship between pictorial and sculptural space
… an intention to locate a means of articulating personal experience in visual form. The departure points for this process are thus largely idiosyncratic and personal (subjective), while the focus of the investigation is on the potential for the dialectic of pictorial/physical space to articulate …
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Present absence /Absent Presence
In this project melancholy and the related experiences of loss and longing as explanatory concepts, are the basis fromwhich visually interpret the body of practical work that emphasises the role of emotion and personal experience in locating meaning.
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A Comparative Study of Writing Topic Choices of the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors
… animals, travel/adventure, magic/fantasy, personal experience, social issues, sports, heritage, alphabet/circu/puzzles. Each manuscript was analyzed and categorized under one of these theme categories. Data were then analyzed by year, by grade level, and by sex of author. The three most …
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“I Forget to Enjoy the Book”: A Narrative Analysis of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Real Selves and Ideal Selves as Readers
… ideal selves as readers. This is in response to personal experience with struggling readers, as well as GADOE data showing the magnitude of the issue surrounding struggling readers at Mountain Middle School (MMS). The data collected included student drawings and accompanying interviews. Findings …
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Perceptions of Environmental Education in Illinois Public High Schools
… of environmental education, which is based upon personal experience and the writings of environmental educators and environmentalists. This perception was then compared with those of seven Illinois high school environmental education teachers.
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Literary art as experience: teaching young adult literature, moral inquiry, and the personal journey toward meaning
… in different ways, understanding the role of personal experience is vital to the process of making meaning. Yet current educational practice devalues the significance of individuality and personal experience in the classroom. This is due, in part, to the gap that exists between theory and …
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