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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"self-understanding"”.
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Revelation and self-understanding: A comparative study of Gabriel Moran and Carl Rogers
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How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity
… 1) How does religion shape immigrants` understanding of American citizenship? 2) How do immigrants constitute a sense of empowered citizenship via the civic and religious institutions they navigate? 3) Does religion act as a preserving force of traditional Filipino culture within …
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‘Le Moyen de lire eux-mêmes’: Self-understanding and the Aesthetic Experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu
… This view prompts two crucial questions about self-understanding through reading: (i) what is meant by ’self and (ii) what makes the process of reading literature special, as opposed to other aesthetic experiences and the reading of other kinds of texts. The first part of the thesis focuses on …
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A Study of the Effect of Private Test Interpretations on the Self-Understanding of Students' Abilities as Measured by the General Aptitude Test Battery
… individual test interpretations upon increased self-understanding of special abilities as measured by the General Aptitude Test Battery. A procedure was developed to improve use of aptitude tests with tenth grade students. Group and individual guidance activities were provided which were …
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Perceptions of Self-Concept for Multiracial College Students: A Mixed Methods Study
… perceptions of Multiracial students about their self-concept across college campuses in the United States. This study had a twofold purpose, with the first purpose to examine the behaviors and activities Multiracial students engaged in while in college in order to identify factors that affect …
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Technologies in Practice: Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Technique
… the types of knowledge associated with practical understanding incorporate questions of the self and lived experience. In contrast, the types of knowledge and capability associated with modern technology are independent of questions of self-understanding. Technical approaches to practical dilemmas …
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The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
… themselves wrongly (i.e., constructing a false self)? (3) What does true self-understanding entail? (4) What interventions can foster true self-understanding? Chapter 2 presents a biblical response, with specific focus on passages from Proverbs, Matthew’s Gospel, and Paul’s letters. Chapter 3 …
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Restart the ‘World’ with Revolutionary Ruptures: Imagining Identity through War & in Crisis – Apocalyptic Rhetoric & the American Civil Religion
… the state in times of crisis and how individual self-understanding emerges via Narrative Identity. The major mythic structures that provide the source of authority to American self-understanding include: the American civil religion and the American culture-wars. Crisis compels identification to …
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The Déploration as Musical Idea
… the historian with unique insight on composerly self-understanding during this era. Long mischaracterized as a mode of individual lament, the déploration may be more accurately defined as a mode of communal commemoration.
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
… would concern the need to construct a self, the constantly shifting work of forming personal identity and enhancing self understanding. As such, internal commitments and intense devotion may perform as a de facto invisible religion in the lives of people. As popular culture provides …
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De Opificio Lactantii: a reassessment of the work of L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
… purpose and plan of his works in relation to his self-understanding as a writer. I argue that such an approach reveals that Lactantius regarded himself as the Christian Cicero, the way that he has sometimes been described by commentators, and� that this self-understanding determines the whole …
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Dynamic In-patient Therapy: A Team Approach
… and assists the patient toward constructive self-understanding. The approach favors maximum therapeutic benefit from a short hospital stay. Follow-up of the first fifteen cases managed by this method discloses a significantly low percentage of relapse and rehospitalization, and demonstrates …
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Moving Forward Into the Past: The Role of the Belvedere Museum in the Construction and Representation of Austrian Identity
… to the past necessary to nurture Austrian self-understanding, come to terms with the past, and renegotiate identities.
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Nietzsche, Sin and Redemption
… sin. I show that existential sin as a form of self-understanding is deeply embedded in the Christian theological tradition, and that Nietzsche’s account of existential sin should be understood as part of this same tradition. In my reading of On the Genealogy of Morality I show that we need to …
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A Girl's Best Friend? Implications of Friendship on Female Self-identity in Young Adult Literature
Understanding one’s self-identity is a key part of adolescence, especially for girls. But what external factors determine one’s self-perception? By examining the works of five mass-market young adult authors, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, E. Lockhart, Cynthia Voigt, and Cecily von Ziegesar, evidence …
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Essential Competencies of Teachers of the Gifted.
… sets the environment which inspires or destroys self-confidence, encourages or suppresses interests, develops or neglects creativity, stimulates or discourages critical thinking, and facilitates or frustrates achievement. -Joan B. Nelson and Donald L, Cleland.The competence of his teacher is a …
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Nature versus freedom : Hannah Arendt's theory of the political sphere from the polis to the modern world
… from its introduction in her treatment of the self-understanding of the ancient Greek polis to its deployment in the modern context. With The Human Condition as the central text in my analysis, I consider the key philosophical-theoretical commitments surrounding the theory of the political …
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Identity And Public History
… paper considers the creation of identity and self through interaction with museums. By understanding whether there is a correlation between how someone views themselves and their placement within society and the national narrative, consideration of alternative actions in combating social …
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German Nationality: an Illustration of Institutionalized Discrimination
… as an example of deepening ethno-cultural self-understanding institutionalized by the state that results in the discrimination of millions of foreign residents based solely on nationality.
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