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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"transformative experience"”.
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Conversion as transformative experience: a sociological study of identity formation and transformation processes
… theoretical framework is constructed from which transformative experiences can be analysed. The particular experience at the heart of this study is the phenomenon of conversion and the dynamics involved in the construction of that process. Establishing the axial age as the horizon from which the …
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Effects of a Green Chemistry Laboratory Design on First- Semester General Chemistry Students' Transformative Experiences in Chemistry
… laboratory design facilitated students’ transformative experiences in a first-semester general chemistry course for science majors. The study population consisted of 18 college students enrolled in the course at a small, rural, mid-Atlantic university. Traditional chemistry laboratories …
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Paths with heart : transformative journeys in the imaginal realm
… is a hermeneutic investigation into the lived experience of, and interpersonal and intrapersonal processes involved in transformative learning in primarily affective and imaginal modes of being. Through the lens of an extended epistemology, my inquiry challenges assumptions that …
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Experiences of successful returner nursing students
… phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of success in nursing school within one specific population of nursing students that were at risk for attrition. Findings indicate that the experience of failure, return and subsequent success in nursing school is a very complex journey. …
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The Far Reaching Impact of Transformative Learning: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study
This multiple case study focused on the lives and experiences of four women who participated in an adult literacy program. This case study approach used critical ethnography as an analytic tool employing grounded theory leading to the development of a substantive theory. In-depth, semi-structured …
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Mountain and Ocean Strikes: Exploring an Embodied Sense of Place and Ecological Identity in Kaihewalu Lua
… adopting a metaphorical landscape to portray my transformative experience and the resulting patterns as they might apply to environmental education pedagogy. With permission, I have adopted traits from Kaihewalu Lua’s Indigenous method of embodied learning to suggest a pedagogical frame to help …
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A Qualitative Study of Urban Mini-forest Initiation Within the Context of Canada’s Changing Climate
… Findings revealed that prior environmental experience, concerns about biodiversity loss, anticipation of outcomes, opportunities for community engagement, and community empowerment were common factors. For some, opportunities for reconciliation with Indigenous People were identified as a …
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Individuation and the Demeter-Persephone Myth in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley
… Jung saw as an archetypal expression of female transformative experience—as an underlying plot structure for her novel. The division of the novel into three volumes mirrors significant stages of individuation and major plot shifts in the "Hymn." Persephone's abduction and Demeter's wandering …
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
… narrative art (film, literature, comics) to be a transformative experience in the life of the consumer (viewer, reader) through a sensuous, embodied interaction with that work of narrative art. Drawing from film, narrative and comics theory as well as primary sources, I show that there is …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
… that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This qualitative case study uses phenomenography and mindset theory to analyze the complex experiences of failure among three new college composition instructors at Texas State University. The first writer, …
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The Cultural Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
<p>This study explores the nature of the transformative experience that can occur for students as a result of participating in a short-term study abroad program. Eighteen University of South Carolina students who participated in a wide variety of topical, short-term study abroad programs during the …
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Putting It Gently: The Other Side of a Peace Corps Volunteer Experience
<p>The Peace Corps is a transformative experience for many young Americans. The majority of volunteers have worthwhile services they remember fondly; however, these experiences are not always positive. The Peace Corps is a Cold War initiative that uses soft power techniques to further American …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
… Education (Access) as a site of transition and a transformative experience for mature students studying in Further Education (FE) and interrogates how widening participation policy discourse for under-represented groups, posits mature students’ identity, as one of individual and collective …
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Participation and Advocacy in Community Media
… and yet it holds considerable potential as a transformative experience and as an agent for social change. This thesis explores how the process of participation in community media represents an opportunity for reinvigorated democratic and civic conversations about issues of concern to local …
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Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others
<p>At the core of this study, at the core the transformative experiences that will be described, is agency and what can occur when it is at the forefront of development and learning. I discuss educational spaces that give young learners the opportunity to recognize their ability to shift their …
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Exploring Transformative Journeys through a Higher Education Programme in a Further Education College
… students – if students can be transformed by the experience of education (Mezirow, 1978a, 1991; Cranton, 2006). Within both a critical and a phenomenological research paradigm, twelve non-traditional graduates from a full-time BA programme at an HE and FE College in Scotland were interviewed; as …
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An áit ina bhfuil t-anam is ann a thógas do chosa tú (your feet will always take you to the place of your soul): A study of transformation through indigenous ways of knowing in a County Kerry Community
… external worlds, the surface and the deep, was a transformative experience for them, changing their approach to learning and living. As they transformed their experiences of life on the theatre stage, life was transformed also for their everyday communities and those journeying with them as they …
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Spiritual Struggle and Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Perpetual Ascent: An Orthodox Christian Virtue Ethic
… unity with God, that is, with inexpressible and transformative experience of God. God—the infinite, the Good, and the Paragon of virtue—functions as the orienting principle of this perpetual ascent, mitigating the issues of the unity of the virtues and the self-centeredness and self-effacement of …
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An exploration of how the timing of colostomy following spinal cord injury impacts on the individual.
… aim was to understand more about individuals’ experiences and the patient-initiated phenomenon. Starting with an appraisal of the Wider Landscape in which the phenomenon emerged, the research journey was made using constructivist Grounded Theory. Four major categories were discovered. …
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"This is a Public Record": Teaching Human Rights Through The Performing Arts
<p>Urban youth in the United States often experience daily human rights violations such as racism and violence. Therefore, Human Rights Education (HRE) can strengthen their understanding of these issues and unleash their power to act toward positive change. This qualitative study attempted to gain …
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