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Personal Transformation (personal + transformation)
Selected AbstractsImitation, Indwelling and the Embodied SelfEDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Issue 2 2007Stephen Burwood Abstract In this paper I argue that recent developments in higher education presuppose a conceptual framework that fails plausibly to account for indispensable aspects of educational experience,in particular that a university education is fundamentally a project of personal transformation within a particular social order. It fails, I suggest, primarily because it consists of mutually supporting but erroneous conceptualisations of knowledge and the human subject. In pursuit of transparency and codification we have seemingly forgotten education's existential dimension: that education is closely tied to questions of personal identity and the formation of character and that this is an embodied project. [source] Corning creates an inclusive culture to drive technology innovation and performanceGLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 3 2007Anthony Oshiotse Corning's technology community, charged with doubling the rate at which technology breakthroughs are transformed into major businesses, has undertaken a bold experiment in social innovation to strengthen the interactional aspects of the innovation process. The initiative, creating an inclusive culture (CiCÔ), leverages emotional maturity and personal transformation into enhanced organizational capabilities and competitive advantage. Built on a broader model of diversity/inclusion and the CiCÔ learning model, the process equips individuals with the language, concepts, skills, and behaviors of inclusion. Next steps include building inclusivity concepts and tools into Corning's reinvigorated innovation process, with a focus on teams and work processes. © 2007 by Anthony Oshiotse and Corning Incorporated. [source] The healing power of reflective writing for a student victim of sexual assaultJOURNAL OF FORENSIC NURSING, Issue 2 2009Karen A. Karlowicz EdD Abstract The phenomenon of a caring relationship between a teacher and her student, a victim of sexual assault, is mediated through reflective writing assignments in a baccalaureate nursing program. Increased self-awareness, personal transformation, and healing results when the student is encouraged to openly write about her feelings. [source] Aligning Deweyan Pragmatism and Emersonian Perfectionism: Re-imagining Growth and Educating Grown-UpsJOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, Issue 3 2007VINCENT COLAPIETRO This essay examines in detail the triangulated conversation Naoko Saito constructs, in The Gleam of Light, among the voices of R. W. Emerson, John Dewey and Stanley Cavell. The pivot around which everything turns is the Emersonian ideal of moral perfectionism and, in particular, the implications of this ideal for the philosophy of education. As explicated by Cavell, this ideal concerns ,the dimension of moral thought directed less to restraining the bad than to releasing the good'. For the conscientious person, it is, at once, unavoidable and unattainable. In constructing a conversation among these and other authors, Saito establishes herself as an arresting voice by her thoughtful contributions to many contemporary controversies bearing upon our educational practices, not least of all ones about curricular reform as well as personal transformation. [source] Crossing borders of religious difference: Adult learning in the context of interreligious dialogueNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 104 2004Nadira K. Charaniya Two adult and religious educators,a Muslim and a Jew,demonstrate the impact of interreligious dialogue on personal transformation and democratic social change. [source] Medical illness and positive life change: can crisis lead to personal transformation?PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY, Issue 9 2009Annette L. Stanton., Edited by Crystal L. Park, Michael H. Antoni, Suzanne C. Lechner No abstract is available for this article. [source] Poetics of Memory: In Defence of Literary Experimentation with Holocaust Survivor TestimonyANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2010Frances Rapport SUMMARY This article defends literary experimentation through poetics, suggesting it is both valid and powerful for re-presenting social data. The article concentrates on methodological debates surrounding the use of poetics in social science studies, contextualizing the theoretical with exemplars taken from a study of Holocaust survivors' life stories that aimed to clarify whether notions of health and well-being were in evidence in survivor testimony. In so doing, the article raises an interesting question: "What happens when a poet and a qualitative health researcher work on the same sections of transcribed text?" The article argues for the value of poetics as a working method with oral histories of this kind, suggesting its major strength is to uphold processes of personal transformation via layers of differently mediated dialogue: between participant and researcher, researcher and reader, and the like. The article concludes with a discussion of how poetics might be useful to support others' research studies. [source] A Journey Through Ashes: One Woman's Story of Surviving Domestic ViolenceANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Issue 2 2009MAUREEN C. HEARNS ABSTRACT This is the story of Lisa1,a woman like so many others who has been abused,and of her healing journey using music and creative arts experiences. It is also a story about how music, song, poetry, art, and dance awakened her to a new consciousness and provided the necessary empowerment she needed in order to reclaim the woman she had been before experiencing the trauma of abuse. While the question of how utilization of music and the creative arts encourages personal transformation and healing is also deserving of a theoretical exploration, in this article I have chosen to foreground Lisa's story as narrative, in order to also engage the reader with the transformative potential of empowerment that comes through listening. I have chosen an approach that foregrounds Lisa's experience over theory explicitly, for, it is with the process of "finding voice" and of engaging the listener in that process, that transformation of consciousness and empowerment occurs. [source] | ||||||||||||||||