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Burlin, Sr Thomas B. "High School Contemporary a Cappella: a Descriptive Phenomenology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822787/.
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This study examines the phenomenon of contemporary a cappella music making found in high school settings as curricular and extra-curricular offerings. Past music and music education literature has focused exclusively on contemporary a cappella at the collegiate level. Through application of a descriptive phenomenological method and incorporation an educational-sociological lens, this study advances an understanding of the educational benefit and social value of membership in contemporary a cappella at the high school level. Six recent members from three regions of the United States provided data through individual open-form interviews in which questions were derived from the participants’ own speech. I incorporated phenomenological reductions and processes to negate researcher bias during data collection, analysis, and the formation of a general structure and constituent meanings of membership in high school contemporary a cappella. Participants utilized traditional music skills, individual talents, conceptions of popular culture and music, and in-group socialization to facilitate music making and reify membership. Expressing the value of group membership, individuals acted to benefit the group by cultivating social bonds, developing and fostering personal/shared connections to songs, identifying and purposing individual talents and skills, and gaining an understanding of each members’ unique contribution to membership. Discussion includes implications for music education and suggestions for future research.
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Clugston, Byron. "Transcendental-Phenomenological Proof and Descriptive Metaphysics." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5823.
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Following P.F. Strawson's reading of Kant, the majority of the literature on transcendental arguments seeks to divorce such arguments from their original Kantian context. This thesis is concerned with Mark Sacks's recent defence of transcendental arguments, which takes a different approach. A critique is given of Sacks's work and extensions and modifications of his approach are recommended. It is proposed that certain difficulties encountered by Kant's transcendentally-ideal approach can be overcome with Hegelian solutions.
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Clugston, Byron. "Transcendental-Phenomenological Proof and Descriptive Metaphysics." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5823.
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Master of PhilosophyFollowing P.F. Strawson's reading of Kant, the majority of the literature on transcendental arguments seeks to divorce such arguments from their original Kantian context. This thesis is concerned with Mark Sacks's recent defence of transcendental arguments, which takes a different approach. A critique is given of Sacks's work and extensions and modifications of his approach are recommended. It is proposed that certain difficulties encountered by Kant's transcendentally-ideal approach can be overcome with Hegelian solutions.
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Ehle, Michelle M. "Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis of Influences to Death Anxiety." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch158092019845617.
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Schnitzius, Michael P. "Toward a Descriptive Eidetics of Atonality: a Phenomenological Analysis of Webern Op 3, No 1." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149660/.
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David Lewin, in his 1986 article “Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception,” offers a promising methodological approach for the analysis of tonal music from a phenomenological perspective. Lewin’s phenomenological method has a propensity to render seemingly contradictory readings in such a way that their respective validities can be preserved by articulating them within differentiated contexts. Expanding upon Lewin’s phenomenological work with analyzing tonal music, I propose that a phenomenological investigation of an atonal song, Webern op. 3, no. 1, from within a variety of differentiated contexts can shed light upon what it means to perceive a piece of music as being “not in a key.” This thesis will open with an introduction to Lewin’s phenomenological work and the writings of Edmund Husserl and Izchak Miller that Lewin used as a point of departure. The analysis of Webern op. 3, no. 1, that follows will regard the voice and piano parts as differentiated musical contexts in order to investigate the interaction between these contexts as they generally undermine the perception of tonality in the song. Finally, the notion of a “musical context” as an organizing factor of musical perception will be expanded to include the different analytical approaches of Olli Väisälä and Elmar Budde as they interact to reveal contrasting aspects of the song’s multivalent structure.
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Reed, Alissandra. "An Applied Approach to the Descriptive Analysis of Music as Heard." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149253274230909.
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Cameron, Malcolm Paul. "The experiences and meanings of adults who were raised in and later departed from evangelical fundamentalism : a descriptive phenomenological inquiry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2439.
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In this descriptive phenomenological inquiry, I explored the experiences and meanings of five adult research participants who were raised in and later departed from evangelical fundamentalism in some measure. Life Review, a structured guided autobiographical group-based adult learning model designed to assist people in organizing life events, was utilized to explore the research participants' experiences and meanings of being raised in a religious fundamentalist orientation. As a result of participating in Life Review, the research participants generated thirty descriptive written narratives that served as the primary source of data for this inquiry.
For the purpose of this inquiry, the research participants attended eight Life Review sessions. Sessions one and eight focused on group formation and closure, respectively. Sessions two through seven focused on assigned topics. In this regard, the research participants prepared six two-page single spaced narratives via a word processor describing their experiences and meanings specific to: 1) choosing to participate in this study, 2) major branching points in life, 3) family of origin, 4) parenting practices, 5) the effects of being raised in evangelical fundamentalism, and 6) the meaning of life. During Life Review sessions two through seven, the research participants read their respective narratives aloud to the other participants. A time limited reflective group discussion followed the reading of each narrative.
A phenomenological data analysis model was applied to the research participant's narratives. The analysis of the data culminated in the emergence of themes that revealed the essence of the lived experience and meanings of being raised in and later departing from evangelical fundamentalism. The themes included the experience and meaning of: 1) unresolved pain, 2) unfulfilled longing, 3) coping strategies, 4) identity formation, 5) God and church, 6) being a Parent, 7) crippling fear, 8) engaging culture, 9) departing, and 10) finding home. These emergent themes described the essence of the research participants' life worlds specific to having been raised in and later departing from evangelical fundamentalism. The significance of the emergent findings and their relevance to evangelical fundamentalism, the psychology of religion, counseling psychology, and continued research were addressed, as were the limitations of the study.
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Bombly, Sarah Mirlenbrink. "Reading Assessment Practices of Elementary General Education Teachers: A Descriptive Study." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4866.
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In this descriptive study, I researched five elementary general education teachers' reading assessment practices as they worked within the context of IDEA (2004), NCLB (2002) and Response to Intervention (RTI). My own connection to the classroom and reading assessment practices brought me to this research. I presented my personal and professional connection through vignettes about my own classroom assessment practices. Relevant literature on both the context and culture of assessment were pertinent to this research.
I used a qualitative design, specifically, Colaizzi's (1978) method of phenomenological analysis. Data were three in-depth phenomenological interviews, relevant documents and artifacts, and use of a researcher reflective blog. I summarized the initial findings of this research through 10 clustered themes; shift of focus, ever changing accountability, independent efforts with data, collaborative efforts with data, working environment, interventions and reading assessment practices in action, authenticity in practice, lack of decision making power, teacher emotion, and teacher needs and wants and a composite narrative in order to describe the lived experience of these teachers reading assessment practices.
Implications from my research with regard to policy include a perceived incongruence between an RTI framework and the teacher evaluation system with regard to active collaboration. Those toward practice include difficulty with the day-to-day implementation of an RTI framework and the perception of a singular focus of RTI as disability determination. My recommendations for future research include an action research agenda designed to explore increased involvement of stakeholders such as students, parents and other school personnel.
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Morrissey, Sheryl Christian. "A Phenomenological Exploration of Mindfulness Meditation and the Creative Experience." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6459.
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Creating is the highest level of intellectual functioning in the cognitive domain. As standardized testing has increased, U.S. K-12 education has shown a decline in creativity for students. Mindfulness meditation (MM) increases creativity and could serve as a solution to this dilemma. This study's purpose was to enrich findings regarding MM's role in enhanced creativity by conducting an exploration regarding lived experiences of creating for individuals who practice MM. A gap in the literature exploring the topics of MM and creativity together using qualitative methods was identified; therefore, research understanding lived experiences of creating within the experiential context of MM was necessary. The main research question, followed by 3 closely related questions, examined the subjective meaning of the experience of creating for MM practitioners. To provide lived experiences regarding creating, 3 participants colored in a mandala and were interviewed. Descriptive transcendental phenomenology was used to explore the act of creating from the perspectives of these 3 individuals. Participants' described experiences supported Sternberg's theory that creativity developed as a habit and suggested that MM actuated Csikszentmihályi's creative flow. Positive societal implications of bringing MM into U.S. K-12 schools as a conduit for creativity cannot be overrated. MM offers an integrated modality to increased creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking, or the 4 Cs. Future studies regarding MM and creativity's relationship are recommended to further enrich current literature and address the existing gap.
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Ogden, Holly Christine. "Vivid moments long remembered : the lifetime impact of elementary school musical theatre." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1376.
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Minor, Penny S. "THE CAREGIVING EXPERIENCES OF ADULT CHILDREN WHO WERE PRIMARY CAREGIVERS TO A PARENT WITH DEMENTIA: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595184216344991.
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Donovan, Elizabeth A. "Arab American Parents' Experiences of Special Education and Disability: A Phenomenological Exploration." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372583897.
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Julien, Maxime. "La psychologie descriptive de Franz Brentano face aux débats contemporains sur la conscience." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00968004.
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Depuis une décennie, les études sur la pensée de Brentano connaissent un souffle de renouveau. De sa doctrine, on retient le fameux thème de l'intentionnalité qui a soulevé un certain nombre de discussions sur ce que signifie réellement ce concept et ce que Brentano a voulu dire lorsqu'il l'a réintroduit. Dans la philosophie contemporaine, le passage en question qui décrit ce concept l'interprète le plus souvent comme la marque d'une irréductibilité du mental au physique, l'idée qu'il existerait un idiome ou vocable particulier pour décrire les états mentaux et l'esprit en général (intensionnalité). Récemment dans les contributions en philosophie de l'esprit, sa conception de l'esprit a connu un accueil favorable qui se distingue nettement de la première reception de son concept d'intentionnalité dans la philosophie du langage. D'une manière significative, sa théorie de la conscience s'est vu associée à différentes conceptions rivales de l'esprit : théories d'ordre supérieur, autoreprésentationnalisme et différentes autres variétés de représentationnalisme et d'intentionnalisme qui se réclame d'un aspect ou un autre de la conception de l'esprit de Brentano. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'explorer le thème du néo-brentanisme en identifiant dans la littérature contemporaine les théories dîtes "néobrentaniennes".
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Camara, Guilherme Dornelas. "A práxis no jornal Boca de Rua : de "gente invisível" a questionamentos do mundo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28484.
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O objetivo desta Dissertação é analisar a práxis dos integrantes do Jornal Boca de Rua, Projeto integrado à ONG ALICE. Por meio dessa iniciativa concretizada em 2000, a ONG orienta moradores de rua de Porto Alegre na produção e na venda de um veículo de comunicação alternativa voltado ao seu cotidiano. Nesse trabalho, o Boca de Rua, campo empírico da pesquisa, foi estudado a partir da perspectiva do desposicionamento dos Estudos Organizacionais, a qual enfatiza a natureza processual da organização e a construção local de identidades, considerando a organização social como fluida, plural, móbil e transparente. A Dissertação foi elaborada em duas etapas. Na primeira, com base em uma postura fenomenológica, é elaborada a apresentação do Boca de Rua. Quanto ao Referencial, ele está organizado em torno dos seguintes Eixos Teóricos, respectivamente: a Teoria Crítica da sociedade, a proposta de Alberto Guerreiro Ramos para uma Sociedade Multicêntrica, com destaque a elementos centrais da sua teoria para a delimitação de sistemas sociais, ou paradigma paraeconômico, e a Ética da Alteridade, de Emmanuel Lévinas. Na segunda etapa deste estudo, com base nos dados empíricos, foi realizada a análise teórico-empírica dos processos de organização do Boca de Rua. A sua consecução, em uma perspectiva crítica, teve como suporte os princípios da Fenomenologia Dialética.The aim of this thesis is to analyze the praxis of the members of Jornal Boca de Rua, a Project of the NGO ALICE. With this initiative, established since August, 2000, the NGO supports homeless people from Porto Alegre in the production and selling of an alternative vehicle of communication which concerns their daily life at the streets. In this study, Boca de Rua is approached since the project of depositioning Organization Studies which highlights the processual nature of organizations and local construction of identities, working towards the dislocation, displacement or depositioning of traditional conceptions of organization. What is evident in these discourses is a tendency to consider social organization as fluid, plural, mobile, transparent and locally constructed. The research was arranged in two phases. In the first one, the author assumes a phenomenological approach in such a way that required references were organized in three main theoretical axles: the Critical Theory of society, Alberto Guerreiro Ramos’s proposal for a multicentric society, stressing important elements for his theory of social systems delimitation, and the Ethics of Otherness of Emmanuel Lévinas. In the second phase of this research, based on empirical data, the author presents his theoretical-empirical analysis of the organization processes of Boca de Rua. This moment constitutes a critical reflection upon these processes, based on theoretical and empirical elements which were organized according to Dialectics Phenomenology principles.
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Blundell, Shelley. "A Descriptive Phenomenological Investigation of the Academic Information Search Process Experience of Remedial Undergraduate Students." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429452955.
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Mencini, Samantha J. "Student Perceptions of Faculty's Social Presence in Online Health Science Courses." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1459636587.
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Van, Graan Marteleze. "South African host city volunteers' experiences of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27565.
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The 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cup (WC) would be the first time that a FIFA WC would be hosted on the African continent. This study was aimed at describing the South African City of Tshwane (COT) general volunteers’ experiences of volunteering at the 2010 FIFA WC. The FIFA Volunteer Programme consists of two groups of volunteers: Local Organising Committee (LOC) volunteers and each Host City (HC) volunteers. The COT volunteers are HC volunteers from the Tshwane Metropolitan Area (TMA). Volunteers are active in a variety of different contexts, namely in the community, volunteers at sport clubs or schools and also at mega sport events. Volunteers make it possible to host a mega sport event because they provide their time and effort without expecting remuneration or they receive a stipend amount. The existing literature of volunteers at mega sport events investigated what motivated volunteers to participate as well as how satisfied the volunteers were with the experience. The aim of this study was to describe COT general volunteers’ experiences of preparing (preparation phase) for the 2010 FIFA WC; COT general volunteers’ experiences during (participation phase) the 2010 FIFA WC, as well as the South African COT general volunteers’ experiences on their involvement (reflection phase) at the 2010 FIFA WC was described. The methodology employed in this study was Descriptive Phenomenology and the Duquesne Phenomenological Research Method was used to analyse the material. The differences between Descriptive Phenomenology and Interpretive Phenomenology were described. The material consisted of a written account as well as an interview, which was based on the essences that were portrayed in the written accounts. There were five participants — three spectator services volunteers and two rights protection volunteers. All of the participants were female. The findings of this study were divided into the preparation phase, participation phase and the reflection phase. In the preparation phase the COT general volunteers described two essences namely, the application process and training. In the participation phase the COT general volunteers experienced four essences namely, the working of shifts, interaction with volunteers, interaction with supervisors and lastly interaction with tourists. In the reflection phase the volunteers described two experiences, growth and value. This research project contributes to sport psychology because this study describes the experiences of volunteers at the 2010 FIFA WC.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Geissler, Vanessa. "Black and White Multiracial Adult Women’s Experience of Their Physical Appearance: A Qualitative Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1478478598718205.
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Anosike, Uchenna Paschal. "A phenomenological exploration of the domain and structure of internal marketing." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/83355.
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Despite the fact that Internal Marketing (IM) has emerged to capture the interest of academic researchers and management practitioners, there is a surprising absence of empirical study investigating how IM is experienced in the world of practice. This constitutes an impediment to bridging the gap in the holistic understanding of the IM concept. The big question that remains is how to articulate precisely those activities that can be taken to constitute the structure of IM and those that do not. This study aims to bridge this gap by exploring whether the experiences of managers who are implementing IM in their organisations could provide clarity as to the meaning and the constituents structure of IM. This study first undertakes scrutiny of the extant IM literature in an attempt to clarify the multiplicity of terms often associated with IM. The meaning and the constituents structure of IM was investigated via an in-depth qualitative study guided by the principles of phenomenology. This qualitative study is based around open-ended interviews with participants sampled from the UK private and public sector firms. Data was collected and analysed in line with Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological research praxis. The phenomenological findings indicate nine overlapping elements, namely, internal communication, employee training, reward, empowerment, employee motivation, interdepartmental co-ordination, understanding the organisation, commitment, and top management support that emerged to constitute the experiential structure of IM. Drawing upon these elements, the study offers a conceptual framework of the IM structure. Systematic analytical steps were utilised to ensure the validity of findings.
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Mazzù, Antonino. "De la psychologie descriptive à la phénoménologie transcendantale: essai sur la portée métaphysique de l'intériorité phénoménologique dans la pensée d'Edmund Husserl." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211487.
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Moton, Sherese. "Experiences of Correctional Principals of Teacher Attrition in Juvenile Correctional Facilities." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5909.
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Retention of teachers in correctional organizations is an ongoing challenge. A correctional education setting is a nontraditional unstable academic setting where teacher turnover is one third within the first 5 years. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of leaders in correctional organizations who are challenged with finding ways to reduce teacher turnover in a juvenile correctional facility. The conceptual framework that guided this study was Bandura's self-efficacy theory. Using purposive sampling, 6 former juvenile correctional principals participated in the study. Data were collected through systematic open-ended semistructured interviews with 4 occurring via email correspondence, a reflective journal, and member checking. Participants provided their perceptions of factors or events that impacted a teacher's decision to remain in or leave the field. Data were analyzed with an intention to discover emerging themes through the process of thematic coding via a modified Van Manen method. The themes that emerged from the data included participatory leadership/principal support, administration expectations versus teacher expectations, correctional setting barriers, and teacher flexibility. Leadership employing and retaining quality teachers increases the probability of incarcerated youth receiving continuous educational services that are necessary to reenter society as a productive student. The increase chance of success provides a boost to the economy for society, a positive social change, because of the youth's academic and job readiness to operate as a productive citizen.
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Todt, Kendrea L., S. P. Thomas, and L. Banks. "Description of a Transdisciplinary Phenomenology Research Group: Methods and Exemplars." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8481.
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Cavanagh, Mary Emily. "Captain of my own ship." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206173/1/Mary_Cavanagh_Thesis.pdf.
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This study sought to understand how middle-class, white, male baby boomers approach ageing in contemporary Western society. The thesis explored the relationship between bodily ageing and identity construction, and the influence of consumer culture in this process. Findings presented an agentic view of middle-aged men’s experiences of ageing that challenges traditional notions of ‘old men’. Specifically, these baby boomers did not identify as ‘old men’. Findings showed there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to ageing positively. Instead, myriad, complex, intersecting factors were involved in these men’s positive experiences of ageing. These differences resulted in multiple, nuanced pathways towards experiencing ageing positively.
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BARACCO, FLAVIO. "HERMANN WEYL AND HIS PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCHES WITHIN INFINITESIMAL GEOMETRY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/638166.
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The present work focuses on the mathematical and philosophical works of Hermann Weyl (1885-1955). Weyl was a leading mathematician at the beginning of the twentieth century and his major contributions have concerned several fields of research, both within pure mathematics and theoretical physics. Many of them were pioneering works at that time and, most of all, they were carried out in the light of his peculiar philosophical view. As few mathematicians of his time, Weyl was able to manage both scientific and philosophical issues with an impressive competence. For this reason he represented a very peculiar figure among scientists and mathematicians of his time. This dissertation aims to clarify these works both from a philosophical and a mathematical perspective. Specifically, I will focus on those works developed through the years 1917-1927. The first chapter aims to shed some light on the philosophical reasons that underlie Weyl's foundational studies during this period. I will explore these works especially with respect his attempt to establish a connection between a descriptive analysis of phenomena and their exact determination. I will focus both on his mathematical formulation of Euclidean space and on his analysis of phenomenal continuum pointing out the main features of these studies. Weyl's investigations on the relations between what is intuitively given and the mathematical concepts through which we seek to construct the given in geometry and physics do not seem to be carried out by chance. These investigations indeed could be better understood within the phenomenological framework of Husserl's philosophy. Husserl's distinction between descriptive and exact concepts delineates the difference between a descriptive analysis of a field of inquiry and its exact determination. Clarifying how they are related is not an easy task. Nevertheless, Husserl points out that a connection might be possible if we were able to establish a connection by means of some idealizing procedure intuitively ascertained. Within this phenomenological framework we should interpret Weyl's investigations on the relation between phenomenal knowledge and theoretical construction. In the second chapter I will focus on Weyl's mathematical account of the continuum within the framework of his pure infinitesimal geometry developed mainly in \emph{Raum-Zeit-Materie}. It deserves a special attention. Weyl indeed seems to make use of infinitesimal quantities and this fact appears to be rather odd at that time. The literature on this issue is rather poor. For this reason I've tried to clarify Weyl's use of infinitesimal quantities considering also Weyl's historical context. I will show that Weyl's approach has not to be understood in the light of modern differential geometry. It has instead to be understood as a sort of algebraic reasoning with infinitesimal quantities. This approach was not so unusual at that time. Many mathematicians, well-known to Weyl, were dealing with kind of mathematics although many of these studies were works in progress. In agreement with that, Weyl's analysis of the continuum has to be understood as a work in progress as well. In the following Weyl's studies in combinatorial topology are proposed. I will then suggest that both these approaches should be understood within the phenomenological framework outlined in the first chapter. The latter, however, attempts to establish a more faithful connection between a descriptive analysis of the continuum and its exact determination and for this reason it can be regarded as an improvement with respect to the former from a phenomenological point of view. Finally, in the third chapter I will attempt a phenomenological clarification of Weyl's view. In the first and second chapter Weyl's studies are clarified showing how they are related with the phenomenological framework of Husserl's philosophy. Despite this, the theoretical proposal revealed by them is not so easy to understand. That issue seems to be shared by many other contemporary studies. The relevant literature on this author dealing with a phenomenological interpretation seems often to be hardly understandable. I'm going to outline the main problems involved in this field of research and how they are related with the peculiarity of Husserl's framework. I will then suggest a way to improve these studies. Specifically, I will attempt a phenomenological clarification of Weyl's writings. To this aim, I will argue for an approach that makes use of Husserl's writings as a sort of ``analytic tools'' so that a sort of phenomenologically-informed reconstruction of Weyl's thought can be achieved. I will finally consider Weyl's notion of surface as a case study to show a concrete example of this kind of reconstruction.
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Mulick, Melissa Rose. "An Exploration of the Experience of Female Same-Sex Marriage." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1473162242.
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MANCARELLA, MICHELE. "An effective description of dark energy: from theory to phenomenology (titolo originale: Consistency tests of the Universe and cosmic relics)." Doctoral thesis, Université Paris-Saclay, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10281/400827.
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Desmeules, Marie-Helene. "De la description à la prescription : recherches pour une phénoménologie de la normativité à partir de l'oeuvre de Husserl." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H208/document.
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Si certains héritiers de la phénoménologie ont cherché à libérer l'apparaître des normes qui lui étaient imposées, il en allait autrement chez Husserl. Les normes étaient d'abord appliquées aux visées de sens elles-mêmes, lesquelles étaient dites « correctes» ou « incorrectes». Autre façon de dire que la phénoménologie ne pouvait faire l'économie des normes : point de description sans prescription, et sans prescription à la description. Dire que le projet phénoménologique est essentiellement descriptif, c’est cependant admettre que les normes s'y tiennent en retrait. Le premier défi d'une phénoménologie des normes est donc de les mettre au jour. De plus, en son versant critique, la phénoménologie des normes doit justifier notre droit de les poser et de les appliquer normativement. À ce titre, elle sera une phénoménologie du caractère normatif des normes . Suivant les traces de Husserl, nous considèrerons d'abord les enjeux normatifs liés à la logique, puis les autres normes reconnues par lui. Ces normes étant assimilées à l'obtention d'une évidence ou d'un certain type d'évidence, elles avaient toutes un usage théorique. Nous ferons cependant l'hypothèse que certaines normes peuvent avoir un usage pratique. Cette hypothèse se heurtera à un obstacle de taille chez Husserl, qui proposait de justifier les devoirs pratiques grâce aux valeurs et non par les normes. Déconstruisant chacun des présupposés normatifs ayant conduit Husserl à recourir aux valeurs en éthique, nous paverons la voie à une éthique phénoménologique, normative et suspensiveIf some of phenomenology's heirs sought to free that which appears from the norms imposed upon it, it was not Husserl's main concern. He applied norms foremost to sense itself, which was then said to be «correct» or «incorrect». This was another way of saying that phenomenology could not avoid norms: no description without prescription, and without prescription to description. To say that the phenomenological project is essentially descriptive is to admit that norms keep out of the limelight in phenomenology. The first challenge of a phenomenology of norms is therefore to shine a spot upon them. Moreover, in its critical orientation, a phenomenology of norms must justify our right to posit and apply them normatively. As such, it is a phenomenology of the normative character of norms. Following Husserl's reflection, I will first consider the normative stakes linked to logic and then the other norms he recognized. As norms were assimilated to evidence or to some type of evidence, they all had a theoretical use. I will assume, however, that some norms may have a practical function. This hypothesis will encounter a major obstacle, as Husserl proposed to justify practical ougths by means of values instead of norms. By deconstructing each of the normative presuppositions that led Husserl to rely on values in ethics, I will pave the way for a phenomenological, normative and suspensive ethic
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Hed, Martina. "Är det bara en sångteknikalitet? : Hur sångpedagoger väljer sina termer." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för konstnärliga studier (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72292.
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Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur några sångpedagoger erfar fenomenet sångteknik. Forskningsfrågorna handlar om hur sångpedagogerna verbaliserar sin syn på sångteknik, registertermer och metoder samt hur sångpedagogerna förhåller sig till forskning i området. Utgångspunkterna för genomförandet är semistrukturerade intervjuer där fyra sångpedagoger med lärarexamen har intervjuats. Studiens teoretiska ramverk omfattas av fenomenologi med inriktning mot intentionalitet och livsvärdsfenomenologi. Intervjuerna spelades in med ljudupptagning som sedan transkriberades och analyserades med tematisk analys. De teman som utkristalliserades presenteras i resultatkapitlet och är följande: sångpedagogernas syn på sångteknik, sångpedagogernas erfarenheter och uppfattningar av register, sångpedagogernas egna metoder samt sångteknik och metoder i förhållande till forskning. Resultatet synliggör både likheter och olikheter i hur de ser på och verbaliserar sina förhållningssätt till sångteknik, registertermer, metoder och forskning. De erfarenheter som ligger till grund för dessa förhållningssätt erfars emellertid i den egna livsvärlden och har på olika sätt haft betydelse för hur de erfar fenomenet sångteknik och förhåller sig till det i undervisningen. Resultatet visar även att sångpedagogerna är överens om att forskning i sång är mycket viktigt, dock är det endast undantagsvis som de själva vänder sig till forskning. I diskussionen resoneras det vidare kring de teman som framkommer i resultatet i relation till den tidigare forskningen som presenteras samt det teoretiska perspektiv som genomsyrar studien.The purpose of this study is to investigate vocal teachers views on and experiences with the singing technology phenomenon. The study’s research questions concerns how singing pedagogues verbalize their views on singing technique, their terms about register, methods and their relation to research. The starting points for implementation is semi structured interviews with four singing pedagogues whom all have a teachers degree. The study’s theoretical framework covers phenomenology and focus on intentionality and lifeworld phenomenology. The interviews was recorded with phonogram and later transcribed and analyzed through thematic analysis. The different themes which are presented in the result are as follows: the vocal teachers views on singing techniques, the vocal teachers experiences and perceptions of registers, the vocal teachers own methods and singing techniques and methods in relation to research. The result visualizes both similarities and differences in how they view and verbalize their approaches to singing technology, terms about register, methods and research. The experiences that form the basis of these approaches, however, are experienced in their own lifeworld and have in different ways been important for how they experience the phenomenon of singing technique and relates to it through teaching. The result also shows that the singing pedagogues agree that research on singing is very important, nonetheless they themselves seldom turn to research. The discussion is further conferring around the themes that emerge in the result in relation to the previous background and the theoretical perspective that permeates the study.
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Mendonça, Maria Luiza Vianna Pessoa de. "A história das religiões de Mircea Eliade: estatuto epistemológico, metodologia e categorias fundamentais." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1847.
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No presente trabalho apresenta-se um estudo da História das Religiões de Mircea Eliade realizado sobre três aspectos desta obra: os aspectos epistemológico, metodológico e categorial. Na primeira parte do trabalho, postula-se que a História das Religiões eliadiana se trata de uma disciplina autônoma e integral, com objeto próprio de estudo – o fenômeno religioso considerado no seu plano específico de referência, o plano religioso – e com método próprio de trabalho – um método histórico-fenomenológicohermenêutico unitário –; que tal disciplina gira em torno de dois eixos – a fenomenologia da religião stricto sensu e a história das religiões; que, no seu todo, a História das Religiões eliadiana tem o estatuto de uma fenomenologia existencial da religião, situando-se no âmbito da Filosofia. Na segunda parte deste trabalho discorre-se sobre o método apenas implícito na obra eliadiana, o qual leva em conta o aspecto histórico do fenômeno religioso e o qual conjuga fenomenologia e hermenêutica, desenvolvendo-se em dois planos: o primeiro plano é o da análise fenomenológicodescritiva do fenômeno religioso realizada no campo da fenomenologia da religião stricto sensu, no qual o autor romeno conforma sua morfologia do sagrado; o segundo plano é o da análise hermenêutico-filosófica dos fenômenos religiosos históricos, no qual o citado autor procede à interpretação dos fenômenos religiosos historicamente acontecidos para a elaboração de sua história das religiões; Eliade utiliza ainda a análise hermenêutico-filosófica dos simbolismos religiosos para a realização de uma hermenêutica filosófica dos símbolos religiosos por meio da qual formula juízos normativos sobre a condição humana. Na terceira parte deste trabalho, realiza-se um estudo das principais categorias do pensamento eliadiano com ênfase para a hierofania, a dialética da hierofania, a dialética do sagrado e do profano, o sagrado, a religião, a experiência religiosa, o espaço sagrado, tempo e história, o homo religiosus, o homem ocidental moderno a-religioso, o arquétipo, o arquétipo da coincidentia oppositorum, imagens e símbolos, a a-historicidade da vida religiosa, o símbolo religioso, o simbolismo religioso, o mito, o rito, a camuflagem e a ocultação do sagrado no profano, a irreconhecibilidade do sagrado na História (ou a irreconhecibilidade do milagre) e o sagrado no mundo ocidental secularizado.
In this thesis a study of Mircea Eliade’s History of Religions is presented carried through on three different approaches: the epistemological approach, the methodological approach and the categorical approach. In the first Chapter of this thesis, it is claimed that Eliade’s History of Religions constitutes an autonomous and integral discipline, with proper object of study – the religious phenomenon in its specific plan of reference, the religious plan - and with proper method of work – a unitary historical-phenomenological-hermeneutic method -; that such discipline turns around two axles – the phenomenology of religion stricto sensu and the history of religions -; that, in its all, the eliadian History of Religions has the statute of an existential phenomenology of religion placing itself in the branch of Philosophy. In the second Chapter of this thesis, it is discoursed on the only implicit method in the eliadian workmanship, which takes in account the historical aspect of the religious phenomenon and which conjugates phenomenology and hermeneutics, developing itself in two plans: the first plan is that of the phenomenological-descriptive analysis of the religious phenomenon carried through on the field of the phenomenology of religion stricto sensu, in which the Rumanian author conforms his morphology of the Sacred; the second plan is that of the hermeneutic-philosophical analysis of the historical religious phenomena in which the cited author proceeds to the interpretation of the religious phenomena historically happened for the elaboration of his history of religions; Eliade also use the hermeneutic-philosophical analysis of the religious symbolisms for the accomplishment of a philosophical hermeneutics of the religious symbols by means of which he formulates normative judgments on the human being condition. In the third Chapter of this work, a study of the main categories of the eliadian thought is developed with emphasis for the hierophany, the dialectic of the hierophany, the dialectic of the Sacred and the Profane, the Sacred, the religion, the religious experience, the sacred space, time and history, homo religiosus, the modern Occidental man of the secularized societies, the archetype, the archetype of coincidentia oppositorum, images and symbols, the non-historicity of the of religious life, the religious symbol, the religious symbolism, the Myth, the Rite, the Camouflage and the Occultation of the Sacred in the Profane, the unrecognizableness of the Sacred in History (or the unrecognizableness of miracle), and the Sacred in the modern secularized Occidental world.
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Cibangu, Sylvain. "Mobile phones' contributions to socio-economic development according to Sen : corn growers' perceived impact in the Congo." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23013.
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Research questions: This research was focused on exploring the impact of communication technologies on rural populations in the Congo. In particular, this research posed two questions: 1. Do mobile phones produce development in rural areas of the Congo? 2. Do mobile phones improve the living conditions of people? The questions helped examine ways in which mobile phones were or were not engendering development among these populations. Methods: The research was undertaken using four methods: 1. Phenomenology, 2. Sen's capability approach, 3. Participatory method, and 4. Ecological method. Phenomenology aimed to cater to the experiences and meanings of mobile phone uses. Sen's capability approach allowed the interviews to be focused on the basic needs of the poor. Participatory method provided a greater participation of respondents in discussion groups, and ecological method helped achieve a higher inclusion of key players in the targeted area. Major findings: The major findings of this study included: 1. Much of the literature on mobile phones and development was not representative or inclusive of key players and their day-to-day lives. 2. Studies have tended to present snapshots or single-focused accounts of mobile phone and development. 3. Authors of mobile phone research have tended to see rural populations with an urban-led bias, leaving aside the actual characteristics of rural areas. 4. Mobile phones were not limited to a person and her properties, but rather mobile phones were owned and shared by the community. 5. Participants expressed a need for technical skills and means to be available to the community and their members. 6. Households were not separated, but rather they were connected to allow people take care of one another. 7. People were connected through collective solidarities in order to come to the aid of those with special needs. 8. Literature and mobile phone sponsors or companies were disseminating mobile phones with an extractive and commercial tendency, focused principally on fees of batteries, chargers, and prepaid cards. Major contributions: The major contributions of this research revolved around the focus on: 1. technology to enhance the needed technical skills among concerned populations. 2. shared ownership of mobile phones to cater to both users and non-users of mobile phones among concerned populations. 3. connected households to capitalize on the dynamics of family among concerned populations. 4. collective solidarities to accommodate the processes of aiding one another among concerned populations. 5. capabilities, from a commercial or extractive aspect to capabilities to enhance the capabilities of people to afford mobile phones fees. 6. capabilities, from a corporate or business aspect to capabilities to enhance the capabilities of people who did not and could not own a business. 7. human basic needs to enhance the capabilities of mobile phone users with regard to human basic needs. 8. outliers or the marginalized to attend to those left out among concerned populations. 9. mobile phone-centric libraries to enhance the storage and retrieval of needed information among concerned populations.
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Lin, Ting-Ting, and 林婷婷. "Exploring the Text of Spiritual Self-help Books with Descriptive Phenomenology." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d9jbd2.
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Self-help books are widely distributed and purchased in many countries, and the widespread popularity of this type of book demonstrates that people desire to access self-help resources for promoting mental health. Through the perspective of self-help readers, researchers themselves can be benefit from the reading of self-help books to pursue self-improvement and personal development. This study focuses on the texts of two self-help books and applies the descriptive phenomenological approaches of Colaiz-zi and Giorgi. By deconstructing the two self-help book texts, this approach contributes to the text to reveal the phenomenal nature of objects, and it also benefits author to ex-press to the reader about the pure nature of the constituted phenomena, experience, and events. Furthermore, theme clusters and sub-themes can be extracted from the formulat-ed significance of these two texts in order to highlight the textual implications. Regard-ing a framework of the textual analysis, the study adopted the theories of self-actualization of Rogers and Maslow psychologists to obtain better understanding in terms of the significance of self-help reading to assist growth of an individual. The two texts are "You can heal your life" written by Louise Hay and "Dying to be me" written by Anita Moorjani. The characteristics of a self-actualized person are used as a framework to analyze the themes constructed by the texts, and these major themes respectively demonstrate openness to experience, self-concept, trust, exploration, crea-tivity and a good life. The themes present the potential of a self-actualized person to give full play one's personal characteristics, thereby achieving the ideal goals of self-improvement and self-realization.
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Tom, Cynthia Lindiwe. "Raising a child with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder : exploring the experience of black parents." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28240.
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Improvements in diagnostic measures over the years have resulted in more accurate diagnosis of ADHD. Whilst many studies have focused on ADHD as a disorder, few studies have looked at the experience of raising a child with ADHD. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of Black parents raising children with ADHD. The sample consisted of five Black parents who live the experience of raising children, between the ages of six and twelve years, with ADHD. An interview schedule with semi-structured open-ended questions was used. The study followed a qualitative research design with descriptive phenomenology as the worldview. The themes that emerged from the data were around the experience of their child, the experience of ADHD and the experience of self. Black parents experienced their children’s behaviour as hyperactive and uncontrollable. They also believed their children were socially withdrawn and isolated. Problems with inattention, not listening and being unable to concentrate were highlighted as experienced at school and at home. Black parents also stated that their children were clever and popular at school and at home, but had problems with speech. However, most were hopeful for their children’s future. Black parents raising children with ADHD had a reasonable understanding of ADHD as a disorder, even though the results of the study suggest that ADHD is still misunderstood in the Black population. Black parents experienced others as insensitive and blaming. The support from professionals was experienced as not satisfactory and there were concerns about the medication. Black parents experienced their style of parenting as harsh but accommodating. They experienced guilt and shame, blaming themselves for their children’s condition. They also felt trapped, frustrated, alone, lonely, helpless, in despair and even depressed at times. However they viewed themselves as generally coping well. Core values such as respect for others, discipline and boundaries have remained in how they parent.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Jones, de Rooy Nicole. "Discovering what is essential for help-seeking practice in the hospital training environment: exploring the experiences of junior doctors' help-seeking and senior nurses and doctors' supporting junior doctors' help-seeking." Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/182592.
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Junior doctors' help-seeking is an important day-to-day occurrence in the hospital training environment, commonly described to involve a simple escalation of the problem to a more senior clinician. This research challenges this assumption by exploring what is essential to junior doctors’ help-seeking and supporting of junior help-seeking, thereby advancing knowledge in this area by viewing these lived experiences as interconnected within the hospital training environment. To achieve this, I explored the lived experiences via long interviews with seven junior doctors who had sought help in relation to concerns about patients, as well as five senior nurses and six senior doctors who had supported junior doctors' help-seeking, recruited from two geographically distant Australian training hospitals. In order to derive what is essential to junior doctors' help-seeking and senior nurses' and senior doctors' support of junior doctors' help-seeking, Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological method (2009a) was employed to guide the transcription, transformation and analysis of the experiences. The result was the identification of a series of key constituents that make up each phenomenon’s general structure. Integration of the studies and the model revealed that the experiences of junior doctors, senior nurses and senior doctors are intimately linked with each other. When junior doctors describe seeking help from senior colleagues for a problem related to the care of their patient, they describe both how they sought help and how their seeking of help (or help-seeking) was supported by the senior colleagues. Similarly, when senior nurses and doctors describe junior doctors seeking their help, they also describe both how the junior doctor sought help, and how they supported this help-seeking. Applying the descriptive phenomenological method once again and re-analysing all three phenomena together contributed to understanding of what is essential to help-seeking practice in the hospital training environment as a whole, namely to: intentionally own the care of the patient with others; build trust between colleagues and be regarded as trustworthy by them; and work proactively in the hospital training environment. This research provides junior doctor, senior nurse and senior doctor readers with an understanding that they are not alone in their experiences and highlights how help-seeking in the hospital training environment is significantly different from that in other contexts because of the central role of patients. My thesis reveals that help-seeking support is vital for junior doctors’ clinical progress into independent practitioners and well-being, as well as recognising the support that senior nurses provide to junior doctors in order to foster effective help-seeking. For senior doctors, this research emphasises how their support role does not start or finish when a junior doctor seeks help and involves far more planned support than 'just telling junior doctors to call if they need help'. This thesis concludes by suggesting future directions to advance help-seeking practice in the hospital training environment and indeed across the health system.
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Kornhaber, Rachel Anne. "The lived experience of nursing severe burns injury patients: a phenomenological inquiry." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/56331.
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Little nursing research has focused on nurses’ experiences of nursing severe burns injury patients. This study has provided a gateway to explore, describe and document the experience of nursing severe burns injury patients. This thereby adds to the existing body of nursing knowledge upon which the nursing care of patients with severe burns injury can be made in an informative manner with confidence.
This descriptive phenomenological study describes the lived experiences of seven full time registered nurses that care for patients who have sustained a severe burns injury. The descriptive phenomenology of Husserl and the methodological interpretations of Colaizzi underpin this study. Purposeful sampling was utilised to select participants who work in a severe burns injury unit in New South Wales, Australia. The use of in-depth interviews was used to generate data about the participants’ personal and professional experiences’ of nursing severe burns injury patients. The interviews were transcribed verbatim, analysed and described using a descriptive phenomenological methodology.
Twenty eight cluster themes emerged from the participants’ experiences which were further merged into nine emergent themes that depicted the experiences of nurses caring for severe burns injury patients which formed the basis of the findings reported. Participants described burns nursing as both physically and emotionally demanding yet rewarding. It was shown that burns nurses have a resilient nature with the ability to cope with the challenges of burns nursing. Participant nurses described how they emotionally detached and became hardened to the devastation of a severe burns injury. The unique bond that formed between burns nurses and their patients’ demonstrated a relationship embedded in trust and understanding that allowed the nurse to continue caring for burns patients for extended periods. Commitment and dedication were found to be fundamental elements for nursing burns patients. Participant nurses were found to feel emotionally exhausted, powerless and burnt out; however, feelings of accomplishment and motivation outweighed these negative emotions. Support and unity was identified as fundamental to burns nursing, without the support of the burns team nurse participants believed that they would not be able to care for patients with severe burns injury.
The findings of this study have provided an insight into the experience of nursing severe burns injury patients. It is hoped that the findings of this study will contribute to the care of burns patients and the well being of the burns nurses who care for these patients. The paucity of available literature in the area of burns nursing concludes that more research is required into the impact of nursing severe burns injury patients.Thesis (M.Nurs.Sc.)- University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, 2009
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Breedt, Danie. "The experiences of South African spectators at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/36813.
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Purpose: The primary goal of this research study was to describe the experiences of South African spectators as it pertains to the 2010 FIFA World Cup (WC) South AfricaTM . As this study focused on spectators' experiences before, during and after the 2010 FIFA WC, three secondary goals were identified, namely to describe South African spectators' experiences prior to the 2010 FIFA WC, to describe South African spectators' experiences during the 2010 FIFA WC and to describe South African spectators' experiences after the 2010 FIFA WC.
Methodology: The researcher adopted a descriptive phenomenological research position, in particular the Duquesne Phenomenological Research Method (DPRM). With reference to this study, an objective phenomenon (the 2010 FIFA WC) was primarily understood by the researcher through the participants' (South African spectators) subjective descriptions of their first-hand experience of this phenomenon. This objective phenomenon presented itself within the mind of the individual and the researcher had access to this reality through the participants' written accounts and consequent interviews. Therefore two methods of data collection was used. The notions of reduction, bracketing, and free imagination were used in order to keep the researcher's personal biases and prior knowledge from contaminating the knowledge of the objective phenomenon.
Findings: From the experiences prior to the 2010 FIFA WC there were four essences that emerged. Firstly, there was a sense of anticipation in SA in the build up towards the tournament. Participants were excited about socialising with foreigners, the performance of the South African national team as well as the opportunity to showcase SA's capabilities to host such an event. The second essence that emerged was the descriptions of the atmosphere in SA. There were some mixed emotions experienced leading up to the tournament with some being excited and others feeling pessimistic about SA's ability to host the tournament successfully. Thirdly, there was a sense of companionship between the participants and their friends as well as within SA as a nation. The final essence focussed on obtaining tickets, where some found it to be a
complicating process while others had a surprisingly positive experience. From the experiences during the tournament there were again four essences. Firstly, participants had mostly positive experiences of attending the live matches. Secondly, participants made mention of the impressive organisation of the event. The third essence related to the enjoyable social interactions that they experienced. The final essence was a description of their experiences of the Vuvuzelas that came to be very popular during the tournament. From the experiences after the tournament, there were four essences. The first essence describes how there was a sense of unity among SA as a nation but it seemed to have faded quite quickly after the tournament. Secondly, the participants discovered a lot about themselves during the tournament and the essence of the positive experiences of socialising was once again prevalent. Finally, the participants were impressed with the improvements in infrastructure that left a physical legacy of a “once in a lifetime” eventDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Law, Eloise. "A phenomenological inquiry into the experiential world of ‘Second Life’ for individuals aged 60 years and older." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29143.
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This study qualitatively investigated older adults’ experience of Second Life from a descriptive phenomenological perspective. Second Life is a virtual world found on the Internet and is considered to be a cyber reality that simulates aspects of everyday real life. The participant group comprised of five individuals, between the ages of 60 and 79 years of age, who have been participating in Second Life for longer than six months. All of the participants reside in the United States and all of the participants have a tertiary education. The research revealed three essential themes to older individuals’ experience of Second Life that deals with: (1) Familiarisation with Second Life; (2) Connecting in Second Life; and (3) Second Life as a Place of Recreation. The research indicated that older adults seem to find value in their Second Life participation and tend to be actively involved and contributing members in this virtual world. These findings have implications for developmental theories in psychology that address later stages in life, and the researcher especially considers Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development. Additional implications for adults in the later stages of life and the discipline of psychology are also considered. CopyrightDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Cairns, James. "Parents of a child with any disability & their experiences with school choice: a descriptive phenomenological study." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4412.
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This study used descriptive phenomenology to address the research question: What is the experience of parents who have a child with any disability in selecting a school for their child? Nine parents of a child with any disability from the Greater Vancouver area participated in this study. Through one-on-one in-depth interviews, the parents shared their experiences in selecting a school for their child. Using Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological method for analysis, six broad themes were revealed that described the parents' experience of finding a school: a) the school itself, b) the child's needs, c) the parent's own experience, d) the family's involvement in the decision, e) non-school supports; and f) availability or lack of choice. Findings were discussed in relation to relevant literature, implications for both parents and school systems were addressed, and further research options were offered.Graduate
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Steyn, Helga. "A proposed support strategy for sexually abused boys in their middle childhood placed in a clinic school / Helga Steyn." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15578.
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Boys in their middle childhood placed in clinic schools experience severe emotional and behavioural problems. Most of these boys have been sexually abused. The trauma of this sexual abuse may contribute to their problem behaviour. If the learners can be effectively supported in addressing the trauma of the male child sexual abuse during their time at the clinic school, some of their emotional and behavioural problems may also be addressed. Without these emotional and behavioural problems they may be able to develop without hindrance of the male child sexual abuse and may be integrated into the mainstream educational setting before they reach the age of twelve years.
This study consisted of three phases. During the first phase the experiences of seven sexually abused boys placed in clinic schools in Gauteng Province in South Africa were explored in order to develop a better understanding of their support needs. It was achieved by means of three in-depth interviews with each participant. For the purpose of the first phase a qualitative design was used, which was of a phenomenological, descriptive and exploratory nature in order to explore and describe the phenomenon of male child sexual abuse. To obtain a clear picture of the unique view and subjective experiences of a participant in a clinic school, the phenomenon of male child sexual abuse was investigated. From the results it was clear that sexually abused boys placed in clinic schools exhibit intensified emotional reactions, as well as certain problems associated with male child sexual abuse. The intensified emotional reactions include a deep sense of sadness and helplessness, a sense of guilt and shame, a sense of dissociation and numbness, avoidance of situations associated with male child sexual abuse, fear of recurring incidents and the re-experiencing of the trauma. The problems associated with male child sexual abuse include concerns regarding
their own sexuality, difficulties in interacting with other people, dealing with anger and aggression, displaying self-destructive behaviour and difficulties to cope with schoolwork.
During the second phase of the study twenty-four psychologists, social workers, counsellors, teachers and child and youth care workers were included. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with each of them to identify critical aspects to support victims of male child sexual abuse. For the purpose of the second phase the interpretive descriptive design was used. The results suggest that the following critical aspects should be considered in the conceptualisation of a proposed support strategy: Relationships as basis for support; strengthening the male child sexual abuse victims to deal with behavioural and emotional challenges; facilitating the safety of the male child sexual abuse victims to avoid continued exposure to abuse; providing a structured environment and coordinated support efforts to ensure sustainability.
The third phase of this study consisted of the conceptualisation of a support strategy for male child sexual abuse victims. Two focus groups were conducted with fourteen psychologists, social workers, counsellors, teachers and child and youth care workers to conceptualise the support strategy. The proposed support strategy suggests the incorporation of different role players in a collaborative team approach for a multilevel support approach. The proposed support strategy involves three main facets, namely strengthening of the male child sexual abuse victim as an individual, sustaining a deep/trusting relationship, as well as the facilitation of a supportive context for the male child sexual abuse victim.PhD (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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Loureiro, Maria. "A experiência dos criminosos de fraude de títulos num esquema cara-a-cara." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/4158.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto UniversitárioO presente estudo trata-se de uma proposta de investigação psicológica qualitativa sobre a experiência dos sujeitos que cometem fraude de títulos através de um esquema cara-a-cara. Num primeiro momento é realizada uma revisão da literatura onde o tema é enquadrado e onde é explicitada a necessidade de levar a cabo um estudo nesta temática. Tendo como objetivo fornecer mais conhecimentos psicológicos sobre a experiência desta criminalidade em específico, propõe-se o recurso a uma metodologia fenomenológica assente no método da fenomenologia descritiva de Giorgi. Assim, é feita uma apresentação teórica e uma explicitação de como deve ser utilizado este método. Tendo como instrumento uma entrevista semi-estruturada, apresenta-se como resultados uma estrutura final que compreende aspetos qualitativos da experiência dos criminosos de fraude de títulos num esquema cara-a-cara. Os componentes essenciais que surgem na estrutura final são apresentados em conformidade com a literatura já existente sobre o tema do estudo. Posteriormente é proposta uma discussão dos resultados e, após apresentadas as limitações da investigação, é realizada uma discussão sobre a escolha metodológica. Por fim, são realizadas algumas considerações conclusivas e sugestões futuras. A presente investigação foca-se em alcançar (através das descrições fornecidas pelos participantes) os significados que estes criminosos atribuem à experiência que vivenciaram, obtendo-se assim, a essência dos processos psicológicos associados a essa mesma experiência.
ABSTRACT: This study represents a qualitative psychology research proposal with the objective of assessing the experience of subjects that perpetuate securities fraud crimes through a face-to-face scheme. A literature review is presented in the first sections; herein, the main topic of this work is contextualized and its motivation highlighted. Having set the main objective of the work presented here as a framework to provide knowledge about this specific type of criminality, a phenomenological methodology based on Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology is proposed. Thus, a theoretical explanation on how to use this method is described. This method comprises a semi-structured interview and outputs a series of structured results which contain qualitative aspects of the experience of securities fraud criminals in a face-to-face scheme. The essential output components are presented in conformity with existing literature on the topic of white collar criminology. The results are highlighted in the later sections, as well as the suggested limitations and a discussion of the proposed methodology. Lastly, several concluding points and future work directions are discussed. The research presented in this work focuses on understanding (through descriptions provided by participants) the meaning that white collar criminals attribute to their crime experience. Thus, it provides insight on the essence of the psychological processes associated to this specific experience.
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Norrish, Maria Elizabeth. "Guidelines for the rehabilitation of the juveline who had committed a drug-related crime." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4917.
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This study was designed to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of incarcerated male juveniles who had committed drug-related crimes and to suggest guidelines for their rehabilitation with specific reference to their health care needs. In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher used Parse’s (1998) Theory of Human Becoming as a theoretical framework for the study and Parse’s (1998, 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic research method.
This study was restricted to three juvenile correctional centres in the Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa (RSA). A sample of 15 male juveniles (5 at each of the three juvenile correctional centres) was used for the purpose of individual dialogical engagements with the participants. Focus group interview sessions were held with two groups (5 members per group) at two identified juvenile correctional centres.
A qualitative content analysis according to methods recommended by Graneheim and Lundman (2004) was performed on the data that was collected from the individual dialogical-engagements and the focus group interviews. The researcher attempted to elucidate the meanings that the participants attached to their experiences of incarceration as narrated by them and analysed the data according to Parse’s (1998; 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic method comprising of extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation. The findings of this research confirm that problems of drug abuse and criminal activity represent a multifaceted, complex and often intractable phenomenon. The research also confirmed that the participants suffer from a variety of emotional and psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, remorse, regret and a craving for the drugs that they had abused before their incarceration. It appears that the participants find it extremely difficult to deal effectively with these disorders on their own and that they are generally averse to asking for professional help and assistance. Interventions to alleviate these problems are crucial for the
success of the current rehabilitation programmes being pursued in the correctional centres where the participants are accommodated.Health Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)
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Norrish, Maria Elizabeth. "Guidelines for the rehabilitation of the juvenile who had committed a drug-related crime." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4917.
Full textAbstract:
This study was designed to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of incarcerated male juveniles who had committed drug-related crimes and to suggest guidelines for their rehabilitation with specific reference to their health care needs. In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher used Parse’s (1998) Theory of Human Becoming as a theoretical framework for the study and Parse’s (1998, 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic research method.
This study was restricted to three juvenile correctional centres in the Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa (RSA). A sample of 15 male juveniles (5 at each of the three juvenile correctional centres) was used for the purpose of individual dialogical engagements with the participants. Focus group interview sessions were held with two groups (5 members per group) at two identified juvenile correctional centres.
A qualitative content analysis according to methods recommended by Graneheim and Lundman (2004) was performed on the data that was collected from the individual dialogical-engagements and the focus group interviews. The researcher attempted to elucidate the meanings that the participants attached to their experiences of incarceration as narrated by them and analysed the data according to Parse’s (1998; 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic method comprising of extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation. The findings of this research confirm that problems of drug abuse and criminal activity represent a multifaceted, complex and often intractable phenomenon. The research also confirmed that the participants suffer from a variety of emotional and psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, remorse, regret and a craving for the drugs that they had abused before their incarceration. It appears that the participants find it extremely difficult to deal effectively with these disorders on their own and that they are generally averse to asking for professional help and assistance. Interventions to alleviate these problems are crucial for the
success of the current rehabilitation programmes being pursued in the correctional centres where the participants are accommodated.Health Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)
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Van, Rooyen Matthys Johannes. "Experiences of child psychiatric nurses : an ecosystemic study." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3783.
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This dissertation reports on the lived experiences of four child psychiatric nurses. The
territory of child psychiatric nursing is explored in this investigation through the
punctuation of many voices within this field of study. The methodology of the
investigation is descriptive phenomenology and Colaizzis’ steps in descriptive
phenomenology (map) are used to discover and describe the different template theories
(the territory) that are unique to each of the four child psychiatric nurses who were
interviewed. Following this, a story is punctuated, which is referred to as the structural
synthesis. It is the heartbeat of the investigation. The dissertation concludes by reflecting
on the paradox of how the invisibility of the child psychiatric nurses allowed for the
visibility of the dissertation and encourages the reader to ask pivotal questions about the
important role of the child psychiatric nurse, working as part of a multidisciplinary team,
in order to improve patient care.Psychology
M.A. (Clinical psychology)
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Morse, M. "River Experience: A phenomenological description of meaningful experiences on a wilderness river journey." Thesis, 2011. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10843/1/Front_%28MMorsePhD%29.pdf.
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Outdoor educators, nature-based tourism guides and private recreationalists make use
of wilderness river areas for extended journeys. The justification for running such
trips commonly involves the potential ‘experience’ that it affords participants. Yet
the experiences themselves are often unique, individual and difficult to describe.
While ‘the experience’ is commonly used as a justification for such journeys,
experience itself does not always appear to be well understood or easily articulated.
This research project explores participant descriptions of meaningful experiences on
a wilderness river journey, in order to answer the questions ‘what forms of
meaningful experiences might occur on a wilderness river journey?’, ‘what
components of the journey facilitate those meaningful experiences?’, ‘what is the
role of the wilderness landscape itself in facilitating those experiences?’, and ‘what is
the potential value of meaningful wilderness experiences subsequent upon returning
to everyday life?’. The research uses a phenomenological approach to elucidate
individual perceptions of meaningful experiences, and then combines the
recollections to reveal the commonalities within those experiences. Using interviews,
journals, observations and follow-up emails from 32 participants on eight Franklin
River (ten day) trips, the project moves from the individual to the collective, to
identify and describe the qualities and essences of meaningful experiences on a
wilderness river journey.
The research identifies two recurrent key ‘streams of experience’. These involve a
feeling of humility and being alive to the present. By interrogating the thematic
structure of participant descriptions surrounding these two streams of experience,
invariant structures are revealed. These invariant structures further provide the
opportunity to refocus on individual participant descriptions, and illuminate the
essential qualities of the phenomena described.
It is argued that by understanding potentially meaningful experiences on a wilderness
river journey, outdoor educators, commercial guides and facilitators will be better
able to make use of surrounding environs to facilitate such experiences. There is a
focus on the unique elements of the wilderness river journey that, in this research,
contributed to the unique experiences which participants valued as meaningful.
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Janoušek, Hynek. "Teorie soudu v brentanovské škole a u raného Husserla." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338418.
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The submitted doctoral thesis is an attempt to describe the nature and of the development of Brentano's theory of judgment. This description is followed by an introduction to the further development of Brentano's theory in the work of Brentano's most distinguished students Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), Anton Marty (1843-1914) and Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The thesis is divided into five parts: The first part is dedicated to the explanation of Brentano's theory of judgment and starts with an interpretation of Brentano's two early books on Aristotle - On the several senses of Being in Aristotle (1862) and The Psychology of Aristotle (1867). The thesis presents Brentano's understanding of "being" in the sense of truth, his interpretation of the Aristotelian categories, his theory of parts and wholes, and his theory of intentionality and self-consciousness. Our interpretation then proceeds to Brentano's most known work, i.e. to Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874), and presents the basic concept of this book, the concept of psychical phenomena. The resulting classification of psychical phenomena into three kinds introduces judgments as a kind of psychical phenomenon whose main feature consists in existential affirmation or rejection of an intentional object....
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Sigamoney, Rosalind Florence. "The reasons that promote the resilience of a Somali community residing in Fordsburg/Mayfair, Johannesburg." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22672.
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Since 2012 more than 295 676 migrants have arrived in South Africa. Somalis form one of the most visible migrant minorities in the country. Since various studies have been conducted into the mistreatment of migrants and its psychological effects, this study aimed to investigate the reasons that led to the resilience of the Somali community residing in Fordsburg/Mayfair, Johannesburg despite the challenges they encountered. The sample for the study was selected using the purposive sampling technique. Data were collected through the use of face-to-face semi-structured interviews and subsequently analysed following Colaizzi’s (1978) descriptive phenomenological method of data analysis. The findings of the study show that the participants experienced several challenges en route to South Africa and once they reached the country. Their resilience can be attributed to reasons such as individual determination to achieve change, the Somali communal culture, religion and spirituality, the family spirit, gender role adaptation and hard work.Psychology
M.A. (Research Consultation)