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Mei, Todd S. "Work and being : a hermeneutical study." Thesis, University of Kent, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497676.
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DiTommaso, Tanya. "Writing and reading, a hermeneutical study of implications." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0007/NQ43256.pdf.
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Abdulah, Arif Kemil. "The Qur'anic conception of normative religious pluralism : hermeneutical study." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=201831.
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By employing both the thematic approach of Qur’ānic exegesis and the textual analysis of the selected verses, the study explores the Qur’ānic conception of religious pluralism. In particular, the focus of the thesis is on the normative religious pluralism, which appears to have been reduced to mere exclusivism in a great number of sources of Qur’ānic exegesis. This thesis’s line of argumentation against religious exclusivism, therefore, starts with clarification that there are different types of religious pluralism. Thus, in the case of the Qur’ān, the confusion between soteriological, alethic, and normative religious pluralism has led to the emergence of the exclusive approach. By drawing clear distinction between the Qur’ānic theological view on other beliefs and the Qur’ānic ethical view on the followers of other beliefs, the study further constructs five main arguments against religious exclusivism. The arguments are elaborated on the basis of the Qur’ānic ethical system, the universal objectives of human relationships, and the Qur’ānic recognition of the two fundamental as well as dialectical elements of the normative religious pluralism, namely commonality and diversity as fact of nature. The thesis concludes on the need for considering that the Qur’ān distinguishes between the eschatological and the terrestrial dimensions as well as ramifications of the normative religious pluralism, where the latter, which is of the essence for the peacebuilding process in this world, is endorsed by the Qur’ān.
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McGarry, John. "Debating the theoretical basis for judicial review : a hermeneutical study." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2008. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21908/.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to address the question of how we can constitutionally justify the judicial review jurisdiction of the English courts. Two competing theories are commonly posited as providing this justification: the ultra vires theory and the common law theory. This research consists of a hermeneutical analysis of these two theories; it examines their rationales and the main themes of the debate between their supporters. It also uses immanent critique to reveal a significant lack of 'fit' between judicial review in practice and each of the theories. It is implicit within the two theories that they match the actual exercise of the supervisory jurisdiction. Thus, the lack of fit exposed by the critique brings into question any claims that either theory can provide the constitutional legitimacy for judicial review. The thesis advanced in this dissertation is in two parts. First, it is argued that the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty operates as a principle. This means that legislation may be balanced against other principles derived from the common law or other statutes. This is in contrast to both the ultra vires and common law theories in which the doctrine is assumed to function as a rule. Second, under this novel conception of parliamentary sovereignty it is not necessary to justify the operation of judicial review by reference to legislative intent or express statutory provision. Rather, the standards of good administration may be rationalized as being developed and applied pursuant to an inherent jurisdiction of the courts.
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Tulloch, Stephen. "1 Corinthians 11:2-16 an historical, exegetical and hermeneutical study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Beates, Michael S. "Melchizedek and Jesus an exegetical and hermeneutical study of Hebrews 7 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Moore, David M. "Projective and introjective identification in a couple therapy case study : a hermeneutical examination /." Diss., This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08272007-163941/.
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Zimmerman, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Ray). "Technological Thinking in American Teacher Education, 1970-1979: a Hermeneutical Study of Alienated Consciousness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332087/.
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The research presented here is of a sort almost never seen in today's social science work. Attempted here is a hermeneutical examination of teacher education literature of the 1970's, with the goal of revealing what otherwise would and generally does go unseen by most who practice and study teacher education, the tacitly held and taken-for-granted pre-judgements or prejudices which make such teacher education the reality it is. That is to say, the aim of this research is to "go behind what is said" in this literature in order to reveal the questions to which the literature's contents are the answer. This is necessary because such prejudices, such questions, determine in the first place the sorts of answers which can be given, by excluding other questions and points of origin, and thereby structure the form and content of teacher education as it is lived.
The more specific purpose of this "going behind what is said," apart from merely revealing such prejudices, is, however, to examine them after they are revealed in order to reach a judgement as to whether or not some portion or, perhaps, all of these prejudices reflect a belief in and devotion to the alienated consciousness of technological thinking. This revelation and this judgement are presented in a chapter of nine sections: Professionalism; Management, Control, and Systems; Humans as Substances; Rationalism, Empiricism, Knowledge, and Morality; Learning, Teaching, and Academics; Education as School; Selling Materialism; Meritocracy and the Perfectability of Humans; Freedom, Participation, Community, and Power.
These investigations leave little doubt, it seems, that teacher education and teacher educators in the United States during the 1970's, and by inference today also, are engrossed in and committed to technological thinking as the founding source of such work, and that such belief and commitment threaten not only teacher education as a viable human event but also the entire education "enterprise" as an authentic activity of human living.
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Wu, Peter Jung-chu. "A hermeneutical and homiletical study of Psalm 95 and Hebrews 3:7-4:13." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Sonek, Krzysztof. "Truth, beauty, and goodness in Biblical Narratives a hermeneutical study of Genesis 21.1-21." Berlin New York, NY de Gruyter, 2009. http://d-nb.info/993134726/04.
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Shaw, Christopher David. "Engaging Eckhartian mysticism in a secular context : a hermeneutical study in post-Kantian thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c0c986bc-b109-438d-a941-4c94836f4699.
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The aim of this thesis is to define, develop, and defend an interpretation and application of the mystical ontology of Meister Eckhart. Briefly, mystical ontology should be understood as a distinctive theology insofar as it presents God's being, the being of the world, and the individual's being as an essentially unified whole. My research focus for this thesis will then be to situate Eckhart's theology within current debates on mysticism and amidst the post-Kantian philosophical turn toward ontology. The cumulative effort of this thesis will reach its height when I apply my conclusions on the mystical nature of being that can be found in Eckhart's medieval writings and transcriptions in order to address the modern, theological problem of secularity. This effort will be implemented with the objective of creating a space for dialogue between Christian theology and the generally secularized culture that, in part, defines the present age. In so doing, this thesis will demonstrate the philosophical and cultural relevance of this particular understanding of the nature of being when treating modern problems in theology. The guiding question for this thesis will be the following: what insights can Meister Eckhart's thought offer to theologians today in addressing the problem of secularity? My overall thesis will then be: the mystical ontology of Meister Eckhart can be interpreted and applied in a manner that successfully opens a space for constructive dialogue between secular culture and the presence of God in the world. Overall, this thesis should be read as a scholarly project on Eckhartian theology and its applicability toward productively treating the problem of secularity. All of my conclusions will be derived as a result of having been situated and argued for amidst current debates on relevant topics, as well as in relation to other major works that are indispensable for such a project. To be clear, my aim will not be to appropriate Eckhart's work and to assimilate it to a post-Kantian perspective. Rather, I will look to Eckhart for his clear and definitive theological statements. I will then interpret those statements and apply them in a manner that efficaciously engages specific principles of secularity in demarcating a common ground for dialogue.
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Sonek, Krzysztof. "Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in Old Testament Narratives : A Hermeneutical Study of Gen. 21.1-21." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504030.
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McCartney, Sherry Gates. "The lived experience of quality of life in an elderly population : a Heideggerian hermeneutical study." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/879846.
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The purpose of this Heideggerian hermeneutical study was to explore and uncover the hidden meaning of quality of life as experienced by a population of individuals 65 years of age and beyond. Five participants were interviewed and asked to describe quality of life as these individuals experienced it. Consistent with the method, purposive sampling was used in order to gain an understanding from subjects who have experienced the phenomenon and could articulate experiences. A group of retirees who meet monthly at a church were asked to participate. Interviews were audiotaped and the data was transcribed by this researcher. Audio tapes were destroyed when the study was completed. Transcribed data was shared with other researchers who are familiar with Heideggerian hermeneutics for the purpose of gaining insight into interpretation. When data was shared, names of participants and other identifying information was removed. Sharing of data for the purpose of interpretation is inherent in the Heideggerian method as described by Diekelmann, Allen and Tanner (1989). Participants were guaranteed confidentiality and were free to withdraw from the study without prejudice at any time. Data was analyzed in seven stages as described by Diekelmann, Allen and Tanner (1989). Findings included a constitutive pattern of quality of life and integrity as one experience. These two ways of being allowed the elderly to experience a sense of unity and completeness as well as a sense of fulfilling one's own destiny. The main theme supporting the constitutive patter was a strong belief and connectedness to a higher power. This faith allowed the elderly to connect to family, friends, church groups and memories. Anticipation of loss and change was a daily experience of being elderly, yet it allowed them to appreciate each day as it was lived without fear or loss of hope. Health promotion was significant because the elderly knew maintaining health was a way to maintain connectedness to that which was valued. The study was significant in contributing an understanding to the experience of quality of life in the elderly population.<br>School of Nursing
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Gipson, Frank L. "A hermeneutical and theological study of Micah working through Mosala's historical-material approach to biblical literature." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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El-Soudani, Aslam. "Can one speak of a Qur’ānic political theory : a hermeneutical study employing semantic and thematic approaches." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10675/.
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In our time, it is not unusual for Islam to be portrayed as a political ideology. Constant references towards “political Islam”, “Islamism” and “Islamists” have become part of the intellectual language and are rarely challenged in terms of their foundational claims. This thesis investigates the fundamental premise that the Qur’ān may contain a political theory. In doing so, a detailed investigation has been conducted in defining concepts of the “political” from within the Muslim tradition by particularly locating these concepts within the Muslim intellectual tradition. The leading research question also seriously considers the hermeneutical issue about how scripture is read to yield a holistic understanding of the entirety of the message. The work of Toshihiko Izutsu (1914-1994) has been employed as one of the major methodological tools in analysing the Qur’ān. Alongside Izutsu’s semantic analysis, the thematic approach has also been utilised to provide a more holistic understanding of the Qur’ān. Within this framework, this research has proposed that the Qur’ān indeed contains a hierarchy of concepts that is indicative of the Qur’ān itself prioritising concepts. With this in mind, a cluster of concepts emerges which forms the main analyses. Accordingly, the idea of a caliphate theory that is equated with an “Islamic state” has been postulated to be non-Qur’ānically based. In fact, it is found that the very proposition is contradictory in terms, as the modern state itself is a European invention, both in structure and form. This study also explored the concept of sharīʿa, arguing that there are two fundamental natures of sharīʿa, the first is that it has mainly been a force of challenge and opposition to power; the second is the emphasis upon individual free choice. One comes to the conclusion that the Qur’ān is intentionally silent towards any political structure or system, yet at another level the Qur’ān reinforces, justice, rights, accountability and apposes injustices of all kind. In an attempt to provide a potential readings of the Qur’ān to render answers to the research questions, the inferences generated from the research are put together with other Qur’ānic concepts such as taqwā and iḥsān with the goal of understanding the role of the individual and the community in the wider Qur’ānic Weltanschauung. The nature of the individual is dynamic; his or her core nature is in constant turmoil but desires perfection. With the desire of perfection comes the drive towards bettering oneself and one’s surroundings. There is a tension or paradox between being an individual and belonging to the collective and between living in the mundane but believing in the sacred. This tension (or paradox) could be solved by means of a constant relationship between refining oneself (looking inward) and projecting outward with the taqwā that is developed.
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Miner, Steven B. "Prereflective Experiences| A Hermeneutical Case Study Exploring the Complexity of Intersubjective Differences as Uncovered in Public Events." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557673.
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<p> This hermeneutical case study looked at human conflict and human difference at the scale of local political life in democratically elected public bodies, using the lens of embodied mind and congruent phenomenological research approaches to examine whether facets could be added to the display of Varela's (1996) proposed experiential phenomenological structures. In particular, the study focused on the pre-reflective moments of intersubjective interaction between people seeking different goals. It then considered the interplay between the perceptions received during those pre-reflective moments of experienced difference with post-reflective conceptions created as a result of the encounters. In doing so, the study found evidence in support of Varela's (1996) suggested structural invariants of experience. In particular, through the use of the elicitation techniques as described by Petitmengin-Peugeot (1999) and Vermersch (2009), participants in differing setting and facts experienced common structural invariants of difference. Those structures were preceded by intention and evidenced by strong affective cues which arose during encounters and which lead to structures of felt resistance, oppositional defiance and the experience of emotional feelings.</p>
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Bond, Lee S. "Hermeneutical methods and the synoptic gospels a case study in the interpretation of Matthew 12:38-42 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Rahman, Yusuf 1967. "The hermeneutical theory of Naṣr Ḥāmid Ab ̄ưZayd : an analytical study of his method of interpreting the Qurān". Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38262.
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Through an examination of the writings of Naṣr Ḥamid Abu Zayd (b. 1943), this dissertation attempts to study his theory and method of interpretation. Not only are these analyzed within the socio-political and historical contexts that tended to inform the development of his thought, but also in the light of hermeneutics and of modern approaches to the Qur'an.<br>Since his writings have led certain Egyptian Islamists to charge him with the crime of apostasy, the thesis also examines the main reasons for their objections. It argues that the crux of the problem lies not so much in the novelty of Abu Zayd's theories as it does in the theological opposition of the Islamists to the liberal Muslims.
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Hong, Cynthia Kay. "A theological and hermeneutical study of the application of selected Old Testament case laws to the modern church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Kim, Hyun wan. "Paul's interpretation of the Old Testament in Galatians 4:21-5:1 and its understanding in hermeneutical study." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Park, Chung Kwan. "Figuring reality : a hermeneutical study of text, reference and community in engagement with Hans W. Frei and Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612292.
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Latham, Jonathan Cyril. "Between freedom and givenness: (a study of the hermeneutical consequences of the concept of canon for the authority of scripture)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001546.
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The aim of this thesis is to arrive at an understanding of the authority of scripture that is able to accommodate both a faith perspective and the fruits of the historical-critical approach to the New Testament. Put differently, the aim of this thesis is the pursuit of a specifically christian, faith-promoting, reading of the New Testament whilst still enjoying the benefit, in an as uncompromised a form as possible, of the historical- critical approach. In a sense it may be said that this task, given that the roots of both the historical-critical approach and modern Western culture are deeply imbedded in Rationalism, is equivalent to the basic hermeneutical question of whether it is possible to interpret scripture relevantly from within a cultural web of meaning that does not readily accommodate that embodied in the New Testament. In section one of this dissertation we present a characteristic depiction, based on the historical-critical theory of literature, of the authority of the New Testament. This is followed by a brief assessment that makes explicit why the historical- critical approach is not conducive to the adoption of a faith perspective on these writings. In section two, still and inevitably based on critical foundations, we adopt a perspective that is more sympathetic to faith and that seeks to discover in the concerns evidenced in the canonical process, when traditions about Jesus gradually took on more complex and stable forms, culminating in the canon of the New Testament, guidelines in helping us to deal with the problem with which this study is concerned . In the specific example of the rather ordinary concerns underlying the unusual history of the pericope de adultera (John 7:53-8:11), examined against the background of the interests underlying the canonical process, it becomes clear that christians from the very beginning faced a dilemma not unlike that with which the historical-critical approach confronts us. They had to interpret afresh, and faithfully, the traditions in order to meet the demands of situations that had never been foreseen by earlier tradents. In this respect, therefore, the history of the pericope de adultera presents us with an ongoing struggle to hold in tension the demands of new contexts with the imperative of strict continuity with Jesus. In section three, on the basis of the foundation of the authority of scripture in strict continuity with Jesus combined with the contextual reinterpretation of the tradition, the social sciences are employed. Using the social sciences, it is discovered that the two contradictory approaches that we wish to reconcile form part of two different models for interpreting reality. It is on this basis, and made possible by the common culture underlying these opposing models and by the common contact with an unspecified common core of concrete reality, that a solution is proposed in terms of a complex 'fusion of horizons', promoted by a 'precipitative environment'. In the conclusion our solution is decisively aligned with the concerns evidenced in the canonical process
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Worthen, Lyndell Phillip. "Helping high school youths to use the Bible through a study of its origin and the application of basic hermeneutical principles." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Sivinski, Daniel Jacobsen. "Hermeneutical exorcism and literary interpretation : a brief study on the problem of meaning and an existentialist interpretation of The Exorcist (1971)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/25433.
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Interpretar sempre implicará uma grande jornada. Não é por acaso que esta prática esteja associada à figura mitológica de Hermes. O próprio ato reflexivo em torno da questão ‘o que significa significar’ envolve uma longa viagem. É dividindo a interpretação em dois momentos, ao qual nos referiremos amplamente apenas por ‘ontológico’ e ‘prático’, que esta dissertação adquire sua forma. Num primeiro momento, há uma problematização sobre a questão do significado numa perspectiva hermenêutica. Partindo da discussão engendrada na obra Politics of Interpretation (1983), e passando pela argumentação sobre ‘intencionalidade’ em interpretação textual, especificamente caracterizada na obra de E. D. Hirsch Jr. Validity in Interpretation (1967), busca-se um estudo introdutório sobre a questão do significado do texto literário em relação a um outro problema que é denominado como ‘o narcisismo do leitor’, para enfim culminar na proposta hermenêutica de Ricoeur. Ou seja, antes de especificamente lidar com a interpretação de O Exorcista (1971), busca-se uma abordagem teórica sobre a questão do significado. Num segundo momento, que não implica numa aplicação da teoria exposta, pois partimos do princípio que não há divisão entre teoria e prática, passamos à interpretação da obra The Exorcist (1971) de William Peter Blatty. Aborda-se esta obra por constituir-se um problema hermenêutico. Porém, a virada existencialista desta obra proposta por esta dissertação será precedida por uma releitura tanto do autor como um texto e sua conseqüente relação com a interpretação do romance, quanto por uma abordagem relacional entre não só a recepção crítica desta obra, assim como em relação aos demais romances do autor, na tentativa, primeiro, de demonstrar a insuficiência de caracterizações da obra como ‘horror’ e ‘teodicéia’, para, finalmente, propor a abertura da obra em direção a uma perspectiva existencialista.<br>Interpreting will always implicate a long journey. It is not by chance that this practice is associated to the mythological figure of Hermes. The very reflexive act about the question of ‘what it means to mean’ involves a longe travel. It is by dividing interpretation in two moments, which will be referred to merely as ‘ontological’ and ‘practical’, that this dissertation achieves its form. In a first moment, there is a problematization about the issue of meaning in a hermeneutical perspective. Beginning from a discussion engendered in the work Politics of Interpretation (1983), and passing through an argumentation about ‘intentionality’ in textual interpretation, more specifically characterized in E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Validity in Interpretation (1967), we search an introductory study about the meaning of a literary text in relation to another problem which is denominated as ‘the narcissism of the reader’, in order to finally culminate in Ricoeur’s hermeneutical proposal. It means that, before specifically dealing with the interpretation of The Exorcist (1971), we seek a theoretical approach to the question of meaning. In a second moment, which does not implicate in the application of the exposed theory, since we follow the principle that there is no division between theory and practice, we develop an interpretation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971). This work is approached because it configures a hermeneutical problem. However, the existentialist shift in this work proposed by this dissertation will be preceded by a reading of the author as a text and its consequent relation to the interpretation of the novel, as well as a relational approach not only to the specific critical reception of the mentioned title, but also in relation to the author’s other works, in the attempt, first, to demonstrate the insufficiency of the characterization of the novel as ‘horror’ or ‘theodicy’, and, finally, to propose the opening of the work in the direction of an existentialist perspective.
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Heshmati, Rafsanjani Hamed. "An interpretive study of the co-creation of knowledge in an online community." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-interpretive-study-of-the-cocreation-of-knowledge-in-an-online-community(2a33dcfe-a186-4c5d-8395-7d6df324c92a).html.
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The advances in online technology has revolutionised online communication. As a result of new emerging web technologies virtual interactions have taken a much more interactive structure. These improvements in technology provide richer communication experiences for the users. Online communities, with the aid of new web 2.0 technology, provide the ideal environment for knowledge sharing. It is the interaction and communication between users of such communities that triggers information and knowledge sharing. Knowledge and information sharing sets the foundation for knowledge creation and co-creation. Meanwhile knowledge is known to be one of the greatest assets of any company or organisation. A significant amount of research has been dedicated to knowledge management. Nevertheless little research has been done to explore knowledge creation and co-creation, particularly in an online community setting. This research is investigating the idea of knowledge co-creation within an online community environment. Knowing that knowledge itself is a subjective entity, which cannot be objectively measured or quantified, the research takes an interpretive approach to finding out how this knowledge is co-created by the users of online communities. One of the main significant factors of this study is that it has used a unique and novel research method to tackle what appears to be a difficult subject. The research uses an interpretive case study method, however without any data collection. The investigation will be exclusively interpretive and philosophically evaluated based on the relevant literature and a set of principles introduced by Klein and Myers (1999). These principles were introduced as a guideline for conducting and evaluating interpretive studies in information systems. Using Klein and Myers’ principles has the advantage of being based on a well-established contemporary literature in information systems (IS) research methodology. The principles have not been used in an exclusively exploratory and interpretive research before. This itself is a major methodological contribution for future researchers to utilise as a practical example. The study develops a conceptual framework around knowledge co-creation, online communities and the technology. This framework is based on a proposed RECI model offered for knowledge creation in online communities. It also investigates the role of technology in the co-creation process. Finally it proposes a set of characteristics and guidelines that facilitate knowledge co-creation in online communities. These characteristics and guidelines would help design and implement future knowledge co-creating online communities, for example, e-learning and knowledge management systems. Furthermore the research lays the foundations for introducing the knowledge co-creation theory within online communities by proposing the initial hypothesis. Subject to appropriate future research and testing, the hypothesis can be developed into a practical theory.
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Overgaard, Nancy. ""O love that will not let me go" a study of Paul's hermeneutical use of Psalm 44:22(23) in Romans 8:36 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn. "A hermeneutical study of the Midrashic influences of biblical literature on the narrative modes, aesthetics, and ethical concerns in the novels of George Eliot." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002279.
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The thesis will examine the influence of Biblical literature on some of the novels of George Eliot. In doing so it will consider the following aspects of Eliot criticism: current theoretical debate about the use of midrash; modes of discourse and narrative style; prophetic language and vision; the influence of Judaism and Jewish exegetical methods on Adam Bede, "The Lifted Veil", The Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, and Daniel Deronda. Literary critics have, for a long time, been interested in the influence of the Bible and Biblical hermeneutics on literature and the extent to which Biblical narratives and themes are used typologically and allegorically in fiction has been well researched. In this regard, the concept of midrash is not a new one in literary theory. It refers both to a genre of writing and to an ancient Rabbinic method of exegesis. It has, however, been given new meaning by literary critics and theoriticians such as Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, and Jacques Derrida. In The Genesis of Secrecy, Kermode gives a new nuance to the word and demonstrates how it may be used to read not only Biblical stories but secular literature as well. It is an innovative, self-reflexive, and intricate hermeneutic processs which has been used by scholars such as Geoffrey Hartman and Sanford Budick, editors of Midrash and Literature, a seminal work in this thesis. Eliot's interest in Judaism and her fascination with religion, religious writing, and religious characters are closely connected to her understanding of the novelist's role as an interpreter of stories. In this regard, the prophetic figure as poet, seer, and interpreter of the past, present, and future of society is of special significance. The thesis will investigate Eliot's reinterpretation of this important Biblical type as well as her retelling of Biblical stories. It will attempt to establish the extent to which Eliot's work may be called midrash, and enter the current debate on how and why literary works have been and can be interpreted. It will address the questions of why Eliot, who abjures normative religious faith, has such a profound interest in the Bible, how the Bible serves her creative purposes, why she is interested in Judaism, and to what extent the latter informs and permeates her novels.
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Carr, William W. "Hermeneutical approaches to the Isaiah apocalypse an examination of form- and redaction-critical interpretive principles and foundations for a new study of Isaiah 24-27 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Nyirenda, Misheck. "The Bible through African eyes : a comparative study of the epistemology in the hermeneutics of indigenous preachers in eastern Zambia with that in select intra-biblical appropriations and re-appropriations of the Exodus event and its ramifications for African biblical hermeneutical methods." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30595.
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The Bible <i>Through</i> African Eyes, is a comparative study of the epistemologies in primary research data from Zambia and select intra-biblical appropriations and re-appropriations of the Exodus event with a view to delineate continuities between them and to use these as a basis for African biblical hermeneutical methods. It is based on the hypothesis that the two epistemologies are similar. The thesis belongs to philosophical hermeneutics, cultural anthropology and biblical studies. The thesis addresses the imperative and identifies a basis for Africans to undertake biblical hermeneutics from African socio-cultural realities and epistemological constitution. It presumes that Modern Christian Missions to Africa were framed and propagated through a Western worldview and socio-cultural realities. It associates the historical critical method with the epistemological interests of modernity. The thesis regards the post colony as epistemological space for the once-colonised to participate in biblical scholarship from their own epistemological constitutions and social-cultural realities. Finally, it argues that epistemological continuities between the Zambian and the biblical material provide a base on which Africans can articulate biblical hermeneutic theory that is rooted in their socio-cultural realities and epistemology and is empathetic to the socio-cultural realities and epistemology in the biblical texts. The thesis will offer critical evaluation of the hermeneutics and homiletics of selected preachers in Eastern Province, Zambia, and the hermeneutics in select intra-biblical appropriations and re-appropriations of the Exodus event under the three scholarly disciplines mentioned above with a view to establish the epistemologies in them. It will compare these epistemologies to establish continuities. These continuities form the basis for articulating African biblical hermeneutical methods and establish the value of the epistemology in the Zambian data for biblical scholarship as an alternative to the ongoing hegemony of Western epistemology in biblical scholarship in Africa.
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Bohorquez, Carlos Eduardo. "Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutic Detours and Distanciations: A Study of the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1389.
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Thesis advisor: David M. Rasmussen<br>Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur have each proposed remarkably similar hermeneutic approaches to the interpretation of texts. They both approach hermeneutics starting from particular insights in Husserl's and Heidegger's respective phenomenologies. They both are wary of the claims of the need for objectivity to provide adequate interpretations of texts. They both turn to Plato and Aristotle to provide models and insights for the interpretation of texts. Gadamer and Ricoeur both devote considerable attention to the critique of prior significant figures in hermeneutics. They both utilize and exploit the difference between the structures and elements of a language and the actual use and expressions made in that language for the purpose of explaining how meaning is created. For all their similarities, there are differences between the hermeneutic approaches and theories of Gadamer and Ricoeur. One significant difference between the two is the attitude that each thinker takes toward tradition or dogma. Gadamer approaches prior interpretive contexts, i.e., tradition, in a manner that privileges their capacity to provide viewpoints to adequately and effectively interpret texts. Ricoeur, on the other hand, eyes tradition more critically. His research into many of the human sciences and their methodological and philosophical foundations leads to a greater awareness and acceptance of the possible deceptive and misleading capacities of tradition. This difference in attitude toward tradition expresses itself clearly in another difference between the two thinkers. Gadamer, unlike Ricoeur, is unwilling to accept the inclusion of methodologies and insights of the human sciences within the purview of hermeneutics. Gadamer argues that such an inclusion would be anathema to the hermeneutic and philosophical project. Ricoeur, on the other hand, argues that the inclusion of these insights leads to a broadening of hermeneutic resources and to the continued relevance of hermeneutics to the philosophical project. The inclusion of the insights of the human sciences within hermeneutics also points to another significant difference between Gadamer and Ricoeur. Ricoeur argues that the determination of the meaning of a text must always be achieved through a detour to a viewpoint that lies outside the text. There must be some distance between the text and interpreter if the interpreter is to provide an adequate interpretation. Ricoeur recognizes that this demand would seem to place him in the camp of those hermeneutists who demand objectivity for acceptable interpretation. Ricoeur provides a convincing defense against this charge. Gadamer, on the other hand, argues that any move outside of that of the text serves to impose an interpretation upon it that is not sensitive or authentic to it. For Gadamer, recourse to an interpretive viewpoint outside of the text is merely a capitulation to the methodologies of control and domination of positivism and scientism. In this dissertation I explore the similarities and differences among the theories of Gadamer and Ricoeur. I explore the similarities and differences that some commentators of Gadamer and Ricoeur have found. I provide a detailed examination of Gadamer's pivotal work Truth and Method. I consider Gadamer's assessments of prior hermeneutical figures, like Schleiermacher and Dilthey, and Gadamer's proposals for an alternative approach to hermeneutical interpretation. I also examine two of Ricoeur's significant works: The Conflict of Interpretations and Time and Narrative. In a short, but dense, article Ricoeur speaks directly to what he perceives to be the difference between his work and that of Gadamer and Habermas. Through the analysis of these three works, I hope to demonstrate how Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory is both similar to and different from Gadamer's. I argue that Ricoeur's hermeneutics provides resources to address some of the weaknesses present in Gadamer's thought, particularly Gadamer's assessment of the reliability of tradition for the interpretation of texts<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Philosophy
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Nolan, Mary Catherine O. P. "The Magnificat, canticle of a liberated people: a hermeneutical study of Luke 1:46-55 investigating the world behind the text by exegesis; the world in front of the text by interpretive inquiry." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430406730.
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Shorthouse, Raymond T. "From 'suspicion' to 'affirmation' : a study of the role of the imagination and prose rhythm, drawing upon the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, in which there may be movement from suspicion to affirmation of reasonable hope." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4473/.
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The aim of this thesis is to show that a familiar hermeneutical movement from suspicion to affirmation of rational meaning, as a reader reflects on a narrative, is, in part, grounded in the narrative's rhythmic structure which mediates a sonorous condition of being appropriated by the reader. This hermeneutical process involves the reader in appropriating the temporal perspective (or the 'implied author's' or Other's viewpoint) which creates a 'space' for reflection in which a provisional conceptual unity is made possible, but subject to continuing movement from suspicion to affirmation. It is shown that this relationship between Self and Other is dialectical, and mediated by the textual modes of metaphor and narrative. Particular examples of poetry and prose are examined, and the story of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac in the 'Authorised Version' of the Bible is analyzed in detail in an attempt to show how the reader, imaginatively inhabiting the world of the text, is involved in a process in which there is an 'instant' of letting go Self reflection; and there is affirmation of reasonable hope that the narrative may be rationally understood. In an attempt to address the critical issue of validation of rational meaning to show that affirmation may be given reasonable hope, the analogy of juridical legality is examined, particularly with respect to Aristotle's notion of phronesis. The analysis draws upon the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur with particular regard to his theories of metaphor and narrative, and the role of the creative imagination. It also makes use of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the lived body in terms of a dialectical relationship between its material objectivity and its phenomenological aspects, especially, with respect to sonorous being and corporeal intentionality. From the discipline of literary criticism, Northrop Frye's notion of prose rhythm in his Anatomy of Criticism is employed to identity this key mediatory characteristic.
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Wood, Kevin, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Conversations : hermeneutic inquiry unearthing pedagogic relations." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/286.
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What is conversation and how is it related to pedagogic relations? Conversations: Hermeneutic Inquiry Unearthing Pedagogic Relations utilizes Hans-Georg Gadamger's notion of conversation as "the art of seeing things in the unity of an aspect" (Gadamer, 2004, p.368). This definition for conversation is a model for the pedagogic relation where the teacher and student experience education together, side-by-side. This thesis explores the themes of pedagogy, vulnerability and living or Being in the context of teaching. Hermeneutic inquiry -a mode, or art of interpretation-is utilized to inquire into one teacher's experience with students to unearth a deeper understanding of the pedagogic relation. The hermeneutic questions that have informed the inquiry are: 1)What is the nature of the pedagogic relation? 2)What is the nature of the teacher-student relationship? 3)What is the significance of vulnerability in teaching? 4)What is the effect of society on the pedagogic relation? Textual fragments or narrative reconstructions of conversations with students and parents are the site of the study. The study itself employs Gadamer's Truth and Method as a tool of inquiry and also explores the writings on pedagogy of David Smith, David Jardine and Max van Manen. This thesis addresses the nature of a teacher being with another, namely the student and how the teacher must have a measure of self-understanding to nurture the pedagogic relation. The teacher who engages in conversation with his/her students will undoubtedly experience a measure of vulnerability as a direct result of the relationship. The thesis concludes with writing about how hermeneutics is a mode of self-understanding and change.<br>viii, 129 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Afoakwah, Georgina. "Exploring the lived experiences of first-time breastfeeding women : a phenomenological study in Ghana." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/exploring-the-lived-experiences-of-firsttime-breastfeeding-women-a-phenomenological-study-in-ghana(55889707-3dba-48f4-85e2-edd49ad95246).html.
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Background: Breastfeeding is globally recognised as a gold standard of nutrition, recommended for the first six months of an infant’s life. Despite its benefits, most women in Ghana do not breastfeed, as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Aim: To gain in-depth understanding of first-time Ghanaian mother lived experience of breastfeeding. Design/Method: A longitudinal qualitative design was adopted, underpinned by the hermeneutic phenomenological approach, as described by van Manen (1990). The study explored the lived experiences of thirty first-time women recruited from antenatal clinic. A series of three semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted; the first in late pregnancy, the second in the first week following childbirth and the final one between four and six months postpartum. Findings: Inductive thematic analysis informed by van Manen (1990) and principles of hermeneutic interpretation allowed the emergence of four main themes: the ‘Breastfeeding Assumption,' Breastfeeding as Women’s Business,’ the Postnatal Experience of Breastfeeding and ‘Family as Enabler or Disabler’. Within the context of this study, breastfeeding is expressed as an activity within the family and social environment. The overall phenomenon that emerged was ‘Social Conformity’. This demonstrates an understanding of the breastfeeding experience suffused with emotions as women project an image of themselves as successful breast feeders in order to conform to family and social expectations. Conclusion: Findings from the study demonstrated the multifactorial dimensions of breastfeeding. Most importantly, it was identified that first-time breastfeeding women use emotion work to cope with their experience of breastfeeding, within the social context. It was suggested that midwives play a pivotal role in helping women develop realistic expectations prior to breastfeeding. Furthermore encouraging family centered education that promotes holistic support for women. The findings therefore suggested the need for better antenatal education based on evidence-based practice. Breastfeeding women require individualised support that assesses their emotional needs and offers encouragement. Developing policies that ensure training of midwives and breastfeeding advocates was recommended. Future research could explore the impact of these interventions on breastfeeding practices, helping first time women to breastfeed effectively.
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Richardson, Robert Steven. "A phenomenological hermeneutic study of radiology." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10032450.
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<p> Shared leadership paradigms are becoming more popular in organizations because of the increased responsibilities placed on leaders within health care organizations. Researchers have conducted little research on how individuals on leadership teams perceive their role in engaging with others in their team. The qualitative phenomenological hermeneutic study involved examining how radiology administrators in Northern California describe their lived experiences on shared leadership teams, with an emphasis on their perceptions of team productivity and trust. The conceptual framework for the study included shared leadership theory, which scholars have noted is still a new field of study. Seven research participants representing from three to 18 years of experience as radiology managers with experience serving on shared leadership teams. From the five initial questions and sub questions, the analysis involved breaking down the responses into 175 separate areas of exploration. In addition to the demographics of the groups and types of teams served on, four themes emerged from this data: lived experience on shared leadership teams, knowledge and skills learned from shared leadership teams, key factors affecting team performance on shared leadership teams, and the effect of diversity on shared leadership teams. The implications of the research to leadership are that radiology managers may gain a better understanding of when to use shared leadership and how to best staff the teams to support organizational work, and how to improve shared leadership team dynamics.</p>
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Waterhouse, J. Timothy Carleton University Dissertation Religion. "Words of life; a study of Luther's Hermeneutics." Ottawa, 1992.
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Kusmirski, Maryann Dawn Patricia. "Illuminating the place, a hermeneutic study of breastfeeding." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0019/MQ55191.pdf.
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Brewer, Evelyn. "Contemporary Nursing in Rural Appalachia: A Hermeneutic Study." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3624.
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Nurses make up a significant source of direct care for individuals, families, and communities. The problematic distribution of nurses and the potential to lose practicing nurses emphasizes the importance of retention and support of nursing professionals, especially in rural locations. One of the best ways to discover what is important to nurses is to ask and listen to the replies.
The focus for this dissertation is the lived experience of registered nurses in a six-county area in three adjoining states in rural South Central Appalachia. The purpose of this study is to interpret and understand the lived experience of contemporary RN practice in rural Appalachia. The two aims of the study are to 1) understand the lived experience of contemporary nurses in rural Appalachia, and 2) understand the lived experience of nurses as they relate to the place of residence and the place of employment.
The chapters include the research proposal and three manuscripts. Chapter 1 contains the background and significance. Chapter 2 is the literature review. Chapter 3 includes sampling and recruitment in rural areas. The findings are discussed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 contains an integration of all manuscripts, discussion of the contribution to nursing science, direction for future research, and implications for nursing practice. Manuscripts are ready for submission and will be formatted per author guidelines prior to submitting.
The first manuscript, “Perceptions of Nursing in Appalachia: A State of the Science Paper,” is a literature review. The manuscript reviews the literature surrounding nurses in Appalachia. It was published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing in January, 2018 (Brewer, 2018).
The second manuscript, “The Lived Experience of Nursing in Appalachia: Sampling and Recruitment,” examines the researcher’s experience with sampling and recruitment. The second manuscript will be submitted to the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care.
The third manuscript, “Living and Working as a Nurse in Appalachia: A Phenomenological Study,” provides findings, implications, and future research. This paper describes findings and identifies themes of the data. The third manuscript is ready for publication to the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. The conclusion presents dissertation summary comments.
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Zayed, Richard S. "Interpretation in psychotherapy: An empirical phenomenological-hermeneutic study." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29326.
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As a psychotherapeutic intervention, interpretation has an extensive history dating back to the beginnings of psychotherapy itself. It has been theoretically expounded as the essence of psychotherapy by some theorists, and rejected as unnecessary by others. However, as the major theoretical orientations have begun to converge, interpretation has entered into their contemporary discourses in one form or another. Empirically, interpretation has been addressed extensively, particularly in the psychodynamic and process psychotherapy literatures. However, few qualitative studies have been conducted on the phenomenon as it presents itself in actual therapy sessions, and these qualitative studies have presented with significant limitations.
The present dissertation conducted a phenomenological study of interpretation in psychotherapy by examining the manner in which it presents itself through three sessions of self-identified psychodynamic, humanistic-existential, and cognitive behavioural therapists. These sessions were followed by separate interviews with the therapists and the patients regarding their experiences of the interpretations within the sessions. The three sessions and six interviews were analyzed by using the phenomenological method. The resulting general meaning structure indicated that interpretation was a core therapeutic intervention in all three sessions, and presented as a highly complex phenomenon. Its deeply interrelated main features indicated that interpretation is a highly dialogical phenomenon immersed in therapist and patient contexts and intentions, as well as pre-interpretive and post-interpretive contexts. Both the therapists and patients contributed to the evolution of interpretations in the interpretive dialogue, and in fact patients were found to initiate some of the interpretations. The dialogical nature of interpretation also implied that, through their interrelationship, the therapist and patient dialogued with the interpreted material as a presence beyond their relationship, giving rise to the actual interpretations.
Interpretive threads interweaved throughout the sessions as the interpretations formed layers of thematic development and increased in complexity. These interpretations involved greater or lesser degrees of intuition or reflection. Intuition and reflection counterbalanced each other; the former reflecting the interpretation's grounding in understanding the patient's experiencing, and the latter reflecting the interpretation's abstraction, complexity, and/or explanatory focus. Through its temporal dimension, interpretation unfolded in the present of the therapeutic dialogue, but reached back into the past and thrust forward into the future, even beyond the session itself. Finally, the present dissertation addressed specific and general patient responses to interpretation, and suggested a novel typology of interpretation.
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Krantz, Goran. "Students' experiences of dance : a hermeneutic phenomenological study." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3189.
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The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic activity towards exploring the meaningfulness of the arts themselves. New researches as well as new theoretical approaches are thus called for (Winner, Goldstein and Vincent-Lancrin, 2013). Hence my research question is: what are students’ experiences of dance? Research on experiences in the arts is contested by the problem to verbalise lived experience. Therefore, in the thesis, a new method based on hermeneutic phenomenology (HP) and arts-based research (ABR) is developed. It includes artistic activity in three forms arts: dance, poetry, and visual art. An oral interview built on a circular structure gives the students a variety of opportunities to interpret and verbalise their experiences of dance. Twenty students, 18 years old, who regularly dance in school, participated. Answers were analysed following van Manen’s (1990) method of structural analysis of themes, including poetic interpretations. The findings reveal that dance is experienced as very important for personal exploration and transformation. Experiences of finding ‘my home’, security, freedom, authenticity, well-being, and happiness are most evident in research participants. Dance strengthens students’ motivation to take on the challenges of life and their ability to concentrate. The experience of dance is described as an extraordinary state of mind. Both participant evaluations and the analysis of results indicate that the method, phenomenology of artistic practice, was successful. Thus this thesis contributes to the development of ABR and HP. A theoretical perspective placing artistic activity at the centre of the creation of knowledge and based on Gadamer’s (1993) ideas on Bildung is presented. Recent educational discussions (Biesta, 2012) highlight the importance of interpretative activities and understanding of self in setting future directions for education. This thesis discusses dance in relation to this context and indicates that dance is an important school subject, being based on existential values. In concluding that dance has a positive influence on the life of the students and provides a unique opportunity to explore self, this thesis argues that educationalists should reconsider the value of dance in schools.
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Rueckert, George Randolph. "Zhukovsky and the Germans : a study in romantic hermeneutics /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6630.
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Cole, Rose, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Nursing and Health Studies. "New mothers creating their well-being: a hermeneutic study." THESIS_FNHS_XXX_Cole_R.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/279.
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This hermeneutic study explores the experience of well-being of eight new mothers who live in the Blue Mountains of N.S.W. The experiences were analysed to illuminate definitions, meanings and practices which create their well being. This study transcends existing notions of health and motherhood. The author argues that mothers resist the social expectations created by the 'ideology of motherhood' by; defining their well-being, redefining and resisting the notion of being the 'good mother' by creating practices to achieve their well-being. Social support is integral to this. The study is grounded in hermeneutics incorporating the Heideggerian ideas of being-in-the-world, co-constitution and the hermeneutic circle and also the Gadamerian idea of fusion of horizons. A post-structuralist feminist perspective is adopted, incorporating Foucault's ideas on power, knowledge, truth and resistance. Eight definitions of these new mothers' well-being are presented. Implications for nursing practice, education and research are discussed<br>Master of Nursing (Hons)
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Cole, Rose A. "New mothers creating their well-being : a hermeneutic study /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030901.155229/index.html.
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Myers, Cheryl. "Law professors’ existential online lifeworlds: an hermeneutic phenomenological study." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35443.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Curriculum and Instruction<br>Thomas Vontz<br>This phenomenological study hermeneutically explores law professors’ felt experiences within online existential lifeworld spheres. Prose, poetry, color images, and virtual journeying provide descriptive and interpretive text suggesting expansion of Gadamer’s fusion of horizonal understanding. Law professors who teach asynchronously online selected five color images from pixabay.com corresponding with the five universal existential themes: body, space, time, relationships and material things/technology (van Manen, 2014) as catalysts to conversationally explore what it feels like to transition from classroom to online instruction.
Multiple phenomenological, artistic, and scientific theories prismatically amplify and explain the study’s design: Gadamer’s hermeneutical circle of understanding (1960/2006), Termes six-point spherical perspective (2016), Einstein’s closed yet unbounded universe (Egdall, 2014), and Seamon’s concept of “at homeness” (2012). Dialogical understanding of Self and Other(s) through Gadamer’s call for festival and serious play (1960/2006) is activated: The reader is invited to interact with the study text through visual and auditory web experiences.
Researcher’s hermeneutic and existential retelling of the professors’ conversations begins to unfold metaphorically around a table within a virtual forest. When researcher’s previously bracketed-away prejudice for incorporating synchronous modalities into online learning erupts, professors’ longing felt for classroom home actualizes and ultimately emerges as a sixth existential dimension proposed by the researcher. A culminating journey through virtual desert in search of online home continues the retelling and metaphorically incorporates all six existential themes.
Dramatic changes in researcher’s lifeworld view, ways of knowing and being, self view, self action and pedagogical development as a result of conducting the study are summarized. Future research is implicated including exploration of professors’ existentially felt experiences while teaching synchronously online and deep-mining professorial empathy toward students.
Factors that impinge on all law professors’ transitioning to online instruction contextually anchor the study: 1) Legal pedagogy’s evolution from 18th Century professional skills training through the late 19th Century intrusion of legal doctrine instruction, and 20th Century paralegal skills training; 2) The American Bar Association’s 21st century mandates for graduating students with both legal skills and legal doctrine training; 3) 21st Century pedagogical Immutables (teaching online, teaching legal job skills, teaching legal doctrine, teaching to standardized tests); and 4) 21st Century Protean Challenges (institution and student demand for technology-based instruction, the Global Legal Services Industry’s hierarchical control over legal education and practice, enrollment and tuition crises, multi-cultural limitations, and the pedagogical conundrum of choosing among multiple online design and delivery modalities).
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McLean, Neville Terence. "Change in narrative therapy : a pragmatic hermeneutic case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013164.
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The client of this case study was a twenty two year old female in her first year at university. The client had come into therapy because she had felt depressed, lonely and riddled with selfdoubt. The author used a Narrative Therapy approach with the client and was focussed on helping the client generate new meanings and stories that were more useful and empowering for the client. In this case study, the author was interested in exploring the process of change that the client underwent during the therapy process and he would rely on identifying innovative moments to track these changes. This interest informed the research question; what is the process of change in narrative therapy as tracked through the therapeutic dialogue? How does the change process in this case study track with the heuristic model of change put forward by Gonçalves and his colleagues? The author chose to use a pragmatic hermeneutic case study method in order to analyse the data and the results were organised into a coherent narrative. The data was collected from twenty two therapy sessions and these were grouped together into themes, namely a quick start, the beginning of change, thickening the innovative moments and lighting the fire. The results of this study reveal that despite being considered a good outcome case by the author, the process of change differed somewhat to that proposed by the heuristic model of change.
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Evans, Patrick Garland. "Peak experience in educational encounters| A phenomenological-hermeneutic study." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10117910.
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<p> This study inquires into the peak experience of educators arising within educational encounters with students. It indicates a particular trend in education away from authoritarian modes of teacher behavior toward dialogic, empathetic relationships cultivated by teachers with their students. Also indicated is the potential for teachers to transform themselves morally, thereby creating conditions necessary for students to develop moral attitudes and behavior. By developing capacities for meditation, contemplation, and self-reflection, by developing intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, teachers enter on a path of development and actualize a truly human individuality. When self-actualization becomes a modus operando, peak experiences may give self-reflecting teachers knowledge of their own development. </p><p> A mixed-methods approach to the project was used that employed a questionnaire to: (a) establish the demographics of the sample; and (b) survey the types of peak experience that occurred within teachers resulting from educational encounters with children. The questionnaire also requested that the participant give a narrative of a peak experience. From the pool of 46 respondents, seven were chosen for interviews that ultimately clarified and enabled a deeper understanding of the narratives. The interview data and narratives were analyzed using a 3 step process proposed by Ricoeur (1986) and employed by Lindseth and Norberg (2004). The data revealed that teachers working with Steiner pedagogy have a multitude of peak experiences. These teachers use contemplative practice and self-reflection to cultivate intrinsic qualities of empathy, love, and dialogic competence. The findings also affirm that the kinds of peak experience reported by James (1901/2008), Bucke (1905/2006), Maslow (1970), and Csikszentmihalyi (1990) are definitely and extensively in evidence in the sample surveyed. Particular aspects of experience reported also included: dreaming as a mode of cognition, the prescient nature of some experiences, the prevalence of self-reflective and contemplative practices as precursors to peak and transpersonal experiences, the importance of the encounter as a condition for the emergence of such experiences within teachers.</p>
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Van, Jaarsveld Pieter Paul. "Hermeneutic and empirical analyses of graphically inspired metamathematics that reflect critical consciousness within perspectives of personal and social justice." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004376.
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My involvement with mathematics education amongst township educators and learners over the past seven years has highlighted the absence of sustained meaning and meaning making of mathematical concepts. It appears though that this instrumental rather than relational understanding of FET mathematics is not unique to township learners but is encountered amongst learners of all socio-economic classes and is representative of many FET mathematics learners. Given that the language of learning and teaching is a major contributory factor in the South African education system, it appears that the language of mathematics itself is a greater exacerbating factor for many learners of mathematics. The exclusive algorithmic approach to classroom mathematics further seems to alienate many learners from the essence of the meaning of mathematical tasks. This research undertakes to determine whether metateaching and metalearning as forerunners to metacognition facilitates the acquisition of the sustained meaning of mathematical concepts. Metateaching and metalearning refer to the acute and deliberate awareness by educator and learner as to what constitutes concepts. Teaching and learning therefore presupposes the deconstruction of concepts into its subsumed derivative roots. It also assumes an awareness of the tacit degrees of abstraction that characterise tasks and the content of tasks. This in turn has implications for the educator's adopted sequence of topics for instruction. Metacognition implies awareness on the part of the learner (and educator) as to how material is learned and a further awareness as to how that learning can be sustained. Whether we ascribe meaningful learning to radical or social constructivism, or to associationist didactive approaches, or a combination of these, we are making assumptions about how learners acquire and sustain mathematical meaning because mathematics is, by and large a symbolic language often devoid of affective connotation. Furthermore our assessments of learners' tasks amount to clinical corrections of austere formulae wrapped in algorithmic procedures which manifest nothing of a learner's experience of mathematics or the deeper understanding (or misunderstandings) which characterise a learning and/or assessment episode. To this end the research design of this interpretive case study requires learners to expound in textual accounts their thoughts as they describe the evolution of a mathematical process as they approach a solution and eventually interpret it. The textual account exposes the concept definition for what it really is in a learner's understanding of it and it is the expressiveness of language that indicates whether the understanding of a learner is approaching the concept image. The textual accounts vary in richness in terms of mathematical register and this in turn reflects the conceptual depth. The mechanism which seems to promote the conversion from concept definition to concept image is the graphical representation of the mathematical task or procedure, possibly because of its greater concreteness as opposed to the abstraction of its algebraic form.
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Purviance, Jerry L. "A manual for teaching hermeneutics and Bible study to counselees." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Prince, Brainerd. "Aurobindo's integralism : study of religion and the hermeneutics of tradition." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580689.
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This thesis, as an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance, offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical traditions. The central argument advanced is that Aurobindo’s integral philosophy is best understood as hermeneutical philosophy of religion. Such an understanding of his philosophy, offering both substantive and methodological insights for the academic study of religion, subdivides into three interrelated aims: first, to demonstrate that the power of the Aurobindonian vision lies in its self-conception as a traditionary-hermeneutical enquiry into religion. Here, I argue that the structure of the Aurobindonian enquiry into religion reveals a traditionary-hermeneutical enquiry. Secondly, I aim to draw substantive insights from Aurobindo’s enquiry to envision a way beyond the impasse within the current religious-secular debate in the academic study of religion. Working out of the condition of secularism, the dominant secularists demand the abandonment of the category ‘religion’ and the dismantling of the academic discipline of religious studies. Aurobindo’s integral work on ‘religion’, arising out of the Vedānta tradition, critiques the condition of secularism that undergirds the religious-secular debate. His three key texts – The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, and The Synthesis of Yoga on metaphysics, history, and yoga respectively – while building up an integral philosophy, can be used to contribute to different aspects of this debate. Finally, informed by the hermeneutical tradition and building on the methodological insights from Aurobindo's integral method, I explore a hermeneutical approach for the study of religion which is dialogical in nature. The pursuit of this threefold aim develops my central argument through the following chapters.
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Rodrigues, Ana Rita Abreu Baptista de Oliveira. "Mudar com o psicodrama: Estudo de caso com o hermeneutic single-case efficacy design." Master's thesis, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2749.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário<br>O presente estudo de caso pretende avaliar o impacto da terapia psicodramática num cliente de trinta e três anos, que frequentou cerca de quarenta sessões de psicodrama. Recorreu-se a uma investigação de processo e resultado, com cruzamento de métodos qualitativos e quantitativos, segundo o modelo Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED), desenvolvido por Robert Elliot.
A resposta às questões: “O cliente mudou? A responsável pela mudança é a psicoterapia? Que factores específicos contribuíram para a mudança? esteve subjacente a todo o processo de investigação.
Os resultados obtidos suportam a eficácia da terapia psicodramática no caso estudado.<br>ABSTRACT: This study case pretends to evaluate the impact of psychodrama therapy in a thirty three year-old client who attended about forty psychodrama sessions.
We based our investigation on therapy process and outcome, mixing qualitative and quantitative methods, following the Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) model of analysis developed by Robert Elliot.
Throughout the entire process of investigation we seek to answer the questions: “Has the client actually changed? Is psychotherapy generally responsible for change? What specific factors are responsible for change?”.
The results suggest the effectiveness of the psychodrama therapy in the case in research.