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Catalysts To Transformational Leadership Between Managers And Analysts In Public Service, Eugene Davis Stevenson Iii

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Transformational leadership (TL) is the ability of a leader to convince a subordinate or follower to adopt organizational goals as their goals. Transformational leaders utilize intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, and idealized influence to engage and mold their employees. Within the sphere of public management, current leadership research acknowledges the effect of TL but is still incomplete or inconsistent on how to catalyze TL consistently. The focus of this study was how TL is used between managers and analysts within California state public service. The theoretical framework for this study is complexity theory. Complexity theory states that the world …

Experiences Of Public-Private Partnership Concession Uncertainties In The Federal Capital Territory Administration Of Nigeria, Chigbo Rowland Chikelu

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Structuring successful public-private partnership (P3) concession contracts is a problem for both the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) of Nigeria and private concessionaires that partner with the government to finance the delivery of public goods in the territory. Researchers have estimated the percentage of P3 concession failures in Nigeria to be between 50% and 60%. The purpose of this study is to explore concessionaires’ lived experiences involving P3 concession uncertainties, opportunities, and barriers while they partner with the FCTA of Nigeria to deliver public goods. The key research question examined the meaning of P3 concession uncertainty to concessionaires with the …

Understanding District Assemblywomen Participation In District Assemblies Common Fund Decisions In Ghana, Ranney B. Jackson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Abstract The problem addressed in this study is that there is no deep understanding of the perspectives of the Assemblywomen of Ghana regarding their participation in the District Assemblies Common Fund (Common Fund) in Ghana. This qualitative case study aimed to explore and understand the perspectives of the assemblywomen’s participation in decisions of the Common Fund regarding development initiatives in their districts. The study used two theoretical frameworks, citizen participation theory and a sequential theory of decentralization, to provide better insights into the existence of this gap. The critical finding derived from an analysis of interviewing 25 assembly members is …

Administrator And Practitioner Perspectives On Trauma-Focused Interventions For Incarcerated Male Juvenile Offenders, Tatrina Bailey

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractThe juvenile justice system of the United States has about two million adolescents under the age of 18 years, of which 85% are male. Seventy to ninety percent of juvenile offenders were exposed to some type of trauma, causing the U.S. Department of Justice to a call for instituting trauma-informed procedures in the juvenile justice system. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore facility administrators’ and practitioners’ perceptions of their roles in administering and choosing to administer trauma-focused treatment interventions to incarcerated male juvenile offenders. Using the theory of social construction of policy, the research questions focused on …

Professional Values Of Corporate Nurses, Kasey Jeanne Sands

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Healthcare is comprised of providers, who offer patient services, and payors, who manage the financial reimbursement of providers. Not much is known about registered nurses (RNs) in the corporate payor industry due to a lack of research. Strong professional values (PVs) are expected of all RNs, but research has shown this to vary across the field, meaning that RNs may require support in this area. As little is known about RNs in the payor industry, how these nurses sustain their PVs within the industry has not been evaluated, recognized, or supported. Therefore, the aims of this quantitative, descriptive, and correlational …

Managers’ Challenges Complying With Environmental Regulations In Ghana’S Mining Sector, Augustin Tandoh

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Even though Ghana’s mining industry has been and continues to be of remarkable benefit to the national economy, environmental pollution continues to plague the industry. The purpose of the qualitative case study was to obtain the perceptions of 9 nongovernmental organization (NGO) stakeholders of the challenges faced by managers in the Ghanaian mining industry tasked with complying with Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (GEPA) regulations. Freeman’s stakeholder theory was the theoretical framework of the study. Data were collected from semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of Ghanaian and international NGO representatives who sought to work with, or even shame and pressure, …

Ragam Budaya Penggunaan Piranti Sumpit Masyarakat Bandung, Selvia Selvia

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Food is an inseparable part of a culture and serves as one of the characteristic markers of a culture or ethnic groups. The arrival and presence of the Chinese ethnic group has contributed to the diversity of the Indonesian culture in general. One of Chinese dishes that have become a favorite delicacy in Bandung is noodles, a wide variety of which is sold in various areas around the city. Noodles are considered as a substitute for daily staple food and have become part of Indonesian identity in general. This field study used the descriptive qualitative method. Data collection was carried …

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Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Messages From The Margins: How Mature Women At Risk Of Homelessness Sustain Their Psychosocial And Spiritual Lives, Catherine E. Tovell

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This community based qualitative study examined the psychosocial and spiritual lives of 10 mature women (age 50 and older) who were at risk of becoming homeless, in other words, the hidden homeless. A narrative inquiry research design was employed to explore the lived experiences of these women. Voluntary participants were recruited through Life*Spin, a community based non profit organization that works primarily with low income families and individuals in London, Ontario. The Executive Director of Life*Spin circulated the recruitment flyers and handbills throughout her networks of social agencies. Individual interviews were arranged with participants who met the inclusion categories of …

Environmental Reforestation And Social Justice In Cameroon: A Test Case For Pope Francis' Concept Of 'Integral Ecology' In Laudato Sí, Augustin Vondou

Dissertations

The following quotation from Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Sí is one of the most quoted parts of his well-known encyclical: We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature (139).

This is a very challenging statement. Not everyone accepts this idea of an ‘integral ecology’; that is, the notion that the condition of human society is directly linked to the …

Refuting The Single Story Of Political Action In Hannah Arendt: Navigating Arendt's Eurocentrism And Anti-Black Racism, Katherine Brichacek

Dissertations

In this dissertation, I argue for a reconceptualization of political action according to Hannah Arendt that relies on more than her text often read text, The Human Condition. I argue that a monolithic understanding of political action which solely relies on The Human Condition allows for a narrow and ineffectual account of the concept. Taking up the analogy of one-dimensional blueprints, I claim that using The Human Condition alone only provides one perspective on and version of political action. I promote, instead, a multi-dimensional perspective of political action much like an architectural rendering software such as AutoCAD provides, or renders, …

Jalan Gender, Jalan Spiritual: Menggali Pembentukan Gender Project Dalam Konteks Pengalaman Keberagamaan Perempuan, Katrin Bandel, Anne Shakka, Gusnita Linda, Yustina Devi Ardhiani

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Using the method of collaborative autoethnography, this study critically reflects on the life stories of three women from different backgrounds by focusing on gender and religion. One of the main aspects that we examined is gender projects, i.e. the projections people make when imagining their future gender roles and identities. As a result of our (self-) observations, we found that, while at first the gender project of those women was formed by the patriarchal gender order of their society, as time progresses, after living through and evaluating a variety of often traumatic experiences, they developed their own gender projects more …

Dramaturgi Sakaiba Dalam Hibridisasi Budaya Minahasa Sulawesi Utara, Tony Tampake, Micchelle Hermanus

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This paper discusses the sakaiba ritual procession in Minahasa which is carried out every year by the Christian community to welcome the New Year. The research was conducted in Taratara village, Tomohon, North Sulawesi. This study focuses on the significance and meaning of the sakaiba ritual procession within the context of the hybridization of contemporary religious culture in Minahasa. By using the theoretical concepts of ritual and dramaturgy, as well as applying the descriptive qualitative methods, this research found that the sakaiba ritual procession is a liminal hinge that allows a peaceful encounter between the ancient Minahasa traditions and the …

Womanists Leading White People In Intergroup Dialogue To End Anti-Black Racism: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, Tawana Angela Davis

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Womanism is a term curated by Alice Walker (2004) that centers Black women’s lived experiences, past and present, encouraging Black women to no longer look to others for their liberation (Floyd-Thomas, 2006). Soul 2 Soul Sister’s Facing Racism program is facilitated by Womanist instructors, who work with groups of mostly white people to address anti-Black racism. This qualitative study explored the experiences of white participants who took part in this program, Facing Racism, which holds Womanism as its central guiding principle. Although pre- and post-surveys were routinely conducted over the years about participants’ experiences with Facing Racism, this study sought …

ความทุกข์กับเนื้อหนังในความคิดของเอมมานูเอล ฟาลค์, เกรียงศักดิ์ ประสูตร์แสงจันทร์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

รากฐานสำคัญของเทววิทยาคริสต์ศาสนาคือการอธิบายความทุกข์ในประสบการณ์ของมนุษย์ในฐานะผลของบาป และมีหลักความเชื่อว่าพระเยซูเจ้ายอมรับความทุกข์แทนมนุษย์เพื่อไถ่บาปและช่วยให้มนุษย์คืนดีกับพระเจ้า นอกจากนี้ ขนบคำสอนของคริสต์ศาสนาให้ความสำคัญกับวิญญาณแต่มองข้ามกาย จึงเกิดข้อวิพากษ์ว่าเทววิทยาคริสต์ศาสนาไม่สามารถอธิบายความทุกข์ในประสบการณ์ของมนุษย์ อาทิ ความวิตกกังวล ความกลัว และความเจ็บปวดได้อย่างแท้จริงและเพียงพอ เอมมานูเอล ฟาลค์ (Emmanuel Falque) เสนอข้อโต้แย้งว่า ความทุกข์ไม่ใช่ผลของบาป แต่เป็นความจริงเชิงภววิทยา (ontological reality) ของมนุษย์ในฐานะสิ่งที่เสื่อมสลายได้ ความทุกข์เป็นภาวะแห่งข้อจำกัดในเนื้อหนัง (finitude in the flesh) วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้เสนอบทวิเคราะห์จุดยืนของฟาลค์ซึ่งอ่านและตีความความวิตกกังวล ความกลัว และความเจ็บปวดในประสบการณ์แห่งความทุกข์ของพระเยซูเจ้าในสวนเกทเสมนีด้วยวิธีการแบบปรากฏการณ์วิทยา และแสดงเหตุผลเพื่อปกป้องแนววิเคราะห์ของฟาลค์โดยอธิบายว่า ความทุกข์ในฐานะข้อจำกัดในเนื้อหนังเป็นความเข้าใจใหม่ในเอกเทวนิยมที่อธิบายความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความทุกข์และเนื้อหนังที่ไม่ใช่บาป และไม่ปฏิเสธความจริงแท้ของความทุกข์ในประสบการณ์ของพระเยซูเจ้าและประสบการณ์ของมนุษย์

ความทรงจำและการนำเสนออดีตในปอล ริเคอร์, เจษฎากร บุญครองธรรม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาข้อถกเถียงเรื่องความทรงจำในงานเขียนเรื่อง Memory, History, Forgetting ของปอล ริเคอร์ แม้ว่าการถกเถียงเรื่องความทรงจำมักจะเป็นการถกเถียงระหว่างแนวคิดเรื่องความทรงจำของปัจเจกและแนวคิดเรื่องความทรงจำร่วม แต่ริเคอร์ได้แสดงให้เห็นว่าความทรงจำเป็นการปรากฏของสิ่งที่ไม่มีอยู่แล้ว สำหรับริเคอร์ ความทรงจำจึงเป็นการนำเสนออดีต การนำเสนออดีตของความทรงจำทำให้เราสามารถอธิบายความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความทรงจำของปัจเจกและความทรงจำร่วมได้ แม้ว่าความทรงจำจะเป็นสิ่งที่ปรากฏในสภาวะการระลึกรู้ของปัจเจก แต่การคงอยู่ของภาพความทรงจำกลับอาศัยการสนับสนุนของคนอื่นและสังคม ในทางกลับกัน ความทรงจำยังอาจถูกปฏิเสธโดยสังคมได้ เช่น ในกรณีของความทรงจำบาดแผล ในมุมมองของริเคอร์ ความทรงจำจึงเป็นสิ่งที่คงอยู่ได้โดยอาศัยแนวคิดเรื่องความยุติธรรมและความทรงจำยังต้องอยู่ในความสัมพันธ์กับประวัติศาสตร์ ในวิทยานิพนธ์นี้ ผู้เขียนแจกแจงความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความทรงจำและประวัติศาสตร์ในแนวคิดของริเคอร์ จากการชี้ให้เห็นว่าความทรงจำและประวัติศาสตร์มีสถานะเป็นการนำเสนออดีตร่วมกัน ความทรงจำจึงเป็นสิ่งที่แยกไม่ขาดจากประวัติศาสตร์ ภายใต้การมีอยู่ของประวัติศาสตร์ ความทรงจำจึงจะไม่ใช่สิ่งที่เราต่างคนต่างจำ แต่การจดจำอดีตยังต้องเกิดขึ้นผ่านการสืบหาความจริงของประวัติศาสตร์ อย่างไรก็ตาม แม้ประวัติศาสตร์จะมีความสำคัญ แต่การมีความทรงจำเท่านั้นที่จะทำให้เราจดจำสิ่งที่ถูกหลงลืมได้ ภายใต้การเผชิญหน้ากับความอยุติธรรมที่ไม่อาจลืมได้ลง การมีความทรงจำจึงเป็นสิ่งสำคัญที่ทำให้เราสามารถที่จะมีความยุติธรรมต่อคนอื่น

บทสนทนา ในฐานะรูปแบบของความเข้าใจของศาสตร์การตีความในกาดาเมอร์, พิริยา แย้มนิล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ในหนังสือ Truth and Method ของฮันส์-เกอร์ก กาดาเมอร์ (Hans-Georg Gadamer) ได้เสนอเนื้อหาสำคัญของศาสตร์การตีความเชิงปรัชญา (philosophical hermeneutics) ว่า หนึ่ง ปัญหาการเข้าถึงความจริง ซึ่งเป็นปัญหาพื้นฐานในกระบวนการคิดทางปรัชญามากกว่าผลลัพธ์จากมรรควิธีและเป้าหมายของศาสตร์การตีความเชิงปรัชญาคือการเข้าถึงความจริงเชิงภววิสัย สอง ข้อโต้แย้งต่อความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความจริงกับ ‘ความรู้อันได้มาจากมรรควิธี’ เพื่อนิยามความแตกต่างระหว่างการศึกษาทางมนุษยศาสตร์ (Human Sciences) และการศึกษาทางวิทยาศาสตร์ธรรมชาติ (Natural Sciences) และสาม สัมพันธภาพระหว่างความเข้าใจกับการตีความนั้นเป็นสิ่งที่แยกจากกันไม่ได้และการตีความไม่ใช่มรรควิธีในการทำความเข้าใจ สาระสำคัญเหล่านี้จะนำไปสู่กระบวนการสืบค้นที่วางเป้าหมายไว้ที่ความจริงและความเป็นภววิสัยของความเข้าใจ ด้วยเหตุนี้ กาดาเมอร์จึงเสนอว่าบทสนทนาคือกระบวนการดังกล่าว ในการเข้าใจและเข้าถึงตัวบท และ สาระสำคัญ (subject matter) ซึ่งอยู่ในตัวบทอยู่แล้วปรากฎชัดขึ้นผ่านการถามและการตอบที่ดำเนินไปอย่างไม่สิ้นสุด วิทยานิพนธ์นี้ต้องการเสนอสถานะและความสำคัญของบทสนทนา ซึ่งกาดาเมอร์นำมาเป็นวิถีทางเข้าถึงสาระสำคัญของความเข้าใจและการตีความเพื่อนำไปสู่การเข้าถึงความจริง

Situationism, Capacities And Culpability, Adam Piovarchy

IHR Papers and Journal Articles

The situationist experiments demonstrate that most people’s behaviour is influenced by environmental factors much more than we expect, and that ordinary people can be led to behave very immorally. A number of philosophers have investigated whether these experiments demonstrate that subjects’ responsibility-relevant capacities are impeded. This paper considers how, in practice, we can assess when agents have a reduced capacity to avoid wrongdoing. It critiques some previously offered strategies including appeals to the reasonable person standard, appeals to counterfactuals and understandability of behaviour, and appeals to base rates of wrongdoing. It then proposes we should think a certain factor impeded …

Difficult Paintings, Hao (Damien) Ding

Theses and Dissertations

The sublime as a concept has a fraught and racist history. However, it remains the single most helpful idea in describing the deeply felt state of being when one comes across something ineffably powerful. From an art-making perspective, this thesis, and the accompanying exhibition of installations and paintings, proposes an alternative construction of the concept of the sublime. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a conceptual point of departure, a painter can manipulate the relationship of the viewer and paintings to create paradoxical moments of simultaneous intimacy and distance, which interact to create an alternative path towards the sublime. Through descriptions of …

Humanist But Not Radical: The Educational Philosophy Of Thiruvalluvar Kural, Devin K. Joshi

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Humanist ideas in education have been promoted by both Western thinkers and classical wisdom texts of Asia. Exploring this connection, I examine the educational philosophy of an iconic ancient Tamil (Indian) text, the Thiruvalluvar Kural, by juxtaposing it with a contemporary humanist classic, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. As this comparative study reveals, both texts offer humanist visions of relevance to education, politics, and society. Notably, however, the Kural takes what might be described as a more mainstream humanist stance vis-à-vis Freire’s radical humanist approach. Nevertheless, both educational philosophies share a common humanist bond representing important breakthroughs …

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Teaching Premodern Women And Gender, Lucy C. Barnhouse

Quidditas

In her influential History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, Judith Bennett asked “Who’s afraid of the distant past?” Fifteen years after this book’s publication, the question remains relevant. Teaching the history of women and gender in the premodern world presents linked pedagogical challenges. Most students enter college with little to no background in premodern history. Many find premodern primary sources, when taught with the same pedagogical scaffolding as modern sources, inaccessible due to real or perceived strangeness. These challenges can be compounded by the challenges of teaching women’s and/or gender history. This roundtable addresses strategies for productive …

The Good, The Bad, And The Violent: Analyzing Beowulf’S Heroic Displacement And Transgressive Violence During The Grendel Quest, Jessie Bonafede

Quidditas

Heroic actions are often associated with altruistic feats of humanitarianism, but in Beowulf, the connection between heroism and performative acts of violence reveal significant complications concerning how the poem codifies violence for social honor. A central conflict arises with the poem’s contrasting presentation of Beowulf’s dominance and physical power before and during the Grendel quest with the relatively low social status he incurs amongst his maternal kin group, the Geats. In this paper, I use anthropological and sociological theories of collective violence and dominance versus prestige hierarchies to rethink how violence interplays with the poem’s treatment of lineage and other …

Contemporary History In Early Tudor English Chronicles: 1485-1553, Barrett L. Beer

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English chronicles published between 1485 and 1547 are studied here to determine how they dealt with contemporary history. These chronicles obviously covered the distant past, but many end well before the date of publication. Today contemporary history is of great importance to the public as evidenced by a variety of published works, periodicals, and most recently the internet. An analysis of early Tudor chronicles reveals that while many were indifferent to the recent past, others clearly laid the foundation for a focus on the contemporary era. The recognized authors of the chronicles included in this study are Richard Arnold, John …

What She Said: Recovering Early Modern Women’S Experiences Through Court Records, Jennifer Mcnabb

Quidditas

Much of the fame of early modern England’s church courts today is based on their reputation as “women’s courts.” Because ecclesiastical law allowed women to initiate suit and to be sued in their own names, the courts’ records are full of women’s words. But the task of discovering women’s experiences through these records is a methodologically complex one. Words attributed to women, for example, come to us courtesy of the male church court clerk, whose education and legal experience shaped the written record of legal oral proceedings. And while women filing suit gives the appearance of female agency, it was …

Sir John Cheke, Chamberlain Of The Exchequer, 1552-53, James D. Alsop

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The most obscure aspect of Sir John Cheke’s public career is his tenure as a Chamberlain of the English Exchequer. This study confirms that Cheke’s chamberlainship was a sinecure, albeit one of prestige and profit. Attention is also paid to the three rising gentlemen who held office under Cheke: Robert Creswell, Roger Higham, and William Hunwyke.

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Allen D. Breck Award Winner

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The Breck Award recognizes the most distinguished paper given by a junior scholar at the annual conference.

Recipient of the Breck Award for 2021

Jessie Bonafede

University of New Mexico

Humorous Spaces And Serious Magic In William Baldwin’S Beware The Cat, Ashley Jeanette Ecklund

Quidditas

When spaces transform in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, the transition is marked with humor, consistently signaling magic to follow. As an amalgamation of folklore, including magic that manifests around, for, and through cats, Baldwin’s work offers adventure, laughter, and danger alike. Some cats are diabolical, worshiping or holding the soul of a witch; however, their wit constitutes a jocular contrast to that of our interior narrator, Maister Streamer, whose quotation above demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of St. Augustine’s beliefs. Though Beware The Cat was published at the start of the early modern period, the folklore it contains speaks …

“There’S Rosemary, That’S For Remembrance:” Suicide Ideation And Portraying Ophelia’S Madness, Ian M. Borden, Sarah Imes Borden

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Ophelia’s madness in Hamlet is too often portrayed or understood in a generalized fashion. Historical analysis of the play, as well as historical and recent reviews of Ophelia’s performance show how Ophelia has been considered a character controlled by outside forces, and her madness lacking direction or purpose. Applying the concept of suicide ideation to the character’s actions illuminates both our historical understanding of the character, and provides modern day performers a cohesive and focused model from which to draw.