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Creative Arts Therapies Students' Professional Development: Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research, Hod Orkibi
Creative Arts Therapies Students' Professional Development: Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research, Hod Orkibi
Expressive Therapies Dissertations
This mixed-methods longitudinal study sought to describe, understand, and explain the professional development (PD) of graduate students during art therapy (AT), dance movement therapy (DMT), and drama therapy (DT) training (N = 51).
Repeated measures of students’ scores in profession-related variables were performed. Quantitative theory testing probed the extent to which students confirm Rønnestad and Skovholt’s (2003) theory of counselors and therapists’ PD as representative of their pre-training and in-training experiences. Qualitative theory derivation generated data-driven concepts to modify and refine the extant theory. Data were collected using My Vocational Situation, Career Commitment Measurement, and questionnaires for each developmental phase. …
Yoga In Higher Education: North American Educators And The Use Of Yoga As Pedagogy: A Dissertation, Laura Douglass
Yoga In Higher Education: North American Educators And The Use Of Yoga As Pedagogy: A Dissertation, Laura Douglass
Educational Studies Dissertations
This study used eighteen interviews and a self-administered online questionnaire (n=117) to examine the use of yoga as pedagogy in undergraduate and graduate level classrooms in North America. The results of this study suggest that educators define yoga in three distinct ways: as a modern postural practice (eight interview participants), a philosophical orientation (seven interview participants) and a New Age orientation (three interview participants). The data from this research indicates that educators who view yoga as a modern postural practice and a philosophical orientation were highly committed to maintaining the following characteristics of higher education: secularism, the biomedical model, and …