Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monalisa Dibo.pdf: 8578899 bytes, checksum: e6b04c9d6921e238c351a219b3250593 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The mandala, as a religious symbol, has the objective of enhancing the encounter of the conscience with the Self, through a religious posture. This paper uses a religious instrument to benefit the mental health of some children. The goal of this thesis is to study the effects of mandala drawings in children between the ages of 8 and 12, victimized by abandonment, living in shelters. The effects studied here refer to stress, anxiety and worrying, depressive moods, interest in social and school activities and cognitive and physical fatigue. It is a qualitative as well as quantitative research that highlights the meanings and the processes measured both in terms of quantity and frequency. The tools utilized were: the CAD Clinical Assessment of Depression; Child Stress Symptoms Inventory (Escala Stress Infantil), questionnaires for the technical staff; printed religious mandalas; printed coloring drawings; and printed drawings of a circle. The sample included 34 children, 12 males and 22 females. All children were sheltered at Associação dos Amigos do Menor pelo Esporte Maior (AMEM) in São Paulo at the time of the research. These children were enrolled in the elementary school from 2nd to 6ª grade, corresponding to the third and seventh grade in 2009. The children were divided into two groups: a control group (doing coloring of printed drawings) and experimental group (doing mandala painting). Each group comprised 17 children. The data obtained confirmed the hypothesis, i.e. the mandala drawings induced changes in the children s behavior, promoting meaningful improvements regarding children stress, depression, anxiety and worrying, in their school and social interests as well as in their cognitive and physical behavior. Hence, we could say that the mandala drawing technique was an enriching and efficient activity for the psychic life of these children. It allowed access to the creative ludic world of the children, encouraged a way of self-discovery and enlivenment of their creative ability, enabled a more balanced relationship between self and ego, generated serenity and well-being, lessened stress and depression, which resulted in moments of emotional transformation, inner contact, order, stabilization and harmony, therefore allowing better integration. This thesis demonstrates that a religious tool, developed by millennial cultures, aiming the connection of the individual with their center and with God, can be applied to a group of children, generating that connection. This confirmation could be observed from the tests and as narrated by the children / A mandala, como símbolo religioso, tem o objetivo de promover, através de uma atitude religiosa, o encontro da consciência com o Self. Este trabalho faz uso de um instrumento religioso para beneficiar a saúde mental de algumas crianças. O objetivo desta tese é estudar os efeitos da técnica do desenho da mandala em crianças de 8 a 12 anos, vítimas de abandono, moradoras em casas abrigo. Os efeitos aqui estudados referem-se ao stress, à ansiedade e à preocupação, ao humor depressivo, ao interesse pelas atividades sociais e escolares e à fadiga cognitiva e física. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa, que privilegia os significados e os processos mensurados em termos de quantidade e de freqüência. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: teste CAD Clinical Assessment of Depression; teste ESI Escala Stress Infantil; questionário para equipe técnica; desenho impresso de mandalas religiosas; desenho impresso de figuras para colorir; e desenho impresso de um círculo. A amostra foi de 34 crianças, sendo 12 do sexo masculino e 22 do sexo feminino. Todas as crianças estavam abrigadas na Associação dos Amigos do Menor pelo Esporte Maior (AMEM) na cidade de São Paulo no momento da pesquisa. Essas crianças encontram-se matriculadas no ensino fundamental da 2ª à 6ª série que corresponde ao 3º ano e ao 7º ano de 2009. As crianças foram divididas em dois grupos: grupo controle (realização de pintura de desenhos impressos) e grupo experimental (realização de pintura de mandalas). Ambos eram formados por 17 crianças. Os dados obtidos confirmam a hipótese, isto é, o desenho da mandala proporciona uma mudança no comportamento nas crianças, promovendo melhoras significativas no quadro de stress infantil, de depressão, de ansiedade e de preocupação, nos interesses sociais e escolares e na atitude cognitiva e física. Portanto, podemos dizer que a técnica do desenho da mandala foi uma atividade enriquecedora e eficiente para a vida psíquica destas crianças. Ela proporcionou acesso ao mundo lúdico criativo da criança, promoveu um meio de autodescoberta e um avivamento da capacidade criativa, possibilitou um relacionamento mais equilibrado entre ego-Self, gerou tranqüilidade e bem-estar, diminuiu o stress e a depressão, o que acarretou momentos de transformação emocional, de contato interior, de ordem, de centramento e de harmonia, o que implica em uma maior integração. Esta tese demonstrou que um instrumento religioso, desenvolvido por culturas milenares com objetivo de proporcionar uma ligação do indivíduo com seu centro e com Deus, pode ser aplicado em um grupo de crianças, gerando essa ligação. Tal constatação pode ser percebida através da sensação de bem-estar e de tranqüilidade observados nos testes e relatados pelas crianças

Cette thèse se propose de donner une lecture bouddhique d'Edgar Allan Poe en étudiant les nombreuses analogies qui existent entre sa pensée telle qu'elle apparaît dans " Eurêka " et un certain nombre de contes, et la pensée bouddhique du Grand Véhicule ou bouddhisme Mahayana. Il s'agit dans un premier temps, au sein de la première partie, de justifier le choix du bouddhisme et de définir les écoles et aspects du bouddhisme en rapport avec les données poesques dans eurêka et les contes. La deuxième étape consiste à établir un bilan des influences de l'Orient en Amérique à l'époque de Poe et à situer notre auteur par rapport à ces mêmes influences et à ses contemporains orientalistes. La deuxième partie est consacrée à l'étude d'" Eurêka " et plus particulièrement de tous ses éléments d'essence bouddhique. C'est le lieu ici de mettre en évidence toutes les convergences de vues ainsi que les différences entre les deux courants de pensée poesque et bouddhique. Ce parallélisme permettra de dégager une sphère commune à la science, au bouddhisme et à Poe, dont les ramifications sont multiples : l'ontologie bouddhico-poesque interpelle la science moderne à travers les résultats actuels de l'astrophysique. L'analyse des conclusions et implications profondes de la sphère bouddhico-poesque conduit, dans la troisième partie de la thèse, à l'examen de leur dramatisation à travers six familles de contes totalisant quelque quarante-sept récits. Cette dernière partie mettra l'accent sur l'osmose réussie entre les arguments ontologiques eurekéens et une création artistique largement dominée par le souci métaphysique

本研究旨在探討「曼陀羅課程」與「創造思考力」之間的關係，設計一套適合我國國小學生學習的課程方案，最後依據研究結果提出建議。首先，針對「曼陀羅課程」與「創造思考力」進行文獻探討，俾作為研究立論基礎與分析之依據；其次，本研究採「準實驗研究法」，以國小甲校五年A班為實驗組進行共200分鐘的實驗課程，以國小甲校五年B班為對照組。研究工具包括研究者編製之「曼陀羅課程教材」、「曼陀羅課程學習成效評量」，以及「Torrance創造思考測驗圖形版」、「Torrance創造思考測驗語文版」；接著，以統計方法對實驗結果加以探討分析，包括描述性統計、t考驗、皮爾森積差相關以及逐步迴歸法；最後，依據結果形成結論與建議。茲將本研究之主要結論歸納如下： 壹、實驗組與對照組「Torrance創造思考測驗圖形版」後測分數有顯著差異。 一、實驗組在接受「曼陀羅課程」學習後，後測分數顯著高於對照組。後測分數包含標準分數平均數、創造力指數及創造潛能優異表現三個項目。 二、在本測驗包含的五項創造力特質中，實驗組在「獨創力」之後測分數顯著高於對照組；在「精密力」和「開放力」之後測分數與前測相比有提升。 貳、實驗組與對照組「Torrance創造思考測驗語文版」後測分數有顯著差異。 一、實驗組在接受「曼陀羅課程」學習後，後測總分顯著高於對照組。 二、在本測驗包含的三項創造力特質中，包含「流暢力」、「獨創力」、「變通力」，實驗組的後測分數皆顯著高於對照組。 參、實驗組學生多能充分理解「曼陀羅課程」，學習成效評量結果佳。 肆、「實-虛」課程對「語文創造力」具顯著相關及預測力。 最後，根據後續研究研究結果，提出相關建議，俾供對曼陀羅課程之內容設計、教學方式，以及對教育工作者與後續研究之參考。

Popular literature on Tibetan Buddhism often overemphasizes the psychological dimension of the religion's beliefs and practices. This misrepresentative portrayal is largely traceable to the writings of the psychoanalyst C.G. Jung. By employing distinctly psychological terminology and interpretive strategies in his analyses of the Tibetan Book of the Dead and mandala symbolism, Jung helped to establish precedents that were adopted in subsequent analyses of the religion. Imposing a psychological lens on Tibetan Buddhism obscures other essential elements of the tradition, such as cosmology, physiology, and ritualism, thereby silencing the voices of Tibetans in analyses of their own practices. Jung's imposition of his own voice in place of that of Tibetans has commonly been criticized as an act of intellectually imperializing Orientalism that furthers Jung's personal aims of solidifying his system of analytical psychology. This thesis supports and demonstrates the validity of that critique through close analyses of Jung's commentaries on Tibetan Buddhism. However, Jung’s psychoanalytic perspective and qualifying comments found elsewhere in his corpus ultimately contextualize his commentaries and reveal that his writings on Tibetan Buddhism should not be treated as shedding light on the religion. Rather, they offer an additional lens for understanding analytical psychology. Furthermore, Jung's perspective as a psychoanalyst demonstrates the inherent instability of Orientalist epistemology that attempts to make sense of Eastern cultures on Western terms. Derridean deconstruction of Jung's commentaries reveals that the laws of psychoanalysis subvert those of Orientalism, thus allowing us to undermine the Orientalist episteme in which Jung writes and creates the possibility for appropriating foreign cultural content differently

Kumano bikuni (the Buddhist nuns of Kumano) are itinerant female religious performers who were particularly active between the 16th and 18th centuries in Japan. Travelling across the country, they promoted the syncretic belief of the Kumano mountains, popular pilgrimage sites that have attracted a variety of people regardless of class, gender, and religious affiliation. To raise funds for temples and shrines there, they performed etoki (literally, picture deciphering) that addressed the everyday concerns of the masses, and especially women. Conceptualizing Kumano bikuni as mediators who bridged the religious world and the masses, this thesis examines how Kumano bikuni reflected perspectives of the audience at etoki performance and responded to diverse interests of different groups. / Graduate / 0320 / 0332 / 0453 / chihiro_620@hotmail.com

FEITOSA, Rafhael Alves. O currículo como Mandala: um estudo de caso sobre a formação do licenciado em ciências biológicas. 2014. 265f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-04-28T13:25:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014-TESE-RAFEITOSA.pdf: 7661462 bytes, checksum: e2e003d40f17626714b578b1e9be1c36 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-04-28T14:32:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014-TESE-RAFEITOSA.pdf: 7661462 bytes, checksum: e2e003d40f17626714b578b1e9be1c36 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-04-28T14:32:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014-TESE-RAFEITOSA.pdf: 7661462 bytes, checksum: e2e003d40f17626714b578b1e9be1c36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Such text seeks to analyze the curricular practices in the curriculum of the course of Biological Sciences at UFC and their implications for teacher practice. The text brings epistemological framework as the historical and dialectical materialism, as well as presenting the theoretical study of the curriculum and the teacher reflection, through a theoretical articulation that we call curriculum as mandala. Methodologically, the research fits into a qualitative aspect, and has as basis the investigative case study, as we intend to investigate a contemporary phenomenon immersed in their daily reality. Chosen as document analysis tools on the pedagogical projects of the institution and the use of questionnaires and interviews with students, teachers and servers that make up the site investigation. Adding to this, we made a series of observations in a field notebook in which he recorded a series of informal conversations with teachers of the course investigated. As some results, this work shows that the formal curriculum gate bias "research", since a large portion of disciplines that are common to both modes – Teaches Education and Bachelor. Thus, we find in our results of this case study, it was worth noting the role assigned by teachers and learners to "other curricula within the curriculum" as the Programa de Educação Tutoria (PET) and the Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação a Docência (PIBID). The interdisciplinarity appears formally in some course areas, Instrumentalizações para o Estudo/Ensino de Ciências (IPEC), and Estudos Sócio-Históricos e Culturais da Educação. This interdisciplinarity has also appeared in the form of curriculum in action in the IPEC and field lessons. For students, graduates and teachers of the course activities are interdisciplinary in Instrumentalizations as they try to overcome the fragmentation of the academic world, through actions and projects linking the disciplines around the process of didactic transposition of training content specific biologist for teaching performance in basic education. Likewise, the activities of tour, informally called the analyzed group of "field classes" also constituted themselves as possibilities curricular gathered educators from various areas of the curriculum around common shares. / O presente texto de tese de doutoramento busca analisar as práticas curriculares nos currículos do curso de Ciências Biológicas da UFC, modalidade Licenciatura, e as implicações dessas para a formação docente. O texto traz como referencial epistemológico o materialismo histórico e dialético, além de apresentar como quadro teórico o estudo sobre os currículos e sobre a formação docente reflexiva, através de uma articulação teórica chamada de currículo como mandala. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa se enquadra em uma vertente qualitativa e traz como embasamento investigativo o Estudo de Caso, pois se pretende investigar um fenômeno contemporâneo imerso no seu cotidiano real. Escolheu-se como ferramentas a análise de documentos sobre os projetos pedagógicos dos cursos da instituição, além da aplicação de questionários e de entrevistas, com discentes, docentes e servidores que compõem o local de investigação. Somando-se a isso, foi feita uma série de observações em caderno de campo, no qual se registrou uma série de conversas informais com professores do curso investigado. Como resultados, o trabalho aponta que o currículo formal porta um viés “bacharelesco”, já que a uma grande parcela de disciplinas que são comuns a ambas as modalidades – Licenciatura e Bacharelado. Destarte, encontra-se nos resultados deste estudo de caso o papel atribuído pelos discentes e docentes aos “outros currículos dentro do currículo”, como o Programa de Educação Tutorial (PET) e o Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID). A interdisciplinaridade aparece formalmente em algumas disciplinas do curso, como as Instrumentalizações para o Estudo/Ensino de Ciências (IPEC), e a Estudos Sócio-Históricos e Culturais da Educação. Essa interdisciplinaridade apareceu também na forma de currículo em ação nas IPEC e nas aulas de campo. Para os alunos, egressos e professores do curso, existem atividades de caráter interdisciplinar nas Instrumentalizações, pois elas tentam superar a fragmentação do mundo acadêmico, através de ações e projetos que ligam as disciplinas em torno do processo de transposição didática dos conteúdos da formação específica do Biólogo para a atuação docente na educação básica. Da mesma maneira, as atividades de excursão, chamadas informalmente pelo grupo analisado de “aulas de campo”, também se constituíram como possibilidades curriculares que reuniram os educadores das diversas áreas do currículo em torno de ações em comuns.

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This research examines the effects of a daily, ritualistic, intentional practice of Sufi meditation Tamarzok, Sufi Zikr and art making in the life of a female art therapist graduate student, in a transitional professional and developmental stage of life. The general psychology and art therapy literature were examined to look at contemporary understanding in the integration of spirituality and art in mental health. A lack of information in the art therapy literature prompted the interest in the development of this study to respond to this inquiry. This art-centered research informed by a heuristic, phenomenological, dialectical inquiry of self-examination, encompassed the practice of Sufi Zikr and Sufi meditation Tamarkoz as understood from the perspective of the Sufi Order Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism, followed by art making as a way of documenting and contextualizing the qualities of the internal and external emotional landscapes to uncover themes and broaden self-knowledge in the support and enhancement of growth and well-being. The data was analyzed by looking at emergent themes. Conclusions drawn aligned the combined practices of art making and spirituality to that of a relational home where the Self and all parts of the psyche can coexist and contextualized for meanings to emerge and healing to take place. The findings of this inquiry were in overall alignment with the reviewed art therapy literature; gaps in the reviewed literature were noted in the exploration of the somatic component of the practice of art making as it relates to healing. Further research is warranted to expand and explore the data and the uncovered areas.

This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysical map, a fitting medium for mapping the author's ethical worldview. The introduction evaluates critical structures already suggested to describe the author's worlds, and introduces the mandala as an alternative which more fully addresses Mitchell's fictional terrain. Chapter I investigates the mandala's cartographic properties, mapping Mitchell's short stories as integral islandic narratives within his fictional world which, combined, re-evaluate the role of secular belief in galvanising positive ethical action. Chapter II discusses the Tibetan sand mandala in diaspora as a form of performance when created for unfamiliar audiences, reading its cross-cultural deployment in parallel with the regenerative approaches to tragedy in the author's libretti Wake and Sunken Garden. Chapter III identifies Mitchell's use of reincarnation as a form of non-linear temporality that advocates future-facing ethical action in the face of humanitarian crises, reading the reincarnated Marinus as a form of secular bodhisattva. Chapter IV deconstructs the mandala to address its theoretical limitations, identifying the panopticon as its sinister counterpart, and analysing its effects in number9dream. Chapter V shifts this study's use of the mandala from interpretive tool to emerging category, identifying the transferrable traits that form the emerging category of mandalic literature within other post-secular contemporary fictions, discussing works by Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self, and Margaret Atwood.