京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(地球環境学) / 甲第24768号 / 地環博第240号 / 新制||地環||47(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院地球環境学舎環境マネジメント専攻 / (主査)准教授 浅利 美鈴, 講師 BAARS ROGER CLOUD, 教授 宇佐美 誠 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Global Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

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As the global food system causes environmental degradation and contributes to detrimental health effects, a transformation is vital for a sustainable and fair future for all. Research on food system transformation and the role of food initiatives have increased. Niche initiatives or “seeds” in the food sectors in Stockholm and Cape Town are finding new ways to contribute to change in the social-ecological systems in which they operate. The questions addressed in this thesis are (i) how the transformative capacity of these seeds have developed over time (ii) what amplification strategies the seeds apply to increase their impact and (iii) what the enablers and barriers to amplification processes are. A three-dimensional framework of transformative capacity and a typology of eight amplification processes are used for the analysis. Findings indicate that seeds are building momentum and developing transformative capacity within three areas: connecting to the biosphere, social cohesion, and agency. The initiatives foremost apply strategies of stabilizing, growing, scaling deep, and scaling up to amplify their transformative impact. Food seeds play an important role in building sustainable food systems and their contribution to change challenges the traditional thinking of growth in transformations and emphasize aspects of changing values, improving quality, and encouraging diversity.

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The research project asks the question: What role does storytelling have in enhancing cultural self-awareness and achieving perspective transformation in terms of values, attitudes, and assumptions about the world? The study group comprised people who participated between 1995 and 2009 in a year-long Colorado Vincentian Volunteer (CVV) program for young adults. It combined an online survey with 1-hour follow-up interviews by phone with nine individuals. This data is augmented with written stories produced during their volunteer year by the interviewees. The study shows that over 90% of those surveyed agree that regular, structured reflective story-telling sessions helped consolidate their learning and foster perspective transformation as defined by Mezirow (1990). Analysis of interviews plus evidence from written stories supports these claims and also illustrates volunteer development of cultural self-awareness as described by Yoshikawa (1980). I conclude that storytelling can be a significant emotional, psychological, and intellectual support to people involved in voluntary intercultural experiences.

The purpose of this study was to verify Mezirow's (1978) Transformative Learning Theory as a model to explain how study abroad participation facilitates efforts to internationalize students in higher education. Specifically this study used block-entry, logistic and linear regression models to explore the relationship between transformative learning processes and study abroad outcomes. Data were collected from business students (N =107) at Brigham Young University using a retrospective pretest method. Findings indicated transformative learning was occurring in short term study abroad settings and transformative learning phases were related to increases in Intercultural Competence. These findings were consistent between year cohorts suggesting the impacts were lasting.

There is a growing interest of flexibility in urban plans, both within the planning profession but also by private investors. The collective idea, both among planners and literature, is that the urban is under a constant transformation. Further, flexibility in planning could be found as key of keeping updated to this constant development. Through the theories of temporary and tactical urbanism the positive and negative aspects of flexibility will be discussed and explored. The combination of literature analysis and interviews has formed the basis for creating an understanding how the practical field and literature interprets flexibility in a transforming era in Sweden. According to literature and interviews, this study has shown that flexibility within the regulations of the detailed development plan is key for cities to adapt to new circumstances.

PROBLEM STATEMENT: Globally, 70% of more than three million new curable sexually transmitted infections (STI) are among 15-24 year olds, with young people in developing countries bearing the highest burden. Chlamydia Trachomatis prevalence, for example, is 15.4% and 20.5% in young women and men attending STD clinics in the U.S. However, Caribbean STI data for young men are particularly scarce and inconsistent and cases are under-reported due to poor health seeking behavior. In Guyana, 42% of the STI cases from 2010 -2014 occurred in young people, aged 15- 24. Moreover, few programs and policies focus specifically on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young men. This dissertation explores the contextual and behavioral factors that cause young men’s vulnerability to STI and proposes recommendations for the national response in Guyana. METHODS: Research methods included: 9 focus group discussions (FGDs) with young men, aged 15-18, mothers and fathers and 25 in-depth interviews with representatives from government, community, faith-based and donor organizations. Interviews and FGDs were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed for major themes among and across each stakeholder group. Analysis was guided by a socio-ecologic framework and resulted in program and policy recommendations to address vulnerability to STI and augment protective factors against STI in young men in Guyana. RESULTS: Salient overarching themes include: Poverty and Disenfranchisement “Yes, this is a Man”: Early Sex, Fast Money, and Risk”, “The Empty Room: Young Men without Male Roles Models”, “Sex in a violent society”, “Stigma, Discrimination, and Shame: Road blocks to young men’s sexual health” and Young men’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Young men’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: It all depends on family, religion, education, music and media (or not). Participants highlighted a lack of SRH awareness and health care seeking resulting from insufficient male SRH promotion and services. Parental engagement, school attendance, supportive peers, religious commitment and internet use for SRH information were described as protective factors. CONTRIBUTION: A socio-ecological model helped to comprehensively identify and organize broad social determinants of SRH and high risk sexual behaviors for young men. The resulting program and policy recommendations are proposed for implementation in Georgetown, Guyana. / 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z

Seminarians’ existential crises of faith are often-experienced but little-studied. Through surveys of Millennial MDiv students (n=30) and seminary Student Affairs and Student Services Professionals (SASSPs) (n=44), this study suggests crises of faith are fundamental to MDiv students’ spiritual formation, mirroring the pattern of Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory model (TLT). TLT also undergirds secular Student Affairs, where SASSPs regularly provide co-curricular “student learning” support. This study recommends training seminary SASSPs to be similarly-utilized within theological education, which would require resources for professional development from both their institutions and the Association of Theological Schools. Implications for multi-cultural theological education are also discussed.

This phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of five individuals who shifted their work and career from the business world to the nonprofit service sector. Through in-depth personal accounts, I show how the research participants made sense of "work" and "career" as they moved through, and after they completed the transition out of the business setting; and the degree to which their subjective experiences in the nonprofit work environment transformed their prior perspectives on "work life" and "career" that had been shaped by their experiences in the business world. According to the literature of subjective career development (how people shape their personal identity through their work over a lifetime) and transformative learning (how people change their worldview perspective to accommodate significant changes in their life circumstances), people who shift from business careers to nonprofit jobs are likely to be confounded by certain realities in the nonprofit world that cannot be readily understood or explained through past experience in the business workplace. The real-life personal stories of five such career shifters manifest clear differences in the "discourse of work and career" across the two sectors, resulting in an apparent disorienting paradox between the profit-driven "business mindset" (where the fundamental motivation is survival of the enterprise and objective personal advancement) and the mission-driven "nonprofit worldview" (where the fundamental motivation is service for a better world and subjective personal meaning-making). An analysis of these paradoxes of discourse suggests that the mission-driven nonprofit discourse ("we work for a better world") offers a valuable and constructive counterpoint to the more dominant enterprise-driven business discourse ("we work to sustain the company") that pervades the organizational landscape of our society. The implications of these findings as reviewed in the last chapter are significant for policy, practice and research in both nonprofit management and business organizational development. The work concludes with the suggestion that the nonprofit mindset opens the possibility for re-orienting one's "career" to a life-long process of self-actualization, where one works to find meaning and purpose through making a difference toward improving quality of life for a better world.