Thesis (D. Min.)--Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-106).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [90]-92).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [90]-92).

Texte remanié de: Diss. / Bibliogr. p. [111]-116. Index.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies at the University of Zululand, 2017 / The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges’ NCV curriculum structure complies with the national strategy and policy stipulations in offering WBE for students. The CASE study was conducted at the Umfolozi TVET College, specifically on two campuses of the college in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The NCV programmes were earmarked for the study, as its curriculum covers the workplace-based education (WBE) component. This study used purposive sampling to identify the sample size of 21, which comprised of two campus managers, six senior lecturers and thirteen WBE champions. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed in the study. The findings of this study reveal that the college management do not give necessary support to the implementers on the ground to carry out the WBE programme. It was also discovered that the college management seem not to understand their role in ensuring compliance with regard to the WBE implementation. It was evident that, there is a need not only to maintain strong ties with existing host employers, but also to ensure that new host employers are recruited to help address the shortage of them. It was evident from the findings that a number of respondents were not aware of the policies guiding the implementation of WBE. The results indicate that there is no regular training provided for implementers of WBE, such as the WBE champions. There is no clearness in the way the WBE budget is administered, and no proper planning of the budget (which is not administered on sites, but controlled centrally), and no workable plan in place to manage finances. The study recommends that there should be a clear vision for the implementation of WBE, and that vision should be clearly communicated to all role players to ensure effective implementation of the programme.

L’objet de cette recherche porte sur le don de soi dans les soins et plus particulièrement sur la vocation comme source d’engagement dans la profession infirmière. Nous cherchons à connaitre ce qui anime les individus à exercer cette profession exposée à ce que la société refoule de nos jours : La vulnérabilité, la vieillesse, la maladie et la mort. Le point d’entrée de notre recherche a démarré autour d’une terminologie : la vocation, pour aboutir au postulat que l’engagement dans les soins infirmiers nécessite une forme « d’amour » particulière qui pousse l’individu à porter secours, attention et soin à la personne vulnérable. Nous savons qu’appréhender cet engagement, c’est accepter de se frotter à la complexité. Nous sommes face à un enchevêtrement de volontés, de demandes, de choix, de désirs, de rêves, de représentations idéalisées, de recherche d’explications, de sens. Cet ensemble constitue le socle sur lequel les acteurs s’engagent. Dans ce travail, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’engagement « initial ». Dans une démarche compréhensive, nous avons questionné des étudiantes infirmières et des infirmières à propos de ce moment où elles ont décidées de franchir le pas et fait le choix de s’engager dans la profession. L’enquête nous a permis de recueillir, un certain nombre de données et de verbatim, ceux-ci croisés avec nos données personnelles, ont permis d’explorer ce processus. Nous avons confronté les données recueillis à la théorie du don de Marcel Mauss. Un faisceau d’orientations entre liberté et contrainte, gratuité et intérêt, nous ont servi d’axe sur lequel s’est mobilisée toute notre démonstration. Nous sommes allés chercher les modes de signification et d’incarnation de l’engagement infirmier au prisme de la cartographie conceptuelle de la tétralogie du don.Mots clés : soins, engagement, infirmière, vocation, image médiatique, don, reconnaissance. / Our study focuses self-sacrifice on nursing care and more specifically about the calling in nurse profession. As the work wore on, we search to know how people decided to become a nurseWe seek to know what motivates individuals to practice this profession exposed to what society is driving back today: vulnerability, old age, illness and death. The point of entry of our research has started around a terminology: the calling or vocation, to arrive at the postulate that the commitment in nursing requires a particular form of "love" which urges us to bring relief, attention and care to the vulnerable person. We know that to grasp this commitment is to accept the complexity. For nurses, we are confronted with an entanglement of wills, demands, choices, desires, dreams, idealistic representations, search for explanations, meaning that constitutes the basis on which actors engage. In this work, we looked at the initial commitment. In a comprehensive approach, we questioned nursing students and nurses about the time when they decided to take the plunge and chose to engage in the profession. The survey allowed us to collect a number of data and verbatim, which crossed with our personal data, allowed to explore this process. We compared the data collected with Marcel Mauss's theory of the gift. A cluster of orientations between freedom and constraint, gratuitousness and interest, have served us as the axis on which our whole demonstration has been mobilized. We went to seek the modes of meaning and incarnation of the nursing commitment to the prism of the conceptual mapping of the tetralogy of the gift.Keywords: to care, to cure, involvement, nurse, vocation, media visuals, gift, thankfulness.

Cette thèse propose une approche socio-historique de l’excellence en alpinisme, sur une période qui s’étend de l’apparition de l’Alpine Club britannique, le premier club alpin au monde, créé en 1856, jusqu’au début du XXIe siècle. L’excellence est envisagée sous l’angle d’un triple rapport : un rapport à la pratique, qui désigne les manières légitimes de pratiquer, un rapport à soi-même, qui renvoie à la façon dont les alpinistes excellents (les « grands alpinistes ») se perçoivent et envisagent leurs trajectoires biographiques, et un rapport aux autres individus, c'est-à-dire la manière dont ces alpinistes appréhendent et se distinguent des autres usagers de la montagne et des non-alpinistes. À partir des discours des membres de l’élite de l’alpinisme britannique et français, la question est posée de savoir comment se crée, se transmet, se diffuse dans l’espace et se maintient dans le temps un « esprit de l’alpinisme » entendu à la fois comme mentalité, esprit de corps, ethos, et principes éthiques au fondement de l’excellence, fortement distinctif, identitaire et fédérateur, au principe d’un sentiment d’appartenance, voire d’une identité collective. Centré sur le Royaume-Uni, berceau de l’alpinisme et lieu de codification d’une forme originelle d’excellence, encore perçue comme spécifique de nos jours, ce travail considère l’alpinisme français, d’apparition plus tardive, comme contre-point comparatif servant notamment à étudier des phénomènes de diffusion de la conception britannique de l’excellence. La question de la genèse historique d’un « grand alpinisme » sur le temps long se double enfin de celle de la fabrique biographique du « grand alpiniste », sur le temps court de la trajectoire biographique. Ce faisant, c’est un travail de dénaturalisation de l’excellence, pensée comme un construit historique et social, qui est entrepris. L’étude des trois dimensions de l’excellence (rapport à l’activité, à soi, et aux autres) se fait en premier lieu à partir d’un matériau original : un corpus de 62 autobiographies d’alpinistes. Son usage s’accompagne d’une réflexion méthodologique sur les conditions de sa validité sociologique. Afin de réinscrire ces discours dans leurs cadres historiques et sociaux d’énonciation, d’autres matériaux sont mobilisés : 16 entretiens, deux bases de données (dont l’une permet de mener une analyse prosopographique), les articles et les notices nécrologiques des revues des grands clubs alpins sélectifs des deux pays. / This thesis proposes a socio-historical approach of excellence in mountaineering, from the creation of the British Alpine Club, the first alpine club in the world, founded in 1856, up until the beginning of the 21st century. Excellence is defined by three relations: a relation to the activity of mountaineering, that is, the legitimate ways of practicing this activity, a relation to oneself, that is, the ways in which excellent mountaineers (the “great mountaineers”) see themselves and consider their biographical trajectories, and a relation to others, that is, the ways in which these mountaineers apprehend and distinguish themselves from the other users of mountains and from non-mountaineers. From the study of the discourses of the elite of British and French mountaineering, we seek to understand how a “spirit of mountaineering” (a mentality as well as an “esprit de corps”, an ethos, and a set of ethical principles at the foundation of excellence) has been created, transmitted, has travelled between countries and has been maintained over time. This “spirit” is the basis of a sense of belonging, even of a collective identity. Centered on Britain, as the cradle of mountaineering and the place where an original form of excellence, still perceived today as specific, was initially codified, this study considers French mountaineering, of later appearance, as a comparative point of reference, useful to point out a phenomenon of diffusion of the British conception of excellence. The issue of the historical genesis of a “great mountaineering” on the long-term scale doubles up with the issue of the biographical making of the “great mountaineer”, considered on the short-term scale of the biographical trajectory. By doing so, it is a work of denaturalization of excellence, seen as a historical and social construct, which is undertaken. The study of the three dimensions of excellence (as a relation to activity, to oneself, and to the others) is carried on in the first place with the help of an unusual material: a corpus of 62 autobiographies of mountaineers. Its use is backed with methodological observations regarding the conditions of its sociological validity. In order to consider these discourses within their historical and social frames of enunciation, other materials are used: 16 interviews, two databases (one of them used to carry out a prosopography), the articles and necrologies of the journals of the selective alpine clubs of the two countries.