Thesis (M.S.P.D. (Prof)) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2000. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-214).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1995. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 9, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Lanny Edward Morreau, Ming-Gon John Lian (co-chairs), Gregory F. Aloia, Kenneth Strand, Robert Wazienski. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-108) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (doctoral)--La Salle University, 2005. / ProQuest dissertations and theses ; AAT 3227729. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-53)

The problem of this study was to determine if pre-training of volunteers working in special education classes for orthopedically handicapped and multihandicapped students makes a difference in their classroom effectiveness. The purposes of this study were two-fold. The first was to develop a training program for volunteers working in special education classes for orthopedically handicapped and multihandicapped students. The second was to determine the effectiveness of the training program.

This thesis sought to explore how community volunteers could be recruited, supported and sustained to assist a community school operating in difficult socioeconomic conditions in achieving basic school functionality. Through a collaborative process, the participants in the study attempted to address a significant gap in the literature, namely how this could be achieved in a way that would be beneficial both to the community volunteers and to the school itself. Based on existing literature, the vast majority of South African schools are struggling to reach the basic functionality levels required in terms of legislation. My interest in this topic was piqued while serving as principal of one such school; hence the focus in this thesis on whether schools would benefit in terms of achieving functionality if they partnered with the communities in which they are located. However, communities are seldom actively involved in the schools and school activities on an ongoing daily basis. In this thesis, I argue for an opportunity for schools and the community to collaborate in a way that would be mutually beneficial. In this, I was guided by the School-Based Complementary Learning Framework (SBCLF) in gaining a greater understanding of how multiple stakeholders could support a school to obtain basic functionality. A key stakeholder is the community in which a school is located, and the multidimensional framework provided a framework to understand why the community would want to get involved in the school. Following a Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) design, I recruited 15 community volunteers from the existing pool at my then school; some of whom had been volunteering for over twelve years. We formed an action learning set where we collaboratively sought to understand the processes and conditions needed to recruit, support and sustain community volunteers and their involvement in the school. From this action learning set emerged a key advisors’ set, comprising five members of the action learning set, who were entrusted with the responsibility of planning, preparing and analysing the action learning set meetings. Transcripts and visual artefacts from the action learning set meetings and a focus group meeting of the school management team were analysed to generate data, complemented by secondary sources, such as documents. This participatory approach to data generation allowed the voice of every participant to be heard; agency was increased through active participation; and the sense of affiliation to the group was deepened. The iterative design of the research process further ensured that the participants also engaged in a critical discourse analysis of the emerging data, of which the trustworthiness was enhanced through the use of dialogic and process, catalytic, rhetoric, democratic and outcome validity. The emergence of the data through this collaborative engagement was underpinned by the ethical values of mutual respect; equality and inclusion; democratic participation; active learning; making a difference; collective action; and personal integrity. The findings revealed that community volunteers did add immense value to the school by supporting teaching and learning processes. However, the community volunteers also harboured expectations of material support and opportunities to develop skills. In addition, the study revealed that the hierarchical culture and structures present in most South African schools need to become more democratic and collaborative, with those working to make the school more functional, including community volunteers, being valued, acknowledged and supported. The participants also constructed their understanding of what a community school should be and do and how it should serve the interests of the children from the community. A process model was constructed from these findings regarding on ways to recruit, sustain and support community volunteers involved in community schools, specially designed so that schools could adapt it to suit individual contexts. This study is unique; I am not aware of any similar study ever having been conducted in a community school in South Africa. Furthermore, the collaborative approach used in the study helped ensure that the methodology used could be of value to principals and other school stakeholders in addressing the various complex challenges that confront schools in these contexts. Also, the findings will add to the theoretical body of knowledge around volunteerism, especially in difficult socioeconomic conditions.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-08-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:09:32Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sciuto_b_me_ia.pdf: 558225 bytes, checksum: 7dc2aee3fb682e1e7b6fbd6c884cbe17 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Neste trabalho tratei de escrever e analisar a história do núcleo de arte/educação do Projeto Makiguti em Ação, entendendo-o como parte integrante de minha própria história. Através de informações, documentos e da memória de voluntários do projeto, essa história foi sendo construída. Pela sua analise, pretendi responder a algumas dúvidas e inquietações, geradas durante a minha participação no projeto. Quais são as relações existentes entre a arte e o artesanato? Como se caracteriza uma prática educacional que visa à criação de valores humanos? Qual a contribuição da filosofia budista para esse fazer educacional? Essas são algumas questões discutidas nessa dissertação. O núcleo nasceu, desenvolveu-se e por fim foi dissolvido em 2009, dentro do contexto de um programa educacional gerido pela Coordenadoria Educacional da Associação Brasil Soka Gakkai internacional (BSGI). Uma associação de leigos, praticantes do Budismo de Nitiren Daishonin, que tem como metas a paz, a cultura e a educação. Para o núcleo de arte/educação, a ligação entre filosofia budista, arte e educação, além de necessária, é indissolúvel de sua própria existência. Assim como para mim não é possível conceber uma educação, sem a criação de valores humanos, a despeito de reconhecer os mistérios envolvidos nessa difícil construção / In this work I could write and analyze the history of art and education nucleus from Makiguti in Action project that is part of my own history. This history was built through documents, informations, and project volunteers‘ memories. Analyzing it I could answer some doubts and concerns that had been grown in my mind during my participation in this project such as: What are the relations between art and craft? How is characterized an educational practice that aims the creation of human values? What is the contribution of Buddhist philosophy to make this education practice? These are some issues discussed in this dissertation. The nucleus was born, was developed and finally was dissolved in 2009, in the context of an educational program managed by the Educational Coordination from the association Brazilian Soka Gakkai International (BSGI) that is an association of lay practitioners of Nitiren Daishonin Buddhism, which the goals are peace, culture and education. From the of art and education Makiguti nucleus‘ point of view the connection between the buddhist philosophy and art / education it is necessary and inseparable from its own existence. In my opinion it is not possible to conceive an education without the creation of human values, despite the fact that there are lots of mysteries involving this difficult construction

Orientador: Luiza Helena da Silva Christov / Banca: Rita de Cássia Franco de Souza Antunes / Banca: Eliane Bambini Gorgueira Bruno / Resumo: Neste trabalho tratei de escrever e analisar a história do núcleo de arte/educação do Projeto Makiguti em Ação, entendendo-o como parte integrante de minha própria história. Através de informações, documentos e da memória de voluntários do projeto, essa história foi sendo construída. Pela sua analise, pretendi responder a algumas dúvidas e inquietações, geradas durante a minha participação no projeto. Quais são as relações existentes entre a arte e o artesanato? Como se caracteriza uma prática educacional que visa à criação de valores humanos? Qual a contribuição da filosofia budista para esse fazer educacional? Essas são algumas questões discutidas nessa dissertação. O núcleo nasceu, desenvolveu-se e por fim foi dissolvido em 2009, dentro do contexto de um programa educacional gerido pela Coordenadoria Educacional da Associação Brasil Soka Gakkai internacional (BSGI). Uma associação de leigos, praticantes do Budismo de Nitiren Daishonin, que tem como metas a paz, a cultura e a educação. Para o núcleo de arte/educação, a ligação entre filosofia budista, arte e educação, além de necessária, é indissolúvel de sua própria existência. Assim como para mim não é possível conceber uma educação, sem a criação de valores humanos, a despeito de reconhecer os mistérios envolvidos nessa difícil construção / Abstract: In this work I could write and analyze the history of art and education nucleus from Makiguti in Action project that is part of my own history. This history was built through documents, informations, and project volunteers' memories. Analyzing it I could answer some doubts and concerns that had been grown in my mind during my participation in this project such as: What are the relations between art and craft? How is characterized an educational practice that aims the creation of human values? What is the contribution of Buddhist philosophy to make this education practice? These are some issues discussed in this dissertation. The nucleus was born, was developed and finally was dissolved in 2009, in the context of an educational program managed by the Educational Coordination from the association Brazilian Soka Gakkai International (BSGI) that is an association of lay practitioners of Nitiren Daishonin Buddhism, which the goals are peace, culture and education. From the of art and education Makiguti nucleus' point of view the connection between the buddhist philosophy and art / education it is necessary and inseparable from its own existence. In my opinion it is not possible to conceive an education without the creation of human values, despite the fact that there are lots of mysteries involving this difficult construction / Mestre

M.A. / The Institute of Child and Parental Guidance at the Rand Afrikaans University presents a training course in Christian Lay Counselling. The aim of the course is to train people with a christian background as lay counsellors so that they can do counselling in a congregation and/or a church environment. This research entails a critical, scientific evaluation of this training programme to determine whether the experimental group's (n = 30) theoretical knowledge, counselling skills and attitudes was significantly enhanced by the training programme in comparison to the control group (n = 30). Chapter one addresses the problem and objective of the project. An overview of lay christian counselling is given in chapter two and in chapter three the training programme for christen lay counsellors of the Rand Afrikaans University is presented. The research procedures of the project are discussed in chapter four and the results of the research are given in chapter five. The results of the research are interpreted, conclusions are drawn, critique and recommendations are made based on the research findings in chapter six. The pass rate for the course in christian lay counselling was 100%. There is a negative correlation (r = -0,254) between the theoretical and practical mark for counselling skills. The growth in counselling skills is measured by using the "Group Assessment of Interpersonal Traits" (GAIT) by menas of pre- and post test procedures. The experimental group showed a marked, positive growth (p = 0,0160) in their application of counselling skills within a counselling framework. The control group showed a marked decline (p = 0,0156) in terms of the application of counselling skills within a counselling framework. The improvement in attitudes (personal growth) is measured by using the "Personal Orientation Inventory" (P01) by means of pre- and post test procedures. The experimental group showed a marked, positive growth in the following four scales of the PO1: Time Competent (Tc)(POI 1)(p = 0,0296), Inner Directed (1)(POI 2)(p = 0,0242), Feeling Reactivity (Fr)(POI 5)(p = 0,0255) and Intimate Contact (C)(POI 12)(p = 0,0013). The control group showed a marked decline (p = 0,0229) in terms of post test scores in relation to the Inner Directed scale (1)(POI 2). It would appear that the training programme for christian lay counsellors did in effect have a distinct positive influence on the experimental group's theoretical knowledge of counselling, the application of counselling skills in practise as well as the personal growth of course attendants.