In this thesis, I argue that clinical law teaching requires a theoretical analysis and pedagogical framework to address law students encounters with social suffering in clinical law contexts. A critical pedagogy of suffering, I argue, would take at its starting point an acknowledgement of the importance of the law student-client encounter as a deeply important pedagogical site - a place where certain views about lawyering, law, and justice are played out, and therefore a place that ought to be the subject of close attention by clinical law scholars and teachers. I argue that a critical pedagogy of suffering would focus specifically on the presence of human suffering in many of these encounters. Such a pedagogy would seek to distill the ways in which larger social and systemic forces produce and distribute social suffering, and how the dominant legal gaze and dominant legal practice are too often incapable of assessing or responding to these forces. It would also work to challenge notions that emotions and suffering are apolitical and unrelated to progressive legal practice, and to build a conception that engaged, critical witnessing of social suffering by lawyers and law students might lead to passionate and thoughtful lawyering for social justice in clinical law settings.

A Study On The Relationship Among Teachers' Professional Identity¡BSelf-Efficacy And Job Satisfaction In Junior High Schoo In Kaohsiung City Abstract This research is mainly study on the present relationship among teachers' professional identity, self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City. This study try to investigate how the different backgrounds as variebles will affect the relationship that this research focus on junior high school teachers, and find out the differences those variebles will cause . Also, the research aims to make an analysis about using Junior High School teachers' professional identity and self-efficacy to predict their job satisfaction . The research use questionnaire survey. We use Teachers' Professional Identity, Self-efficacy and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City as our research tool. Subjects were sampled from 78 Junior High Schools in Kaohsiung city and 5846 teachers by using random sampling. The collected date were analyzed by using statistical computer software SPSS version 17.0. The main findings are as following: 1. The whole performace of teachers' professional identity in Junior High School in Kaohsiung city was middle-high level. Among the sectional scores,the dimension of " the job invlovement " was the highest. 2. The whole performace of teachers' self-efficacy in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City was middle-high level. Among the sectional scores, the dimension of "normal educational efficacy " was the highest. 3.The whole performace of teachers' job satisfaction in Junior High School in Kaohsiung city was pretty well. Among the sectional scores, the dimension of "salary and welfare" was the highest. 4. There were positive relationship among teachers' professional identity, self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City. 5. Teachers' professional identity could predict the job satisfaction. In front of all factors, the value of concept could predict most. There are some researcher¡¦s suggestions as to provide a reference for educational institutes, teacher-training organizations, administrative units of school and teachers in junior high schools and the further research plans.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the Kaohsiung junior high school teachers¡¦ Personality Traits, Professional Identity and Self-Efficacy and to understand the predictability of Self-Efficacy by Personality Traits and Professional Identity. The research method this study adopted was survey research. Questionnaires were mailed to 560 junior high school teachers of Kaohsiung city in Taiwan. There were 529 valid responses, and the success rate was 94.45%. The collected data were analyzed by using the statistical methods of reliability analysis, factor analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson Product-moment correlation, canonical correlation and multiple regression (step-wise-regression procedure). The conclusions of this study were as follows: 1.Junior high school teachers¡¦ Personality Traits did not differ significantly in age, education background, years of teaching experience, and working position, but differed significantly in gender, marriage and school size. 2.Junior high school teachers¡¦ teaching style did not differ significantly in gender, age and years of teaching experience, but differed significantly in marriage, education background, working position and scales of school size. 3.Junior high school teachers¡¦ Self-Efficacy did not differ significantly in age, marriage, education background, years of teaching experience, and working position, but differed significantly in gender, scales of school size. 4.There were significant correlations found between junior high school teachers¡¦ Personality Traits and Professional Identity, Personality Traits and Self-Efficacy, Professional Identity and Self-Efficacy. 5.The performance of junior high school teachers¡¦ Personality Traits, and Professional Identity effectively predicted the performance of Self-Efficacy, especially the ¡§Professional attitude¡¨ aspect. Based on the conclusion above, this study provided suggestions respectively on the institute of educational administration, junior high school and future studies.

There is considerable concern regarding the adequacy of rural health services in New Zealand, with much attention having been paid to issues of recruitment and retention of rural general practitioners. Rhetoric of 'crisis' is often utilised to raise political awareness of the problematic, but in fact, rural general practitioner recruitment and retention has been documented for about a hundred years. For about the same length of time nurses have been providing primary health care services in rural and remote places, often working alone. Using the notion of nurses as a 'stop-gap' in the provision of rural primary health care until problems with recruitment and retention of rural general practitioners are addressed, is a rhetorical device that facilitates the under analysis of the role nurses play and the contribution that they make. The longstanding practice of rural primary care nursing in its various guises over the last century challenges the notion of nursing as a stop-gap.Any investigation of health care in the contemporary moment needs to take account of the influence of biomedical dominance, an increasingly litigious mentality in relation to health care, a shifting focus towards primary rather than secondary health care, and the positioning and re-positioning of health professionals within the neo-liberal state. The very existence of nurses working as the first point of contact in the health care system, with success over time in so far as they do not provoke undue litigation, and appear to deliver an appropriate service must raise questions about who can claim the right to be a primary health care provider. Based on qualitative research conducted in New Zealand and the Western Isles with rural primary care nurses and Family Health Nurses respectively, this thesis explores the ways that nurses construct flexible generalist professional identities that challenge traditional inter and intra-professional boundaries. In the New Zealand case, rural primary care nurses negotiate the boundaries between nursing and medicine, those within nursing itself, and also those between nursing a paramedic work. Nurses perform this boundary work by negotiating self-governing 'appropriate' and 'safe' professional identities. In the Western Isles case, the introduction of the newly developed role of Family Health Nurse serves to highlight the problematic nature of inserting an ostensibly generalist nursing role beyond the rural.

This thesis develops a better understanding of the lived experiences of NNES teachers, coming from diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the complex negotiations and constructions of their professional identities against the prevalent NS fallacy in the Arab Gulf states. This study employs a Postcolonial theoretical framework. In order to unravel NNESTs’ perspectives and understand how they make sense of their experiences, this study adopts a life history approach. The results suggest that participants view nativeness as a fixed identity, dependant on elements, such as being born into a language and learning it in early childhood. The participants had both confidence and concern about their linguistic abilities, which indicated that their non-native identity resulted in complex situations for them to deal with. The findings also revealed that the participants managed to find ways in which to inhabit these non-native identities confidently and to construct themselves as effective teachers who did not have to be NSs by nature. The participants narrated that the issue of pronunciation and accent had a significant impact on their professional identities. NS norms in accent was seen as eliciting stereotyped judgements of NNESTS as the inferior Other, and resulting in hiring policies that were greatly skewed against NNESTs. The participants also believed that stereotyped notions about the superiority of education acquired from the Center privileged NESTs in employment and led to the devaluation of indigenous knowledge. The participants also spoke about encountering direct and indirect challenges, which made it difficult for them to position themselves as legitimate teachers of English. They also believed that perceptions about the superiority of the NS would be impossible to overcome in the near future since the language policy of the Gulf states was strongly intertwined with its economic and political interests. The study, therefore, provides recommendations for theory, practice, and policy.

The self of the therapist is widely recognised as being a crucial component in the therapeutic relationship. However, comparatively little is known about the therapist as a person, or of how life-changing events in therapists’ personal lives may impact on their professional identity and practice. The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore the impact of traumatic bereavement on the personal and professional lives of qualified humanistic therapists in order to shed further light on this under-researched area. Underpinned by a phenomenological-hermeneutic philosophy, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was selected as the methodology most appropriate to reveal participants’ lived experience. Purposive sampling was used to recruit a homogenous sample of eight humanistic therapists who had experienced traumatic bereavement while practising. Data comprised interview transcripts, participants’ reflective writing and researcher field notes. IPA’s idiographic approach facilitated the creation of a detailed and nuanced thematic analysis of the phenomenon, grounded in participants’ voices. Five super-ordinate themes were created from the interpretative phenomenological analysis, each of which provides a complementary ‘lens’ through which to view participants’ holistic experience: ‘Significance of context’, ‘Confronting a changed reality’, ‘Re-learning the world’, ‘Facing professional challenges’ and ‘Personal and professional reciprocity’. Findings reveal the unique contextual and multi-faceted nature of traumatic bereavement, and suggest that this experience can profoundly impact on therapists’ personal and social identities and beliefs. The professional challenges faced by grieving therapists are also highlighted. Findings illustrate that through a reciprocal process of personal and professional integration, the experience of facing, and living through grief, can lead to therapists’ increased self-knowledge, understanding, empathy and authenticity that informs and enhances their therapeutic practice. Supportive supervision and continued self-reflection are evidenced as significant mediating factors. The research demonstrates that the process of integrating the experience of traumatic bereavement into the therapist’s personal and professional life is a continuing and oscillating process. It is crucial that therapists carrying this burden have opportunities to reflect on this process in supportive supervisory relationships in order to pre-empt and ameliorate difficulties they may face in client work. A greater understanding of therapist bereavement is needed across the profession.

Professional socialisation is a key aspect of social work pre-qualifying training and the final practice placement has long been viewed as one of the most crucial elements of social work training, in enabling students to transfer learning on the course into practice (Parker, 2007). Whilst there has been substantial research into how students develop their skills in social work education, very few studies have focused upon the student’s development of professional identity and the process of professional socialisation (Valutis, Rubin and Bell, 2012). This study explores this gap, particularly the impact of the placement supervisor and agency context upon the student’s development of professional identity. An autobiographical style and social constructionist approach is employed by the author, alongside the use of a theoretical lens which incorporates Bourdieu’s (1993) work, particularly the concept of ‘Habitus’, Jenkins’ (2008) use of three orders concerning ‘Social Identity’, and the work of Lave and Holland (2001) regarding ‘History in Person’. The data was generated from semi-structured interviews with final year postgraduate students and placement supervisors. These narratives were analysed through the use of grounded theory (Charmaz, 2014). The findings of this study contributes four main areas to the understanding of how professional identity is developed. Firstly, the importance of prior and current personal experiences in the development of professional identity, especially first-hand service user experience. Secondly the value of informal reflective spaces to discuss identity, particularly with peers. Thirdly the significance of the student establishing a reciprocal relationship with their placement supervisor. Finally, the impact of the agency/placement environment upon the student and their supervisor in supporting this process of professional socialisation. Further research of a longitudinal nature is proposed by the author, to include a wider range of students and supervisors in order to build upon this understanding of professional identity development and how to best support the professional socialisation process.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-03-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 brando_fr_me_bauru.pdf: 817624 bytes, checksum: 7e1cac2f118add729033e88e0491fae8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente pesquisa, intitulada Escolha profissional: uma questão de identidade discute a escolha profissional de alunos do curso de Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas na UNESP - Campus Bauru. Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, levantamos quais foram os anseios desses alunos em relação ao curso que frequentam e qual a identidade que demonstraram para com o mesmo. Para tanto, utilizamos a pesquisa qualitativa, referenciais teóricos sobre identidade e, na análise dos dados coletados, o referencial teórico da semiótica peirceana. Essas análises nos evidenciaram a necessidade de uma avaliação na reestruturação da estrutura curricular do curso em questão, além da criação de espaços de discussão, nos quais esses universitários possam analisar, de maneira crítica, suas concepções acerca do curso, principalmente em relação a atuação docente / The present research which is entitled Professional choice: a question of identity discuss the Professional choice of Major in Biological Science students at UNESP - at Bauru campus. The desires relating to the course taken by these students, as well as which identity they demonstrate to themselves were raised through semi-structured interviews. For that, qualitative research and identity theoretical research were used and Peirce's theoretical Semiotics reference was also used in the analysis of the collected data. These analyses showed that there is a necessity of an evaluation in the restructure of the curricular content of the course in question. There is also a necessity of creating discussion space, in which university students can analyze in a critical way their conceptions concerning the course, mainly the ones related to teacher's performance

Orientador: Laurizet Ferragut Passos / Banca: Miriam Godoy Penteado / Banca: Ana Lúcia Manrique / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar e verificar, como ocorre a integração e a complementação dos saberes presentes na formação inicial dos alunos trabalhadores noturnos, de um curso de Licenciatura em Matemática. Utilizou-se a abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, com questionários e entrevistas semi-estruturadas como instrumentos de coleta, com a finalidade de conhecer a trajetória escolar, a visão da futura profissão, bem como os dilemas e as dificuldades enfrentadas durante o curso, partindo-se do pressuposto de que esses alunos oriundos em sua maioria de escolas públicas, têm se constituído na clientela majoritária dos cursos de licenciatura das faculdades privadas. Buscou-se verificar os saberes presentes no processo de formação inicial desses alunos e de que maneira se dá a relação entre estes saberes, o processo de construção da identidade e o desenvolvimento profissional. A análise dos dados mostrou que os alunos têm deficiências anteriores de conteúdos matemáticos, possuindo dificuldade e insegurança em relação aos saberes didáticos e curriculares, devido à conciliação entre estudo e trabalho. Revelam imagens positivas e coerentes com relação à futura profissão, que podem influenciar no desenvolvimento profissional. Verificou-se também a necessidade de reflexão dos órgãos governamentais responsáveis, ao implementarem novas medidas nesta área de formação inicial. / Abstract: The purpose of this research is to identify and verify how the integration and complementation of night worker students' previous educational knowledge takes place in a Mathematics Licensure course. The methodology used has a qualitative research approach, with the use of questionnaires to gather data, and semi-structured interviews to get to know the school trajectory of the students and their view of the future profession, as well as the dilemmas and difficulties they have gone through, taking into consideration that most of these students come from public schools and represent a major group in private college licensure courses. The work also tries to verify which kind of knowledge was present in their previous education, and the ways it relates to their identity formation process and professional development. The data analysis showed that the students have previous deficiencies of mathematical contents, and that they have difficulty and insecurity related to didactical and curricular knowledge due to conciliation between study and work. The data also reveal positive and coherent images concerning the future profession which can have influence over the professional development. A need of reflection by the responsible governmental organs was also identified, so that new measures in this area of initial formation can be implemented. / Mestre

This study explores the phenomenon of therapists’ verbal self-disclosure in the therapeutic encounter. The purpose is to examine the clients’ experiences and attitudes on therapists’ verbal self-disclosure, when the clients are counselling psychology trainees or newly qualified counselling psychologists. The present study will attempt to discover what the participants believe constitutes self-disclosure and how influential their therapists’ verbal self-disclosure or lack of it, has been in the development of their personal and professional stance on self-disclosure in their own work with clients. Since the researcher is interested in clients who themselves are developing counselling psychologists, the study sheds light on how their therapists’ verbal disclosure (or lack of it) influences their developing professional identity. The majority of studies exploring therapists’ self-disclosure have favoured quantitative methodologies; however, a case can be made for using a qualitative phenomenological approach to explore this phenomenon on the grounds that it provides a more detailed representation of the experience and allows for an in-depth phenomenological understanding of the complexity and content of self-disclosure. Nine developing counselling psychologists were interviewed for this study and the three major findings of the study are that a) developing counselling psychologists, influenced by their own personal therapy, do engage in counter-transference self-disclosure, b) the decision to engage in self-disclosure or not is made upon their intuition and ‘gut feeling’ and c) although training institutions or supervisors might not encourage self-disclosure, participants still engage in it. These findings raise questions concerning the role of training versus the role of personal therapy in shaping trainees’ client work, as well as issues regarding the reasons why they chose to self-disclose or not and the role of intuition.