Abstract This research explores the relationship between stories from the land and character education, and examines how the land forms the characters of those who live with Her. Twenty-seven participants were chosen through the snowball, or chain sampling, method from three groups of people living roughly within the boundaries of Hastings County, Ontario. Three groups of people were included: those living on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory; generational farmers, whose families had settled in this area; and relative newcomers who have come to the area as recently as twenty years ago and self-identified as coming here in order to be closer to the land. Ages varied, with the youngest participant being 30 years old and the eldest being 94. Each participant was asked to share a story from his or her experience of living with the land in this area. During personal visits, stories were conveyed through conversations between the participant and the researcher, and recorded using both audio and video equipment. After transcription, the stories were coded for evidence of character development and reflected upon using three lenses: Noddings (2003) circles of caring; Haig-Brown’s (2010) ways through which the land teaches us; and the traditional Ojibway story of the Seven Grandfather Teachings. This reflection process was guided by the notion of close reading of the transcripts, close listening to audio recordings for voice inflection and laughter, and close watching of video recordings for body language. Findings from the research revealed rich connections between the stories and the three lenses used. Every aspect of character development was evidenced in one or more stories. The stories affirmed that, as the elders have traditionally taught, the land moulds people. Those who live in the same area develop character in similar ways. There was no substantial difference shown between the character traits evident in the stories given by Mohawk people and those from the other two groups. Character traits identified were reflective of the skills necessarily developed to live and work on this land. Implications for the development of character education curriculum emerged from the consideration of the use of locally based stories within classrooms. / Thesis (Ph.D, Education) -- Queen's University, 2011-12-17 11:03:25.805

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Thesis (MDram (Drama))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to discuss the complementarity of Western performance training and the Toltec Teachings. It is motivated by a recognition that performers in training might often have to develop their own means to training „system‟ post-study, especially in environments where limited opportunities exist to share in group contexts, such as Jerzi Grotowski‟s Theatre Laboratory or Eugenio Barba‟s Odin Teatret. The solution of self-study (study of the self by the self) is explored in answer to this challenge. Owing to the fact that theatre commentators and practitioners often reference the need to look to alternative models or „forms of civilisation‟ for support and illumination, the potential of the Toltec Nimomashtic System - a self-motivated system for studying the self - is considered as a potential „other‟ in this regard. This study takes into account that complementarity implies both similarities and differences between the two paths in question, and considers how these might offer support to the challenge of self-study in particular, as well as the context of performance training more generally. Comparisons are made between Western performance training and the Toltec Teachings with reference to theory (ideology), aims and outcomes, and practice (methodology). Such comparative analysis reveals that sharing the characteristics of mystery, resistance and paradox enhances complementarity. This suggests that both the way of the performer and the Warriors Path are paths of exile and exclusion. They have in common a defiance of social convention and a bias toward the non-ordinary or extra daily. This is evidenced most specifically through the pursuit of presence as a state defined by absence. Perception, as a central determinant of presence, is positioned in relation to discoveries in modern physics and Barba‟s (in Christoffersen 1993: 159) synergistic „traveller of speed‟ concept, as a means to elucidation. Investigation of specific Toltec ideas and methods that offer perspectives on destructuring the ego and the worldview it sustains, are seen to support Grotowski‟s via negativa as a process of eliminating blockages that impede effective expression, as well as Barba‟s (Christoffersen 1992: 80) „refusal of culture‟ as a negation or deformation of daily behaviour. Compatible approaches to shifting perceptions of the self by the self, in order to achieve the shared outcome of presence, thus consolidate the overall complementarity of the two paths. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bespreek die komplimentêre aard van die Westerse performance opleidingsisteme en die Tolteekse leerstellinge. Dit word gemotiveer deur die besef dat performance-studente dikwels na afloop van hul formele studie hul eie opleidingsisteem moet ontwikkel. Dit word genoodsaak deurdat daar beperkte werksgeleenthede is vir studente binne „n konteks soos Jerzi Grotowski se Teater Laboratorium of Eugenio Barba se Odin Teatret om ervarings te deel. Teatermakers en kritici verwys dikwels na alternatiewe modelle of beskawings vir ondersteuning en die Tolteekse Ninomastiese sisteem (‟n selfmotiverende sisteem van selfstudie) word in hierdie studie as alternatiewe sisteem ondersoek. Die studie neem in ag dat die komplementêre aard tussen die westerse opleidingsisteme en die Tolteekse leerstellinge ooreenkomste en verskille impliseer wat selfstudie ondersteun binne die konteks van algemene performance opleiding. Westerse opleidingsmetodes en die Tolteekse leerstellinge word vergelyk ten opsigte van die teorie (ideologie), doelstellings en uitkomstes, sowel as praktyk (metodologie). Uit hierdie vergelyking tussen die twee sisteme blyk dit dat die ooreenkomste aspekte insluit soos misterie, weerstand en paradoks wat die komplementêre aard van die sisteme bevorder en suggereer dat beide die performer- en die Krygersweg roetes van bannelingskap en uitsluiting is. Verdere ooreenkomste sluit die verset teen sosiale konvensies en die keuse van‟n buitengewone lewe in soos gesien kan word in die strewe na teenwoordigheid as ‟n toestand wat deur afwesigheid gedefinieër word. As toeligting word waarneming as ‟n sentrale bepaler vir teenwoordigheid in verhouding met ontdekkings in moderne fisika en Barba se sinergistiese “reisiger van spoed”-konsep geplaas. Die ondersoek na spesifieke Tolteekse idees en metodes bied perspektiewe om die vernietiging van die ego en die wêreldvisie wat dit ondersteun, aan te dui en ondersteun Grotowski se via negativa as ‟n proses om blokkasies af te breek wat die effektiewe uitdrukking van die akteur ondermyn, sowel as Barba (Christoffersen 1992: 80) se “werwerping van kultuur” as ‟n negering of vervorming van daaglikse handeling. Die verenigbare benaderings tot die verskuiwing van die persepsie van die self deur die self om die gemene uitkomste van teenwoordigheid te bewerkstellig, konsolideer die oorhoofse komplimentêre aard van die twee weë.

This thesis presents an inquiry into personality development, that is, it advances a theory of personality formation based on the symbiotic relationship between mother and child. It will show indications from the research of Rappoport, Ottinger and Simmons, and the writings of Mahler, that in the relationship between the infant and its mother, the infant at first thinks that the mother is an actual part of its own wholeness. Therefore, the theory will attempt to explain how a normal, a neurotic or a psychotic personality structure of later years can be traced back to the symbiotic phase of the infant's development. The symbiotic phase is considered by Mahler to terminate about thirty-six months after birth, but this theory will stress that the critical stage in personality development is reached somewhere before the first year of life is complete.

This study investigates the challenges and opportunities of using the Aboriginal principles of “Respect,” “Reciprocity,” “Relationship,” and “Responsibility” (known as the “4 R’s”), Seventh Generation Stewardship, and an Aboriginal circle of giving and receiving, to teach Muslim students in one Islamic elementary school setting about environmental stewardship. The research tracked the thoughts and emotional connections of students as they undertook to establish the Aboriginal circle of giving and receiving, with plants they planted for their science unit. Through lessons and practices around the 4 R’s, the majority of students demonstrated an increased emotional attachment to the plants in their respective circles, which was documented in journals. While establishing these practices, the students expressed a heightened awareness of the various ways in which they may enhance the practice of environmental stewardship mandated in traditional Islamic texts.

This study investigates the challenges and opportunities of using the Aboriginal principles of “Respect,” “Reciprocity,” “Relationship,” and “Responsibility” (known as the “4 R’s”), Seventh Generation Stewardship, and an Aboriginal circle of giving and receiving, to teach Muslim students in one Islamic elementary school setting about environmental stewardship. The research tracked the thoughts and emotional connections of students as they undertook to establish the Aboriginal circle of giving and receiving, with plants they planted for their science unit. Through lessons and practices around the 4 R’s, the majority of students demonstrated an increased emotional attachment to the plants in their respective circles, which was documented in journals. While establishing these practices, the students expressed a heightened awareness of the various ways in which they may enhance the practice of environmental stewardship mandated in traditional Islamic texts.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1996.

The primary purpose of this thesis is to offer an approach to building a culture of leadership based on the Prophet Muhammad's teaching of love in Islamic schools. Since people are strongly motivated by values they deeply adhere to, the paradigms used as rationale for this study embody views of leaders as motivators and values transformation as their main task. The thesis holds the view that the Prophet Muhammad's teaching of love needs to be cultivated in an Islamic school community. The thesis presents discussion on transrational values as the contributing factor to this view, and the main argument centres on the discussions of the Prophet Muhammad's teaching of love and its applications in developing a culture of leadership in Islamic schools.

This dissertation coordinates two problems which have hitherto resisted adequate synthesis: the form-critical problem of describing proverbial-sounding Synoptic sayings and the tradition-historical problem of assessing the rhetorical habits of Jesus and his immediate successors in oral tradition. The approach taken here to linking these qualifies not only form-critical assumptions of continuity between written forms - in Kleinliteratur - and identifies oral Sitze im Leben of mnemotechnical scholasticism, but also of the recent emphases on radical discontinuity between oral and writing modes of tradition. The connection proposed here between re-description of so- called Wisdom-sayings and oral traditional aspects of the gospels is in the Hellen educational category of gnome. Defined, exemplified and prescribed in basic Graeco-Roman educational texts as well as in technical, philosophical manuals of Rhetoric and in a rich collection-literature, gnome is superbly attested as an exercise in primary education, in all kinds of public-speaking and in cross-cultural (including Jewish) tradition. Moreover, Hellenistic cultivation of gnome primarily as a speech-type, indeed as a conversational means of argumentation in any Sitz im Leben, and only secondarily though still extensively as a literary technique makes it a particularly pertinent term of comparison for New Testament criticism. Recognizing gnomic continuity between oral and written Synoptic tradition allows discussion of the authenticity not only of individual sayings (on criteria of dissimilarity), but also collectively of the gnomic manner (on criteria of oral-literate continuity and multiple attestation): quite apart from the (in)authenticity of each gnome, gnomic style is central to Jesus' self-expression and earliest tradition. In this sense gnomai are a particularly valuable data-set for reassessing the critically controverted relationship between Jesus' rhetoric and law: in Synoptic tradition gnome is exploited suggestively as a non-legal means of addressing conventionally legal topics.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T14:48:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 939009 bytes, checksum: 55dc1f3f3b0475ff8dcce91550f95c2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Willing to know the influence of motivating agents in the behavior of teachers, the target population of the research, specifically on the public elementary schools of the state of Paraíba, this study covered a population composed of 874 professionals, 350 of them being temporary staff and 524 regular personnel. In the prospect of this study this population represents a complex universe to treat the subject motivation, regarding the magnitude of intervenient variables involved in this process which goes all the way from the pedagogical techniques, through the expectations of teachers for their students, to the concern about educational materials, teacher training, improvement of the structural conditions of school and the classroom as a whole, and also the processes of: institutional management, leadership, interpersonal relationships, education policy, availability of resources, among other important issues to deal with in this thematic. The fundamental theories that gave support to the analysis were taken from reports of Herzberg (1972), Maslow (1971), McClelland (1971), McGregor (1973), Vroom (1964) and others who sought in their theories, to show that the actual Work is a great provider of motivation, satisfying the supreme need of growth of human beings; It all was discussed in this study, relating them to the work of professionals linked to the teaching of Paraiba. These authors also tried to demonstrate that the factors that cause satisfaction are determinants of positive human behavior, from answers given by the human intellect. In other words, the feeling of satisfaction is also a need, which serves as a centre of behaviour organization at any given time. In other words, the needs mobilize the resources that each person has, channeling them to reach certain goals or marks. The argument presented here serves to demonstrate that motivation also includes the achievement and the pursuit of growth that leads to the scope of personal satisfaction as part of the dynamics of personal performance in relation to work. This means understanding that the satisfaction with the work derives from the environmental conditions offered by the company and is caused by a motivational factor that result in a particular pattern of positive performance, or above the average performance. In the specific case of professionals in the area of education, for example, efficiency and quality are inseparable attributes and must be present in the effort of every professional, for their students to see the prospect of gaining citizenship as sign of the quality of work developed in each unit of education in this country. The conclusion to which it has been arrived with the analysis of the data is that: in the profile of professional motivational investigated prevails, the need for self-realization, as the wage policy in operation is not enough to supply their basic needs, it turns out that the recompense comes from work itself, the possibility of showing competence, to help educating people and making them able to take place as human beings and as citizens. / Tendo por objetivo conhecer os fatores motivacionais presentes no comportamento dos professores, enquanto população alvo da pesquisa, especificamente na rede de ensino fundamental pública do Estado da Paraíba, esse estudo abrangeu uma população composta por 874 profissionais, sendo 350 do quadro de pessoal temporário e 524 do quadro efetivo. Na perspectiva desse estudo, essa população representa um universo complexo para tratar a temática motivação, haja vista a dimensão de variáveis intervenientes nesse processo as quais abrangem: desde as técnicas pedagógicas, passando pelas expectativas dos docentes em relação aos seus alunos, até a preocupação com os materiais didáticos, a capacitação docente, o aperfeiçoamento, as condições estruturais da escola e da sala de aula como um todo; além dos processos de: gestão institucional, liderança, relacionamento interpessoal, política educacional, disponibilidade de recursos, dentre outras questões de relevância para abordar com profundidade essa temática. As teorias de base que deram sustentação à análise proposta foram extraídas dos trabalhos de Herzberg (1972), Maslow (1971), McClelland (1971), McGregor (1973), Vroom (1964) e de outros que procuraram, em suas teorias, demonstrar que o próprio trabalho é um grande liberador de motivação, satisfazendo as necessidades superiores de crescimento do ser humano, foram discutidas nesse estudo, relacionando-as ao trabalho dos profissionais ligados ao magistério da Paraíba. Demonstrando que as necessidades mobilizam os recursos que cada pessoa possui, canalizando-os para o alcance de determinados objetivos ou metas. O argumento aqui apresentado serve para comprovar que a motivação engloba também a realização e a busca de crescimento que leva ao alcance da satisfação pessoal como parte da dinâmica do desempenho pessoal em relação ao trabalho. No caso especifico dos profissionais da área da educação, por exemplo, o binômio eficiência e qualidade é indissociável, e deve se fazer presente no trabalho que, cada profissional para que seus alunos possam vislumbrar a perspectiva de conquista da cidadania como indicativo de qualidade do trabalho desenvolvido em cada unidade de ensino desse pais. A conclusão a que se chegou com a análise dos dados é que: predomina no perfil motivacional dos profissionais investigados, a necessidade de auto-realização, da possibilidade de mostrar competência, de contribuir para formar pessoas capazes de realizar-se como ser humano e como cidadão.