Transformation

Poetic Consciousness in Pedagogy: An Inquiry of Contemplation and Conversation

by Sean Wiebe

Co-authored with Indrani Margolin

In this paper we consider the kinds of pedagogical engagements a poetic consciousness might invoke.  When we... more In this paper we consider the kinds of pedagogical engagements a poetic consciousness might invoke.  When we reflect on what it might mean to be poetically conscious in moments of teaching, learning, and connecting, what emerges is the possibility of integrating the classroom experience with the everyday of life; such poetically conscious teaching would make connections to the larger web of a person’s experience in the world.  To inquire into this possibility, we share our contemplations on our scholarly and personal experiences with poetry, presenting it here as a dis(e)ruptive text in order to invite aesthetic modes of being within the interplay of language and self.  Our conversations have evolved over 3 years and have created this in-between space of active disclosure, where, we argue, poetry has offered dis(e)ruptions that celebrate the variations we inhabit in our bodies, personalities, and creative works.

Keywords:  Poetic consciousness, pedagogy, contemplation, conversation, dis(e)ruptive text

Sorcery and social change

by Rena Lederman

Transformation in Scientific Americans and In Absentia

by Hugo Joly-Morin

Transformation Propensity in Low Income Housing: The Continuing Story of the Vastuhara in Dhaka

by K. Taufiq Elahi

Draft only, February 2012

Dhaka, one of the primate cities in Bangladesh and the nation's capital, has a diverse range of extremities in its... more Dhaka, one of the primate cities in Bangladesh and the nation's capital, has a diverse range of extremities in its general socio-economic composition. For the last few decades, the imprints of such a distinctive (but disorganized) and composite juxtaposition has become evident though the physical and cultural bearing of its housing industry. In a broader spectrum, the overall housing divide can be identified under two opposite categories - the formal and informal sectors in housing. With the government agencies out of the scene as the key provider in the housing stock, the formal sector is primarily dependent on numerous real-estate organizations and private entrepreneurs. The informal sector, on the other hand, is left to survive on its own - in conditions beyond human justification, but growing steadily to meet the demands of its urban machinery and economic whirlpool - an industry that presently comprises of the greater half of the total supply. This paper tells the tale of the Vastuhara resettlement scheme for the urban poor that stands out as a bright and optimistic example in transformation propensity where some cataleptic efforts by the government and the donor agencies have proven to be a spontaneous phenomena of social and economical advancement for its target group. Various sections of this text will portray a timescape of almost 40 years or so, assessing and addressing to details, which acted as contributing factors in the overall housing process.

Unternehmenskommunikation im Social Web

by Fabian Bethge

Transformácie dát medzi súradnicovými systémami používanými na území Slovenska v prostredí GIS (EN: Trans-formations of data among coordinate systems used in territory of Slovakia in GIS envi-ronment)

by Tibor Lieskovský

Co-authored with: Margita Vajsáblová, Renata Ďuračiová, Tibor Lieskovský, Tomáš Durdovanský
Published in: Kartografické listy, 2010, 18

One of the essential conditions for the data analysis in GIS environment is their expression in a unified coordinate... more One of the essential conditions for the data analysis in GIS environment is their expression in a unified coordinate system. This includes the transformation of layers between different coordinate systems. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the transformation among the coordinate systems used in Slo-vakia: S-JTSK, ETRS-89, WGS-84 and S-42 and also a description of the numerical transformation of the 2D coordinate systems. Next part of the paper includes the description of raster data transformation (much more difficult than vector data transformation) in ArcGIS Desktop software developed by ESRI. ArcGIS works with several set of parameters of transformation among coordinate systems, and it is not clear which set of parameters choice to the territory of Slovakia. Verification of the parameters is also part of the paper.

Differing managerial responses to change in Poland

by Monika Kostera

Published in:(1995) Organization Studies 16/4, p. 673-697.
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The paper is about alternative ways managers and enterprises respond to the contemporary situation in Poland. Adopting... more The paper is about alternative ways managers and enterprises respond to the contemporary situation in Poland. Adopting a cultural perspective and interpretive approach, it first seeks to establish in which ways the social role of
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manager has changed in regard to the professional dimension and contextual constraints. The main point concerns the current situation, where different ways of enactment of organizations' environments coexist, as do different managerial roles, as representing these different cultures of organizing. The paper proposes a typology of enterprises and roles, which can be used both in theory and practice, but perhaps more specifically by consultants who intend to introduce important change in East European enterprises. Taking the differences in responding to change into account would perhaps make the change itself more effective and more realistically aimed.

Nomads without Pastures? Globalization, Regionalization, and Livelihood Security of Nomads and Former Nomads in Northern Khams

by Andreas Gruschke

Nomads without Pastures? Globalization, Regionalization, and Livelihood Security of Nomads and Former Nomads in Northern Khams (Yushu, Qinghai/ China)

This paper presents some preliminary findings dealing with the change of pastoralists’ life in the eastern Tibetan... more This paper presents some preliminary findings dealing with the change of pastoralists’ life in the eastern Tibetan region of Yüshu (yushu). The development of its population and livestock numbers point out that many of the region’s pastoralist inhabitants can no longer depend on animal husbandry. Major official policies imply transformations or even the breakup of Tibetan nomadic systems, yet it is shown that Tibetan pastoralists are both willing and able to develop their own coping strategies. With a number of examples of how the (former) nomad society in Yüshu deals with changes evoked by a globalized economy, we hint at the scope of economic activities and opportunities it is willing to adopt and adjust to.

Spontaneous Thoughts on Robert Anton Wilson's Eightfold Model of Human Consciousness from Prometheus Rising

by Carol Simpson

Postkommunisten oder Linke? Die Transformation der Polnischen Vereinigten Arbeiterpartei PZPR zur polnischen Sozialdemokratie SLD.

by Robert Friebe

A Model of Transformative Collaboration

by Ann Swartz

Co-authored with Jacqlyn Triscari

Abstract

Two collaborative writing partners sought to deepen their understanding of transformative learning... more Abstract

Two collaborative writing partners sought to deepen their understanding of transformative learning by conducting several spirals of grounded theory research on their own collaborative relationship. Drawing from adult education, business, and social science literature and including descriptive analysis of their records of activity and interaction throughout a writing project, this article exhibits a comprehensive model of collaboration that integrates both transformative learning and dynamic/complex adaptive systems perspectives.

Quantifying “Humaniversity”: Evaluating the transformation process to humanise the university

by Mostafa Nejati

17th IBIMA conference on Creating Global Competitive Economies: A 360-degree Approach (Milan, Italy 14-15 November 2011)

Universities are responsible not only for educating the minds and talents, but also equipping learners with moral and... more Universities are responsible not only for educating the minds and talents, but also equipping learners with moral and human values and giving them a "human touch". Such a "Humaniversity" could allow us tackle the challenges of the present century and the increase the wellbeing of people on the globe. But to ensure that university's efforts in inculcating the sense of humanism, social commitment and morality is achieved, certain indicators and mechanisms should be defined to evaluate its performance. This study will discuss the significance of such indicators and provides some guides as how they need to be definedUniversities are responsible not only for educating the minds and talents, but also equipping learners with moral and human values and giving them a "human touch". Such a "Humaniversity" could allow us tackle the challenges of the present century and the increase the wellbeing of people on the globe. But to ensure that university's efforts in inculcating the sense of humanism, social commitment and morality is achieved, certain indicators and mechanisms should be defined to evaluate its performance. This study will discuss the significance of such indicators and provides some guides as how they need to be defined.

Transformational Narratives – A Context within History

by Niki Incorvia

Personal transformations are not clear cut or simple to comprehend fully. An individual’s life is complicated and raw.... more Personal transformations are not clear cut or simple to comprehend fully. An individual’s life is complicated and raw. It is difficult to draw a straight line in order to explain a fundamental life passage. At times these critical passages are not always beneficial or enlightening for the individual, but instead turn them hard and wearied. Often transformations change the individual for the worse. For those in power or in the public eye, these transformations are often necessary for survival. For centuries monarchies have been testing the limits of their character, and pushing people to the edge in order to transform into what they deem to be an effective ruler.

Apparatus of Capture: “Rhizomatic Contributions to Integral Ecology” and its Consequences (DRAFT)

by Daniel Gustav Anderson

‘Transformed’ by the discovery of schooling as one educational paradigm among many

by Helen E Lees

Presented at Philosophy of Education Great Britain Conference, Symposium on Women in Philosophy of Education, New College, Oxford, 2011

To think about education as schooling, is a common mistake. There is a sense that this mistake is part of a dominant... more To think about education as schooling, is a common mistake. There is a sense that this mistake is part of a dominant ‘world-view’ where valid education happens in and through schools or educational institutions and also often adheres, to varying degrees, to an established educational modality of teacher-led teaching. Elective home education (EHE) is one form of education that disproves the myth of education as schooling. It does so in intriguing and surprising ways that involve new approaches to learning and becoming (Thomas and Pattison 2007; Sheffer 1995). In its very difference from schooling, EHE offers an alternative world-view of education in a human life that many practioners see as transformative. This paper looks at the discovery of EHE as a product of a Kuhnian ‘gestalt-switch’ (Kuhn 1962) that takes a person from one world and into another, with subsequent ontological implications for lifestyles and communication between ‘world-views’. The argument suggests that schooling needs to move towards being widely self-identified as only one paradigm amongst many in a educational arena of radically different educational worlds and that a conflation of education with schooling needs to cease. This is because transformations in people’s lives experienced when education is understood as not just schooling have implications for education which are intriguing.

Transylvania without Transylvanians - Florian Kührer - Graceh2011 - Working Paper

by Florian Kührer

Transformation Theology: Seven Principles

by Oliver Davies

<A different City>. Potencjał warszawskiej transformacji.

by Joanna Kusiak

Artykuł do książki festiwalu "Warszawa w budowie"

Ritual, Liminality and Transformation: Secular Spirituality in Sydney’s Gay Bathhouses

by Carole Cusack

With Jason Prior in Australian Geographer, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2008 pp. 271-281 (reprinted in Stephen Hunt (ed.), New Religions and Spiritualities, Ashgate, 2010).

In the twentieth century religion was radically transformed, as the sacred uncoupled from the institutional Churches.... more In the twentieth century religion was radically transformed, as the sacred uncoupled from the institutional Churches. This enabled the sacred to be experienced through what were previously ‘secular’ activities, including sport, rock music, psycho-analysis and sexuality. Individualism and prosperity combined to encourage a focus on personal transformation as the primary religious process. The 1960s also saw calls for self-determination and equality for previously oppressed groups - women, blacks and gays. This paper uses the model of secular ritual and Victor Turner’s concept of liminality to investigate the role that the gay bathhouses had in enabling gay men to experience the sacred and to transform themselves. This paper is grounded in empirical research on Sydney’s gay bathhouses that sheds light on rites of passage, the role of pleasure and its relationship to religious ecstasy, and the development of a specifically gay askesis (way of becoming). It is also argued that the gay bathhouse is a crucial transformative space for all those men who were its initiates.

Transmogrification: The Arabic Reincarnation

by Michael Spinelli

A study in the relationship between animal transformation in The Arabian Nights and the theory of reincarnation. A study in the relationship between animal transformation in The Arabian Nights and the theory of reincarnation.