VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Visual art: a road towards understanding the experience of embodiment
Keywords: Art therapy
Art, Study and teaching
Art, Psychology
Anthroposophy
Educational anthropology
Anthroposophical therapy
Spiritual healing

Visual Art: A Road Towards Understanding the Experience of Embodiment is an exploration of what it means to be embodied. This thesis is a self-study based on my own visual art aimed at understanding the experience of the body. My pursuit was to explore the body with a holistic approach that would allow me and possible readers to see the dimensions of our bodies in a more expanded way. This thesis comments on different notions of the body from contemporary and ancient sources, eastern and western. It also analyses the significance of art as a means for self-exploration, as well as its connection to spirituality. The fourth chapter analyses five drawings based on Rudolf Steiner and Wassily Kandinsky's work, as well as on anthropological and yogic writings. This also work includes a reflection on the possible application of this method of self-exploration in the context of adult education in Mexico.
Do emotions play a role in young offenders' suitability for diversion to victim-offender mediation?
Keywords: Juvenile delinquents, Rehabilitation
Guilt in adolescence
Shame in adolescence
Mediation

The arousal of state shame and guilt following diversion to victim-offender mediation (VOM) or traditional alternative measures (AM) was evaluated within a sample of youths (N = 32). The relationships between this emotional arousal, shame or guilt proneness, empathic orientation, and victim presence during sanctioning were also explored. Finally, an investigation of whether these individual emotional characteristics predict short-term, prosocial outcomes (i.e., satisfaction, positive attitude) was conducted. State guilt was significantly aroused among offenders diverted to VOM, however, only when a victim representative rather than the victim participated in mediation. Regression analyses demonstrated that pre-sanction guilt levels and cognitive empathic orientation significantly predicted the magnitude of guilt arousal, and in turn, guilt arousal predicted greater post-program satisfaction and positive attitude. These findings conflict with the perspective that shame arousal underlies the success of VOM and indicate a need for attention to how mediation differs according to victim versus victim representative involvement.
Patient responsibility for detrimental health outcomes: the defence of contributory negligence in medical negligence actions
Keywords: Negligence, Contributory, Canada
Negligence, Contributory, United States
Medical personnel, Malpractice
Medical personnel, Canada
Medical personnel, Malpractice
Medical personnel, United States
Patients, Legal status, laws, etc
Patients, Canada
Patients, Legal status, laws, etc
Patients, United States
Actions and defenses, Canada
Actions and defenses, United States

This thesis examines the increased use and success of the defence of contributory negligence in Canada and the United States. The approach is historical and comparative. First, the thesis considers the causes and effects of the increased use of the defence of contributory negligence in medical negligence actions. Second, the thesis surveys American and Canadian case law to analyze critically the evolving duties to which a patient must adhere in his/her own care. Finally, the thesis advocates a correlative approach to the doctrine of patient responsibility, as the conceptual framework with which to understand and adjudicate patient errors in medical negligence law. This thesis concludes that patients can be held responsible for their medical decisions, but such responsibility must be adjudicated equitably, in order to preserve and promote the integrity of the clinical relationship, and to ensure that patients are not held to an unreasonably high standard of care.
The effects of sustained and intermittent intraperitoneal paclitaxel chemotherapy on tumour repopulation and response in ovarian cancer
Keywords: Pharmacology
Pharmacy
Medicine

Lack of early detection, inadequate regional control, drug resistance, tumour repopulation and disease recurrence make ovarian cancer one of the most difficult malignancies to diagnose and treat. Although a high proportion of patients attain complete clinical remission following initial treatment, the majority relapse with minimal chances for long term survival. Therefore, the optimal management and treatment approach for ovarian cancer remains to be defined. We explored the effects of regional and sustained paclitaxel chemotherapy both in vitro and in vivo in a murine model of human ovarian cancer.
On reading the cosmopolitical novel: Considering the Kunderian novel amidst the specter of Derridean politics and Levinasian ethics
Keywords: Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Political science
Ethics

This thesis attempts to interrupt universal conversations about cosmopolitanism by placing an emphasis on understanding the cosmopolitical space as one in which we find deeply ethical encounters between the self and the other. By negotiating the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida and the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this project reads into such an assumption of the cosmopolis by way of acknowledging the presence of difference and radical alterity. The project engenders this reading of the cosmopolis by attempting to deconstruct across and in-depth specific works by writer Milan Kundera, which are postulated by the notion that these texts are fundamentally cosmopolitical in how ethical encounters between selves and others are written into them. By reading the Kunderian novel through Derridean philosophy and Levinasian ethics, it is hoped that we can imagine a new sort of cosmopolitical space that prioritizes ethics and responsibility between the self and the other.
Seeing through apples: An exploration into the ethics and aesthetics of a teacher-educator-researcher's arts-based beginnings
Keywords: Student teachers
Arts
First year teachers
Aesthetics
Research
Ethics

Experienced knowing requires a partial tracing or a staging and shadowing of the contours of experience. This phenomenological inquiry into the experience of self through others involves a complex, non-linear; relational, and layered method of re-searching. As a dynamic form of inquiry, it applies arts-based approaches to the study of teacher-development that relies on its own intrinsic qualities. I thus inquire into the ethics and aesthetics of beginnings in the presence of six co-participants who changed from student-teachers to beginning teachers. By shadowing them, I explore my own beginnings as an arts-based teacher-educator-inquirer. I use our words and metaphors to help form and develop the inner and outer reaches of these experiences. Out of and back into the shadows. These moves are shaped and re-shaped around a familiar symbol of teaching-learning that is also a knowledge-imbued and imaginative construct: The apple. In the co-constructed text, the organic nature of the apple is transformed through a morphing process from its beginnings as a metaphor to its final but fainter outlines as an inquiry portal. I use the traditional medium of batik to illustrate how an inquiry, the very "life work" of an inquirer, is also an evolving and shape-changing work of art. I then reanimate the co-participants' six apple batiks as a shadow play. As the shadow-master/inquirer, I also select existing text segments from the poetic and fictional literature and re-position them as variations upon my own text. I came increasingly to seek to evoke or recapture some of the sensory memories and "epiphanies" that emerged as crucial moments in my personal history of being a faith-based teacher-educator and of becoming an arts-based educational researcher. I share these in-sights in the form of prose poems. These fragments of memory-texts are placed in shadow boxes so that we may re-access/assess them together. As I re-searched experiences in this arts-based self/ther study, I became more appreciative of the contours and shadows in the not-yet/never-quite finished works of an that we are as inquiring teachers, and of the unseen hand that shapes us all.
Engaging wisdom knowledge in pedagogical practice
Keywords: Holistic education
Wisdom
Education, Philosophy
Self-realization

This thesis examines the Western system of education as defined and formulated in terms of the development of exclusive identification with intellectual knowledge, the intellect of the mind. This thesis explores wisdom knowledge, the wisdom of the heart, both ancient and contemporary, as embodied in translations, commentaries and interpretations of Eastern philosophies presented by spiritually knowledgeable writers. This thesis offers constructive educational approaches and transformative methods leading to an expansion of consciousness and awareness. The importance of incorporating into educational pedagogy the concept of synthesizing the intellectual knowledge of the mind with the wisdom knowledge of the heart is highlighted in this thesis. The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the prevailing Western perspective of academic theory and practice by inspiring, stimulating and generating enthusiasm for exploration and comprehensive discussion by individuals interested in a more inclusive, integrated and holistic vision of education.
Working memory in children with anxiety disorders ADHD: test of processing efficiency theory
Keywords: Anxiety in children
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Short-term memory
Memory in children
Mental efficiency

Anxiety is a common childhood disorder, affecting up to 24% of children. It is believed that anxiety may interfere with working memory, the system responsible for storing and manipulating short-term information. Processing Efficiency Theory predicts that anxious children will perform as well as non-anxious peers, but with greater inefficiency. Preparation time was used as a more precise measure of efficiency. Anxious children were compared to children with ADHD as well as typically developing peers on measures of working memory. No differences were found in subjective effort between groups. Preparation for backwards digit recall took significantly longer for children with ADHD than anxious children and controls. The results do not support the processing efficiency theory predictions.
Transcending difference: Montreal educators' response to diversity
Keywords: Multicultural education, Québec (Province)
Biculturalism, Québec (Province)
Teaching, Québec (Province)
Teachers, Training of
Teachers, Québec (Province)

At the heart of this inquiry are eight Montreal educators and their teaching experiences in multicultural schools and classrooms. These female and male practitioners represent different racial, ethnic, linguistic and class groups, and a range of teaching experience. This study considers how their understanding of diversity shapes and informs their teaching practices in the specific socio-political, cultural and linguistic venue of Montréal, Quebec. My theoretical framework brings together the work of established scholarship, and examines contributions to the issues of language, culture, and identity, as they impact multicultural education and the learning and teaching environment in schools. This qualitative inquiry is guided by my own multicultural awareness as a bicultural Canadian and an educational researcher. I use case study methodology as a form of inquiry within qualitative research, collecting field notes from various sources, and searching for stories that provide insight into the educators' wisdom and practical knowledge. The teachers' stories reveal the knowledge, attitudes, skills, awareness, and values that contribute to dialoguing across difference, and provide us with an image of what a multicultural educator might look like. The overarching theme of this study is the potential fusion between educational theory and classroom practice. The educators profiled offer a framework for communicating and relating to pluralistic learning and teaching environments, and open the possibility for meaningful dialogue about diversity in classrooms, schools, and the community at large. In affirming the harmony of cultures in their schools, the teachers breathe life into new multicultural spaces where cultures intersect, and where new forms of understanding are created. Several themes emerge in this study: the educators' changing role in a multicultural teaching environment, dialoguing with ‘other’, and the rewards and challenges of providing equitable educational opportunities for all students. Given the shifting racial and cultural composition of Canada's population, education must prepare students and teachers for life in a multicultural society. Teacher education programs must evolve to address the needs of changing racial and cultural student populations, and engage teachers in learning experiences to enhance their effectiveness in multicultural classrooms. The study concludes with recommendations for integrating multicultural perspectives in teacher education.
Empowering youth: perceptions and use of computers in school-based community development
Keywords: Youth, Curricula
Community development
Education, Data processing
Computer literacy
Teaching

This thesis explored the use, experience, and perceptions of computer technology by senior elementary youth as a tool to support them in a school-based community development (CD) project. Nineteen predominantly female youth, attending a Southwestern Ontario, inner city school participated in a 12-week CD project. Youth used computers to communicate using a computer-mediated-communication (CMC) system, construct a project web site, conduct an online survey to gather peers' opinions about the community, search for resources, and prepare documents. A qualitative instrumental case study method was used. Data collection strategies included participant observation, interviews, focus groups, two online and two paper-based surveys, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of on-line discourse. At the start of the CD process, youth felt that they could "make a difference" in their community and that group action and influential adults could support their voice. They also perceived that they had some decision-making power in their school, but little power in the broader community. This was related to their perception of being low in social hierarchy and mistrusted by adults. Youth perceived that the computer was an empowering tool. They felt that using computers helped reduce their anxiety, increased their control in communicating with adults, raised their social status, increased their participation with the community, and improved access to resources. Web site construction and online surveying were particularly valued. Although important community contacts were made using CMC, few notes were written and read by youth. This was related to computer access issues (insufficient time for computers, lack of computer availability, and technical problems) and a lack of engagement in CMC. Youth perceived that using CMC felt like work and lacked authenticity. Some also had limited computer skills or little interest in computers. In addition, adults' messages were misinterpreted by youth and youth lost some credibility online as a result of their use of fictitious cyber names. The study also revealed factors in the school and in youth's relationships with adults that enabled and constrained the CD process. Overall, results strongly indicate that youth perceived that computers supported their empowerment. Recommendations for practitioners and future research are provided.
High pressure soot formation in non-smoking methane-air laminar diffusion flames from 1.5 MPa to 6.0 MPa
Keywords: Combustion
Soot

Measurements of soot concentration, flame temperature and flame geometry have been recorded for non-smoking methane-air laminar diffusion flames at pressures from P = 1.5 MPa to P = 6.0 MPa. Soot concentration and temperature profiles were obtained using the spectral soot emission diagnostic method and the Abel inversion deconvolution technique. Visual inspection and measurement of the flame revealed a slight increase in height and decrease in cross-section with increasing pressure. Soot volume fraction increased with pressure according to fv max prop; P1.4 for 1.5 le; P le; 5.0 MPa. The maximum carbon conversion to soot was related to pressure following the relationship eta s, max prop; P0.55 for 1.5 le; P le; 5.0 MPa. The maximum value of carbon converted to soot was etas, max = 10.1% at P = 5.0 MPa. The maximum soot concentration was always found at a height approximately half way between the burner and the flame tip. The temperature was lower in high soot loading regions of the flame. For the same height in the flame, temperature decreased with increasing pressure.
Exploration of an online network with women entrepreneurs: a case study
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Computer network resources
Women-owned business enterprises
Strategic alliances (Business)
Business networks
Telecommunication
Computer literacy

The present in situ qualitative case study describes the events and processes that led a group of 21 women entrepreneurs to form an online networking community. For one year, all participants, who had minimal computer-mediated communication experience, were encouraged to use the university's asynchronous shared virtual space software as a potential alternative to face-to-face networking. I originally planned to observe and to describe the online interactions that would capture these business owners' activities. Because of the participants' responses and the issues that arose, I became an active participant. Barriers hindering the success of this education and entrepreneurial collaboration involved six participant reluctance themes related to: (1) computer skills, (2) priorities, (3) relevance, (4) trust, (5) privacy, and (6) professional image. In contemplating a final online event called a speaker's series, participants expressed a risk to their professional image. Their disclosure prompted a more satisfying design activity and additionally corroborated the other reluctance themes. Encouragement through experimentation with elements of learning organization practice, a learning process called re-cognition, the co-production of user-defined events, the safeguarding of user image, and through multiple roles undertaken by me, the researcher, addressed six types of reluctance and led to the participants forming an online networking community. The significance of this study is multi-faceted: Models for developing an online networking community, technology adoption, and individual change for a digital setting are provided; the case study demonstrates that applied cross-sector research on learning and entrepreneurism can take place in situ; leveraging the strengths of those who are initially technologically reluctant is possible; addressing issues of professional image holds promise for expanding the uses of shared virtual spaces; innovative activities can be symbolic and measurable attributes of learning and problem-solving; and education can take the lead in evolving a knowledge- and technology-based world.
Conflicts and challenges of testing: Differences between novice and experienced teachers' preparation practices for large-scale assessments
Keywords: Educational tests and measurements, Ontario
Academic achievement, Testing
Academic achievement, Ontario
Mathematics, Study and teaching
Mathematics, Ontario
Reading, Evaluation
Reading, Ontario
English language, Written English
English language, Ontario
Teaching, Ontario
Elementary school teachers, Attitudes
Elementary school teachers, Ontario

Grade 3 teachers in Ontario were surveyed using an on-line questionnaire and semi-structured interviews about how they would prepare their students for provincially mandated large-scale assessments. Results show that teachers report a wide array of attitudes and beliefs concerning appropriate test preparation, and their approaches depart from guidelines set by the educational measurement community. The level of teacher experience, one factor that contributes to these differences, is examined, and the implications for large-scale assessments are discussed.
Identifying counselling process variables relevant to recovery from childhood abuse: a qualitative study of client and counsellor perspectives
Keywords: Child abuse
Adult child abuse victims, Counseling of
Counselor and client
Counseling, Techniques
Counselors, Rating of

This qualitative study investigated the counselling experience from both the client and the counsellor point of view. The objective of this research, was to examine the process of recovery from childhood abuse as it unfolded over several counselling relationships. Previous research has often consisted of single retrospective analyses of client perceptions of their counselling experiences, whereas the current work explored counselling as a bilateral endeavor and on an ongoing basis. The current study focused upon eight counselling dyads consisting of seven women and one male client, and six female counsellors who used a variety of counselling perspectives and techniques. The client participants were all students who had presented with a variety of childhood abuse issues, at a university counselling center. To attract participants, all incoming clients were provided with information about the study at intake, and there were also postings around the university regarding the nature of the research. Recent research and theory pertaining to abuse, recovery, and therapy processes, facilitated the development of post-session questionnaires which were completed by both the clients and their counsellors shortly after each session. The five post-session questions resulted in a total of 640 written responses for analysis. Each questionnaire also included a 10 point likert style rating scale pertaining to session helpfulness. A qualitative data analysis was performed on the written responses collected in this study. Several expectations were supported including: that the kinds of problems dealt with by the clients would demonstrate congruence with post-trauma symptomatology; that recovery would unfold in a series of identifiable stages; that client and counsellor perceptions would have a high degree of similarity; that the acquisition of client insight would be important to the participants; that certain type of trauma related cognitions would emerge during counselling; and finally; that differences in client and counsellor responding would most likely be related to their differential roles. The findings of this study suggest that the acquisition of insight was of paramount importance to both the clients and their counsellors who participated. Aspects of the therapeutic alliance was stressed somewhat less often than the acquisition of insight, especially by the clients who tended to discuss specific kinds of insights on a regular basis. Nonetheless, the results fit with and augment other studies that suggest the necessity of a healthy alliance for the promotion of the change and relief that clients seek and that their counsellors strive to facilitate. The discussion relates the findings to the current literature and suggests some of the limitations and implications of the current work.