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Raphael Amato
SLOWING DOWN TO SPEED UP: AN EXPLORATION OF LEADERSHIP AND RELATIONAL REFLEXIVITY
I will explore the notion of leadership in this thesis; more
particularly I will explore how the use of relational reflexivity can
facilitate leadership.
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Roberto Asistegui
The Critic of Social Construction to the Meta theory of Psychology ,from the point of view of the thesis of Indeterminacy of Translation.
This thesis considers the critic and the alternative to the meta theory of cognitivism developed by Gergen (1994,2001) from the point of view of the thesis of indeterminacy in convergence with the Pragmatic Conception of Language (Wittgenstein II, Quine, Rorty, Gergen).
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Gita Baack
PROSPECTIVE TITLE: BURDENED CHILDREN: THE SUBJECT AREA
A social construction of resilience by children of survivors of the holocaust – “how to get on in life”
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Susanne Bauer
International Development Cooperation in the MENA Region: Transformation as Western Construction of Modernity*
The present paper, applying the "Constructions of cultural realities " (DOT 2010 main theme), assesses current development efforts in MENA for the empirical measurement of capacity development and success factors. My research objective aims at conducting two empirical DC case-studies in the MENA region that apply the CW model in an appreciative and trustworthy attiude (one in the Mashreq, one in the Maghreb: countries, organisations and programmes yet to be selected for the year 2011).
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Margot Brink
STORIES OF MIGRATION: From Here to There ... and the Stuff In-between
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Kristin Bodiford
Choppin’ it Up
Resilience
Transformative Dialogue
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Chris Brabon
How does the way organizations construct their narratives and metaphors -particularly in relation to time - create their identity and capacity for change?
In my thesis I plan to survey professional in different change consulting disciplines (OD, AI, TQM) to gauge the extent to which organizational narratives change in different types of change processes and whether there are any lessons to be learnt within and across consulting disciplines that can help organizations create their identity and capacity for change in a positive way.
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Dr. Jonathan Cabiria
Working Title: Identity Construction and Online Social Networks
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Kristina Brajovic Car
Working title of dissertation: Social construction of autonomy in Transactional analysis tradition
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Ann Clendenin
Migrations of Identity: Lesbian Women’s Constructions of Identity Following the Death of a Life Partner
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Carlos Cruz, MD
Stress: Context and meaning
Summary:
The
purpose of my thesis is to make a critical reflection about the
concepts of stress, adaptation, crisis, illness, search for support and
stress handling Stress is a worthy concept as to its originality and
synthesis.
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Patricia DaSilva
My research aims to assess how culture, defined here as a set of behaviours and beliefs, as well as language, religion, law and morality systems that are passed down from generation to generation, impact Angolan women’s ability to adopt safer sexual behaviours, including behaviours that might prevent them from contracting the HIV virus. More specifically, my research will attempt to answer the question: What are the collective cultural resources that can be adopted by women for safer sexual practices in the face of HIV/AIDS?
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Nick Dayton
Working Title: Organizational transformation: Integrating problem-based business improvement methods with strengths-based constructionist methods.
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Jann Derrick, M.A., R.M.F.T.
ONEN KIWAHI: THE ABORIGINAL WORLDVIEW AS THE FOUNDATION IN A PRACTICING FAMILY THERAPY MODEL. This
dissertation reflects the past and current clinical research of my
family therapy practice as a person of Mohawk and European heritage.
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Jeff Fifield
Working title: Exploring Appreciative Pedagogy: Ingredients, Instances, and Practices throughout a School
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Roosevelt Finlayson and Michael Diggiss
are working together on A
STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FESTIVAL IN THE WORKPLACE CONCEPT.
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Karen Gold
A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE CONSTRUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE/IDENTITY IN HEALTH CARE
Narrative practitioners (and researchers) contend that we make sense of our professional practice through stories. My thesis aims to be both an exploration and demonstration of narrative inquiry in professional practice.
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Laine Goldman
The Migrant Creative: U.S. Media Freelancers at the Border of a Changing Work Culture
This dissertation, The Migrant Creative: U.S. Media Freelancers at the Border of a Changing Work Culture, is a collection of personal conversations with established U.S. media freelancers discussing the shape-shifting required to work the liminal landscape of this emerging new economy.
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Ulrich Emanuel Gysel
Working Title: Developing and Nurturing a Knowledge Sharing Culture in Virtual Organizations
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Vicki Hammel
Appreciative Philosophy: The Emerging Context and the Transformative Power of Co-creation
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Sherry Harsch-Porter
Education as Possibility: The Social Construction of Identity
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Stephen Holland-Wempe
Re-entry/Repatriation of University Study Abroad Students
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Jeffrey Jones
A Dialogic Approach: Bullying, Rabelais, and Forgiveness
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Frank Kashner
A "TOP" Action Research Project
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Erin Kreeger
PhD Ecologies: The art and practice of being the change we want to see in the world
This dissertation inquiry invites us to explore our PhD ecologies from this ecological/relational worldview. I use the term “ecologies” because it helps reflect how PhD programs are living systems made up of people, relationships, interdependencies and emergent possibilities.
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Ronit Kurz
has been practicing as an Organizational Psychologist for
over 20 years. Her strongest interest, for a long period of time, has
been the opportunity, will and journey of individuals to grow and
develop as human beings at all levels – mentally, physically,
emotionally and spiritually.
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McKenna Lang
Modern Ombudsing
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Steve Lawler
Title: “Making a Difference - Postmodern Autoethnographic Confessions”
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Joachim Lee
Clinical Supervision as Transformative Dialogue: A Co-Creation of Meaning for Personal Development
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Halcyon Liew
A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN NEW MEDIA JOURNALISM AND ONLINE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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Victoria Lugo
Confidence and Affective Links of Children and Youth Ex-Combatants of the Colombian Armed Conflict
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Kon Kornelio Madut
The quest for employment and process of integration into the Canadian labour Market has been one of challenging transitions shared by majority of ethnic minorities’ immigrants’ communities in the City of Ottawa in particular, and Canada in general.
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Don McCown
Exploring (and expanding) the ethical dimensions of mindfulness in clinical practice (and beyond)
The most recent round of adoption of meditation and mindfulness practices in medicine and mental health care began in the 1980s and has now reached high levels of acceptance in mainstream institutions. My project is an attempt to engage the mindfulness community in dialogue around the many questions that arise as the topic of ethics is considered.
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Patricia Miller
Exploring the prevalence of clinical issues with sero-discordant couples.
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Bonnie Milne
is currently an instructor in the School of Business at
the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She spent five years
teaching at a local college in the United Arab Emirates where she
learned the personal and social benefits, not to mention the joy, of
work life balance.
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Allen Moore
Re-Constructing Leadership: Moving from Individual-Centric to an Integral, Complex Adaptive Systems View
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Ellen Murphy
The field of school psychology is united around the
conversation of finding what gets in the way of kids learning, within
the structure of our present delivery system. As a profession we
primarily look at the child, his/her behavior, cognitive abilities and
performance within this context, try to determine the problem, and then
attempt to remediate within this existing structure. Traditionally the
child's abilities and behaviors are measured and potentially diagnosed
based on standards and norms for behaviors of typical children in their
respective age ranges. The dominant conversation is one of looking for
intra-personal psychological processes and/or cognitive deficits that
get in the way of inputting, integrating, and expressing information
within a systematic structure of knowledge exchange. It is a
conversation that is deeply rooted in the history and traditions of
diagnostic language, focusing in, on the individual mind. It has been,
and continues to be, largely a "describe and explain" discourse.
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Jerry Nagel
Working Title: A comparative analysis of Social Constructionist Theory and Theory U
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Quynh-Tram H. Nguyen
Roots, Routes, and Rousing Song of Ghosts: Performance Research and Social Practice of Memory Work
My ongoing activism with Vietnamese refugees in California and Washington for two decades led me to explore the development of an inquiry mode that merges a critically-engaged (participatory arts) approach with an in-depth understanding of the multiple dimensions of the forced migration experience before, during, and after resettlement.
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Orlando Ojo
Towards Generative Leadership:
Insights from the Social Construction of Leadership by the Yorubas
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Sue Pickens
Suburbanization of Poverty and Its Impact on Community Health and Community Health Systems.
The vision for my dissertation is to understand the unseen epidemic related to demographic transition taking place in suburban American and its impact on the health of the community and the health care delivery system.
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Teresa Quintana Püschel
Working title: Singularity and Social Constructionism
The purpose of this thesis proposal is to explore the contribution of
the specificity and singularity emerging from the neurophenomenological
perspective to the field of relational dialogue.
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Margaret Rahn
is at the beginning stages of her doctoral work. She
is working to make a study, via an introductory literature review, of
three fields including dialogue, leadership and organizational change,
and appreciative inquiry and social constructionism. Then, I will
interview organization leaders who employ dialogue effectively within
their organizations. Via their stories I hope to gain insight into how
dialogue and social constructionism is at work within organizations to
effectively support relationship building, change, growth and
creativity. My goal is to identify common elements and complementary
connections among the four sources.
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Cordell Riley
Working Title: The Construction of Race and its Impact on Black Economic Development Post Desegregation – A Bermuda Ethnographic/Grounded Theory Study
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Lynne V. Rosen
The Parent-Teen Project: Meeting at the Crossroads: Exchanging Wisdom and Gifts
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Tricia Roy
Walking Between the Worlds: A Qualitative Study of Eco-composition within First-Year Composition
This dissertation explores the possibilities for environmental action research within the composition classroom.
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Kate Lindley Scheidegger
Restorying our Lives, constructing our Selves through our Relationships – limits and possibilities
My
original intention for my Ph.D. was to continue research started in my
Master of Psychology studies on the co-construction of knowledge in
adult learning training programs.
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Stephen Shimshock
This dissertation will use an action research approach of inquiry into
the development of collaborative communities focused on serving youth
in out-of-home care. The collaborations involve multiple private and
public agencies. For the purpose of this dissertation two existing
collaborations have been chosen, one that focuses on Kinship Care and
another that focuses on youth transitioning out of foster care into
adulthood.
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Greg Stephens
Title: Constructing the diversity of leadership patterns and organizational policy through an analysis of the narratives of five Kansas farm organizations.
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Rick Strycker
is the Director of Research and Development for JMJ
Associates, a management consulting company based in Austin, Texas. JMJ
specializes in high performance technologies, with an emphasis in
transformational learning. He writes, "The aim of the thesis is to
develop a reconstructive postmodern model of leadership, a stage of
leadership that is distinguished by its relational, constructivist,
developmental and integrative epistemology. The two primary objectives
of the thesis are to: 1. Clearly distinguish this stage of leadership
from prior stages, 2. Explore and critically evaluate approaches to
developing competency in this leadership style."
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Siva Subramanien
is a semi-retired senior Public Service Manager who
served during most of his career in the Health and Education sectors.
He is now the Adviser to the Vice-President of the Republic of
Mauritius.
The title of his PhD dissertation is "Rethinking the Well-being and Quality of Life of the Elderly in Mauritius."
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Kelly Swauger
More than thirty years ago, American health care began a transformation from a paternalistic and authoritative system dominated by medical professionals and their institutions to a system in which medical care was expected to incorporate patient and family preferences and promote individual autonomy.
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Lisa Sydow
has been practicing solution focused therapy for the past
10 years. For her dissertation, she is doing research in the areas of
career development and life meaning for adolescent girls and the value
of cross generational dialogue/story telling as a means to developing
life direction. She is utilizing Appreciative Inquiry as a resource for
designing questions for interviews and will also be incorporating a
Participatory Action Research model.
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Neal Thayer
Title: A Social Constructionist Exploration of Incident Response Management: How is Effective Management Rapidly Constructed?
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Parashu Ram Timalsina
Appreciative Inquiry for Peace Building: A Case Study of Constitution Making Process in Nepal
Subject: Timalsina, Aristegui, and Liew website submissions
The main purpose of this research is to identify ways of bridging the gaps among and between political parties and public populations so that the new constitution making processes in Nepal will lead towards a sustainable peace in the country.
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Andy Ward
Working Title: Sense Making, Coherence, and Coordination of Action on a College Campus: A Study of Attitudes and Values
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Chester C. Warzynski
A Case Study in Constructing a Culture of Leadership for Innovation in Higher Education Using Convergent Methodologies and Mixed Methods Research
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Lorri A. Yasenik
How Do Those Working with Children of Separation and Divorce Interpret and Construct the Child’s Voice(s) and Present it to Third Parties?
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Jorge Zumaeta
The purpose of this study is to develop a greater level of
understanding of the social construction of economic thinking; and to
unveil the general benefits that derive from aligning socio-economic
development initiatives to dominant economic philosophies.
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