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  • 1. Coffin, Jonathan Artistic Engagement with Monadnock: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

    Ph.D., Antioch University, 2023, Antioch New England: Environmental Studies

    This hermeneutic phenomenological study discloses the lived experience of creating art in association with New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock. This study reveals the potential for artistic invention in association with place gradually to undermine an established sense of separation from environment and to prompt conscious awareness of continuity with environment. A series of interviews with four artists who create art of or in the presence of Monadnock revealed in the lived experience of creating Monadnock art a process that consists of five phases: first encounter, abstract appreciation, existential understanding, sustained attention, and continuity. A hermeneutic circular method of interpretation based upon the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Hans Georg Gadamer was used to interpret this experiential process in conjunction with Arnold Berleant's non-conceptual environmental aesthetics of engagement and with various works in the field of ecological ontology. In addition to disclosing the aesthetic experiential dimensions of artistic invention in association with place, this circular interpretive process revealed two practical points of tension: one between the descriptive and the prescriptive dimensions of Berleant's aesthetic model and another between the intellectual medium and the holistic message of ecological ontological literature. Ultimately, this study indicated the possibility for artistic invention in association with place in the experience of the artist to resolve these points of tension, to undermine the hegemony of the ontological dualism that causes ecological crisis, and to prompt an holistic sense of being in the world that might motivate ecological restoration.
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    Committee: Alesia Maltz PhD (Committee Chair); Julia D. Gibson PhD (Committee Member); Adrian J. Ivakhiv PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Art History; Ecology; Environmental Philosophy; Environmental Studies; Geography; Philosophy

  • 2. Coleman-Stokes, Vernique Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Leaders' Perceptions On and Access to Opportunities that Support Positional Leadership at a Catholic, Marianist, Predominately White Institution: A Critical Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study.

    Doctor of Education , University of Dayton, 2022, Educational Leadership

    Organizations including institutions of higher education recognize the importance of increasing gender diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership ranks among women, especially if they want to be top competitors in their industries. Gender diversity increases collaboration, innovation, varied perspectives, increased staff retention and buy-in for new employees determining if they want to work for an organization in question, and a more comprehensive talent pool (People Management, 2021). Previous strategies used to increase gender diversity in leadership have included providing professional development or mentorship opportunities for all women; however, these strategies fail to take into account an intersectional lens and the various ways in which non-white women are affected by discrimination and inequity. “White women have it both ways, they may be may victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters to Black people” (bell hooks,1984 as cited in Kilpatrick, 2020, para. 2). Race and gender in particular create additional barriers to Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color (BIWOC) and their advancement. “White female racism undermines the feminist struggle (bell hooks, 1984 as cited in Kilpatrick, 2020, para. 2)”, further alienating or distancing BIWOC in organizations. Given the additional barriers BIWOC confront, what can organizations and institutions of higher education do to further support opportunities for advancement, that may thereby increase their sense of trust, belonging, and organizational commitment? This Critical Hermeneutic Phenomenological Action Research study explored the lived experiences of current and former Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color (BIWOC) higher education leaders, defined as director and above, and their perceptions of and access to opportunities that support positional advancement, including formal or informal mentorship and sponsorship. The frameworks used to inform the study include Critical/Critical Ra (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Meredith Wronowski Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Lisa Borello Ph.D. (Committee Member); Leslie Picca Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Black History; Education; Educational Leadership; Gender; Management; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Religion; Religious History; Systematic; Womens Studies

  • 3. Carson, Kerra Skinfolk & Kinfolk: Social Capital, Fictive Kin, and Persistence Among Black Students at a Predominately White Institution

    Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2022, EDU Policy and Leadership

    The first objective of this phenomenological research project was to interrogate how fictive kin exists as social capital and functions as a part of the Black collegiate experience at Predominately White Institutions (PWI). The second objective was to demonstrate fictive kin as a sustained African tradition and a phenomenon that continues to occur on the campuses of PWIs (Mutisya & Ross, 2005). The third objective was to illuminate the explicit and implicit connection shared by fictive kin, social capital, and persistence of Black students at PWIs. Coleman's (1988) interpretation of social capital theory was used in partnership with Portes' social capital functions (1998). Additionally, I utilized Asante's (2003) theory of Afrocentricity, which seeks to challenge Eurocentric standards as normative for those of African descent and promotes knowledge and pride in African customs and traditions for Black people throughout the African Diaspora. The research questions that guided this study were: 1) In what way(s) does/have fictive kinships aided in helping African American students remain enrolled at PWIs? 2) What is it like for Black collegians enrolled in a PWI to participate/experience fictive kin? 3) What meaning do Black college students ascribe to fictive kin? Data collection included an in-depth semi-structured interview with a sample of eight participants. Data explicitation included four readings of the data corpus to elicit the essence of the phenomenon. The findings demonstrated that fictive kin acted as social capital in three ways: lack of representation as motivation, community of support, and cultural reproductions in institutional settings. Their experiences were hallmarked by consistent presence, trusted interaction, and their fictive kin members. As a result of their experiences, the significance of fictive kin was captured in African Group Interest and social debt.
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    Committee: Tatiana Suspitsyna (Advisor) Subjects: African American Studies; African Americans; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration

  • 4. Charlton, Eric Self-Concept, Healthcare, and Leadership: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Physician Leaders in Urban Community Healthcare Centers

    Ph.D., Antioch University, 2021, Leadership and Change

    Reducing disparities in health services delivery and outcomes is a continued challenge. The consistence of healthcare disparities, despite advances in medical technology and increased awareness of the problem, poses an ongoing test to the nation. There is a growing body of work that demonstrates providing access to good primary care may be the most effective intervention at hand. For over 40 years, community health centers have been providing quality, comprehensive primary care focusing on reducing health outcome disparities. Increased awareness is now emphasizing primary care elimination of health disparities within disadvantaged, underserved populations. A major failing of the system that delivers healthcare to the urban poor is the dearth of appropriate health care providers. The overarching research question that my study addressed is: How do physicians, who lead in urban community health centers, make meaning of their self-concept and identity in their leadership? The research represented by this dissertation adds to the domain of healthcare leadership because what is needed to transform the landscape of healthcare begins with understanding the “being” aspect of a human being. This study focuses on eight physicians who work in urban community health centers in the southwestern Ohio region, and thirteen interviews describing the phenomena of their meaning making of self and identity. Key findings for understanding motivations, lived backgrounds, career decisions, and/or other rewards that might influence physicians in UCHCs are well established. This qualitative study also represents a unique opportunity to showcase how physician leaders make meaning of self during a pandemic, as well as significant findings of how UCHC physicians are leading in practice for social change. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).
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    Committee: Elizabeth Holloway Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Chair); Donna Ladkin Ph.D. (Committee Member); Jonathan Westover Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Ethics; Health Care; Health Care Management; Health Education; Health Sciences; Medicine; Psychology

  • 5. Hooper, Jay A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Holy Ghost in Ebony

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2021, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts)

    In this dissertation, A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Angel Ebony, I courageously excavate the literary art of texts written about Samuel Morris through a series of exegetical tools in order to uncover extortion, exploitation, and the cunning sacrilegious exhibition that deprived Morris of his cultural identity behind a veil of Christianization. In this dissertation, I seek to affirm the "human worth and dignity" of Morris without a codependency on theism and provide viable evidence to reveal the mythomaniacal acts of white Christian antics. I argue that a decolonial humanist approach to the literary arts pertaining to the life of Samuel Morris, both material and metaphorical, (Pinn, 2010, p. 11)restores Morris from a TransAtlantic narrative under racial-religious identity that eradicates his human nature and intuitive rationality and reconciles his appropriate Black cultural property (Weisenfeld,2018, p. 5). The depiction of Morris in these synoptic compositions is a theological-aesthetic application interwoven with social and political ingenuity in order to respond to the time in which each text was born.
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    Committee: Andrea Frohne (Committee Chair); Brian Evans (Advisor); David Breeden (Committee Member); Robin Mohummad (Committee Member); Winsome Chunnu (Committee Member) Subjects: Aesthetics; African Americans; African Literature; Black Studies; Ethics; Performing Arts; Theology

  • 6. Taylor, Jeannine A Hermeneutic Inquiry of Counselors' Experiences in the Use of Pictorial Narratives

    PHD, Kent State University, 2020, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences

    The primary purpose of this study was to explore counselors' perceptions of how Pictorial Narratives influenced their ability to more fully understand their clients. More specifically, the researcher sought to address how Pictorial Narratives influenced participants' ability to support and maintain a therapeutic relationship, to become more attuned to their clients' emotions, and to engage in a meaningful therapeutic dialogue. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 participants, all of whom were licensed professional clinical counselors. The research design utilized an interpretive paradigm based on the work of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. It was further informed by Gadamer's extension of the hermeneutic method by emphasizing the importance of language and dialogue as sources from which knowledge emerge. The results suggested four major themes that emerged from the data. These themes suggested that Pictorial Narratives helped the participants to (a) support and maintain a strong therapeutic relationship; (b) access emotion; (c) enhance the quality of the therapeutic dialogue, and (d) employ a pragmatic versatility to the counseling process. A discussion of the results and implications for counselor education and supervision were included. Limitations and recommendations for future research on the clinical utility of Pictorial Narratives were described.
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    Committee: Cassandra Storlie PHD (Committee Chair); Jason McGlothlin PHD (Committee Co-Chair); Janice Kroeger PHD (Committee Member) Subjects: Counseling Education

  • 7. Benker, Genelle Beyond Dissociation and Appropriation: Evaluating the Politics of U.S. Psychology Via Hermeneutic Interpretation of Culturally Embedded Presentations of Yoga

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2020, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    Psychology in the United States (U.S.) is partially constituted by a cultural history of intellectual imperialism that undermines its altruistic intent and prevents disciplinary reflexivity. The scholarship and clinical application of Yoga exemplifies the way U.S. psychology continues to give lived authority to imperialism as part of the neoliberal agenda. Through a hermeneutic literature analysis of two source Yogic texts and peer-reviewed articles that exemplify the dominant discourse on Yoga in U.S. psychology, this dissertation identified themes that describe culturally embedded presentations of Yoga and their sociopolitical implications. Through interpretation, Yoga was conceptualized as: (a) a 5,000 year-old tradition that prescribes a life path to achieving one's full potential and includes (but is not limited to) an expression of psychology unique to Yoga that encompasses a complex moral framework, theory of mind, conceptualization of suffering and illness, and rich collection of healing technologies; (b) a phenomenological state of being, or unwavering realization of the self as undifferentiated unified consciousness; and (c) an artifact of U.S. psychology that enacts dissociated, unformulated, and unarticulated sociopolitical arrangements and events. Themes were presented as dialogue, allowing Yogic theory, philosophy, psychology, and morality to call into question facets of U.S. psychology as they relate to the human condition, psyche, mental illness, and healing technologies. Within the scope of the dissertation, there were four articulated pathways for Yoga to influence U.S. psychology without reverting back to the unconscious inclination to dissociate or appropriate: (a) participate in the tradition of Yoga rather than trying to possess it; (b) acknowledge what the moral framework of Yoga highlights about the complicity of U.S. psychology in the neoliberal agenda; (c) discontinue practices that normalize and sustain intellectual imperialism; and (d) co (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Jude Bergkamp Psy.D (Committee Chair); John Christopher Ph.D (Committee Co-Chair); Maxim Livshetz Psy.D (Committee Member) Subjects: Alternative Medicine; Communication; Comparative Literature; Ethics; History; Multicultural Education; Pedagogy; Philosophy; Psychology; Spirituality

  • 8. Butler, Alan The Descendants of Hurao: An Exploratory Study of Chamoru Rights Groups

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2020, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    The psychological literature conducted in Guam on indigenous practices of resistance to colonialism is nonexistent. This dissertation responds to this absence in the literature by conducting an exploratory hermeneutic study on the lived experience of members of Chamoru rights groups in Guam. Data for this study were collected through semi-structured interviews with eight members of Chamoru rights groups. Results indicated that engagement in a Chamoru rights group can be a deeply meaningful experience that involves education, activism, and being part of a supportive community. This community was felt to be healing, allowing for active engagement with community issues and against harms perpetuated by colonialism. Further, culture was found to play an important part in the expression of social practices in Chamoru rights groups. Discussion centered on psychological clinical applications of findings such as the importance of history and community in the Chamoru contextual-interpersonal self described by participants. This configuration of the self suggests that psychological treatment should respect the historical experiences of the people of Guam as well as the importance of community. It also suggests that clinicians should be wary of a token approach to the application of culturally sensitive psychological treatment in Guam. Limitations for this study included the low number of participants, majority of participants identifying as male, and majority of participants having obtained a graduate degree. It is likely that individuals from different contexts would have alternative perspectives about their involvement in Chamoru rights groups. These limitations suggest that future research could be conducted in this topic with a more diverse population to allow for a broader range of perspectives.
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    Committee: Philip Cushman (Committee Chair); Anne Perez Hattori (Committee Member); Patricia Russell (Committee Member) Subjects: Clinical Psychology; History of Oceania; Pacific Rim Studies; Political Science; Psychology

  • 9. Gomez, Alex Feelings of Enlightenment: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Latent Enlightenment Assumptions in Greenberg's Emotion-Focused Therapy

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2018, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how a mainstream theory of psychological practice might inadvertently conceal and ignore contemporary values and ideologies and their pathological consequences. Through a hermeneutic approach, I interpreted Leslie Greenberg's Emotion-focused therapy: Coaching clients to work through their feelings (2nd ed), a popular and widely used theory in psychotherapy. As a practitioner with humanistic foundations, this was also an opportunity for the author to understand his own unexamined values as a therapist. Specific EFT constructs and concepts that reflected Enlightenment assumptions and values were examined. EFT was situated within Enlightenment philosophy, particularly it's alignment with European movements for increasing individual freedoms and resisting church and other perceived arbitrary authority. An argument of how Enlightenment perceptions were disguised within EFT's scientific and objectivist frameworks was formed based on this contextualization. One way that Enlightenment philosophy contributed to increasing individual freedom was by relocating moral sources within the individual, which led to a configuration of the self that is reflected in theories like EFT. Broadly, the assumptions that were surfaced reflected philosophical ideas promulgated by Descartes, Locke, Kant and Rousseau, as well as essential ideas from Expressivist and Romantic philosophies in general. Several themes were identified through the interpretation: The Reduction and Reification of Emotion as a Basic Building Block, The Emotional Brain and Interiorized Emotion, Emotion Scheme and the World Inside Our Brain, Immunity from Cultural Influence, Emotion Transformation as a Return to Grace, Internal Guide and the Voice of Nature, and Uniting of the Expressivist and Instrumental Stance. Examining the assumptions of EFT revealed how moral assumptions can become concealed within a mainstream psychotherapy theory, which in turn helped to expl (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Mary Wieneke Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Phil Cushman Ph.D. (Committee Member); Sarah Peregrine Lord Psy.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Mental Health; Philosophy; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Social Psychology; Therapy

  • 10. Cooke, Tammera Psychology's Struggle To Locate a Moral Vision in a Value-Neutral Framework: A Hermeneutic Perspective on Standard 3.05 of the APA Ethics Code

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2017, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    This research followed hermeneutic tradition by examining what is often unquestioned in clinical practice as it pertains to the moral, political, and philosophical foundations that underlie the American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2002, 2010) and Standard 3.05, Multiple Relationships—it's meanings and controversies. It did so in order to better understand the cultural influences reflected in and the political consequences that emanate from the Ethics Code. Data for this study were collected via semi-structured qualitative interviews with two American psychologists who lived in Washington State, experienced living and working in rural communities, and had practiced with patients from cultures other than their own. This process generated ideas about the larger picture of the social landscape in which the participants and psychotherapy in general are embedded. The interpretive method of analysis proposed by hermeneutic researchers Leonard (1993), Plager (1994), and Stigliano (1989), was used to identify key themes that arose from the data. Three over-arching themes were derived: Participants' confused, anxious, and fearful reactions to Standard 3.05; Problems with the Ethics Code; and Defenses the Participants' enacted to protect against their conflicts and fears. By abstracting from the themes and case-studies, two broad conclusions emerged. First, the authors and interpreters of the APA Ethics Code seem to have understated the influences of other cultures, traditions, and various ethnic understandings that run counter to Western ideas about individualism and communalism and small town/rural life. Second, the interviews contained material that indicated the proceduralism present in mainstream psychology is an impediment to a better understanding of moral issues, relational processes, and thus ethical outcomes in the work of psychologists. Reflections about possible areas for further research and unanswere (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Philip Cushman Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Mark Russell Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Member); MiNa Chung Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Ethics; Philosophy; Psychology

  • 11. Keirsey, Stacie Experiences of Neurotypical Siblings of Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Exploration

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2017, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    In recent years, the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been on the rise, prompting a simultaneous increase in scientific study regarding cause, impact, and intervention (Hughes, 2009; Ravindran & Myers, 2012). Research has proposed advances in the treatment of the individuals diagnosed and focused efforts on scholastic, parental, and professional intervention and supports. However, the siblings of ASD children have largely been neglected in this scientific investigation. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore neurotypical siblings' experiences in living with a child diagnosed with ASD. Seven adolescents were selected using criterion, convenience, and snowball sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and were analyzed using thematic reflection (van Manen, 1990). Data analysis uncovered seven themes: (a) personal impact, (b) familial impact, (c) social impact, (d) relational understanding, (e) socio-cultural influence, (f) future outlook, and (g) advice. Findings indicated neurotypical sibling experiences contain both positive and negative perceptions of living with a brother or sister diagnosed with ASD. Perceptions were often influenced by the cultural and societal value placed upon normal behaviors. The need for appropriate education regarding ASD etiology, symptomology, and treatment was deemed to be important for NTD siblings, parents, professionals, and society at large. Additionally, the development of social supports for NTD siblings was suggested.
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    Committee: Mary Wieneke Ph. D. (Committee Chair); Steve Curtis Ph. D. (Committee Member); Ned Farley Ph. D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Behavioral Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Counseling Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Early Childhood Education; Families and Family Life; Personal Relationships; Personality; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Social Psychology; Special Education

  • 12. Ponsford, Matthew The Mutual Interaction of Online and Offline Identities in Massively Multiplayer Online Communities: A Study of EVE Online Players

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2016, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    This phenomenological study was conducted to examine the ways that individuals experience massively multiplayer online games, and the interaction between online and offline identities. Ten members of the EVE Online community were interviewed about their experiences of the boundaries and crossovers between offline self and online character. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed for consistent themes. Themes drawn from the data fell into three over- arching categories: the Appeal of EVE, or the player motivations and qualities of the game environment that influence player investment; Self/Character Interaction, describing the ways in which online and offline identities interact; and Moral Dilemmas, in which players describe their thoughts and reactions to the moral ambiguity of EVE Online. Appeal of EVE contained the themes of Importance of Social Interaction, My Choices Matter, Algerism, and EVE Relationships are Meaningful. Self/Character Interaction contained the themes of My Character and I Are the Same, My Character and I Are Different, Parallels, Friction Between Selves, One Identity Learning From the Other, and Intersections. Moral Dilemmas contained the themes of My Prosocial Choices, Someone Else's Antisocial Choices, and Morality is Ambiguous. A final theme, not associated with any of the three categories, but present throughout all of them, was Emotional Content. These results were compared and contrasted with existing literature, and conclusions were drawn about the parallel processes between online and offline selves.
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    Committee: Jude Bergkamp Psy. D. (Committee Chair); William Heusler Psy. D. (Committee Member); Mia Consalvo Ph. D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Psychology

  • 13. Martell, Brad Nature as Spiritual Lived Experience: How Five Christian Theologians Encounter the Spirit In and Through the Natural World

    Ph.D., Antioch University, 2016, Antioch New England: Environmental Studies

    This qualitative study explored five Western Christian theologians' religious lived experience of God's Spirit in and through Nature. The hermeneutic phenomenological research method was utilized. Rich descriptions of lived experience were collected through 60-90 minute long phenomenological interviews which were recorded and transcribed verbatim into a text for analysis. Analysis included repeated readings of the text, identification of themes, and validation and/or correction of themes. Synthesis looked at the research as a whole and established implications and applications for Christian theology, particularly ecotheology. The study contributes to the literature of phenomenology and theology, calls for a place for lived experience (along with scripture, tradition, and reason) within theology, seeks to encourage theologians to incorporate into their work personal lived experiences of the divine in and through Nature, and ultimately hopes to illuminate one way to help inspire the church to more deeply embrace the healing of Earth as a moral responsibility. The research should be of particular interest to phenomenological scholars, other scholars looking at human relationship with the environment/natural world, professional theologians engaged in developing ecotheology, and students of Christian theology.
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    Committee: Joy Ackerman PhD (Committee Chair); Don Compier PhD (Committee Member); Steve Chase PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Education Philosophy; Spirituality; Theology

  • 14. Free, Pamela Exploring Community Participation in Sustainable Williamson

    Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, 2015, Environmental Studies (Voinovich)

    This hermeneutic phenomenological study explores community participation in a rural Appalachian health-based sustainable initiative located in southern West Virginia. In-depth interviews conducted with members of this community explored community participation in the lived experiences as described by the residents of Williamson. Residents' understanding of community participation was coded through the following themes: (1) answering the call is community participation; (2) jobs are community participation; (3) commitment to health is community participation; (4) helping one another (social capital) is community participation; (5) fallenness is community participation; (6) thrownness is community participation; (7) learned helplessness and victimhood are community participation; (8) nostalgia is community participation; (9) floods are community participation; (10) sentimental narrative: King Coal is community participation; and (11) Sustainable Williamson is community participation. Data revealed that community capacity, participation, and competence were emerging through activities within the health sector. A disparity existed between how the leaders of Sustainable Williamson perceived the level of community participation and the actual engagement described by the participants themselves. While the experiences of this community were in many ways similar to those encountered in resource-extraction communities, or in single-source employment communities, the context of Williamson the place makes this study unique as well as general.
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    Committee: Geoffrey D. Dabelko (Committee Member) Subjects: Climate Change; Environmental Economics; Environmental Health; Environmental Studies; Health; Regional Studies; Sustainability

  • 15. Lord, Sarah Ways of Being in Trauma-Based Society: Discovering the Politics and Moral Culture of the Trauma Industry Through Hermeneutic Interpretation of Evidence-Supported PTSD Treatment Manuals

    Psy. D., Antioch University, 2014, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

    One hundred percent of evidence-supported psychotherapy treatments for trauma related disorders involve the therapist learning from and retaining fidelity to a treatment manual. Through a hermeneutic qualitative textual interpretation of three widely utilized evidence-supported trauma treatment manuals, I identified themes that suggested a particular constitution of the contemporary way of being—a traumatized self—and how this traumatized self comes to light through psychotherapeutic practice as described by the manuals. The manuals included: 1) a trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for children; 2) an eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for adults; and, 3) an early intervention and debriefing therapy series for post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma related problems of military service members. Through the interpretation, I conceptualized trauma as a way of human being in contemporary culture, and in particular, as an unacknowledged way of expressing enactments of dissociated, unformulated, or unarticulated political arrangements and events. I identified and interpreted the following shared themes and exemplars across the three manuals: mind-brain as protector and the political use of cognitivist ideology; the healed trauma survivor as functional worker; trauma as universal and culture-free; and, indoctrination into a social void of scientistic managed care. I discussed how trauma treatment manuals instantiate how to be human in contemporary society through compliance with managed care and the embodiment of scientistic and cognitivist ideology. I then discussed how the way of being that contemporary society creates and idealizes is one in which people easily assume the identity of trauma survivor: an enterprising, functional and fiercely individual member of a warrior cult. In the warrior cult society, to think or talk about social causes and public solutions to daily political suffering is thought of as either non-germane or dang (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Philip Cushman PhD (Committee Chair); Jennifer Tolleson PhD (Committee Member); Lynne Layton PhD, PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Cognitive Therapy; Mental Health; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Therapy

  • 16. Peebles, Anita Ecotheology and the Parables of Jesus: Creative Re-readings of Parables In Light of the Environmental Crisis

    BA, Oberlin College, 2014, Religion

    In this paper I demonstrate how adopting a scriptural hermeneutic based in Rosemary Radford Ruether's prophetic principle can cultivate the ability of Christian communities to interpret Scripture based on their own community context. I will provide an interpretive framework for rethinking relationships between humans, nature, and the Divine that can serve as a correction for entrenched reading practices that reinforce Christianity's complicity in environmental degradation. I use reader-response theory to conduct literary-critical readings of three well-known parables from the Gospel of Luke. The parabolic structure of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation informs my view of the parables as inherently subversive and on the side of the marginalized and oppressed in society. I propose applying this reading practice to three parables with the goal of reorienting social norms to be radically inclusive: love, neighborliness and hospitality, thereby challenging the dominant paradigms of hierarchical binaries, anthropocentrism, and utilitarianism.
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    Committee: David G Kamitsuka (Advisor) Subjects: Biblical Studies; Environmental Studies; Religion

  • 17. Miller, Kurt Place[ing] a Rural Built Identity: Establishing a Built Identity for St. Henry, Ohio Through a Hermeneutic & Phenomenological Enrichment of Critical Regionalist Theory & Practice

    MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2014, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture

    Contemporary rural architecture, particularly of rural Midwestern Ohio, produces uninspiring, abject, and cheap architectural solutions that become universally accepted, yet that ignore the depth and complexity of meanings and particularities of place inherent in their geographic, cultural, and historic relationships. Through a hermeneutic and phenomenological enrichment of Critical Regionalist theory and practice, this thesis develops an architectural design process for Saint Henry, Ohio and the surrounding Midwestern Ohio region that reveals the subtle architectural and cultural regional identities. Critical Regionalism, as explored by Kenneth Frampton, works within the mediation of technological universality and traditional regionality to produce architecture that poetically engages specifics of its time and place. These well-known ideas are deepened through a phenomenological understanding of experience as ongoing interpretation of already-existing traditions, meanings, and relationships. Specifically understood through five relationships of geography and place; history and time; culture and identity; material and presencing; and tectonics and engagement, this thesis will develop a Town Hall and Square for St. Henry, Ohio through a process of reading regional particularities. As a result, the town hall typology will enhance a sense of place through architectural intervention, specifically, a “presencing,” (or foregrounding) of meanings and relationships already latent in the cultural and built environment.
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    Committee: John Eliot Hancock M.Arch. (Committee Chair); Michael McInturf M.Arch. (Committee Member) Subjects: Architecture

  • 18. Cole, Julian Practice-dependent realism and mathematics

    Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, Philosophy

    I present a solution to a puzzle concerning the interpretation of mathematical practices. Mathematical claims seem to be objective and about objects or structures. Furthermore, these objects or structures do not appear to be located in the spatio-temporal world. For these reasons, Platonists have suggested that mathematical claims concern domains that are abstract and independent of our intellectual activities. Yet if Platonists are correct, then something very peculiar is going on. Items that are abstract and independent of our intellectual activities cannot influence spatio-temporally instantiated activities like mathematical practices. Contemporary authors have responded to this observation in two distinct ways. Some have argued that mathematics should be understood as a fiction. Others hold that the surface grammar of mathematical claims is misleading; they are really claims about what is logically possible or necessary. A philosopher who accepts either suggestion must pay a high price. Specifically, (s)he expresses a problematic lack of respect for actual mathematical practice. As a solution to this puzzle, I articulate and defend a new metaphysical interpretation of mathematics. According to this interpretation, mathematical domains are constituted by the mathematical activities of rational beings in a way analogous to the constitution of laws and legal borders by the legislative activities of rational beings. The presence of appropriate types of mathematical activity is both necessary and sufficient for the existence of particular mathematical domains, just as the presence of appropriate types of legislative activity is both necessary and sufficient for the existence of particular laws. Yet while laws are constituted by explicit stipulation, mathematicians constitute mathematical domains by providing coherent and adequate characterizations of those domains. My interpretation of mathematics offers an authentic solution to this puzzle, since my solution takes m (open full item for complete abstract)
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    Committee: Stewart Shapiro (Advisor) Subjects: Philosophy

  • 19. Ivory, Brian A phenomenological inquiry into the spiritual qualities and transformational themes associated with a self-styled rite of passage into adulthood

    Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2003, Educational Policy and Leadership

    Western cultures have largely abandoned rituals that recognize and facilitate the transition into adulthood. This cultural indifference prompts some undergraduates—i.e., those with a felt-need for initiation-like experience—to seek out available forms of ritualization (e.g., an outdoor adventure challenge). Some college students may attempt to meet this need by creating their own ritual activities. Potential forms of alternative initiations include “self-styled rites of passage.” This type of “ritual intervention” is understood as voluntary, time-intensive sojourns into differentiating contexts with the intention of realizing transitional, transformational and/or spiritual outcomes. In this investigation, I explore the spiritual and transformational outcomes associated with a self-styled rite of passage into adulthood. The subject matter (i.e., lived experience) in this autobiographical case study involves my 1985 foreign study experience in Newfoundland and Labrador. The phenomenological data used include: primary material generated as the experience was lived (e.g., journals), and secondary data collected specifically for this investigation (e.g., interviews). Consistent with my research methodology (i.e., hermeneutic phenomenology), a lived experience narrative was (re)constructed for the purposes of animating the primary research question: What is it like to experience a self-styled rite of passage? An interpretation of this phenomenological description explicates the “spiritual qualities” and “transformational themes” associated with my lived experience. The “phenomenological insights” offered at the end of this study constitute my re-conceptualization of this study topic. “Recommendations for improved practice” are provided based on several conclusions regarding self-styled rites of passage: (1) This researcher sees no great harm in “framing” lived experiences as a self-styled rite of passage. Such conscious framing can help college students language, structur (open full item for complete abstract)
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  • 20. Chehayl, Laurel Negotiating their horizons: Preservice English/language arts teachers in urban public schools

    PHD, Kent State University, 2007, College of Education, Health, and Human Services / Department of Teaching, Leadership and Curriculum Studies

    This qualitative hermeneutic study examined the lived experiences of 5 preservice secondary English/language arts teachers. It specifically examined their negotiation of an early urban field placement and their reflections upon the general methodology course in which it was embedded. The course was designed to facilitate their understanding of Henderson's (2001) teaching for democratic living through 3S understanding. The study employed an adaptation of Pinar's (1976) method of currere to scaffold their reflection. The study examines the origins of the participants' pre-understandings of urban public schools, as well as their considerations of them after leaving the field. Incorporated in to the participants' currere narratives are also their reflections on Henderson's teaching for democratic living and Pinar's currere.
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    Committee: James Henderson (Advisor) Subjects:
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