In her study of the Pagan movement in the U. S., sociologist Margot Adler noted that the Faeries placed a great emphasis on the " transformative power of play ", believing that playful behavior had a role within ritual that could lead to an altered state of consciousness.

He found his justification and framework in Rousseaus ’ s critique of theatricality and advocated transparency as the critical transformative element that could generate theater worthy of and in keeping with revolutionary culture.

It could be argued that some of the research regarding transformative learning has been in the realm of transactional education, and that what is seen as transformative by some authors is in fact still within the realm of transactional learning.

# They agreed with the District Court's finding that downloading an MP3 is not transformative under the purpose and character of use factor, and that even though Napster didn't directly benefit financially from users ' downloads ( i. e., charge for the service ), " repeated and exploitative copying of copyrighted works, even if the copies are not offered for sale " could be considered a commercial use.

Mediation sessions can include either party's attorneys, a neutral attorney, or an attorney-mediator who can inform both parties of their legal rights, but does not provide advice to either, or can be conducted with the assistance of a facilitative or transformative mediator without attorneys present at all.

" He expands: " The vision of reality which poetry offers should be transformative, more than just a printout of the given circumstances of its time and place ".

not only work for us but constantly expand our horizons, that we may enter the world of or transformative power and pass on to others what we have found to be true for ourselves " ( Double Vision 18 ).

Some of the psychological difficulties associated with intensive spiritual practice are claimed to be " kundalini awakening ", " a complex physio-psychospiritual transformative process described in the yogic tradition ".

Knowledge can be used in these ways but, additionally, can be used in a transformative way.

The key word in such considerations is transformative, as the remix product must have been either sufficiently altered or clearly used for a sufficiently different purpose for it to be safe from copyright violation.

Cosmetic surgery can refer to the simple removal of a scar, or it can be totally transformative and literally serve to significantly alter the appearance of a person.

The briefs were refiled in June 2002 through the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation and while the decision was upheld, the comic was deemed not to be " transformative " raising possible future problems for parody.

As described by scholar Bernard McGinn, Christian mysticism would be " that part, or element, of Christian belief and practice that concerns the preparation for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of Christian God ".

Additionally, according to Sedgwick, performative utterances can be ' transformative ' performatives, which create an instant change of personal or environmental status, or ' promisory ' performatives, which describe the world as it might be in the future.

In agreement with this perspective, Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, challenges the anthropocentrism of critical pedagogy and writes that to achieve its transformative goals there are other differences between Western and Indigenous worldview that must be considered.

The idea is to let them speak and tell their own stories, to let them be legitimate actors on the urban stage .” The attention to testimony as a transformative process while still tentative in the Homeless Vehicle Project became a significant performative process in the artist ’ s Instruments and eventually part of the his projections as well.

" I believe the " shame " for Juilliard would more likely have occurred if we had not the vision and the courage to present artistic works which we believe to be transformative compositions, worthy of presentation by our students and of reflection by our audiences.

However, 1998 proved to be a transformative year in the development of Canadian hip hop.

The educator ’ s role in establishing an environment that builds trust and care and facilitates the development of sensitive relationships among learners is a fundamental principle of fostering transformative learning.

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Mark Fettes, in Steps Towards an Ecology of Language ( 1996 ), sought " a theory of language ecology which can integrate naturalist and critical traditions "; and in An Ecological Approach to Language Renewal ( 1997 ), sought to approach a transformative ecology via a more active, perhaps designed, set of tools in language.

Beginning in the 7th century BCE, the so-called " Axial Age " saw a set of transformative religious and philosophical ideas develop, mostly independently, in many different locations.

The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990.

For example, observable physical quantities are represented by self-adjoint operators, such as energy or momentum, whereas transformative processes are represented by unitary linear operators such as rotation or the progression of time.

On the other hand Ellington's friend Earl Hines's twenty solo " transformative versions " of Ellington compositions were described by Ben Ratliff, the New York Times jazz critic, as " as good an example of the jazz process as anything out there.

Transformative learners utilize discourse as a means of critically examination and reflection “ devoted to assessing reasons presented in support of competing interpretations, by critically examining evidence, arguments, and alternative points of view .” When circumstances permit, transformative learners move toward a frame of reference that is more inclusive, discriminating, self-reflective, and integrative of experience.

For example, Robert M. Page, a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about " transformative democratic socialism " to refer to the politics of the Clement Attlee government ( a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution, some nationalisation ) and " revisionist democratic socialism ," as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson:

When the concept of assured destruction is applied in the doctrine of law, it is often criticized by proponents of the restorative justice and transformative justice approaches, who point out that assured destruction doctrines are rarely implemented with rigor or integrity of due process.

Known as the aadizookaanan (" traditional stories ," singular aadizookaan ), they are told by the debaajimojig (" story-tellers ", singular debaajimod ) only in winter in order to preserve their transformative powers.

James C. Kaufman and Beghetto introduced a " four C " model of creativity ; mini-c (" transformative learning " involving " personally meaningful interpretations of experiences, actions and insights "), little-c ( everyday problem solving and creative expression ), Pro-C ( exhibited by people who are professionally or vocationally creative though not necessarily eminent ) and Big-C ( creativity considered great in the given field ).

A compelling reason that people are turned on by wearing rubber is its transformative abilities.

However, if the work that is distributed by the remixer is an entirely new and transformative work that is not for profit, copyright laws are not breached.

The publication of Principles of Biomedical Ethics by James F. Childress and Tom Beauchamp — the first American textbook of bioethics — marked a transformative moment in the discipline.

* Coral Cantigas-the only chorus in the Washington, D. C. area with the mission of increasing awareness and appreciation of the many rich styles of Latino ( Latin American, Spanish and Caribbean ) choral music, and promoting diversity by uniting communities through the joyful and transformative power of music.

Power, the transformative capacity of people to change the social and material world, is closely shaped by knowledge and space-time.

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a long-term exhibition of fifty works of transformative art by Grey opened in the Fall of 2004 in New York City and relocated to its present Hudson Valley location some years later.

However, the transformative " ring anthem " frequently used as Hercules slips on the ring given him by Zeus, along with several bridges of music used throughout episodes, are taken from the 1954 film The Black Shield of Falworth, the music credited to Joseph Gershenson but really composed by Hans Salter, Herman Stein and Frank Skinner, the long time in-house film composer for Universal Studios.

Guilford College, founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), is an independent college whose stated mission is to: " provide a transformative, practical and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by Quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem-solving skills, experience, enthusiasm and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world.

An important part of transformative learning is for individuals to change their frames of reference by critically reflecting on their assumptions and beliefs and consciously making and implementing plans that bring about new ways of defining their worlds.

More recent research has specifically explored the process of transformative learning as it occurs in bereaved elders, maintaining that the “ disorienting dilemma ” deemed necessary by Meizrow is present in the loss of a loved one, with an additional devastating factor being the isolation that the elderly in particular are likely to face.

In another study, transformative learning in the context of suicide bereavement ; in these cases the dilemma is compounded by the questioning of conceptions or misconceptions that were held about the relationship with the deceased and resolving the meaning of that relationship during the grieving process.

Another definition of transformative learning was put forward by O ' Sullivan:

Positing that understanding transformative learning may have been hindered by perspectives of rational thought and Western traditions, King provides an alternate model grounded in a meta-analysis of research, the Transformative Learning Opportunities Model.