Journey Of Self-discovery Research Articles

The Inward Journey of Leadership

For most people, becoming an effective leader is a lifelong effort that requires an enormous amount of work and commitment. Few individuals reach their full capacity as leaders but not because they lack in technical abilities. Becoming a world-class leader involves much more than becoming a more proficient manager or a better strategic thinker. Most fundamentally, the process is about a personal transformation. All great leaders are on a continuous inward journey of selfdiscovery and self-growth to transform themselves and their organizations. Rainer Rilke, the renowned German poet, once commented, “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.” For an increasing number of people, however, the focus is outward, on looking good and standing out. At the same time, they experience an inner restlessness, a growing sense that something is missing in their lives, though it is not clear what. Troubled by the isolation of their personal values from their careers, many people are tempted to detach (sometimes even compromise) their most deep-seated beliefs from the workplace, even though such compartmentalization is inconsistent with their basic principles. Sadly, many of us would say, “I don’t have time for self-discovery and introspection. I’m too busy. My work is more hectic and demanding than ever.” We don’t set aside much time to “go inside” ourselves to reflect, to make our personal growth a priority. Rilke’s advice, however, is especially useful for leaders in academic medicine who have experienced the turmoil and anxiety that have permeated academic medical centers

持久走における児童の気づきと態度変容

Pace running is included in the Japanese Ministry of Education's physical education curriculum for elementary schools. The objective is to promote health and as such, its purpose is very different from competitive long distance running. From outward appearances it is impossible to distinguish between the two, therefore it is necessary to look at the students experience of running from a motivational rather than a physical viewpoint.This paper examines the development of social awareness and positive attitudes towards pace running among elementary school students by describing their experiences in physical education classes, in which the newly developed teaching materials were used.The class consisted of twelve 6th grade students (4 boys and 8 girls) and was led by a male teacher with over 15 years teaching experience. The class was observed over 5 sessions. Field notes were kept, informal interviews conducted and video recordings made. This data was interpreted from a social constructivist perspective.Employing the cooperative learning model, every student observed his/her partner's performance and gave his/her partner some feedback. During the initial stage of the study, students evaluated their own performance and that of their partner based on physical, objective criteria such as the achievement of stated goals. However, in the later stage of the study, they attached more importance to motivational and subjective rather than objective standards. Change in students' attitude towards pace running was perceived in liberation from negative preconceptions, mastering physical skills, and an increased awareness of the running rhythm, both in themselves and in their classmates.When pace running is taught using this methodology, it becomes more than just running, it becomes a journey of self discovery for the students in which they learn how to interact with other members of the group.Our study also showed that there is still scope for further research in using social constructivism in physical education classes.

On the Virtues of Practising Scholarship

This essay provides some reflections about the idea and ideal of scholarship in Management and Organization Studies and celebrates the life and works of Chris Argyris as a scholar. Unlike most of the accounts and tributes to his work, this essay seeks to draw attention not only to the practice of his scholarship but also to the ethos with which he practises his scholarship. I argue that it is in the latter one can understand better what practising scholarship entails by tapping into the virtues of scholarship. In Chris Argyris, one can identify virtues like integrity, courage and humility. In these virtues one also discovers that ultimately scholarship is personal and at its core it entails a journey of self-discovery. In acknowledging Argyris’s many contributions particularly in the field of organizational learning (OL) I seek to draw attention to some of the lessons that emerge when we reflect on the standards that his scholarship sets for future research in OL and for OL researchers in particular. Perhaps the most powerful message of his scholarship is to take learning seriously not only as a phenomenon to be studied, but as a way of living.

In the Lion's Mouth

Ethnicity is always emergent, insofar as new sociocultural fractionalizations and hybridities are always latent, ready to re- veal themselves. But these essays together suggest, too, that eth- nicity has a periodicity and could one day again subside, even dis- appear, except as the artifact of a certain phase of late modernity. In the US, however, the age of so far remains virtually coexistent with the life and contours of an American national literature. If became more carefully conceptualized in the late nineteenth century through racialized science, anthropology, and immigration law, one can nevertheless find its anatomy in, say, Moby-Dick and the massive literature of early exploration and empire of which Herman Melville's novel was the pinnacle. Like- wise, the American Bureau of Ethnography's exhumation of American Indian burial mounds is one chapter within the Ro- mantic mythology of the doomed native, whose stereo-typology, so to speak, stretches across several centuries of popular cul- ture from the tragic sentimentalism of James Fenimore Cooper, through the proliferation of Indian figures advertising canoes, fountain pens, and sports teams, and on to the visceral ironies of Sherman Alexie. Death practices do situate ethnic minorities within the flow of American history for the good reason that ex- posure to violence, whether quotidian or catastrophic, is a defin- ing feature of ethnicity as it overlaps dangerously with race. Their alienation has not prevented minority writers from em- bracing the promise of American democracy, whether in Frederick Douglass's fervent identification with the patriarchs of the Age of Revolution in My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); or Charles Eastman's journey of self-discovery that took the revealing title From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916); or Carlos Bulosan's autobiographical testimony that, as his title put it, America Is in the Heart (1946). Such declarations of belonging to America, spo- ken strategically from the nation's margins, signal the minority writer's precarious (and usually incomplete or illusory) transcen- dence of race into the realm of ethnicity. Reversal is always pos- sible. Adopting the mask of abnegation, John Okada, who served

The Voice of Solitary Contemplation: Copland's "Music for the Theatre" Viewed as a Journey of Self-Discovery

Aaron Copland's Music for the Theatre is typically cited as the work in which the composer revealed fully, for the first time, his authentic, personal, American voice.1 Certainly the brash opening of this 1925 work, with its drum roll, dissonant piano chords, and freely rhythmic fanfare for trumpets, heralds the arrival of a distinctive, utterly assured, and assuredly American musical personality (see ex. 1). This trumpet fanfare exemplifies characteristics that have come to be seen as Copland trademarks. Among the most obvious and important are the gradual unfolding of a relatively small amount of pitch material, the employment both of literal repetition and of subtle variations in pitch and rhythm as aspects of this unfolding process, and the strong emphasis on specific intervals-in this case, the perfect fifth and its inversion the perfect fourth, the major sixth, and the major third

Road-book America: contemporary culture and the new picaresque

In an alienating and ever-changing America, Sherrill demonstrates that the American Road Book is a way for both author and reader to travel together on a journey of self-discovery.

Just rice and curry

Mohammed Mustafa worries about the image of medical students and sets out on a journey of self discovery

Tracing the Fortune of Lady Reason in the Sixteenth Century: Representations in Women's Prose Literature

In Christine de Pizan's Livre de fa Cite des Dames (1404), it was Lady Reason who drew the protagonist Christine from her depression and desire to have been born male, after reading the fourteenth-century tirade against women by Matheolus. Lady Reason re-interpreted misogynist histories of women, re-casting female protagonists in a new, positive light. Christine's revisioning of women's status and the entire works image offemale support and solidarity were models for future women writers to follow. Although few acknowledged Pizan as a literary precedent, some sixteenth-century women writers took up the strands of her argument and continued to develop her ideal. The inheritors of the Cite des Dames appropriated the character Lady Reason to suit their own literary or didactic purposes. This article will discuss the development of the role and character of Lady Reason in the manuscript and printed works of sixteenth-century French womcn writers. In the early sixteenth century, medieval allegorical devices such as dreams and gardens were still commonly used in the works of the rhetoriqueurs. They drew on classical and Christian figures to emphasise the essential moral function of their work. l In the allegorical tradition of the rhetoriqueur school, Reason was depicted in some form as a character in the works of four sixteenth-century women writers, three of whom have received very little attention in current literary discussions. The writings of both Katherine d' Amboise and Gabrielle de Bourbon in which Reason is present, remain in manuscript to the present day and the published works of Marie Ie Gendre have not been reprinted in their entirety since the sixteenth century.2 Despite the lack of recent discussion regarding their work, all three writers make considerable contributions in re-evaluating the contemporary image of the allegorical character Reason, and her role as a guide to women, on a journey of selfdiscovery and understanding. Their asscssment of their own capacities as literate women both reading and living in sixteenth-century culture is an invaluable addition to historical and literary analysis of women's literature, self-perception and strategies of resistance in this period.

The Late novels of Eudora Welty

This study offers 14 essays by critics of Southern literature on Welty's last two novels: Losing Battles (1970), an experiment in narration, and Optimist's Daughter (1972), a comment on our time and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. This collection seeks to stimulate interest in Welty's work as a novelist and to serve as a guide to reading and to teaching her late novels. The editors of this book contend that to see beyond the South, it is not enough to apprehend the region and be imaginatively nourished by it; a journey of self-discovery is required in order to gain the necessary distance. Welty's late novels constitute such a journey from the discovery of her place to self-discovery and vision.

Toward a conceptual alliance about therapeutic alliance: a voyage through the Inferno.

I suggest that there is not a conceptual consensus in psychoanalysis regarding the therapeutic alliance. Some argue that the unobjectionable part of the transference should be facilitated; some argue that there is no unobjectionable part of the transference, that all parts should be subjected to analysis. There are those who argue that the therapeutic alliance exists in early treatment; others who argue that it exists later. I suggest using a classical text, Dante's Inferno, as a paradigm for a journey of self-discovery. By reviewing the moments of hesitation that Dante experiences with Virgil and how these are overcome, we cast light on our current problem on the nature of the therapeutic alliance and how to facilitate it. The components of the unobjectionable are related to Winnicott's idea of the maturational processes and Hartmann's (1958) ideas of the primary and secondary autonomous function. Based on their considerations, we make recommendations for use of the therapeutic alliance.