Personal Self-determination Research Articles

Students support in personal and professional self-determination

Students support in personal and professional self-determination

THE FORMATION OF READINESS FOR PERSONAL SELFDETERMINATION WITH DEVIANT TEENAGERS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

The paper presents the results of introduction of a practice-oriented model of a pedagogical system into the educational process of a school and a vocational school. The system stimulates the process of the formation of readiness for personal self-determination of a modern teenager as an integration of external influences on a forming personality and his or her active internal self-development. The result of the research can be used in the work of psychologists, pedagogue-psychologists, social pedagogues in institutions of general, primary professional and specialized secondary education. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-2-21

О профессионально-личностном самоопределении учителя в полипарадигмальном пространстве педагогической реальности

The article covers the author’s understanding of professional and personal self-determination as a continuous, dynamic process that characterizes the entire path of becoming a professional. We show that professional growth of a person is connected with his constant acquisition of a higher level of self-appraisal as an expert and comprehension of his ideals. It is noted that paradigmatic multiplicity of pedagogical reality raises the necessity of free and responsible choice of professional values, ways of teaching for a modern teacher.

Supported Decision-Making: A Viable Alternative to Guardianship?

The law has traditionally responded to cognitive disability by authorizing surrogate decision-makers to make decisions on behalf of disabled individuals. However, supported decision-making, an alternative paradigm for addressing cognitive disability, is rapidly gaining political support. According to its proponents, supported decision-making empowers individuals with cognitive challenges by ensuring that they are the ultimate decision-maker but are provided support from one or more others, giving them the assistance they need to make decisions for themselves. This article describes supported decision-making and its normative appeal. It then provides a descriptive account of how supported decision-making works based on the empirical literature on supported decision-making as well as that on shared decision-making, a related model used in medical contexts. The article shows how employing supported decision-making in lieu of guardianship, or integrating it into the guardianship system, has the potential to promote the self-determination of persons with intellectual and cognitive disabilities consistent with international and national legal norms. However, we find that, despite much rhetoric touting its advantages, little is known about how supported decision-making processes operate or about the outcomes of those processes. Further research is necessary to design and develop effective supported decision-making systems. We therefore propose a series of research questions to help inform policy choices surrounding supported decision-making.

Investigating Students' Perceived Discipline Relevance Subsequent to Playing Educational Computer Games: A Personal Interest and Self-Determination Theory Approach

The purpose of this study is to explain students' perceived relevance of playing an educational game as a means for development of discipline competence. Based on self-determination theory and the concept of personal interest, we propose that: Satisfying students' basic needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness when playing educational games is critical for arousal of intrinsic motivation in learning-through-gaming; Students' interest in the core subject and their intrinsic motivation in learning-through-gaming are important for their perceptions of how relevant they believe the gaming session is for the discipline they are studying. The results from an empirical study indicate that arousal of intrinsic motivation in the ongoing gaming session is more important than pre-gaming interest in the core subject for participants' post-gaming perception of how relevant such gaming is as a means for developing their discipline competence. The results also indicate that satisfying basic needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness is critical for arousal of intrinsic gaming motivation. Our findings have implications for the choice of pedagogical means when utilizing educational games as a complementary alternative to traditional learning methods. To that end, we offer directions for future research.

Самоопределение личности в бизнесе: проблемы и модели исследования

The paper analyses the problem of personality self-determination within professional and social environments. A model of self-determination is proposed, based on combination of self-consciousness features (social identity, self-attitudes, motives, values) and decision-making strategies. The practical direction of this work lies in the business psychology sphere, more specifically, in the study of personality self-determination issues within contemporary business contexts. An attempt at creating a typology of self-determination features is presented.

Personal Self-Determination and Moderating Variables that Impact Efforts to Promote Self-Determination

The purpose of this second article in the special topic issue from the National Training Initiative on Self-Determination is to provide detail with regard to how we understand the self-determination construct and to discuss moderator variables and how such variables impact the design and implementation of interventions to promote self-determination. Moderator variables are baseline factors that define subgroups with greater versus lesser intervention response. That is, they are factors that need to be taken into account, a priori, when designing interventions so that the intervention might address unique needs or characteristics of the people for whom the intervention is intended.

Identity and Privacy on the Internet

The Internet is responsible for a “structural transformation of the public sphere”, which in a radical way changed the concepts of privacy too. The most important issue of the public debate is the invasion of privacy accompanying this transformation. But new ways of self-expression emerged as well. Personal autonomy and self-determination can survive or even be intensified under the condition that they are performed in solidarity within the Internet-community.

МЕЖПОЛОВЫЕ РАЗЛИЧИЯ В СООТНОШЕНИИ СМЫСЛОВЫХ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИК ЦЕННОСТЕЙ «СЕМЬЯ» И «СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ УСПЕШНОСТЬ» В ЮНОШЕСКОМ ВОЗРАСТЕ

The paper addresses the problem of personal self-determination, the formation of the semantic concept system “family” and “social success”. Describes the qualitative differences between these concepts of boys and girls in two groups with different levels of completeness, the self-determination.

Досвід вчинку особи в теорії Кароля Войтили

This article contains the interpretation of Karol Wojtyla's report entitled "The Personality Structure of Self-Determination» and the basic aspects of Wojtyla's personality act theory. The topic of personal self-determination is central for contemporary Thomistic philosophical anthropology. The development of this topic by Karol Wojtyla includes realistic phenomenological notion of experience and classical Thomistic principles of act and potency. The philosophical analysis of experience of the effectiveness of personality emphasizes multidimensional orientation of the article. Consideration of personality’s self-determination brings axiological, ethical and theological aspects to philosophical anthropology.

Advanced Study of Personality Traits, Self-Determination, and Exercise Behavior in Korean Older Adults

Advanced Study of Personality Traits, Self-Determination, and Exercise Behavior in Korean Older Adults

With a Little Help from My Friends (and Mark Twain Too)

Over the years, I have drawn on a variety of friends, both fictional and real, to help me make specific points when writing professional papers and books for teachers, administrators, and researchers. This included Snoopy and other Peanut characters to describe how struggling writers compose (Graham, & Harris, 2002); Calvin and his imaginary tiger Hobbes to introduce sound instructional principles (Graham & Harris, 2002); the producer, writers, and actors from a Star Trek film to develop an analogy for how a program of research develops and evolves over time (Graham & Harris, 2009); the work of scientists conducting dubious research to highlight concerns and issues in contemporary intervention research in special education (Graham, 2005); and the voices of professional writers throughout the ages to illustrate what is involved in skilled writing (Graham & Harris, 2005). In this farewell to the field as the of Exceptional Children from 2003 to 2010, I call once again on an old friend (at least I like to think so). He is one of the most influential American writers of all time: Samuel Clemens or, as we more commonly know him, Mark Twain. At first glance, this may seem like an odd choice, as he was not always a fan of editors, as evidenced by this quote from a letter published in the Chicago Daily Tribune (1906): How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good. (p. 3) After spending a week as a newspaper editor, however, he softened his stance, noting, Nobody except he has tried it, knows what it is to be an editor (Twain, 1901, p. 87). Taking this rather dubious statement as an optimistic sign, I decided to invite Mark Twain along as my guide for my final act as the of Exceptional Children. WHAT TO SAY? My first challenge in crafting a farewell was to determine what I wanted to say. I consulted Mr. Twain on this matter, his advice was: When in doubt tell the (Ayres, 1987) this seemingly simple piece of advice proved to be quite challenging. What truth should I tell? One simple truth would be to thank all of the people who made it possible for the journal to operate successfully. This includes the executive associate editors (Donna Ford, Joan Lieber, and Maggie McLaughlin, who served as action editors on various manuscripts over the years), associate editors (Alfredo Artiles, Michael Benz, Diane Browder, Doug Fuchs, Sam Odom, Cheryl Utley, and Bernice Wong, who helped me pick field reviewers and who reviewed submitted papers themselves), field reviewers and guest reviewers (too many to name), and the authors who submitted manuscripts. Also important to the success of the journal were my assistants (Eleni Papadopoulou, Anna Emily, Xiaolun Qi, and Leslie Rogers) as well as the folks at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC; Richard Mainzer, Stefani Roth, and Meridee Mucciarone). Publishing a journal is a huge undertaking, and whatever successes occurred during my term as rests on the hard work and dedication of all of these wonderful people. Another simple truth would be to emphasize what the articles published in the journal during my tenure tell us about the field of special education. One thing is certain, and perhaps not surprising, given the nature of special education. We are very interested in identifying effective instructional procedures, including valid and reliable assessment procedures for determining if those treatments work. We are also concerned about the fate of children and youngsters from underrepresented groups (e.g., children from impoverished families who are Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American). This focus on issues of social justice was further reflected in articles that concentrated on the concept of self-determination for persons with disabilities. …

A Neo-Meadian Approach to Human Agency: Relating the Social and the Psychological in the Ontogenesis of Perspective-Coordinating Persons

How can human agency be reconciled with bio-physical determinism? Starting with a discussion of the long standing debate between determinism and agency, we argue that the seeds of a reconciliation can be found in George Herbert Mead's ideas concerning social acts, perspectives, differentiation, self-other interactivity, and conscious understanding. Drawing on more recent reformulations of Mead's ideas, we present an integrated account of the ontogenesis of human agency. Human agency, we argue, should be conceptualized in terms of distanciation from immediate experience, and we show how social interactions, institutions and symbolic resources foster the development of agency in increasingly complex ways. We conclude by situating our work in relation to other developmental accounts and the larger project of theorizing and empirically supporting a compatibilist rendering of human agency as the "determined" self-determination of persons.

Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore their Lives (review)

Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen (eds.), Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore their Lives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press/ Women's Press, 2008. isbn 978-0-88961-464-2 pbk 258pp cdn$36.95/us$36.95 The development of the contemporary disability-rights movement has been both driven and shaped by the refusal of the medical model of disability. In seeking to define ourselves and claim our rights to political and personal selfdetermination, disability advocates and scholars have had to deconstruct, dispute, and displace illness-based views of our bodies. Unfortunately, rejecting the medical model has too often meant rejecting the views and stories of people with ongoing medical needs, and even minimizing our own health concerns. The disability-rights movement's repeated assertion that 'we're not sick' contributes to the alienation of people who are sick but still require access to society and their human rights, writes Julie Devaney in Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen's collection of essays, Dissonant Disabilities (There Always Seems to Be Excuses: A Grad Student's Narrative of Autoimmunity, 124). As a result, disability-related texts-scholarly, theoretical, and literary-have often left out the perspectives of people with chronic illnesses. As its subtitle indicates, this volume brings forward some of those voices- particularly the voices of women with chronic illnesses. The authors and subjects of these essays must navigate both gender-based and health-based social expectations and constraints. They illuminate, to a greater or lesser extent, the experience of living with a wide range of conditions, including multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, depression, and anorexia. The essays vary in approach, scope, focus, and quality. Several present sociological studies involving questionnaires and interviews, while others are primarily personal narratives. The editors and many of the authors are Canadian, and Canada's legal and cultural environment is the book's primary contextual framework. Women of colour are underrepresented, as are working-class women. The editors acknowledge this, pointing out that writing our lives and our illnesses demands a certain amount of privilege ... time to think, the ability to write, the confidence to submit an abstract, and the energy to produce an edited final submission (Introduction, 10). There is more diversity in terms of disease type, age, and sexual orientation (both heterosexual and lesbian women appear, though no transgendered women). A common theme is the way that women's experiences of chronic illness set them apart from their well peers, from conventional workplaces, and from the medical practitioners whose care they need. Many speak of being judged for their failure to keep up with their personal, professional, and political obligations. Susan Wendell, for instance, probes her sense of guilt about not being a Good Feminist, as defined by enthusiastic participation in meetings, parties, phone calls, and marches in the streets (Notes from Bed: Learning from Chronic Illness, 213), when she both needed and preferred to stay in bed, reading, writing, and resting. Other authors and informants describe how friends, fellow students, and even family members have disbelieved the reality of the limitations arising from chronic illness, regarding the ill woman as lazy or hypochondriacal. …

L’économiste et l’autodétermination du citoyen

When involved in politics, the economist ought to make his value judgments explicit. Besides efficiency, personal freedom is often at issue in policy prescriptions. Except for some strong advocates of individual freedom, like Bastiat, Hayek and Friedman, economists have too often had an indifferent attitude towards it. This benign neglect may be dangerous when a minority of ideologically committed citizens is attempting to impose its will on the majority by persuasion. This is consonant with J.J. Rousseau's conception of liberty, which is at odds with the one unconsciously held by the majority of citizens who assume personal self-determination.

Young Women's Life Stories and Accounts of Parental Divorce

ABSTRACT This article presents the results of an analysis of 7 young women's life story accounts of the experience of parental separation during adolescence. The young women took part in the Life Stories and Family Transitions Study conducted in New Zealand. The qualitative methodology used in this study allowed for an investigation of the ways that participants made sense of their experiences of parental separation within the life story. The narratives of parental separation were extracted from the interviews and analyzed for form and content. The analysis of form found that the stories progressed through a number of stages, titled “The Early Years,” “The Deteriorating Parental Relationship,” “The Climax,” and “The Aftermath.” A number of themes emerged from a process of interpretive thematic analysis. These themes were often associated with different stages of the story of separation, and were titled “Putting Together the Pieces,” “The Struggling Self,” and “Self-Determination and Competency.” As participants put together the stories of separation, they considered their parents' perspectives and integrated these with their own experiences of family events, developing their own personal theories. The stories of struggle, and of personal strength and self-determination, emerge from the analysis.

Youth organization "Plast" in the context of problems of application of Christian aspects in the process of activity of youth societies

Today in Ukraine there is an acute problem of the spiritual alienation of a certain part of the younger generation from their people, their faith and traditions, which have developed over the centuries, from established moral principles, in particular, regarding personal self-determination in the social world. In turn, such confusion and disorientation in the social space leads to an aggravation of the relationship between the same outside world and the system of inner values ​​of the young man. Moreover, a hypertrophied and distorted understanding of reality entails a number of problems that often take the form of a pronounced social evil. For example, today our country is one of the leading places in Europe for the spread of AIDS. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, every week, several dozen Ukrainians turn out to be HIV-positive when submitting appropriate tests. It is also hard to say about the spread of such social ills as drug addiction, drunkenness (striking the number of young people being treated today for alcohol abuse in drug dispensaries, and not caused by drinking alcohol, but by the widely publicized beer).

An Historical Perspective of Self-Determination in Special Education: Accomplishments and Challenges

Self-determination for people with severe disabilities first appears in the 1972 writing of Benget Nirje, where he came to the realization that they could and should have a role in their own choices (Shapiro, 1993). Nirje's writings called for a wide range of actions that would enable them to better control their lives and destinies, including choice and control over personal activities, education, independence, participation in decisions, and information upon which to make decisions and solve problems (Agran & Wehmeyer, 2003). Nirje equated self-determination with the respect and dignity to which all people are entitled. He identified making choices, asserting oneself, self-management, selfknowledge, decision making, self-advocacy, selfefficacy, self-regulation, autonomy, and independence (although often not using those terms) as the salient features of personal self-determination (Agran & Wehmeyer, 2003; Nirje, 1972).

Ethical issues in attempts to ban reorientation therapies.

The purpose of this article is to identify the ethical issues in efforts to ban reorientation therapies. The 3 primary arguments cited in the literature in favor of such a ban are discussed: (a) homosexuality is no longer considered a mental illness, (b) those who request change do so because of internalized homophobia, and (c) sexual orientation is immutable. The authors present 3 arguments in favor of providing reorientation and related services: (a) respect for the autonomy and self-determination of persons, (b) respect for valuative frameworks, creeds, and religious values regarding the moral status of same-sex behavior, and (c) service provision given the scientific evidence that efforts to change thoughts, behaviors, and feeling-based sexual orientation can be successful.

No small courage: a history of women in the United States

Enriched by the wealth of new research into women's history, No Small Courage offers a lively chronicle of American experience, charting women's lives and experiences with fascinating immediacy from the precolonial era to the present. Individual stories and primary sources-including letters, diaries, and news reports-animate this history of the domestic, professional, and political efforts of American women. John Demos begins the book with a discussion of Native American women confronting colonization. Leading historians illuminate subsequent eras of social and political change-including Jane Kamensky on women's lives in the colonial period, Karen Manners Smith on the rising tide of political activity by women in the Progressive Era, Sarah Jane Deutsch on the transition of 1920s optimism to the harsh realities of the Great Depression, Elaine Tyler May on the challenges to a gender-defined social order encouraged by World War II, and William H. Chafe on the women's movement and the struggle for political equality since the 1960s. The authors vividly relate such events as Anne Hutchinson's struggle for religious expression in Puritan Massachusetts, former slave Harriet Tubman's perilous efforts to free others in captivity, Rosa Parks's resistance to segregation in the South, and newfound opportunities for professional and personal self-determination available as a result of decades of protest. Dozens of archival illustrations add to the human dimensions of the authoritative text. No Small Courage dynamically captures the variety and significance of American women's experience, demonstrating that the history of our nation cannot be fully understood without focusing on changes in women's lives.