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Self-development toward freedom: Understanding self, identity, spirituality, and emancipatory interest.
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- 자료유형학위논문
- 저자명Li, Peiwei
- 학회/출판사/기관명Indiana University School of Education
- 출판년도2014
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- 소개/요약This dissertation study focuses on self-development, its connection to spiritual development, and how it relates to the ideas of emancipation and freedom. It features new insights on this topic across three intersecting aspects: a meta-theoretical understanding, a critical qualitative inquiry, and a methodological reflection. Its theoretical contribution centers on the reconstruction of a social theory on self and identity development based on critical theory (i.e., Habermas, 1971, 1981), Hegelian insights (i.e., Hegel, 1977), and Buddhist teachings (i.e., Zen Buddhism). My key argument is that self and identity are intersubjectively structured and maintained. Self-development involves dialectical movements and is oriented toward emancipation and freedom to become and be certain about its true nature._x000D_ In my empirical investigation I applied critical qualitative methodology (i.e., Carspecken, 1996) to explore the self and spiritual development of four participants who had engaged in long-term spiritual practice in an open and reflective manner. My main research question is: How are emancipatory interests, in the sense introduced by Habermas (1971), and freedom understood and experienced by people during their journey of self-development and spiritual development? The primary data resource consists of a series of five open-ended interviews with each participant, and I used thematic, reconstructive, and structural analysis to identify themes, movements, and underlying structures and narrative patterns. I discovered that all participants did indeed think of their lives in terms of a process of growth with major movements, which led me to explicate those movements and their personal theories related to the core concepts of self, truth, and freedom. Those analyses then support an overarching discussion of themes across participants, as well as an examination of the interactions between participants' insights and the meta-theory._x000D_ Regarding methodological development I investigated the nature of emancipatory knowledge, a fundamental aspect that has stayed largely under-recognized in social inquiry. In particular, I examined the concept of validity in relation to emancipatory knowledge, and how validity can be understood with more precision and depth when it's situated in critical epistemology. I also explored the capacity of qualitative inquiry to facilitate the emancipatory potential of the participants and the researchers._x000D_
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