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Nishii, Ayumi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study is to revisit the meaning of servant leadership, especially what it means to be "the servant as leader" in organizations. In order to appreciate nuances in the multifaceted nature of servanthood, this study engages in a hermeneutic analysis using a Heideggerian hermeneutical methodology, and converges study participants'…
Descriptors: Leadership, Organizations (Groups), Hermeneutics, Philosophy
Delgado, Antonio – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Higher education is a distribution center of knowledge and economic, social, and cultural power (Cervero & Wilson, 2001). A critical approach to understanding a higher education classroom begins with recognizing the instructor's position of power and authority (Tisdell, Hanley, & Taylor, 2000). The power instructors wield exists…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Power Structure, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Anderson-Thompkins, Sibby – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative study examined the experiences of race scholars whose agenda include investigating and writing about racial issues which run counter to the entrenched ideas, values and philosophies of the dominant academic culture. It questioned the possible risks associated with race work, and it examined the available support and validation for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Personal Narratives, Inquiry