A Study on The Transformative Learning Process About The Life Meaning Perspectives of Meditation Learners.
| Autor: | Hsin-I Lin, 林欣儀 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 103 The purpose of this study is to explorethe transformative learning process about the life meaning perspectives of meditation learners. It is hoped that this study can achieve the following goals: 1.Explore the changes of life meaning perspectives of meditation learners. 2.The understanding of the transformative learning process about the life meaning perspectives of meditation learners. In this study, the necessary data were collected through qualitative in-depth interviews with semi-structured interview questions. The study uses purposeful sampling method to choose six meditation learners who were the researcher’s friends or recommended by the researcher’s friends. They were chosen because they are meditation learners and havetransformative experience of the life meaning perspectives. Their ages were between 44 and 70. One of them was male and the other five were female. All of them had been practicing meditation for five to twenty years. Through these 6 meditation practitioners' sharing of their viewpoint, the transformative learning process about the life meaning perspectives of meditation learners was understood. After analysis and general discussion, the following conclusions were reached: 1.Six meditation learners, their perspectives of life meaning have changes, including the “acceptance on suffering”; “value and meaning of existence”; “independent and responsible on self life”; “target and practice of life”. 2.The transformative learning process about the life meaning perspectives of meditation learners as follows: After experiencing life major event, or after experiencing unexpected happenings, then reflection and clarify their existing perspectives with concept of meditation, then frankly face their old deficient perspectives, and gradually formed new alternative perspectives, then practice new perspectives in life. 3.Throughout the transformation process, the important factors of successful transformation, including：meditation learners use meditation method and meditation concept, and other power. 4.After meditation learners has transformed the perspectives of life meaning, the new perspectives have long-term impacts on their lives, including being able to turn to positive thinking; respect for the values of life; be compassionately kind to all beings; when interaction with the people, being able to maintain awareness and inward reflection; efforts to maintain awareness at every moment. Lastly, based on the above results, this study have made several suggestionsto meditation learners, as well as to the educational practitioners and the researchers in the future. |
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