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This article describes the subjective experience, phenomenology, and lawfulness of the magical level of consciousness (or in Jungian terms the infrared pole of the psyche) as Jean Gebser describes it and as it plays itself out intrapersonally and interpersonally in psychotherapeutic relationships, in particular with so-called borderline clients. There is a comparison between the main characteri...

The study investigated EFL teachers' current level of critical consciousness as well as their beliefs about the educational context where they taught. The study also explored how gender, teaching experience, workplace and academic degree differentiated the participants with regard to their critical consciousness. Drawing upon the related literature and the existing questionnaires in the field, ...

What is consciousness? Consciousness continues to be an illdefined concept, so I shall start by discussing how the term is used in this special issue. As discussed in Overgaard and Overgaard (2010), there is an important distinction between level of consciousness and content of consciousness. Level of consciousness refers to a dimension that varies from coma at one extreme, through sleep and, a...

This paper describes two stages of research-in-progress studying the classification of IT investment from the accounting perspective. It addresses the overlooked input side of IT business value research and explores how firms report and classify IT asset and expenses. In the part of the study, we found only 8% of firms report their IT expenditure separately from other forms of expenditure, a fi...

Consciousness attracts the attention of researchers representing various disciplines. Hence, there is a demand for a theoretical tool that could integrate data and theoretical concepts originating from distinct fields. The paper proposes to use the framework of the theory of integrative levels. The development and the definitions of the concept of levels are briefly discussed. The final part of...

Presented by Chris J. Foley Research Questions 1. To what extent are student-level characteristics, including high school engagement and expectations for college engagement, related to students’ college engagement? 2. To what extent are institutional characteristics related to institutions’ college engagement means after controlling for student characteristics and high school engagement and e...

Motivationally intelligent systems deploy resources and tactics dynamically to maintain or increase the student’s desire to learn and her willingness to expend effort in so doing. Three categories of diagnostic inputs and feedback reactions are outlined each with its associated meta-level. The meta-level includes the account which learners tell themselves, the system and others about what they ...