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Wieslawa Limont; Joanna Dreszer – Roeper Review, 2024
The aim of the article is to present transformational giftedness (TG) in the context of the theory of personality development. TG refers to individuals who strive to make a positive difference in the world in order to create a better place to live. Robert Sternberg divided TG into the following categories: self-realized giftedness, other-realized…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Academically Gifted, Personality Development, Change Agents
Sophie Callahan – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2024
Theological education faces the task of forming leaders and scholars with the capacity for personal and social transformation. This effort requires a deeper understanding of habit formation as both problem and potential. Utilizing the example of how racism functions through embodied habits, this article emphasizes bodily awareness and repeated…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Teaching Methods, Social Change, Transformative Learning
Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
The article discusses (the restoration of a sense of) continuity as a necessary part of transformative learning. Using the lenses of rhythm theory, biographical learning, and memory studies, it highlights both the individual and social dimensions for making sense of the past after a period of change. Discussing the example of an individual…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Self Concept, History
Heesung Hwang – Religious Education, 2024
This paper addresses the urgent reality of the environmental crisis, underscoring its irreversible nature and the critical need for transformative action. It explores the complex intersections of capitalism, consumer culture, and climate justice, highlighting the profound societal challenges these forces create. Through case studies of two…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Climate, Transformative Learning, Christianity
Federica Liberti – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical…
Descriptors: Feminism, Imagination, Social Change, Art
'The Future We Want'? -- The Ideal Twenty-First Century Learner and Education's Neuro-Affective Turn
Kirsi Yliniva; Audrey Bryan; Kristiina Brunila – Comparative Education, 2024
We examine the ideal twenty-first century learner as discursively produced in recent future-oriented documents published by the OECD and UNESCO. Drawing inspiration from Bacchi's question 'What is the problem represented to be?', we identify a constellation of interrelated discourses that together craft an image of a post-political, resilient,…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Futures (of Society), Humanistic Education, Sustainable Development
Kevin Collins; Cynthia E. Collins – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2024
In this article, Cindy and I explore our creative megapuppetry activism. As avocational advocates of social change in the state of Tennessee, we describe our lived experiences of educating adults about social issues in public spaces through protests, rallies, and parades. We use this description as a phenomenological autoethnography, investigating…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Change, Ethnography, Personal Narratives
Robert J. Sternberg – Roeper Review, 2024
The kind of transactional, or tit-for-tat giftedness that so many programs identify and develop will not help to create a better world. Yet, if anyone is in a position to create a better world, it is our gifted young people. In this article, roles are presented that can be used to create change in the world. Some of these roles, when applied…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Academically Gifted, Activism, Social Change
Ayaka Nakano – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2024
This paper examines how public education can ensure equity and diversity by clarifying the "democratic aspects" that can be captured through school-community collaborative activities in Japan and the U.S. As a result of comparison and analysis, it is indicated that in both Japan and the U.S., these activities are conducted in the context…
Descriptors: Democracy, Equal Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Xavier Perez; Coray Ames Hoffner – Metropolitan Universities, 2025
This paper examines the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program's pedagogy as a praxis for transformative learning and social change, with a particular focus on the role of incarcerated students in shaping public policy. It explores how an Inside-Out approach cultivates a learning environment rooted in critical thinking, reflection, collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Public Policy, Transformative Learning, Social Change
Peter M. Appelbaum – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This dialogue with Janet Miller, from her early work in the 1980s through the present, explores a post-human response to situatedness and embodiment, and demonstrate possible things to consider when we want to avoid centering human experience--when we strive to steward a universe determined as much by the more-than-human participants in our…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education, Humanism
Horacio Sanchez – Corwin, 2025
What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias--for better or for worse. "Unlocking School Bias" ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Educational Discrimination, Neurosciences, Student Behavior
Ezra Jonah Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that secondary school students within an education system in a small island Caribbean state are not performing at the required academic standard. The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of the Ministry of Education and Public Service Commission regarding the recruitment and selection of prospective principals with…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Selection, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura; Mayuko Horimoto; Jessica Hinshaw – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2024
The purpose of the study is to understand how Japanese women become social entrepreneurs. The challenges in fostering women's entrepreneurship include socio-cultural traditional views on women's roles and expectations and insufficient support systems. Despite such challenges, the rise of Japanese women as social entrepreneurs has been observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Asian Culture, Females
Sheila R. Vaidya; Casey E. Hanna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
Teachers help shape the future of our world and impact school effectiveness and improvement. School effectiveness is most important because education is transformative and central to economic development and social change, called for in this year's AERA theme. Retaining talented teachers is pivotal to cultivating tomorrow's leaders and innovators.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness