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Payne, Helen; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This article describes how adults learn to self-manage chronic bodily symptoms, a complex and costly health problem. It proposes a theory of learning for an innovative, research-informed intervention, The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) aimed at developing confidence, competence, skills, and knowledge and understanding for self-management for people…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Self Management, Patients, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Wegener, Charlotte – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the intersection between institutional requirements for reflection and students' actual reflection initiatives in the social and health care education programmes. A situated perspective makes it possible to illuminate individuals' commitment, curiosity and uncertainty as bases for understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Vocational Education, Ethnography
Roessger, Kevin M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
Researchers have yet to agree on an approach that supports how adults best learn novel motor skills in formal educational contexts. The literature fails to adequately discuss adult motor learning from the standpoint of adult education. Instead, the subject is addressed by other disciplines. This review attempts to integrate perspectives across…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Models, Psychomotor Skills, Perceptual Motor Learning
Arispe, Don D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This case study focuses upon the transformational experiences of 28 social service and pastoral workers engaged in a Reflection Circle Process (RCP) in San Antonio, TX. The RCP involves the writing of a holistic journal entry, known as a process note, coupled with an in-depth exploration of the note with the help of a group of trusted peers, known…
Descriptors: Reflection, Community Organizations, Social Work, Caseworkers
Cohen-Miller, Anna – Adult Learning, 2012
In this article, the author discusses how the 60th annual American Association for Adult and Continuing Education conference was a site for everyday informal learning, interdisciplinarity, and integrative learning and teaching. She provides examples for ways in which interdisciplinary projects can emerge naturally from a conference and argues for…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Informal Education, Doctoral Programs
Taylor, Affrica – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
This interdisciplinary article draws upon human geography to bring fresh new perspectives to the relationship between two commonly conflated concepts: "childhood" and "nature". Childhood studies scholars have gone a long way towards retheorizing childhood beyond the "natural" and the "universal" by pointing to its historical and cultural…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Children, Interdisciplinary Approach, Childhood Attitudes
Dolan, Maureen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The subject of this inquiry is to explore university students' stories of transformation from the practice of integral yoga in an undergraduate course exploring human biology, health, and spirituality. The stories of participants give evidence for successful educational performance when yoga and meditation are combined with academic learning in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Physical Activities, Mental Health, Relaxation Training
Onorati, Maria Giovanna; Bednarz, Furio – Online Submission, 2010
This paper dates back to 2009 (it was first presented at the CRLL Conference at Stirling University) and deals with the advances in lifelong learning introduced by an ERASMUS LLP-IP named Interdisciplinary Course of Intercultural Competences (ICIC). The programme, that involves academic and non-academic institutions concerned with higher education…
Descriptors: Training, Lifelong Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cultural Awareness
Mc Namara, Kevin P.; Duncan, Gregory J.; McDowell, Jenny; Marriott, Jennifer L. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
Introduction: New technologies such as the Internet offer an increasing number of options for the delivery of continuing education (CE) to community pharmacists. Many of these options are being utilized to overcome access- and cost-related problems. This paper identifies learning preferences of Australian community pharmacists for CE and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Continuing Education, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
Hafford-Letchfield, Trish; Couchman, Wendy; Webster, Maxine; Avery, Peter – Educational Gerontology, 2010
This paper describes an intergenerational project developed in partnership between a social work degree program and an Older People's Theatre group. Bringing together a small group of students, older actors, and film makers, methods from drama and the arts were utilised to explore the topic of intimacy and sexuality in later life. The project…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Intimacy, Sexuality, Partnerships in Education
Sargeant, Joan – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
Multiple events are calling for greater interprofessional collaboration and communication, including initiatives aimed at enhancing patient safety and preventing medical errors. Education is 1 way to increase collaboration and communication, and is an explicit goal of interprofessional education (IPE). Yet health professionals to date are largely…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Theories