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Drago-Severson, Eleanor – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016
"What is happening in education today?" and "What is most needed for the future of teaching, learning and leading?" This article presents a developmental approach to learning, leadership and advancing professional learning--one that takes into account adults' diverse meaning making processes--that can help educators build the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Teaching Methods
Treff, Marjorie E.; Earnest, Stephen E. – Adult Learning, 2016
This article recommends strategies and process tools that teach learners to communicate with peers, observe specific behaviors in group processes, and share and analyze those observations to create increased awareness of their and others' assumptions and behaviors. The authors apply these strategies and tools in ways that make explicit to learners…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Educational Theories, Adult Development
Panton, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Women of color, especially Black women, are underrepresented in the extant literature and research of adult development and mind, body, spirit leadership. This in-depth qualitative portraiture study explored the lives of three Black women who have been leading their communities as adult educators of mind, body, spirit practices. This examination…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Females, Minority Groups, Adult Development
Turner, Susan A. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
This description of a teaching self-study focuses on a graduate research course for classroom teachers in which two issues central to improving teaching practice were addressed. First, it details the process of examining course design and curriculum in search of the most effective strategies for training classroom teachers to do research. Second,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Research Skills, Training
Thomas, Ruth; Cooke, Betty; Scott, Mary – Zero to Three, 2005
Parenting education programs have traditionally consisted of teaching skills and providing information about child development, but have not focused on parents' own development as individuals and as parents. The Reflective Dialogue Parent Education Design (RDPED) described in this article helps parents increase their self-awareness and their…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Teaching Methods
Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Drago-Severson, Eleanor – Teachers College Press, 2004
This book offers a new and promising way to support adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) programs specifically, and learners in adult education, in general. Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory, Drago-Severson depicts an in-depth…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Design, Literacy, Work Environment