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Kelly LaPlante – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores the perceptions of employed MBA students regarding the value of optional micro-credentials and their impact on skill enhancement, career advancement, and personal growth. Utilizing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), the research involved semi-structured virtual interviews with 15 participants, complemented by…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Graduate Students, Microcredentials, Student Attitudes
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Katrine K. Wong – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Often discussed as a support system or strategy linked with academic, social, and emotional benefits for its participants, mentorship is conducted in increasingly more diverse forms, and the discussion thereof has gained much traction in multiple domains. In China, mentoring has received increasingly more attention in recent years. Holistic,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Residential Institutions
Kaitlyn Rushelle Fisette Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
First-generation college students are a prominent higher education student population and are well-represented at the community college. Unfortunately, many first-generation community college students do not persist for degree completion. These students face many academic and social challenges that impact their persistence. However, research has…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Student Experience, First Generation College Students
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Joseph A. Kitchen; K. C. Culver; Gwendelyn Rivera; Zoë B. Corwin – Teachers College Record, 2025
Background: Low-income students face cultural and social challenges navigating college environments that privilege middle- and upper-class norms, knowledge, and values; these challenges lead to difficulty transitioning to college and disparities in student success for low-income students relative to their higher-income counterparts. Peer…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Mentors, Success, Transitional Programs
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Cheyenne C. Luzynski; Peter Athans; Jawauna Harding – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2024
Sport plays a crucial role in personal and collective development, reflecting core values and serving as a platform for holistic growth. As athletics, especially intercollegiate sports, face increasing pressures and challenges, the need for leadership training and character development has become more critical than ever. This article emphasizes…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Games, Holistic Approach, Individual Development
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Leandro Loyola – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2022
This study focuses on how student leaders coming from different Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) understand Holistic Development and Wellness based on their experiences and perspectives. Literature underscores the clear role of HEIs in ensuring the holistic development and wellness of the students, whose responsibility includes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Leadership, College Students, Holistic Approach
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Lee, Matthew T.; Hartsough, Molly; Borick, Sam; Gathagan, Brooks – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This reflective essay advances a model of transformative education based on the collaborative experiences of a professor and three students who sought greater opportunities for flourishing through reflective and contemplative methods in an instructor-created open space. Open space derives from research in education, child psychology, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning
Satterwhite, Safiyah – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation was developed to research how prepared aspiring Education Entrepreneurs would feel when supported holistically through a methodology that incorporates a blending of informational and transformational learning approaches while teaching Entrepreneurship. Our current entrepreneurship programs, both formal and informal, have not…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Transformative Learning, Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods
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Kumar, Smita – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This study examines how students experienced and made meaning of a novel academic course in mindfulness, offered to foster holistic learning through self-knowledge. For this interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were collected through critical reflective journals and semistructured interviews. The findings suggest that the course allowed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Transformative Learning, Lifelong Learning
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Ardelt, Monika – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This study explored whether three-dimensional wisdom and psychosocial growth, defined as increases in psychological well-being (PWB), spirituality, and death acceptance, can be learned in university courses. Specifically, the study examined whether courses that tried to engage the whole person rather than only the intellect and/or courses that…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Religious Factors, College Curriculum
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Senok, Abiola; John-Baptiste, Anne-Marie; Al Heialy, Saba; Naidoo, Nerissa; Otaki, Farah; Davis, Dave – Journal of Experiential Education, 2022
Background: The aftermath of the 1910 Flexner report resulted in significant gaps in the structure of medical education. Experiential co-curricular opportunities can contribute to addressing these gaps. Purpose: To explore, from a holistic social constructionism perspective, the added value of a co-curricular program, designed and implemented…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Educational Change, Experiential Learning, Learning Theories
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Walls, Jill K. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
SoTL scholars have written about the importance and utility of teaching from a guiding theoretical framework. In this paper, ecological theory and specifically Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, is examined as a potential framework for synthesizing SoTL research findings to inform teaching and learning scholarship at the college level. A…
Descriptors: Models, Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Instruction
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Ozmantar, Zehra Keser – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
This study examines and explores PSTs' fears realised during the practicum period. In order to achieve an in-depth understanding, a phenomenological and holistic approach has been adopted. Data were collected from 22 preservice teachers via reports with open-ended questions on a weekly basis during the whole practicum period. 211 reports were…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Preservice Teachers, Fear, Student Attitudes
Bianca Briana Teats – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study depicted the development and implementation of the Holistic Undergraduate Growth Experience (HUGE) student success and retention program that spans the second year of undergraduate study to graduation. This study set out to expand student development theory and practice to include an international perspective, specifically one from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Program Development, Undergraduate Study
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Schieffer, Alexander; Lessem, Ronnie – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article describes an approach towards a fully transformed university, coined Integral University. Linking Education (E), Research (R), Activation (A) and Catalysation (C), it can "CARE" for individual, organisation, communal and societal development. Within it, theory and practice, knowledge creation and transformative action go hand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Holistic Approach, Theory Practice Relationship
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