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Retha Knoetze – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Neoliberal practices such as managerialism and academic casualisation impact higher education systems globally. While these practices can constrain any curriculum aimed at enabling transformative learning, this paper shows that they place particular limitations on arts and humanities curricula intent on cultivating criticality and a sense of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Neoliberalism, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods
Kristine Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this case study was to explore the career impacts and learning and development outcomes experienced after participating in an Ed.D. leadership program at the University of St. Thomas by a single cohort of nontraditional educational leaders. Qualitative data was gathered from nine members of one cohort who completed 15 in-depth…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship
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Ural, Ayhan; Öztürk, Aysun – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
Neoliberalism, the dominant ideology which covers almost all areas of life, has transformed education/ In Turkey as well as the whole world, and all aspects of education, including teacher training, have been faced with marketisation. Teacher education has started to aim to "train" teachers, and as a result , individuals who have gained…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Neoliberalism
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Immaculate Kizito Namukasa; Elaine Fournier; Hiba Barek; Mina Sedaghatjou – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
This paper presents analysis of evidence on the ways in which the connection between technology and scholarship supported a Community of Practice (CoP) for instructors in a Faculty of Education in Canada. The goal is to reflect on different types of pedagogical practices of CoP members. We discuss the ways in which both social learning and online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Communities of Practice
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Klein, Kim, Ed.; Mulvaney, Mary Kay, Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2020
Internationalization of honors programs and colleges enriches students' undergraduate education and expands their post-graduate options, opening doors to a new world of experiences and opportunities. This monograph takes a holistic approach to internationalization. The monograph highlights how honors programs and colleges have gone beyond…
Descriptors: International Education, Honors Curriculum, Case Studies, Models
National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 2018
Good charter school policy must be part of the solution to address the public education system's greatest problem: too many children lack access to a transformative education. Getting authorizing policy right is critical because good authorizing has the power to transform the lives of not just a few children, but millions. While the quality of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Access to Education, Transformative Learning
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Dean, Aftab; Gibbs, Paul – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the purpose of the complex open system of higher education and to explore this transformative experience as personal flourishing, where students come to terms with a way of being, matching their potentiality with their agency and leading to profound happiness. There is influential, but not uncontested…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Life Satisfaction
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Reames, Ellen H. – Planning and Changing, 2016
Educational leadership redesign efforts have been numerous in recent years. Scholars have reported descriptions of these redesigns and have included important and relevant program improvements (Brooks, Reames, & Reed, 2010; Browne-Ferrigno, 2011; Buttram & Doolittle, 2015; Mountford & Acker-Hocevar, 2013; Phillips, 2013), unique…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Coordinators, Instructor Coordinators
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Preston, Jane P.; Ogenchuk, Marcella J.; Nsiah, Joseph K. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The purpose of the paper is to describe our peer mentorship experiences and explain how these experiences fostered transformational learning during our PhD graduate program in educational administration. As a literature backdrop, we discuss characteristics of traditional forms of mentorship and depict how our experiences of peer mentorship was…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Peer Groups, Mentors, Student Experience
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Wallace, Janice; Wallin, Dawn – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper traces the academic identity formation(s) of 10 Canadian female academics whose disciplinary knowledge is in the field of educational administration. We trace the ways in which discourses of gender, institutional power, and other cultural and social influences shaped their sense of themselves as academics in the highly patriarchal…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Trekles, Anastasia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
An increasing number of university programs, particularly at the graduate level, are moving to an accelerated, time-compressed model for online degree offerings. However, the literature revealed that research in distance education effectiveness is still confounded by many variables, including course design and student approach to learning.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Transformative Learning, Critical Thinking, Acceleration (Education)
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Borden, Allison M.; Preskill, Stephen L.; DeMoss, Karen – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2012
Aspiring leaders in preparation programs need up-to-date research applied in real-life situations. University faculty need to change their understandings of what it means to effectively promote leadership development through university programs. This article presents understandings on how exploratory, field-based coursework offered through a…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Course Evaluation, College School Cooperation, Leadership
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McCotter, Suzanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
Given the importance of reflection in educators' practice, school leaders should be able to both facilitate teacher reflection and model reflective practice. This action research study examined whether or not emerging school leaders demonstrate the ability to reflect on daily practice and decision-making. Data from three classes of prospective…
Descriptors: Action Research, Principals, Reflection, Decision Making Skills
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Mountford, Meredith – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
This article describes strategies for redesigning the University of Missouri's Statewide Cooperative Ed.D. Cohort Program in educational leadership. Results had suggested a need to redesign aspects of the program in order to achieve higher levels of cognitive learning outcomes inclusive of transformational learning. To help meet this objective,…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Group Dynamics, Ethics, Doctoral Programs