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Netolicky, Deborah M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study travels 'down the rabbit hole' of story, with its unique approach to the phenomenon of professional learning. It employs narrative inquiry to examine the perspectives of fourteen educators in one independent Australian school during its pilot teacher growth intervention. Extended literary metaphor and known literary characters operate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Transformative Learning, Private Schools, Pilot Projects
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Burrows, Leigh – Journal of Transformative Education, 2015
This article reports on face-to-face and online qualitative research conducted with 25 teachers from 8 schools in Australia that explored their experience of mindfulness and reflection in relation to a self-identified relational dilemma with a student, colleague, or parent who was causing them concern at work. The aim of this study was to find out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Reflection, Interpersonal Relationship
Golding, Barry – Adults Learning, 2011
The "men's sheds" movement is a grassroots phenomenon that has engaged and inspired men from communities across Australia in hands-on, workshop-based social activity. This article seeks to "unwrap" one of several forms of learning that have been found to be enthusiastically embraced by older men previously thought of, almost…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation