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Jordan, Daniel; Walker, Jude – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This paper examines the stories of transformative learning of two men reflecting on their recovery from addictions and trauma. We employ the Hero's journey as a useful frame within which to understand their stories of becoming more and progressing towards a recovered self. The article challenges the dominant biomedical model of addiction, and of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Males, Reflection, Story Telling
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Trefzger Clarke, Lisa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
This case study explores the experiences of nine female-identifying feminist public educators working with Ontario, Canada, sexual assault centres who regularly facilitate discussions about sexual consent and gender-based sexual violence in schools, post-secondary institutions, and community workshops. The educators discuss their experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Females, Public Education
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Jean-Pierre, Johanne – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
African Nova Scotians constitute the largest multigenerational Black Canadian community, with 400 years of presence in Atlantic Canada. Despite the end of "de jure" school segregation in 1954, African Nova Scotians' social and cultural capital were not incorporated in curricular and pedagogical practices. Using the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Blacks, Social History
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Desmoulins, Leisa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
This article reports on a recent study into volunteers' experiences learning from the "Walking With Our Sisters" (WWOS) commemorative exhibit to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The study is grounded in Battiste's (2013) possibilities of educational transformations, within the context of learning from Indigenous…
Descriptors: Females, Homicide, Indigenous Populations, Exhibits
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Johnson, Kay – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Museums as colonial institutions are filled with the tensions and contradictions of competing discourses. This makes them complex sites of public pedagogy and informal adult education and learning. But they are also becoming important spaces of counter-narrative, self-representation, and resistance as Indigenous artists and curators intervene, and…
Descriptors: Museums, Adult Education, Informal Education, Artists
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Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This article describes the findings from a study of the transformation experiences of African war survivors to understand how the process of transformative learning is experienced in posttrauma contexts. A narrative inquiry was conducted based on 12 interviews of African war survivors in Canada and 6 autobiographical accounts of survivors living…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Trauma, Social Change, Moral Development
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Tarc, Aparna Mishra – Curriculum Inquiry, 2011
Supporting learners' public engagement with traumatic histories of mass human violence can develop and sustain reparative relations across and between strained social collectives. In this article I theorize the intrapersonal and inter-political dynamics of psychical and social reparation through a classroom case of reparative learning. I analyze…
Descriptors: Novels, Learner Engagement, Trauma, Violence