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Jacobs, Rachael Frances – Journal of Pedagogy, 2022
Initial teacher education programs regularly engage students in service-learning programs, providing an additional pathway to personal, professional and pedagogical transformation in their learning journey. One of those pathways is through service-learning placements in community arts projects. This paper reports on a study of arts-based…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Service Learning, Educational Experience, Transformative Learning
Jagers, Robert J.; Skoog-Hoffman, Alexandra; Barthelus, Bloodine; Schlund, Justina – American Educator, 2021
Imagine a school community in which all children and youth have equal opportunities to thrive. Social and cultural markers no longer negatively predict young people's academic, social, and emotional outcomes or their life chances. This is the community the authors aspire to build. Their work necessarily focuses on both youth and adult social and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Transformative Learning
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Blackburn Miller, Jennifer – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
Between 2005 and 2017 yielded fertile ground for research studies and articles about transformative learning and the arts within the field of adult education. The main questions this article seeks to answer are: What art forms are being used for transformative learning, how are they being used, and with what effect? The article begins by…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Art Education, Adult Learning, Holistic Approach
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Abuya, Benta; Muhia, Nelson – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
This paper explains sustained effects and what worked for students in the Advancing Learning Outcomes and Transformational (ALOT Change III) program. Data comes from qualitative narratives from the baseline survey of the program collected by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) between December 4, 2019, and January 31, 2020,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Community Programs, Transformative Learning
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Steel-Hawthorne, Isobel; Trotter, Syd; Bryne, Sinead; Morgan, Melissa – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2018
This case study tracks an established collaborative partnership between faith-based organisations and the local community of North Belfast. The initial stages of the project of implementing a welcome day, a cultural food and activities fest day and an Ulster University led Unblocking Potential programme. This set the scene for social cohesion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Migrants, Community Programs
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Tett, Lyn – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
This article draws on the theories of Mezirow, Foucault, and Holland and colleagues to investigate how students were positioned in relation to their own experiences, what opportunities they had to overcome their negative positioning in relation to the power structures that inform the worlds in which they move, and how their changed practices…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Literacy Education, Self Concept, Learning Experience
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Garcia-Carrion, Rocio; Gomez, Aitor; Molina, Silvia; Ionescu, Vladia – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Teachers' professional development in Schools as Learning Communities may become a key process for the sustainability and transferability of this model worldwide. Learning Communities (LC) is a community-based project that aims to transform schools through dialogic learning and involves research-grounded schools that implement Successful…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Sustainability
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Cohen, Dan Baron – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
Dan Baron Cohen is a community-based art educator and cultural activist of Welsh-Quebecois origin, who lives and works in the Brazilian Amazon city of Maraba. After completing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Oxford University, he developed collaborations with young people and their post-industrial communities at risk in northern England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Theater Arts
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Aguilar, Olivia M. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Interest in community environmental education (EE) and community education for sustainable development (ESD) is increasing, as evidenced by the increase in studies examining community EE/ESD approaches and NAAEE's current development of the Community EE Guidelines for Excellence. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to: (1) provide a review of…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Environmental Education, Community Education, Sustainable Development
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Sánchez Ares, Rocío – Educational Action Research, 2015
Feminist action research interrogates gendered dynamics in the development of a collective consciousness. A group of immigrant Latina women (Latinas) from the Caribbean and Central America employed community-based theater as an instrument to mobilize diverse audiences against discriminatory practices and policies. Based on their theater work, I…
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Inquiry, Theater Arts
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Ward, Julie; Mills, Helen Frances; Anderson, Alan – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
During the winter of 2011-2012, Weardale, England, was the setting for an ambitious informal adult education project. In this rural area in the northeast part of the country, the local arts collective, Jack Drum Arts, established a community play project entitled "The Bonny Moorhen." This dramatic undertaking aimed to retell the story of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Drama, Community Programs
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Coady, Maureen – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
This article describes a case study of adult learning in a Canadian multisite Community Cardiovascular Hearts in Motion program. The researcher highlights the informal learning of 40 adult participants in this 12-week community-based cardiac rehabilitation/education program in five rural Nova Scotia communities. The effects of this learning and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Transformative Learning
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Rogers, Jennifer; Convery, Ian; Simmons, Eunice; Weatherall, Andrew – Educational Action Research, 2012
This paper is a reflective account exploring the value of using action research in a relatively new context in the United Kingdom; the development of community renewable-energy projects. There is a strong rationale for using action research in this setting due to the synergies between the principles and practice of action research and localised…
Descriptors: Action Research, Energy, Sustainable Development, Climate
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Selkrig, Mark – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Community-based arts projects can act as powerful learning opportunities in a variety of lifelong and life wide contexts. Many of these projects involve artists, who usually undertake a leading role to ensure that some type of transformation takes place for those involved. The impact on the leaders--in this case the artists--is difficult to…
Descriptors: Artists, Self Concept, Art Activities, Community Programs
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Spry, Nandila; Marchant, Teresa – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Gender equity and the empowerment of women is a significant international issue. Successful adult education programs are vital to enhance women's situation. Lessons learned from a personal development program provided for thousands of women are analysed. The program is conducted by community service providers in Australia and internationally, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Females, Empowerment
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