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Direct linkMacKinnon, Allan – Studying Teacher Education, 2017
This issue of "Studying Teacher Education" is devoted to researching the experience of practicum in teacher education. They come from a multi-year research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Located at four Canadian universities, the five authors of this special issue investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Practicums, Preservice Teacher Education, Transformative Learning
Greyling, W. J.; du Toit, P. H. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
In this article we argue that Kelly's construct psychology (Kelly 1955; 1966/2003) provides a useful framework for mentoring in the Higher Education sector in South Africa. Kelly's notion of constructive alternativism prompts practitioners to adopt a questioning attitude to life in HE; newly appointed academic staff members and their mentors have…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Cognitive Style, Mentors
Peer reviewedGaikezehongai, Sally – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Prophecies say that Aboriginal peoples of the Americas will educate and illuminate the world by sharing their Sacred Fire, the spiritual strength that has enabled their survival. Such a vision sustains Aboriginal literacy practitioners, who are developing a unique holistic foundation for the healing and nurturing of minds, bodies, and spirits.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Educational Change
Peer reviewedWheal, James R. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2000
Contemporary schooling, particularly high schools, could benefit from a return to the model of Plato's Academy in which ecstatic experience provided a central and informative role in addressing the higher stages of human development. Supplementing traditional curricula with integral practices that address body, mind, and spirit, and reviving the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedGamlin, Peter – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Literacy is discussed in the broadest sense. From an Aboriginal perspective, literacy is about sustaining a world view and culture, resymbolizing and reinterpreting past experience while honoring traditional values, living these values, and visioning a future in which an Aboriginal way of being will continue to thrive. Meaningful Aboriginal…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Biculturalism, Canada Natives, Creativity
Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2003
This book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture, how spirituality assists in meaning making, and how understanding the relationship between culture and spirituality can help adult educators make their students' educational experiences more transformative and culturally relevant. Particular attention is paid to spirituality's…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cultural Context
