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Michel, Jessica Ostrow; Holland, LeAnn M.; Brunnquell, Claudine; Sterling, Stephen – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter presents an overview of transformative learning theory while illuminating its connections to education for sustainability.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Sustainability, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories
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Johnson, Tanya; Parker, Francine – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article describes pedagogical teaching and learning strategies that facilitate transformative learning for RN-BSN students in the online program.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning, Nursing Students
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Daniels, Tazin; Schoem, Shana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter describes a transformative model for preparing graduate student instructors in any discipline to design and teach inclusive courses through a social justice framework.
Descriptors: Inclusion, Graduate Students, Transformative Learning, Models
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Wilson, Justin; Nelson-Moody, Aaron – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2019
This chapter describes the potlatch as a methodology to engage culturally diverse classrooms in liberation curriculum. The Potlach is a high-context, community-based, participatory method offering three intra/interpersonal reflexive waypoints teachers can use when designing and delivering transformative learning.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Cultural Pluralism, Student Diversity, Teaching Methods
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Pettit, Jennifer; Rathburn, Melanie; Calvert, Victoria; Lexier, Roberta; Underwood, Margot; Gleeson, Judy; Dean, Yasmin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each coauthor participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
Descriptors: Interviews, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Coburn, Thomas B. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter argues that today's dominant forms of education are insufficient for today's world because they ignore the vast and conventionally untapped resource that lies in the disciplined inwardness that is contemplative life. It then surveys a range of transformative examples that are emerging in the educational movement known as…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Methods, Transformative Learning, Educational Philosophy
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DuFon, Margaret A.; Christian, Jennifer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter recounts the development of faculty and student groups whose purposes are to promote mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy on the California State University-Chico campus through work both on the campus and in the greater Chico community. The "Mindful Campus" a student organization formed in 2011, merged with the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Metacognition, Student Organizations, Campuses
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Alejano-Steele, AnnJanette; Hamington, Maurice; MacDonald, Lunden; Potter, Mark; Schafer, Shaun; Sgoutas, Arlene; Tull, Tara – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Effective diversity education requires that the instructor be knowledgeable and comfortable with the theories and issues of identity. Given the persistence of curricular ethnocentrism and the highly charged nature of contemporary identity narratives, the preparation of faculty to teach diversity effectively across academic disciplines is no small…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Learner Engagement
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Allen, Bonnie; Tucker, Estrus – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a synchronistic set of events and relationships generated a new kind of experiential learning in communities across Mississippi. Educators based at the University of Mississippi, community-based educators, social justice advocates, and funders collaborated to provide the resources and opportunities for…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democracy, School Community Relationship, Service Learning
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Laff, Ned Scott – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
This chapter argues that liberal learning can be transformative and foster students' intellectual and ethical development only if we consider its development underpinnings and pedagogic strategies that illustrate that the skills of academic inquiry are the skills of personal development. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Student Development, Cognitive Development, Ethics