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Leodis Scott – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Priority one of the Marrakech Framework for Action (MFA) involves promoting adult learning and education (ALE) within a lifelong learning perspective. This article intends to describe how the MFA places lifelong learning into a new era of ascension that will be transformational towards ALE, sustainable development goals, the world promise of…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Guidelines, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Vicky Duckworth – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Further and adult education provide a multitude of social and intergenerational benefits that have often been diminished because of the lack of focus on the importance of human emotional engagement and impact from one generation to the next. Stories offer a lens to explore emotional worlds that have often been hidden and/or silenced. Initially, I…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Intergenerational Programs, Social Justice
Saskia Eschenbacher; Nils Weber – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
The theory of transformative learning and its notion of freedom, that we are not trapped by one way of looking at the world or being in the world, fosters a fundamental re-ordering and radical questioning of how one thinks or acts. As a theory of adult learning, it emerged from the women's movement in the US, echoing what it means to become a…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Transformative Learning, Reflection, Criticism
MacKenzie, Michael D. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
While spirituality has emerged as a topic of interest in adult education, much of the current scholarship considers spirituality as distinct from religion. This literature review questions those conclusions, including the use of theistic terminology to describe a concept (spirituality) that many posit is non-theistic. Spirituality is also…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Spiritual Development
Adam L. McClain – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Rooted in nearly five decades of scholarly research, transformative learning theory explores how individuals construct and reinterpret their experiences, leading to profound change. This chapter delves into the foundational principles of transformative learning within adult education, highlighting its significance and broad applications. It starts…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Educational History, Instructional Effectiveness
Wang, Victor; Torrisi-Steele, Geraldine; Reinsfield, Elizabeth – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Adult learners can have well-established 'ways of knowing', so a process of transformation represents learning that challenges them to discover new ways of thinking. Transformative learning is thus a frame for the practice of adult educators. The affordances of technologies can be exploited to facilitate transformative learning in adult learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Epistemology, Technology Uses in Education, Adult Education
Jenkins, Alyson – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021
A reconceptualization of education for sustainability and global citizenship education (GCE) is proposed, considering evidence from the United Nations decade of education for sustainable development (ESD) and from research with policymakers and adult educators in Wales. In this reframing, global citizenship education is foregrounded, and the model…
Descriptors: Ecology, Global Education, Citizenship Education, Sustainability
Dempsey, Maeve; Collins, Sandra; Malone, Lindsay – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
The Faculty of Lifelong Learning at the Institute of Technology Carlow co-created a Level 8 Certificate in Prevention, Partnership and Family Support with Tusla, the national Child and Family Agency. The part time programme was aimed at Child and Family Support Network (CFSN) members in Co. Carlow. The overall approach taken throughout this…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Education, Family Involvement, Lifelong Learning
Chang, Ching-Wen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
Transformative learning theory has provided a sound theoretical base for adult education's Western and Eastern academic field. This article aims to introduce the mandala model of transformative learning by transferring Mezirow's theory of perspective transformation onto a mandala map. In the mandala model, the learning agent exercises two…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Models, Problem Solving
Yoo, Juyoung – Art Education, 2023
The inquiry-based approach in museum education often takes the form of an educator asking open-ended questions to facilitate discussions around artworks, while encouraging students in careful observation and interpretive processes. However, although art museums are emphasizing learners' experiences and their interpretative processes, adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Museums, Transformative Learning, Evidence
Washburn, Allyson – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article develops a framework for this special issue of "JTE," and assesses the assessment of transformative learning. What and whom are the contributors assessing? For what ends? And how effectively? The call for manuscripts cited two "megatrends" in the transformative learning literature: (1) the importance of deep and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Adult Learning
Robertson, Jane; Heckroodt, Steyn – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
This account of practice discusses how we have implemented an emerging action learning framework in the form of guiding questions that are relevant to key stakeholders: the client organisation (sponsoring organisation), the management development company, the participants and the Learning Process Facilitator (LPF) to aid participants in their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Transformative Learning, Management Development, Learning Processes
Hawthorne-Steele, Isobel; Moreland, Rosemary; Cownie, Erik – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
COVID-19 and the looming economic recession threatens adult educators' long-fought battle to create dialogical spaces for transformatory learning. Previous experience of designing and delivering community programmes to marginalised, non-traditional students, has taught us the necessity of building strong tutor-student and student-peer…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Climate, Adult Education
Formenti, Laura – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter describes a practice of philosophical meditation as a way to transformation in an Italian context. It makes use of poetic and autoethnographic writing to highlight some features of the method, and offers suggestion for adult education practice.
Descriptors: Poetry, Ethnography, Writing (Composition), Transformative Learning
Zaky, Hany – Cogent Education, 2019
The most influential element in any educational system is to develop high- quality learners to effectively participate in their community. The body of research ascertains that Experiential Learning (EL) develops the learners' transferrable skills such as communication, responsibility, and social skills. Therefore, there is a push in adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Transformative Learning, Experiential Learning, Adult Education