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Pang, Guanglong; Cox, Robert C.; Acheson, Kris – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Using a bibliographic approach that employs a systematic literature review, this paper analyzes the state of the field for assessing transformative learning (TL). Assessing TL has always been challenging. Using the field of international education (IE) as a case study, this article leverages findings from the assessment of TL in IE to illustrate…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Evaluation Methods, International Education, Literature Reviews
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Dan Cui; Xiaomei Li; Wendi Jin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Existing studies predominantly analyze the mental health experiences of Chinese international students through a psychological perspective. This study, however, delves into transformative learning (TL) outcomes related to understanding and overcoming "anxiety" from a critical sociological lens. Utilizing a duo-ethnographic methodology,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Females, Womens Education
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Olatunji, Taiwo Isaac; Tola-Adewumi, Oladunni Tolu – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against Nigerian nurses in the US is a complex issue intersecting gender, occupation, culture, economics, and migration. This study adopts an intersectional feminist and adult learning framework to explore the causes and potential solutions. Drawing on a thematic analysis of ten media reports and commentaries on…
Descriptors: Nurses, Family Violence, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
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Qiu, Ruoyi – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This study utilizes the personal critical narrative of myself, a woman from the Chaoshan region in China, as the primary data source to explore the impact of traditional gender roles and patriarchal values on women's personal growth transformation through a feminist lens. Integrating feminist and transformative learning theory, it encompasses my…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Personal Narratives, Criticism
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Butterwick, Shauna; Selman, Jan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Theater processes can powerfully connect mind, body, and emotions, providing opportunities and spaces for transformation. Based in stories from the authors' disparate but complementary practices, they focus here on facilitators' ethical responsibilities when bringing theater activities to processes of critical deconstruction of oppressive…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Risk
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Meyer, Pamela – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Organizational learning and transformation and attainment of organizational goals are not at odds. Those who value and consciously integrate whole-person and whole-body strategies in their formal and informal learning practices encourage people to bring their whole selves, including their emotional, physical, and spiritual life, to work. As…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Motivation, Work Environment, Workplace Learning
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Rossiter, Marsha – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
The possible selves construct is presented as a useful and largely untapped perspective on adult learning. Special attention is given to the role of educational helping relationships in fostering positive possible selves among adult learners.
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Self Efficacy, Self Concept
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Baumgartner, Lisa M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
This chapter examines how HIV-positive adults made sense of their diagnosis. Individuals experienced a perspective transformation or change in worldview, which was found to hold over time. Changes in meaning schemes or individual beliefs and assumptions occurred over time.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Patients
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Kappel, Patricia Leong; Daley, Barbara J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
The urban context generates a barrage of disorienting dilemmas for urban learners, thereby complicating and challenging the promotion of transformative learning. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Urban Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes