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Hedwige Serot Almeras; Sabrina Bresciani – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2024
Beyond traditional training approaches, equine assisted learning (EAL) is an experiential learning method in which participants interact and conduct exercises with horses, which fosters a unique environment conducive to personal and professional development. Theorised benefits include increased self-awareness, emotional intelligence, communication…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Animals, Leadership, Communication Skills
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Pillay, Rosetta – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
The many genres of action learning have contributed to solving business and social problems, individual development and organisational learning. Different authors have scrutinised the role of the action-learning facilitator in upholding the precepts of action learning. Whilst the responsibilities of the facilitator to the group are significant,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Individual Development, Foreign Countries
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Matthew J. Smith; Katherine H. Burr; Laura A. Dean – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
Informed by Kolb's experiential learning theory and Baxter Magolda's holistic theory of student development, this qualitative study explores the experiences of graduate students in a supervised internship. From an analysis of written assignments completed during the internship experience, our findings reveal abundant meaning-making opportunities…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Internship Programs, Individual Development
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Rosa Mateu-Pérez; Paula Escobedo-Peiro; María Luisa García-Baldán; Raquel Flores-Buils – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
The purpose of this paper is to present the design, implementation and evaluation of the Personal Development through Resilience, Emotional Development and Well-being (PD-REW) project. This is a personal development project aimed at teachers in training, which contains elements of resilience, emotional development and well-being. It is based on…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Resilience (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Teacher Welfare
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Patrick Filipe Conway; Kathy Chau Rohn – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Colleges and universities have recently focused more attention on incorporating high-impact practices into their curricula, often under the auspices of the potential benefits such practices have for developmental growth and student success (Lange & Stewart, 2019). Outdoor adventure education represents an experiential practice where students…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Experiential Learning
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Timothy O'Brien – Journal of Management Education, 2024
Scholars have identified reflexivity, the ability to question what one might be taking for granted, as a critical meta-cognitive skill that management schools should cultivate amongst students. Reflexive learning though is a complex and idiosyncratic process. Little is known about how students experience this process, what they learn, or how a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Leadership Training, Researchers, Experimenter Characteristics
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Yang, Jing; Wang, Lijuan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
It has been well documented in adults that compared to verbal learning, learning while the subject performs an action is far more effective. However, the results of previous studies involving children have not reached a consensus. The present study examined the action memory of 4- to 6-year-old children under various encoding conditions (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Memory, Experiential Learning, Age Differences
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Rebecka M. Bloomer; Aishia Brown – Children & Schools, 2024
Youth development programs offer flexible environments for healing and positive identity development for youth facing discrimination and oppression. Programs often occur in out-of-school time (OST), a context that is clearly positioned in tandem with the education system to create complex relationships that lead to challenges in OST spaces. Youth…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Youth, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Nicole Campbell; Mohammed Estaiteyeh; Isha DeCoito; Amy Robinson – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This paper outlines the design, development, and implementation of a new Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences (MSc IMS) program at Western University in Canada. The course-based program focuses on interdisciplinary education and experiential learning with a goal to foster students' academic, professional, and personal skill…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Graduate Study, Professional Development, Individual Development
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Sek Ying Chair; Tin Yan Sit; Wai Ching Ng; Yuen Ying Mak; Kwun Hang Li – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a social service project for disadvantaged students through pretest-posttest study design and qualitative interviews. All students joining the service project were invited to participate in this study. Data on personal growth and academic performance (exam scores and class ranks) before and after joining…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Secondary School Students
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Daniel Thomas Page; Stephanie Hanrahan; Lisa Buckley – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
South African university students (n = 18; aged 21-28) participated in the LifeMatters train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop. Ten trained participants (n = 10; aged 21-23) then implemented the program as youth facilitators at three local schools. The study aimed to describe changes in participants resulting from the TTT and implementation experience.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Individual Development, College Students, Self Efficacy
Kevan W. Lamm; Lauren Pike; Don W. Edgar; Alyssa Powell – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
Ensuring that the experiences provided by Extension, including those associated with the 4-H program, are impactful to participants is of paramount importance. To ensure the continued success and relevance of the 4-H program, it is crucial for practitioners to measure the impact of 4-H involvement and use these results to develop highly impactful…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Extension Education, Program Effectiveness, Experiential Learning
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Meerts-Brandsma, Lisa; Sibthorp, Jim – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This study examines semester schools, which have elements associated with transformative learning, and an adolescent population, where transformative learning has less commonly been studied. We administered the Learning Activities Survey pre/post semester (n = 173) and followed the survey with semistructured interviews (n = 30) to assess whether…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, High School Students, Adolescents, Student Attitudes
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Jayson Seaman; Robert MacArthur; Sean Harrington – History of Education Review, 2020
Purpose: The article discusses Outward Bound's participation in the human potential movement through its incorporation of T-group practices and the reform language of experiential education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Design/methodology/approach: The article reports on original research conducted using materials from Dartmouth College and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Experiential Learning, Program Evaluation, Institutional Research
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Chesley, Julie A.; Egan, Terri; Jones, Hannah E. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
The changing landscape that leaders face demands an evolution of leadership development that not only builds skills but also grows a leader's capacity to effectively respond to and manage an ambiguous, uncertain and changing future. Based on adult development theory, we explore the nuanced difference of leadership development through two distinct,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Management Development, Educational Practices, Coaching (Performance)
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