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Minni Matikainen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
Transformative learning in teacher education qualitatively changes future teachers' meaning systems of learning, teaching, and education. In this study, I explored transformative learning in Finnish class teacher education. Data were collected by observing student teachers over two academic years. Data also contains writings that student teachers…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Yongyan Zheng; Yixi Qiu – Language and Education, 2024
Informed by a combined framework of 'translanguaging' and 'epistemic injustice', this paper examines how a group of teachers and students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds negotiated their knowledge participation through translanguaging in an English medium instruction (EMI) degree program at a Chinese university. Data were…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Students
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Chiocca, Emmanuelle S. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2021
With the growth of short-term study abroad programs comes the need to develop impactful curricula and to provide supportive environments for deep learning abroad that is more than "upgraded" tourism but rather focused on educational outcomes. This qualitative case study investigates the experiences of five study abroad participants in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Curriculum Development, Learning Processes
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Hanley, Chris; Brown, Tony – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
What might a distinct university contribution to teacher education look like? This paper tracks a group of prospective teachers making the transition from undergraduate to teacher on a one-year school-based postgraduate course. The study employs a practitioner research methodological framework where teacher learning is understood as a process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Iared, Valéria Ghisloti; Di Tullio, Ariane; Payne, Phillip G.; Torres de Oliveira, Haydée – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
The contributions and challenges of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Freire's critical pedagogy to research and practice in environmental education are considered. We present the authors' main concepts and relate them to the principles of critical environmental education that have guided our work in Brazil. Although a raft of current…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Lesta, Stalo; Charalambous, Constadina; Charalambous, Panayiota – European Education, 2016
The present paper examines the implementation of a particular human rights education approach--known as "critical hermeneutical" approach--in the context of two Greek-Cypriot classrooms. The study investigates whether and how an intervention grounded in this approach offers transformative possibilities to students and what kind of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Hermeneutics, Intervention, Teacher Education
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Loukaidis, Loizos; Antoniou, Marios – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
This article investigates Greek-Cypriot primary school teachers' challenges to enact critical hermeneutics in religious education (RE) within a confessional context. Critical hermeneutics combines elements from critical and hermeneutical theories, emphasising the importance of grounding the conceptualisation of religious and secular truth-claims…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Elementary School Teachers, Religious Education, Ethics
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Sjöström, Jesper; Frerichs, Nadja; Zuin, Vânia G.; Eilks, Ingo – Studies in Science Education, 2017
"Bildung" is a complex educational concept that emerged in Germany in the mid eighteenth century. Especially in Germany and Scandinavia conceptions of "Bildung" became the general philosophical framework to guide both formal and informal education. "Bildung" concerns the whole range of education from setting…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Science Education, Educational Research, General Education
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Harrell-Levy, Marinda K; Kerpelman, Jennifer L; Henry, Daniel – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Theories imply that transformative teaching influences positive identity development, but empirical studies of this relationship are sparse. It is clear that good teaching can positively influence youth; however, it is less clear how good teachers influence positive identity outcomes in youth, and in particular Black youth. We examined the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Career Exploration, Advantaged
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Tsouvala, Maria; Magos, Kostas – Research in Dance Education, 2016
This paper describes a dance-based research project conducted at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Thessaly. The main aim of the project was to explore the possibilities of dance in understanding the self in relation to the world, under the perspective of the transformative learning theory. The methodology applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Transformative Learning, Research Projects
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Atkinson, Michael – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
Ostensibly, the orientation towards learning outcomes in adult English language and literacy delivery ensures that the focus is on standardised skill development and knowledge acquisition of students. Such measureable development is seen as foundational to broader employability skills and job readiness. It is an agenda however which ignores the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Benade, Leon – Open Review of Educational Research, 2015
In the twenty-first century, learning and teaching at school must prepare young people for engaging in a complex and dynamic world deeply influenced by globalisation and the revolution in digital technology. In addition to the use of digital technologies, is the development of flexible learning spaces. It is claimed that these developments demand,…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Educational Practices, Hermeneutics, Educational Theories
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Magrini, James – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2011
Meditating on the potential for inspiring authentic educational practice, this paper conceptualizes teaching and learning through a phenomenological, ontological, and hermeneutical approach. Ultimately, it theorizes a renewed vision for the design and management of a curriculum and classroom that promotes, supports, and facilitates a rich and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Teacher Student Relationship