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Dike, Felix Okechukwu; Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
The theory of transformative learning (TL) has been criticized secondhand for its lack of clarity in capturing and explaining in detail the processes undergone by learners who are going through TL experiences and their link to learning outcomes. Using a case study design, and carefully synthesized TL processes (TLPs) from Mezirow's TL theory, we…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Reflection, Learning Processes
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Sari, Lufi Kartika; De Backer, Free; Joson, Alexis Nouelle; Lombaerts, Koen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Experiencing unfamiliar environments tends to foster transformative learning. However, limited studies investigate how experiencing contrasting localities fosters transformative learning, such as teaching practice in remote areas by pre-service teachers who are from elsewhere. This study focuses on revealing pre-service teachers' transformative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Transformative Learning
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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
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Kang, Haijun; Sun, Qi; Lyu, Lei – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
Taking a case study approach and utilizing Hoggan's transformative learning (TL) typology and criteria as a framework, we examined the self-reported TL experiences of 12 local school leaders in Beijing, China. These local school leaders gained cross-cultural learning from a school leadership development program that was designed to prepare school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Asian Culture, Transformative Learning
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Lee, Jae Hwa; Portillo, Margaret; Meneely, Jason – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
The lens of transformative learning provided a deeper understanding of students' experiences and the process of learning within an interdisciplinary creativity course for first-year college students. Through the thematic analysis of 930 reflective narratives written by 93 students, the research identified how the overall course activities expanded…
Descriptors: Creativity, Attitude Change, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes
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Schwartz, Joni; Schwartz, Rebecca – Journal of Transformative Education, 2018
This autoethnographic research project examines the transformational learning of a transracial adoptive adult mother and daughter through the lens of postcolonialism. As collaborative researchers, adult adoptee and adoptive mother, examine this lifelong learning experience through critical self-reflection, qualitative meta-analysis, and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Mothers, Daughters, Imagination
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Tett, Lyn – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
This article draws on the theories of Mezirow, Foucault, and Holland and colleagues to investigate how students were positioned in relation to their own experiences, what opportunities they had to overcome their negative positioning in relation to the power structures that inform the worlds in which they move, and how their changed practices…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Literacy Education, Self Concept, Learning Experience
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Kaowiwattanakul, Sukanya – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This study investigated English as a foreign language learners' global mindedness through the use of transformative learning experiences in the literature classroom. The sample consisted of 50 second-year English major students who were enrolled in the introduction to literature course in the academic year 2018 at a public university in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Arroyo, Andrew T.; Kidd, Angel R.; Burns, Susan M.; Cruz, Ivan J.; Lawrence-Lamb, Judy E. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2015
Drawing from the qualitative tradition of narrative inquiry, and situated in an online learning environment at a historically Black college or university, this study explores the potential transformative impact of an original teaching philosophy from the perspectives of a tenure-track assistant professor and four former, nontraditional…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Educational Philosophy
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Woodrow, Kelli; Caruana, Vicki – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
In this article, we investigate whether, and in what ways, the learning experiences in a capstone course in reflective teaching impact the perspective transformations (PT) of preservice teachers toward a diverse K-12 student population and the plans of preservice teachers to take future action as change agents. Using an adaptation of the Learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Transformative Learning, Learning Experience
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Lear, Glenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This article explores women's midlife learning as an awakening of the self in the process of being in the world and interacting with others and uses the author's personal experience of transformation as a developmental change with the emergence of personal growth and self-realization of a more complete, balanced, and fulfilled self. In the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Individual Development, Metacognition
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Merga, Margaret K.; Booth, Sarah – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
The English classroom is a space in which issues of social justice can be explored through texts, using a critical literacy approach. Indigenous Australians have been subject to racist policies throughout postcolonial Australian history, and racist attitudes toward Australia's original inhabitants prevail. This article suggests that racism in the…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Critical Literacy, English Instruction, Foreign Countries