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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
This volume has explored embodied knowing in formal and informal education, including the university classroom, the workplace, the health professions, and the community. Educators considered the role of intuition, theater, dance, yoga, and outdoor education activities as forms of embodied learning. While the contexts of education were different,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Health Occupations, Informal Education, Cultural Awareness
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Van Stralen, Suzanne – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2002
Collaborative inquiry was facilitated among six nursing managers learning to be more holistic in their work. They moved through eight cycles of action-reflection as they attempted to improve communication and respect, increase self-understanding, and use new skills and understanding to build community throughout the hospital. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Holistic Approach
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Rosenwasser, Penny – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2002
A group of Jewish women used collaborative inquiry techniques of action-reflection, holistic ways of knowing, emotional probing, and validity procedures to explore their experience of internalized oppression. They used healing strategies such as storytelling, songs, art, movement, and theatre in the transformative process. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Anti Semitism, Experiential Learning, Holistic Approach
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Kasworm, Carol E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1990
The educational environment for residential adult education should be concerned both with classroom and out-of-class activities. Elements of a master plan for the learning environment include design of a learning culture, dynamics of experiential participation, holistic involvement of learners, and encouragement of self-directed learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Environment, Experiential Learning