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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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Dirkx, John M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
A holistic conception of transformative learning involves understanding of the self through spiritual, emotional, and mythological dimensions of experience, grounded in the idea of archetypes. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Holistic Approach, Self Concept, Spirituality
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Foster, Ellen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
Because language represents self and culture, a holistic approach to second-language learning goes beyond skill acquisition. The goal is a reintegrated sense of self achieved through transformative learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Holistic Approach, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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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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Davis-Manigaulte, Jacqueline; Yorks, Lyle; Kasl, Elizabeth – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter offers a conceptual map for describing different means by which expressive ways of knowing support a holistic approach to transformative learning.
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning