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Lansrud-Lopez, Laura L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The following inquiry asks the question: "What is the experience of transformation using imaginal knowing in counseling education?" Inspired by personal experience of transformation through education, the author engages this question by exploring others' experience of imaginal knowing in the context of a core-curriculum graduate-level…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Transformative Learning, Topography, Phenomenology
Binnie J. King – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology was to discover the essence of Christian "paideia" for career classical Christian educators who make daily curricular decisions at a classical Christian online academy that serves a 2nd-12th grade international student body. A qualitative research design was used to gather data on the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Religious Education
Finney, Mark David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation focuses on the place of narrative in the transformational encounter that can take place between hearers of sermons and God. Chapter 1 surveys the history and development of contemporary scholarship related to narrative preaching. It argues that most homileticians consider narrative either as a way of structuring sermons, or as a…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Clergy, Public Speaking
Cooley, Shirley S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
To relieve the nursing faculty shortage, notable numbers of master's prepared clinical nurse experts are entering the ranks of nursing faculty to teach the prelicensure nursing student. The transition from clinical practice to the academia raises concern about the adequacy of preparation for the complex specialization role of nurse educator. In…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Teacher Shortage, Nursing Students
Thiemann, Jared W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Understanding the experience of transformation in counselor training provides insight into the phenomenon of four counselors-in-training who were currently engaging in a CACREP-accredited program. The participants comprised two females and two males, whose ages ranged from early thirties to mid fifties. The qualitative methodology of hermeneutic…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Transformative Learning, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
Mitchell, Bridgitt Lenore – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Despite state mandated early childhood education (ECE) teacher competencies, many children are removed from preschool settings for behaviors related to socioemotional problems. This study's rationale was the propensity of expulsions among children exhibiting challenging behaviors in preschool programs. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological model…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Case Studies, Preschool Teachers
Cool, Kathleen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored how avid users of "Second Life" ("SL") experience and make meaning of informal learning activities in virtual art museums and similar cultural spaces through their avatars. While recent literature has laid the groundwork for studying student engagement and formal learning, the lacuna of research bound by the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Hermeneutics
Petersen, Brent Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Considerable attention by scholars for the last two decades has focused on issues of spirituality and higher education. Literature in the field of college student affairs suggest that, in order promote the development of the whole student, practitioners in the field should consider adopting theories of faith and spiritual development. This study…
Descriptors: College Students, Transformative Learning, Spiritual Development, Comparative Analysis
Adkins, Cherie Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Having a preterm-born child is often fraught with ongoing challenges for the child's mother. Yet little is known regarding how that experience, over time, may influence the mother's health and well-being, how it influences her perceptions and practices of parenting, and the meaning(s) she attributes to it. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Mothers, Premature Infants, Nurses
John, Diane Yvette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Background. The demands of the current health-care system support the need for more nurses to be prepared at the bachelor's level (American Association of the Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2007). However, only 28% of the registered nurse (RN) population in Florida holds a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN), which may be the result of increased…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Nursing Education, Bachelors Degrees, Nurses
Freed, Maxine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Meaning making is central to transformative learning, but little work has explored how meaning is constructed in the process. Moreover, no meaning-making theory adequately captures its characteristics and operations during radical transformation. The purpose of this dissertation was to formulate and specify a multiperspectival conceptual model of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Transformative Learning, Hermeneutics, Pattern Recognition
Jones, Logan Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to explore and describe the experiences of transformative learning in seminary students and clergy who have participated in a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) residency program while providing pastoral care to patients in an acute care hospital setting. This research focuses on the affective…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Theories, Clergy, Grief
Tawiah, Augustine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Mentorship has been identified in the adult and higher education literature as a transformational tool for mainstreaming disadvantaged people by providing direction, networks, and opportunities for empowerment to break barriers (Harlley, 2001). Current global interests in mentorship principles and practices are also supported by evidence of the…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Mentors, Females, Educational Attainment