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Ball, Jonathon Aaron; Holyoke, Laura; Heward, Heather; Kokenge, Elise; Jenkins, Nanci; Wilson, Shannon – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This phenomenological study explored the concept of profound moments. We previously defined a profound moment as an experience that intentionally or unintentionally continues to surface in our consciousness, has transformed our fundamental perspectives, and has been integrated into how we live. Selected participants had experienced highly…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Learning Experience, Personality, Metacognition
Sara Jane Blackman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to use a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology to understand the learning experiences of trainers who completed a professional development trainer certification. Specifically, this study explored how trainers described their learning experiences, the catalysts trainers identified as instrumental to their…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Professional Development, Trainers, Certification
Qi Sun; Xi Lin; Xiaoqiao Zhang; Rachel Rui – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
This qualitative case study examines the learning experiences of self-organized Chinese and Chinese American adults from the X Care Group amid the political repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed how care group members created meaning in their daily life experiences, reformed their identity, and increased their Chinese and…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Community Involvement, Asian Americans, Asians
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
Hodges, Traci L. – Adult Learning, 2017
Traci L. Hodges is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her research interests are comparative adult education, African American adult education, and critical education. Having witnessed freedom protests in Madrid, Spain, and Ferguson, Missouri, she shares her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Activism, Learning Experience
Foote, Laura S. – Adult Learning, 2015
Transformational learning, narrative learning, and spiritual learning frame adult experiences in new and exciting ways. These types of learning can involve a simple transformation of belief or opinion or a radical transformation involving one's total perspective; learning may occur abruptly or incrementally. Education should liberate students from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Adult Learning, Reflection
Pomeroy, Eva; Oliver, Keira – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
This article reports on the research findings from a qualitative study of adult learners in Scotland taking part in a u.lab MOOC. As a new phenomenon in adult learning, u.lab has been extremely popular yet, at present, there exists little empirical data about either the process or outcomes of the learning experience. This study aims to provide a…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
Bahgat, Mohamed; Elsafty, Ashraf; Shaarawy, Ashraf; Said, Tamer – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Over the past decades, Learning & Development has become an area of growing interest and constant research. As a result, there is an abundance of studies and models that target the development of educators. However, the professional development of educators should be built on a comprehensive framework of research-based instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Models, Active Learning, Adult Students, Learning Theories
Panitsides, Eugenia; Kiouka, Eirini Andromachi – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain meaningful insights in the learning background, experiences and potential of Muslim minority women in Western Thrace. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative data were obtained through 12 semi-structured interviews, which underwent a three-level qualitative analysis, following the "grounded…
Descriptors: Muslims, Gender Differences, Sex Role, Civil Rights
Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
This qualitative case study examined the cultural learning insights of four educators during and after an immersion experience in Kenya. During this experience the participants delivered professional development sessions to teachers in two rural Kenyan schools, and stayed with Kenyan families. Mezirow's transformational learning theory,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students
Bin Kadir, Mohd Amin; Arifin, Syamsul; Latipun; Fuad, Ahmad Nur – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study describes adult learners' understanding in learning Islam using andragogy approach in which the study was conducted in Kampung Siglap Mosque and Al-Zuhri Higher Learning Institute. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) educate his companions of who are adults from the shackles of "jahiliyyah," spiritual and intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Attitudes
Lindstrom, Steven K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This phenomenological research study examines the lived experience of individual adult transformation in the context of travel. Adults throughout history have experienced profound personal and perception changes as a result of significant travel events. Transformative learning occurs through experience, crisis, and reflection, all of which are…
Descriptors: History, Travel, Transformative Learning, Phenomenology
Holyoke, Laura; Heath-Simpson, Delta – Journal of Adult Education, 2013
This study explored connections between adult learners and their experiences in the context of small boutique wineries operating in the start-up phase of the organizational life cycle. The research objective was to gain insight regarding the pairing of adult learners with the entering of a specialty industry. Fourteen individuals from four…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Experience, Interviews, Workplace Learning
Hodge, Steven – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
Transformative learning theory is a dominant approach to understanding adult learning. The theory addresses the way our perspectives on the world, others and ourselves can be challenged and transformed in our ongoing efforts to make sense of the world. It is a conception of learning that does not focus on the measurable acquisition of knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Competence
Langley-Weber, Terri – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study examined the influences of teachers' experiences on their perceptions of teaching English language learners (ELLs) framed within Mezirow's transformative learning theory. Eight teachers ranging from pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade participated in long interviews responding to a 10 item questionnaire. Each teacher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Metacognition
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