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Hoggan, Chad – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This study explored the processes by which a group of breast cancer survivors experienced positive learning and growth from their cancer experiences. The author argues that such learning and growth can be considered transformative learning, especially from ontological perspectives of the theory. The participants' change process consisted of…
Descriptors: Cancer, Epistemology, Transformative Learning, Coping
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Gross, Zehavit – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
This paper aims to explore how Palestinian Arab and Jewish university students in Israel, attending a course on conflict resolution, deal with their stereotypical views of the Other and their prejudices, as well as their complex emotions of fear, hate, anxiety, and love during a period of tension and violence. On the one hand, they have a natural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Conflict Resolution, Stereotypes
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