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Chiocca, Emmanuelle S. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2021
With the growth of short-term study abroad programs comes the need to develop impactful curricula and to provide supportive environments for deep learning abroad that is more than "upgraded" tourism but rather focused on educational outcomes. This qualitative case study investigates the experiences of five study abroad participants in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Curriculum Development, Learning Processes
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Hathaway, Mark D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
Joanna Macy's "Work that Reconnects" (WTR) is a transformative learning process that endeavors to help participants acknowledge, experience, and understand the emotions that may either empower or inhibit action to address the ecological crisis. The WTR seeks to work through grief, fear, and despair to animate a sense of active,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Neurosciences, Grief
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Kearns, Laura-Lee – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This case study explores the impact of an English language Arts Secondary methods class that focused on learning with and from Indigenous people. By participating in a number of in-class activities, taking a field trip, and engaging in a critical service-learning project that helped decentre the learner/teacher relationship, many non-Indigenous…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Transformative Learning, English, Language Arts
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John, Vaughn M.; Cox, Amanda J. – Cogent Education, 2018
Fostering positive and meaningful change amongst South African youth whose schooling and life experiences have rendered them largely ill-prepared, demotivated and often traumatised, is a complex endeavour, but one which needs urgent attention. Government programmes tend to ignore the psycho-social demands of the transition from unemployed…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Case Studies, Program Descriptions, Career Development
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Taylor, Kari B.; Jones, Susan; Massey, Rachel; Mickey, Jasmine; Reynolds, Danyelle J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate students' developmental readiness to navigate dissonance and experience transformation as they engaged in an international service-learning program. Using case-study methodology, researchers collected data from a diverse group of 7 graduate students and 5 undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Self Concept, Transformative Learning
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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
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John, Vaughn M. – Research Papers in Education, 2016
How do we account for the close personal bonds and deeply caring relationships forged by educators with learners in many adult educational encounters? The literature is relatively silent on the emotional and relational basis to adult educator work. This is a serious silence, given the stressful nature of adult education in developing contexts such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Caring, Teacher Student Relationship
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Serdar Tülüce, Hande; Çeçen, Sevdeger – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study aims to explore the role of school-based practicum in promoting pre-service English language teachers' professional development through the use of a longitudinal design in combination with qualitative methods. To achieve this aim, pre-service teachers were asked to successively reflect on video-recordings of their micro-lessons in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Practicums, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Pitts, Jamilla; Sanders-Funnye, Sharon; Lukenchuk, Antonina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This study examines innovative practices that have been implemented in a summer session for an elementary school district in the Chicago area, and how program practices of a community college program work to provide academic support for first-generation, college-bound students from low-income households to encourage postsecondary educational…
Descriptors: School Districts, Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Low Income
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Bana, Zubeda – Educational Action Research, 2010
The core empirical basis of this paper is based upon my recent participatory action research case study, sponsored by my university, conducted in a rural school in one of the most disadvantageous districts of Sindh, Pakistan. The paper argues that the current climate in most of the schools across the country reflects "apathy" and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Action Research, Educational Change, Rural Areas