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Rachel E. Brooks; Ann K. Brooks – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
Despite growing global attention to the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals, we have made limited progress towards achieving them. This article describes an emerging Transformative Learning Journey for Sustainability Leadership being developed for professionals at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The purpose is to help participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Universities
Melissa A. Hodge-Penn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined faculty socialization at the University of Mississippi regarding research and sponsored program administration through the lens of transformative learning. Participants were 10 tenure track faculty who had been employed at the University of Mississippi no less than one year, no more than seven years, and who had submitted a…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Transformative Learning, College Faculty, Universities
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Tom Børsen – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper reflects on a slow re-reading of Maggi Savin-Baden's "Impact of Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts on Student Engagement in Problem-Based Learning" and its relation to the author's experiences as a teacher and curriculum developer in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University. It explores four transdisciplinary threshold…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Criticism, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Fortune, Tracy; Nicolacopoulos, Toula; Horey, Dell – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Education for global citizenship is one of many of strategies adopted by higher education institutions. We share the findings of a qualitative study in one Australian university that examined the impact of a university goal to embed global citizenship. We found Bronfenbrenner's ecological model to be a suitable framework to examine the process of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Universities, Citizenship, Global Approach
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Cotter, Gertrude; Bonenfant, Yvon; Butler, Jenny; Caulfield, Marian; Prestwich, Barbara Doyle; Griffin, Rosarii; Khabbar, Sanaa; Mishra, Nita; Hally, Ruth; Murphy, Margaret; Murphy, Orla; O'Sullivan, Maeve; Phelan, Martha; Reidy, Darren; Schneider, Julia C.; Isaloo, Amin Sharifi; Turner, Brian; Usher, Ruth; Sinalo, Caroline Williamson – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2022
The Praxis Project, established at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, in 2018, seeks to assess possible models of best practice with regard to the integration of global citizenship and development education (GCDE) into a cross-disciplinary, cross-campus, interwoven set of subject area pedagogies, policies and practices. This study--the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Global Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Nontembiso Magida; Mariatha Yazbek; Julius Thambura – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
Transformation reflects the government's engagement and policies in restructuring higher education to cultivate the country's communal economy. Higher education is challenged in providing tertiary education to students from diverse environments, and staff transformation is needed. This cross-sectional study establishes the staff's perception of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Health Sciences, School Personnel
Gao, Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The overarching objective in undertaking this study is to examine the impact of the implementation of EGP and ESP program for ESP teachers in China, to explore into tertiary-level ESP teachers' transformative learning experiences as well as the personal, institutional and societal factors that either facilitate or constrain such transformation. I…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Baice, Tim; Lealaiauloto, Betty; Meiklejohn-Whiu, Selena; Fonua, Sonia M.; Allen, Jean M.; Matapo, Jacoba; Iosefo, Fetaui; Fa'avae, David – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Recent provocations by Maori and Pacific/Pasifika academics have called for a collective response to the under-representation of Pacific/Pasifika academics in universities across Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing from Indigenous concepts and frameworks foregrounds Pacific language and ideas as being central to our worldviews and validates the lived…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups, Indigenous Knowledge
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Yeo, Michelle; Haggarty, Liam; Wida, Wathu; Ayoungman, Kent; Pearl, Catherine M. L.; Stogre, Tanya; Waldie, Angela – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2019
This chapter describes a faculty learning community formed at our university, in partnership with local Indigenous communities, as part of our response to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. We interviewed participants about their experiences in this group, including their challenges and transformations.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Conflict Resolution, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
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Tillman, David R.; Foreman, Brian K. – Christian Higher Education, 2020
University efforts to galvanize work that is often siloed and disconnected across departments is supported by collaborative and creative initiatives. Campbell University's mission to support community engagement at multiple levels of university life, while also emphasizing faith and vocation, is an example of how one university is modeling this…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Outreach Programs, Transformative Learning, Service Learning
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Ustuk, Özgehan; De Costa, Peter I. – TESOL Journal, 2021
This article explores the nature of reflective practice in a professional development process based on lesson study. The authors examine how a lesson study model initiates reflection as a meta-action scaffolding reflective practice among teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a university in Turkey. Fieldnotes, interviews, and audio…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Faculty Development, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries
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Pan, Gary; Seow, Poh-Sun; Koh, Grace – Journal of International Education in Business, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a learning transformation framework for analyzing how learning evolves during project-based learning (PBL) process. Here, the authors adopt Lewin's (1951) change theory as an analytical lens to examine the project-based learning curriculum at a University called UNI-X. This is a major contribution…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Fischbach, Sarah; Guerrero, Veronica – Journal of Advertising Education, 2020
The purpose of the study is to explore how the digital brand story assignment creates a transformative learning experience for students. This study involves assessing the levels of learning according to Mezirow's transformational learning theory through the development of digital brand stories. The authors have tested the Digital Brand…
Descriptors: Advertising, Merchandise Information, Story Telling, Transformative Learning
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Abdulai, Muhammed; Roosalu, Triin; Wagoner, Brady – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policy of internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark is well crafted in the policy and academic domains, the value additions international graduates add to the learning environments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Universities
Cunliff, Ed; King, Jeff – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Finding a sense of authentic self as an institution, a true sense of mission, and the means to live that mission were the central focus of a strategic planning process addressed by the University of Central Oklahoma about fifteen years ago. As the institution grew within a metropolitan-serving mission, the goal to transform students from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Institutional Mission, Strategic Planning, Metropolitan Areas
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