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Williams, Dionna; Zeman, Catherine – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Environmental health disparities case studies are explored through a combination of lens including the naturome/nurturome, exposome [nature vs nurture] and multiple exposure-zone [place as predictor of health and wellbeing] concepts. This work places the educational program and experience within a theoretical framework using all these…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Evaluation, Case Studies, Sustainability
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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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Joubert, Jaco; Slabbert, Johannes – Support for Learning, 2017
The educational community has made a shift from transmission learning to a type of learning where the student is transformed. The findings produced by a literature study delineate the authors' definition of "transformative learning". The struggle to implement this form of learning has resulted in mostly theoretical approaches; empirical…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Case Studies, College Students, Interviews
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Moore, Sarah Jane – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2018
This paper evolved from an artistic residency entitled The Stories Within that took place at the University of Guam in February 2017. The Stories Within intercultural research was led by independent creative artist Sarah Jane Moore and represented a collaboration between Moore and Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Guam, Dr Dean…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Case Studies, College Students, Teaching Methods
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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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Spencer-Oatey, Helen – Intercultural Education, 2018
Many universities in different parts of the world are seeking to enhance the cultural diversity of their staff and student body and yet repeated studies have shown that good integration can be difficult to achieve. Although several studies have examined the reasons why such integration is difficult, there has been very little research into the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Integration, Multicultural Education, Interpersonal Communication
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Chien, Ting Fang – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2017
This case study explores the application of interpretive strategies as tools to facilitate transformative learning and advance young adults' abilities in various learning contexts. While much of the literature on adult museum program education focuses on older adults' learning, this study emphasizes the impact of interpretive skills training at a…
Descriptors: Interpretive Skills, Training, Case Studies, Photography
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Rowan-Kenyon, Heather T.; Knight, Sarah; McCready, Adam – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2019
The authors examine components of pre-trip preparation that influence student trip experiences and learning related to short-term immersion programs. With the use of a transformative learning framework and a multisite longitudinal case study, key components emerged as essential in preparing students for these experiences: community building,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Fund Raising, Social Justice, Leadership Training
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Harman, Kristyn E. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
This paper explores the transformative power of digital humanities in teaching family history online to large cohorts of Australian domestic students. It takes as a case study a unit developed specifically for students to learn about how to research their convict ancestors' lives and how to situate their ancestors' lived experiences within…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Humanities, Online Courses
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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Díaz, Karla; Ramia, Nascira; Bramwell, Daniela; Costales, Felipe – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
A mixed methods study was conducted to determine if a mandatory hybrid service-learning course had an effect on the civic attitudes and skills of college students attending a private university in Ecuador. The Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ) was used in a quasiexperimental design using MANOVA with follow up t tests. After this…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Lengelle, Reinekke; Ashby, Sjon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
Writing as soul work refers to the active engagement of students in transformative writing activities in a group setting with the aim to enable students to develop new, more empowering narratives. This article explains how soul work through writing can be used to foster career adaptability, expressed in the form of increased awareness and…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Transformative Learning
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Zhao, Hong – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The study reports how "A Glimpse of China," a cultural course that had been typically conducted offline for cultural immersion, adapted to the COVID-19-imposed challenges of an online transition. The teaching team sought the guidance of social constructivism and the WisCom Framework, made adaptations in the instructional design, assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Cultural Education, Asian Culture
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Sandberg, Dan; Martin, Bruce; Szolosi, Andrew; Early, Sherry; Casapulla, Sharon – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Campus outdoor recreation programs can play an integral role in developing student leaders. In this study, we sought a better understanding of the shared positive elements exemplary outdoor programs are using to develop their student leaders. The study was designed using a collective case study methodology and the theoretical lens of the…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Outdoor Education, Recreational Activities
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Brown, Julie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
This article presents an overview of the findings of a recently completed study exploring the potentially transformative impact upon learners of recognition of prior informal learning (RPL). The specific transformative dimension being reported is learner identity. In addition to providing a starting point for an evidence base within Scotland, the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Prior Learning, Self Concept, Informal Education
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