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Black, Glenda; Bernardes, Rogerio – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
This essay explores and presents strategies we, as Canadian faculty facilitators of a teaching practicum in Kenya, used to foster the pre-service teachers' knowledge and understanding of critical reflection and transformative learning processes by using arts-based activities. Participation in the arts-based activities while in Kenya encouraged the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education
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Simmons, Nicola; Barnard, Michelle; Fennema, Wendy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
In the Fall 2009 term, we participated as students and instructor in a graduate education course modeled after participatory pedagogy. Siemens (2008) defines this approach as "one that does not fully define all curricular needs in advance of interacting with learners...Multiple perspectives, opinions, and active creation on the part of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
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Cunnin, Betty; Macpherson, Alice; Matteoni, James Alan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
Educators know that to engage learners in the enterprise of critical thinking, learner's need to care enough to pay attention, and feel safe enough to take intellectual risks. When interacting asynchronously in online forums, it can become even more challenging to create a space that encourages reflective, integrative, and higher order thinking.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Critical Thinking, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Macdonald, Geraldine; MacDonnell, Judith A. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
In this paper, the authors engage in a dialogue to illustrate their teaching practice with experiential arts-based diversity learning. The adult education theoretical frameworks of transformative learning/unlearning and experiential learning frame the paper. Examples of experiential arts-based diversity learning include: participating in…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Transformative Learning, Experiential Learning, Art Education