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Jordan, Daniel; Walker, Jude – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This paper examines the stories of transformative learning of two men reflecting on their recovery from addictions and trauma. We employ the Hero's journey as a useful frame within which to understand their stories of becoming more and progressing towards a recovered self. The article challenges the dominant biomedical model of addiction, and of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Males, Reflection, Story Telling
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Saskia Eschenbacher – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
The emergency industry has always been an important and challenging profession. Paramedics and firefighters are exposed on a daily basis to potentially traumatic situations with some of what they experience leading to transformations, changing them deeply and fundamentally. These transformative experiences (Paul [2016]. "Transformative…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Workplace Learning, Emergency Programs, Industry
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Trefzger Clarke, Lisa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
This case study explores the experiences of nine female-identifying feminist public educators working with Ontario, Canada, sexual assault centres who regularly facilitate discussions about sexual consent and gender-based sexual violence in schools, post-secondary institutions, and community workshops. The educators discuss their experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Females, Public Education
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Jean-Pierre, Johanne – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
African Nova Scotians constitute the largest multigenerational Black Canadian community, with 400 years of presence in Atlantic Canada. Despite the end of "de jure" school segregation in 1954, African Nova Scotians' social and cultural capital were not incorporated in curricular and pedagogical practices. Using the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Blacks, Social History
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Desmoulins, Leisa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
This article reports on a recent study into volunteers' experiences learning from the "Walking With Our Sisters" (WWOS) commemorative exhibit to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The study is grounded in Battiste's (2013) possibilities of educational transformations, within the context of learning from Indigenous…
Descriptors: Females, Homicide, Indigenous Populations, Exhibits
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Duckworth, Vicky; Tett, Lyn – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This paper draws on sociological and critical educational frames, particularly Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, in order to contest the dominant model of literacy education that is driven by the premise of a 'knowledge economy'. Instead it foregrounds the political, social, and economic factors that marginalise learners. Data from two…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Adult Education
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Ndlovu, Malika Lueen – Education as Change, 2020
Poetry informed by indigenous knowledge systems, whether written, spoken or heard, offers ideal pathways for healing and transformation. Being "medicine" in the broadest non-clinical sense, it is deeply restorative as activism, as caregiving practice and as balm in the face of relentless assaults on our bodies and beings. This I…
Descriptors: Poetry, Indigenous Knowledge, Activism, Poets
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Johnson, Kay – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Museums as colonial institutions are filled with the tensions and contradictions of competing discourses. This makes them complex sites of public pedagogy and informal adult education and learning. But they are also becoming important spaces of counter-narrative, self-representation, and resistance as Indigenous artists and curators intervene, and…
Descriptors: Museums, Adult Education, Informal Education, Artists
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Tsey, Komla; Lui, Siu Man; Heyeres, Marion; Pryce, Josephine; Yan, Li; Bauld, Sharee – SAGE Open, 2018
The article aims to describe the Family Wellbeing Program (FWB), a program that sets out to facilitate the enhancement of soft skills and to explore the relevance and acceptability of the FWB in the context of health managers and leaders in Timor-Leste. This article presents the fundamental principles of the FWB approach to facilitating soft…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Programs, Well Being, Skill Development
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Bonita Marie Cabiles – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2021
This article explores initial thinking about a pedagogy of discomfort for teaching in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity. To foster inclusive and socially just cultures of participation, contemporary classrooms need to attend to the subtle ways that taken-for-granted teaching practices marginalise diverse cultural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Classroom Communication, Cultural Background
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John, Vaughn M. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2016
After more than three decades of development, transformative learning theory is currently a major theory of adult learning. It has also attracted substantial critique, leading to further development, application and differentiation. Recent contributions to this vast scholarship show a quest for a more unified theory. This article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
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Gascoyne, Sue – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
"Messy play" is often viewed as a purely ludic play activity in early childhood settings, however, some professionals in therapeutic contexts have understood it as potentially significant for supporting young children who have experienced trauma. This article reports on a study that explored how young children who have experienced trauma…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Trauma, Emotional Response
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Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This article describes the findings from a study of the transformation experiences of African war survivors to understand how the process of transformative learning is experienced in posttrauma contexts. A narrative inquiry was conducted based on 12 interviews of African war survivors in Canada and 6 autobiographical accounts of survivors living…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Trauma, Social Change, Moral Development
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Tarc, Aparna Mishra – Curriculum Inquiry, 2011
Supporting learners' public engagement with traumatic histories of mass human violence can develop and sustain reparative relations across and between strained social collectives. In this article I theorize the intrapersonal and inter-political dynamics of psychical and social reparation through a classroom case of reparative learning. I analyze…
Descriptors: Novels, Learner Engagement, Trauma, Violence