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Adam L. McClain – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Rooted in nearly five decades of scholarly research, transformative learning theory explores how individuals construct and reinterpret their experiences, leading to profound change. This chapter delves into the foundational principles of transformative learning within adult education, highlighting its significance and broad applications. It starts…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Educational History, Instructional Effectiveness
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Stromquist, Nelly P. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This chapter considers Theme 4 of the "Hamburg Declaration": Adult learning, gender equality and equity, and the empowerment of women. It has a fourfold purpose. It begins with a review of the balance of progress to date in conceptualizing gender. Second, it examines the objectives of CONFINTEA V and VI from a gender perspective. Third,…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Empowerment
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Wilcox, Susan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
An educator's self-directed critical reflection on experiences led to the following discoveries about faculty development: articulation of assumptions about educational processes, explication of knowledge claims about development, and identification and examination of faculty development conventions. (SK)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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van Halen-Faber, Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
A way to foster intentionally thoughtful teachers in preservice education involves critical reflection upon narratives of experienced teachers and those learning to be teachers. (SK)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Development, Personal Narratives, Preservice Teacher Education
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Ettling, Dorothy – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter addresses ethical issues that can arise for an educator who ascribes to and practices from the theoretical perspective of transformative learning.
Descriptors: Ethics, Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Adult Students
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Tolliver, Derise E.; Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter discusses the challenges of fostering spirituality in the higher education classroom and its relationship to the practice of transformative learning.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Religious Factors, Transformative Learning, Spiritual Development
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Jarvis, Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter examines how the study of popular romantic fiction was used to transform students' understandings of the ways in which gendered identities are constructed and their perception of the way textual meanings are determined.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fiction, Reader Text Relationship, Gender Issues