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Tillmanns, Tanja – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Since sustainability is subjective and context dependent, sustainability education should focus on the development of a personal understanding of sustainability through critical reflection of values and behaviour. Emotions can motivate value clarification -- a prerequisite to transform worldviews and behaviour. The article presents the disruptive…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Higher Education, Psychological Patterns
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Rodríguez Aboytes, Jorge Gustavo; Barth, Matthias – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to investigate how transformative learning has been conceptualised and operationalised in education for sustainable development (ESD) and sustainability learning and to collect evidence on how to support transformative learning in formal and non-formal environments. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Educational Research
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Maya Fujioka; Kristin Reimer; Eisuke Saito – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
The decline in foreign language learners in tertiary education is a concern in many countries. While factors influencing students' persistence in second language learning have been explored, there has been limited discussion on the potential of language programmes that develop students' self-formation alongside language learning. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Scott, Chaunda L.; Sims, Jeanetta D. – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Diversity and diversity education are driving forces in metropolitan universities that seek stronger alignment with nearby metropolitan statistical areas. As a result, many metropolitan universities wish to engage in diversity efforts; however, they often lack the resources for doing so. In addition, institutional efforts are often the result of…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, College Students, College Role, Transformative Learning
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Rocks, Eddie; Lavender, Peter – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the experiences of students undertaking higher education in a further education setting in the UK. Since the 1960s, there has been a policy commitment in the UK to widen participation in education to social groups previously under-represented (Thompson, 2000; Burke, 2012). The consequence is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ngubane, Nomalungelo I.; Makua, Manyane – Transformation in Higher Education, 2021
Background: Universities, globally, and in South Africa, continue to be confronted with demands for transformation, humanisation of pedagogical practices and to embrace social justice. Aim: In this article, we bring to the surface possibilities of "Ubuntu" pedagogy within a social justice framework. We intersect Collective Fingers Theory…
Descriptors: African Culture, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Social Differences
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Tan, Fujuan – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Internationalization has become a substantial part of higher education worldwide, especially in the U.S. Moreover, Chinese students make up the largest portion of the U.S.'s international higher education students. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a disruption in higher education, especially posing considerable challenges to international…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, International Education, Higher Education
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Burns, Kimberly A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Community colleges are continually faced with the challenge of meeting the learning needs of diverse students, many of who are nontraditional and often ill-prepared for college level work. These institutions are respected for furthering democracy through their commitment to educational access and criticized for falling short in supporting…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Case Studies, Scholarship
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Immaculate Kizito Namukasa; Elaine Fournier; Hiba Barek; Mina Sedaghatjou – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
This paper presents analysis of evidence on the ways in which the connection between technology and scholarship supported a Community of Practice (CoP) for instructors in a Faculty of Education in Canada. The goal is to reflect on different types of pedagogical practices of CoP members. We discuss the ways in which both social learning and online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Communities of Practice
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Yen, Nguyen Thi Linh; Cuong, Ton Quang; Chung, Pham Kim – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Transforming learner knowledge acquisition, application, and creation in digital learning may be supported by the implementation of blended learning and flipped classroom/learning, approaches that are now becoming a phenomenon in higher education practice in Vietnam. In practice, educators have approached flipped classrooms through various…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Technological Literacy
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Hooper, Michaela D. Willi; Scharf, Emily – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This literature review is intended to examine transformative learning within the context of academic libraries and its applications for librarians. Although the main audience is academic librarians who facilitate student learning, it may also be of interest to other practitioners and researchers who are interested in applying transformative…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Academic Libraries, Literature Reviews, Library Instruction
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Herr, Meryl A. C. – Christian Higher Education, 2016
Institutions of Christian higher education are charged with helping students steward their current callings and prepare for future callings (Plantinga, 2002). Subjective knowledge, or knowledge of self, plays an important role in this sort of vocational discernment. John Dirkx's "soul work" can help educators lead their students to a…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Christianity, Self Concept, Higher Education
Banez, Allen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of spirituality in higher education. This literature review explored the role of spirituality in the transformational learning process of students in higher education. In order for transformational learning to be comprehensive and authentic, the spiritual dimension must be considered in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Christianity, Spiritual Development
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Howie, Peter; Bagnall, Richard – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
This paper reports a critical comparative analysis of two popular and significant theories of adult learning: the transformation and the deep approach theories of learning. These theories are operative in different educational sectors, are significant, respectively, in each, and they may be seen as both touching on similar concerns with learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adults, Learning Theories
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Sparrow, Jennifer; Whitmer, Susan – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Academics and campus planners alike have realized that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to planning effective formal and informal learning spaces. What is clear is moving the student experience from one that is transactional to transformational requires adhering to grounded best practices in teaching, learning, and campus planning,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Informal Education, Educational Experience, Empathy
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