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Heriberto Arambula Acosta – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This autoethnographic study examined the challenges and difficulties a post-9/11 combat veteran faced as they transitioned and reintegrated into civilian life post-military service. With suicide rates in the veteran community reaching alarming rates, this study explored personal narratives and perspectives on reintegration to counter the deficit…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Service, Personal Narratives, Transformative Learning
Mishel Corea – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative, action research study explored how practitioners' understanding of the academic impacts of sexual violence on female college students transformed. The professional development innovation called "SAAIT: Sexual Assault Academic Intervention Training" was designed using the theoretical framework of Transformative Learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Females
Gaard, Greta, Ed.; Ergüner-Tekinalp, Bengü, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
This volume explores mindfulness and other contemplative approaches as strategic tools for cultivating anti-oppressive pedagogies in higher education. Research confirms that simply providing students with evidence and narratives of economic, social, and environmental injustices proves insufficient in developing awareness and eliciting responses of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Trauma, Self Concept
Ochan Leomoi – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2025
Dadaab Refugee Complex hosts refugees from the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region. According to a UNHCR (2023) report, at 31 January 2023 Dadaab refugee camps were host to a total population of 233,828 registered refugees and asylum seekers, representing 41% of the total recognized forcibly displaced people in Kenya. This paper will explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Relocation, Attitudes
Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
Tiffanie Ho – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have been used among educators in higher education as a way to address areas of concern, such as reform. One such area in higher education concerns inequities in education because they impact student learning and achievement. Faculty-driven PLCs in higher education have also been focused on ensuring that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, College Faculty
Dhungana, Parbati – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2021
Critical 'self' (i.e. dualist or egoist I) reflection seems insufficient in the context of Nepali university education, particularly in the process of transformative professional development. Therefore through this paper, I argue that a "critical-appreciative approach contributes to my professional development." Assuming 'Self' (i.e.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Higher Education
Rodríguez-Jiménez, Rosa-María; Carmona, Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
This article presents an exploratory and interpretative study on the development of self-reflection and self-knowledge in university teachers by an embodied experience. Dance Movement Therapy and Body-Mind Centering share the fundamentals of the paradigm of embodied cognition through a first-person full-body experience. Using these principles, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Dance, Psychotherapy
Sarah S. Payne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College access among underserved youth in the United States has expanded dramatically in recent decades, due in part to "achievement ideology," or institutional and cultural messages that equate hard work plus educational attainment with upward mobility. But, college completion rates for this group have remained low, and student loan…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Social Mobility
Sujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
Jeremy Price; Je' Nobia Smith; Alexandria Fox – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2023
Drawing on transformative, critical, and culturally responsive and sustaining traditions of pedagogy and instructional design, we present a technology-focused framework for decentering normative forces along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, language, religion, ability, sex, and gender in online higher education learning spaces that honors each…
Descriptors: Models, Diversity, Transformative Learning, Instructional Design
Peloquin, Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The adult learner population attending higher education has been on the rise for decades and is continuing to exceed expectations in regards to enrollments. However, today's higher education institutions still cater to traditional age learners when creating and delivering curricula. By incorporating social justice courses into the curriculum,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Social Justice, Outcomes of Education
Czank, James Mathew – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
Radical humanities programs in Canada offer non-traditional adult students an entry-level university educational experience. The programs purport to better the lives of the students through university-level education. This report was spurred on by the claim that such programs are emancipatory and offer radical societal change. Working from an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humanities, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
Jepson, Jane C. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation describes qualitative research on the worldviews of environmental justice activists and feminist environmentalists via an interpretive inquiry of narratives. The terms "environmental justice activists" and "feminist environmentalists" are used broadly to describe persons who explicitly or implicitly identify…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Justice, Activism, Feminism
Khoo, Elaine; Huo, Xiangying – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
International students with low academic English proficiency face challenges with reading their course materials and writing assignments. Their challenges are exacerbated during remote learning, as they remain in their home countries, immersed in their home languages, which may be quite distant from academic English. To investigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning