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Gillett-Karam, Rosemary – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2017
This chapter reports on interviews with women leaders finding that transformational learning contributes to new mental models for leadership.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Women Administrators, Administrative Change, Leadership
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Herbert, Katharine J.; Baize-Ward, Amy; Latz, Amanda O. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Community colleges, as open access institutions, shoulder most of the responsibility in serving marginalized individuals accessing higher education. Therefore, community colleges play a critical role. But what are new and incoming community colleges students' needs, in their own words? In this project, we explored an innovative component of a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transformative Learning, Student Needs
Gallman, Kathleen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study evaluates dual enrollment programs through the eyes of North Carolina's community college chief academic officers (CAOs). Grounded in Tinto's theory of integration and the transformational leadership construct, a mixed methods approach was utilized to evaluate the perceptions of CAOs regarding the integration of high school students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment, Deans, Administrator Attitudes
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Salleh, Tuan Salwani; Zakaria, Effandi – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
The objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of a learning strategy using Maple in integral calculus. This research was conducted using a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design. One hundred engineering technology students at a technical university were chosen at random. The effectiveness of the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Calculus, Engineering Education
Brenner, Ashley A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This case study examined how participating in a short-term education abroad program fostered transformative learning for a small group of community college students. As a participant-observer, I utilized ethnographic methods, including interviews, observations, and document analysis, to understand students' perceptions of their experiences…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Murphy, Debra G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teacher research has been included in university and graduate teacher education programs for the past 2 decades. Recently, associate degree programs have also begun to engage their students in teacher research. What happens when community college early childhood students conduct teacher research as a course assignment? This study involved 8 former…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Two Year College Students, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Crowe, Jessica L. – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2013
Incorporating spirituality and religious themes in environmental education is a way to link learners to their meaning systems. Research has shown that incorporation of a spiritual element in education provides a way for students to have authentic learning experiences and make meaning of the knowledge they acquire in the classroom. This mixed…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Environmental Education, Curriculum Design, Religion
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Ashby, Sjon F. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
English teachers encourage writing that opens college students to transformative learning through soul work as John Dirkx describes and develops the concept of soul work in his theory of transformative learning. This soul work involves the conscious attempt to bring to the surface myths, images, and metaphors from the unconscious through…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, English Instruction, Two Year Colleges, College Faculty
Reyes, Andres Ray F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using narrative inquiry, this qualitative study sought to examine the community college experiences of 12 South Sudanese refugees resettled in Massachusetts. Through interviews, I gathered participants' narratives around three focal areas: the impact of culturally responsive practices on their learning experiences, the challenges and obstacles…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Transformative Learning, Refugees