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Glazier, Jocelyn; Bolick, Cheryl; Stutts, Christoph – Journal of Experiential Education, 2017
Experiential education (EE) leads to positive outcomes for K-12 students; however, such practice remains on the periphery of schools. One key to centering EE in classrooms is to do so in teacher education. This study explores what it means to delve into EE as teacher educators alongside our students in field sites far removed from traditional…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Reflection, Journal Writing, Transcripts (Written Records)
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Wärnestål, Pontus – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016
This paper examines how to leverage the design studio learning environment throughout long-term Digital Design education in order to support students to progress from tactical, well-defined, device-centric routine design, to confidently design sustainable solutions for strategic, complex, problems for a wide range of devices and platforms in the…
Descriptors: Design, Studio Art, Creativity, Learning Theories
Hsu, Albert Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study explored the transformative learning experiences of emerging adults through book reading in the context of the digital age. Qualitative in-person interviews were conducted with twenty-eight emerging adults, half of whom were seminary students and half of whom were campus ministry professionals. Half were women and half were men. The…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Young Adults, Christianity, Reading
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Kirkland, David E. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This article investigates three teacher learners' service learning experiences, in order to explore the extent to which approaches to service learning can lead to legitimate learning outcomes tied to transformative teacher growth and situated in tenets of social justice. Using student interview data, the author posits that service learning fails…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Justice, Teacher Education, Learning Experience
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Fullerton, Ann; Reitenauer, Vicki L.; Kerrigan, Seanna M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Service-learning practitioners design community engagement activities to affect students in powerful and even transformative ways. This qualitative study explores the long-term impacts (3-16 years after graduation) of participation in a senior-level service-learning course. Through interviews with 20 randomly selected participants, the researchers…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Service Learning, Learning Processes, Transformative Learning
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Leeferink, Han; Koopman, Maaike; Beijaard, Douwe; Ketelaar, Evelien – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study reports on how student teachers' workplace experiences were transformed into learning experiences. In total, 26 stories from 10 student teachers were collected by means of digital logs and in-depth interviews and unraveled using a new technique of reconstructing stories into webs. In these webs, the factors that played a role in student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Field Instruction, Personal Narratives, Learning Processes
Kumi-Yeboah, Alex – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote the transformative learning experiences of international graduate-level learners. This study was conducted to analyze how international graduate students experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Identification of factors unique to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Transformative Learning, Learning Experience
Gunawaty, Tjioe – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Helping students learn specific knowledge content is an important element involved in education. However, Christian universities are called not merely to fill their students' minds with facts, but to promote life transformation to better reflect the mind and character of Christ. The concern is that research on transformative learning in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Schools of Education
Heilman, Donald C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Problem: The study primarily focused on how a Service Learning project resulted in a Transformative Learning experience. The sample was drawn from 82 participants from Rutgers University who took part in a week-long alternative Spring Break community service project in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Natural Disasters, Educational Environment
Patterson, Kenneth Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many HIV prevention professionals have documented only moderate effectiveness of the Mpowerment Project, an HIV behavior intervention prevention program for minorities. Researchers have concluded that program success depends on effectiveness of peer leader management, yet little is known regarding the experiences of those peer leaders.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention
Santangelo, Dan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative phenomenological study engaged 20 young, low-income credit union members who participated in financial education classes at Denver Community Credit Union. The study explored learning experiences that generated changes in money management behaviors and sought evidence of transformational learning in a nonformal education setting.…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Money Management, Low Income Groups
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Kinghorn, Brian Edward – Teacher Education and Practice, 2014
SMK and PCK are crucial for effective science teaching, yet the amount of subject matter covered in elementary teacher education programs is limited. This exploratory study of ten elementary school teachers focuses on how teachers learned science content from their teaching practice (including preparing to teach, classroom instruction, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Experience
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Kumi-Yeboah, Alex – Journal of International Students, 2014
This article examines factors that influence transformative learning experiences of international graduate students from Africa. In general, 84.8% of the participants experienced transformative learning while 15.2% reported no transformative experiences. For those who experienced transformative learning, 26.1% of the transformative experiences…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Reflection, Foreign Students
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Holyoke, Laura; Heath-Simpson, Delta – Journal of Adult Education, 2013
This study explored connections between adult learners and their experiences in the context of small boutique wineries operating in the start-up phase of the organizational life cycle. The research objective was to gain insight regarding the pairing of adult learners with the entering of a specialty industry. Fourteen individuals from four…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Experience, Interviews, Workplace Learning
Sims, Julius R., I – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Burnout is a syndrome consisting of emotional exhaustion (EE) and depersonalization (DPZ) (Yong & Yue, 2007). Teachers who fall victim to burnout are likely to be less sympathetic toward students, have a lower tolerance for classroom disruption, be less apt to prepare adequately for class, and feel less committed and dedicated to their work…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Burnout
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