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Higher Education Leaders' Transformative Learning and Leadership Experiences Responding to Student Drug Abuse
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Battin, James Vernon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Today's academic and social environment creates uncertainties, new roles, frequent changes, and challenging situations for student affairs academic leaders. The purpose of this study was to explore how student affairs academic leaders described their recent challenging experiences in addressing student drug abuse in higher education. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Leaders, Transformative Learning
Transformative Learning, Affect, and Reciprocal Care in Community Engagement
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Holmes, Ashley J. – Community Literacy Journal, 2015
Drawing on interviews with writing teachers, this article highlights some of the affective responses that may arise for students, community partners, and teachers when we situate our pedagogies in public sites beyond the classroom. I analyze a teacher-narrated moment of student distress to demonstrate how theories of transformative learning might…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Interviews, Affective Behavior, Service Learning
From the Great State to the Great Beyond: A Case Study of How the Study Abroad Experience Prepares Accounting Students to Work in a Global Economy
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Pernsteiner, Aimee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to understand the study abroad experience, as it relates to employment, from multiple perspectives in order to gain insight into how the study abroad experience prepares accounting students to work in a global economy. Studying abroad has been recognized at the national level as an important component to…
Descriptors: Accounting, Study Abroad, Global Approach, Colleges
Two Perspectives of the Administrative Internship
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Vu, Don Hung – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative examination of two distinct administrative internship experiences takes advantage of a sample of candidates who have had the rare opportunity to participate in two different internship programs. The eight candidates who participated in the California Leadership Lab and the Educational Leadership Program's Field Experience course…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Internship Programs, Qualitative Research
Moving beyond Mentoring: A Collective Case Study Examining the Perceived Characteristics of Positive Transformational Figures
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Bean, Brent W.; Kroth, Michael – Journal of Adult Education, 2013
The purpose of this collective-case study was to explore the characteristics of transformational figures. This study revealed that interpersonal encounters were seen as a catalyst that assisted study participants through the process of transformation. Ten themes emerged from the cross-case analysis: Imposed and Intentional Influence; Metaphors of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mentors, Adult Education, Transformational Leadership
"Gifts" in Mentoring: Mentees' Reflections on an Academic Development Program
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Kamvounias, Patty; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Yip, Jeaney – International Journal for Academic Development, 2008
The literature concerning formal and informal mentoring relationships commonly focuses on mentors giving and mentees receiving certain benefits. This paper gives voice to mentees' reflections on their participation in a formal mentoring program. It extends the literature by identifying and examining the notion of gift in mentoring. Through…
Descriptors: Mentors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Interviews, Helping Relationship