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Sang-Eun Lee – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
There is a tendency in recent curriculum reforms to put the major emphasis on the status and role of students. The OECD's Education 2030 project, for example, presents the concept of 'student agency' as a key vision for future learning frameworks. The OECD's discourse of student agency appears to serve as a catalyst for spreading the slogan that…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Academic Freedom, Bias, Curriculum Development
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Dreamson, Neal; Kim, Soyoung – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
Popular instructional approaches in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS) are co-construction learning, transformative learning and ecological learning. These rely on constructivism that could challenge human-nature relationships of ECEfS. In this study, we aim to discover and reshape human-nature relationships embedded in the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Metacognition, Epistemology, Sustainability
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Sandri, Orana – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Pedagogy is a term used broadly to refer to both how and why an educator influences learning. Given the importance of quality transformative learning experiences noted in the sustainability education literature, the role of an educator's values, assumptions and philosophy underpinning their educational capability for the provision of learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Transformative Learning, Sustainability
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Katharine Janzen – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
This paper addresses a gap in the literature about the study of the implementation of cooperative/collaborative group learning, and the assessment of its efficacy in facilitating transformative learning in the context of graduate studies. These topics have been widely discussed in the scholarly literature at the K-12 and post-secondary (college…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Graduate Students
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Kalai Vaani Rajandram; Judith Nesamalar Tharumaraj – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
Existing literature predominantly emphasizes policy frameworks and technological solutions, neglecting the transformative potential of creative writing in facilitating purpose-driven learning. In the context of advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this study addresses the underexplored role of creative writing as a catalyst for societal…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Transformative Learning, Constructivism (Learning)
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Salvador, Karen; Paetz, Allison M.; Tippetts, Matthew M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate processes that led practicing music educators in a graduate course to examine their beliefs and practices regarding inclusion, responsiveness, equity, and justice. Using Charmaz's constructivist approach to grounded theory, we interviewed 22 participants from MUS 8XX: Philosophy of Music Education.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Graduate Students, Grounded Theory, Educational Philosophy
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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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Makani, Joyline; Durier-Copp, Martine; Kiceniuk, Deborah; Blandford, Alieda – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2016
Globally, e-learning is gaining popularity as its potential contributions to economic and social development are recognised. However, its full potential has not been realised, as most e-learning practices merely replicate traditional existing teaching methods and have not fully exploited the interactive and social components of peer learning.…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Turner, Martin; Baskerville, Rachel – Accounting Education, 2013
This study examines how to support accounting students to experience deep learning. A sample of 81 students in a third-year undergraduate accounting course was studied employing a phenomenographic research approach, using ten assessed learning tasks for each student (as well as a focus group and student surveys) to measure their experience of how…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learner Engagement, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking
Staking, Kimberlee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although university students are key participants in knowledge-making processes, their insights about learning are sparsely documented, and too rarely considered in contemporary conversations in higher education. In centering the insights and experiences of students enrolled in two women's studies courses at the University of Maryland, this…
Descriptors: Womens Studies, Higher Education, Universities, Electronic Learning
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Davis, Jason Stratton – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
To create professionals for the future, who will be innovative and internationally competitive, we need to change the learning environment. The current traditional delivery systems of education do not develop the necessary interpersonal, analytical and creative skills to deal with the new knowledge economy. Baer (2005), in calling for a new model…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Innovation, Educational Environment, Delivery Systems
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Sutinen, Ari – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2008
This paper provides an analysis of the ideas of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead with regards the relationship between experience, meaning, language and thinking. It discusses how experience, meaning, language and thinking are based on the creative and constructive actions of individuals. Unlike what is the case in so-called radical…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Environment, Educational Environment, Transformative Learning
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
Recent international policy literature on Education for Sustainable Development puts forward utopian concepts of sustainable development and transformed learning as objects for educational thinking and practice. This paper, drawing on three illustrative educational investigations with youth in a South African context, critically examines how we…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Racial Segregation, Democracy
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Rodman, William – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2007
One of the most important questions I ask as both a cultural anthropologist and a university teacher is: How do people come to know what they think they know? In this article, I adopt a narrative approach to processes of learning and discovery in two very different locales, an indigenous society in the South Pacific, and a senior seminar on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology, Personal Narratives
DiBiase, Warren J. – 2000
Without teacher change, a successful educational reform is either incidental or superficial. Therefore, it is very important to understand the nature of teacher change for science educators. Mezirow's transformation theory, a constructivist theory, provides a theoretical basis for both teacher learning and teacher change. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Learning Processes
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