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Eisuke Saito – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Professional learning may be the most significant when the teacher feels fundamentally challenged and questioned about their practices, beliefs, or identities. In this paper, the elements that cause such fundamental challenges and questions -- disruptions -- are called 'disruptive hooks'. In the process of addressing such disruptive hooks,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Inquiry, Learning Processes
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Robertson, Jane; le Sueur, Heidi; Terblanche, Nicky – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
Facilitating reflection for personal growth in a business context requires careful thought and planning. As a learning process, Business-Driven Action Learning (BDAL) has two points of focus. It aims to firstly identify and make recommendations regarding a business challenge, whist secondly facilitating potentially significant individual personal…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Transformative Learning, Reflection, Management Development
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DeCuir, Amaarah N. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Qualitative study of Muslim women learning leadership according to the principles of Transformational Learning Theory. Eleven women participated in two-part process for data collection: diaries for daily reflections and focus-groups for collection narrations of leadership. Findings will inform a contextual description of Muslim women learning…
Descriptors: Muslims, Leadership Training, Females, Transformative Learning
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Hooley, Neil – Review of Education, 2013
All education proceeds within a complex array of epistemological and ontological factors that constitute a shifting and intricate learning environment for teachers, pre-service teachers and school students alike. We have expanded a "praxis inquiry" protocol into a "critical praxis" protocol for use in pre-service programs. A…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Praxis, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
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Serdar Tülüce, Hande; Çeçen, Sevdeger – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study aims to explore the role of school-based practicum in promoting pre-service English language teachers' professional development through the use of a longitudinal design in combination with qualitative methods. To achieve this aim, pre-service teachers were asked to successively reflect on video-recordings of their micro-lessons in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Practicums, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Rix, Jonathan; Paige-Smith, Alice – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The need for reflection is widely written about and positioned as a key aspect of continuing professional development. This paper examines the manner in which practitioners are encouraged to be reflective within the English system and the barriers they face. It questions whether such a complex, reaffirming system can allow for genuine critical…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Ethnography, Educational Change, Barriers
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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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Wolfensberger-Le Fevre, Celeste; Fritz, Elzette; van der Westhuizen, Gert – South African Journal of Education, 2011
This article explores how participation in a community of learning supported transformation on a personal and professional level in a Master's programme at a South African university. It draws on the concept of transformational learning in the professional preparation of educational psychologists, and how such learning plays out in the development…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Group Dynamics, Group Unity, Masters Programs
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Viczko, Melody; Wright, Lisa L. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Although practitioners, policy-makers, and academics call for reform in teacher education, there is ambiguity surrounding the identity transformation of graduate students who "become" teacher educators. This self-study uses narratives, based on intricate personal and collaborative reflection, to explore how the assumption of new role identities is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Educational Change, Learning Processes
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Beavers, Amy – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
Effective communication with teachers is a critical element of any successful professional development. Teachers are the foundational component of any educational system. It is vital that adequate attention is focused on appropriate and effective training of these teachers. Ideally, professional development offers a means of collaborative support…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Pohland, Paul; Bova, Breda – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2000
Analytically describes the annual Educational Leadership Development Conference held at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. Highlights the venue, participants, program goals, activity structure, and learning processes, drawing from the literature in adult learning, andragogy, and transformational learning and using Cranston's process model as…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
King, Kathleen P. – 2002
A model of educators' learning experiences in educational technology was developed by studying 205 educators who participated in professional development in educational technology at metropolitan area graduate schools of education over a 7-year period. Data were gathered over the entire semester for all participants. Additional data on a limited…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attitude Change, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Franz, Nancy K. – 2002
In this report, transformative learning processes in 10 successful extension staff partnerships involving a campus researcher and a county extension staff member were studied with a methodology that combines grounded theory and case study traditions with a constructivist approach. Data collection activities included a literature review;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Change Agents
Desforges, Charles – 2001
Educational research is distinctive inasmuch as it shares the moral objective of education, which is to help people make the best of themselves through processes of learning. Educational research is a service industry for education. As such, its contribution to the efficiency and effectiveness of educational processes can be increased by focusing…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Learning, Definitions, Diffusion (Communication)