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Moyer, Joanne M.; Sinclair, A. John; Quinn, Lisa – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
In recent years, action on sustainability has been highly influential around the globe and many now recognize the importance of individual and social learning for inspiring action and achieving sustainability outcomes. Transformative learning theory has been criticized, however, for insufficient development of the link between learning and action.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Active Learning, Learning Processes, Adult Learning
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Asdornnithee, Somsit; Daensilp, Proetphan – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
Regarding the research questions of how the contemplative learning process is appropriate for Thai female prison inmates and how it can transform the learners, the objectives of the project were to study the learning process facilitation appropriate for the inner stability development of female prison inmates, and to explicate their inner…
Descriptors: Females, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
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Lucas, Ursula; Tan, Phaik Leng – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The development of a capacity to engage in critical reflection is central to higher education. However, students vary in this capacity and its development requires students to move from an absolute towards a contextual way of knowing. Using 32 semi-structured interviews, this study identifies the ways of knowing of 17 business and accounting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Epistemology, Semi Structured Interviews
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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