NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Myers Briggs Type Indicator1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 26 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Colleen Ryan; Margaret McAllister; Craig Batty; Robert Vanderburg; Jan Cattoni – Educational Action Research, 2024
Clinical nurse educators within Queensland, Australia, tend to be selected for the job based on their clinical expertise and consequently may lack knowledge of educational theories and practices. Within the Nursing School in which this project was based, there is interest in developing expertise in Transformative Learning theory. To share this…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Clinical Experience, Student Placement, Educational Theories
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maya Fujioka; Kristin Reimer; Eisuke Saito – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
The decline in foreign language learners in tertiary education is a concern in many countries. While factors influencing students' persistence in second language learning have been explored, there has been limited discussion on the potential of language programmes that develop students' self-formation alongside language learning. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Sims, Margaret; Nishida, Yukiyo – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Exposing pre-service teachers to international professional experiences through a short-term visiting programme serves to challenge their understandings of good quality practice through disturbing assumptions and expectations previously formed through experiences in their own country/culture. Much of the research in international study focuses on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lummis, Geoffrey; Lock, Graeme; Freeman, Clare; Ferguson, Catherine Anne – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
The early experience of commencing university students is an important precursor for retention and student success and involves a transformation in learning. This article reports the experiences of commencing students in an Australian Education (Primary) degree. Data were collected using a mixed methods approach, consisting of an online survey,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, College Freshmen
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Jorgensen, Robyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper is theoretical in orientation and explores the limitations of the current field of mathematics education which has been dominated by social theories of learning. It is proposed that the field is approaching its limits for these theories and there is a need for shift that moves from the idiosyncratic possibilities of subjective meaning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Social Theories, Learning Theories
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Blundell, Christopher; Lee, Kar-Tin; Nykvist, Shaun – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
Digital technologies are an important requirement for curriculum expectations, including general ICT capability and STEM education. These technologies are also positioned as mechanisms for educational reform via transformation of teacher practice. It seems, however, that wide-scale transformation of teacher practice and digital learning remain…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Influence, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Prout, Sarah; Lin, Ivan; Nattabi, Barbara; Green, Charmaine – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Health indicators for rural populations in Australia continue to lag behind those of urban populations and particularly for Indigenous populations who make up a large proportion of people living in rural and remote Australia. Preparation of health practitioners who are adequately prepared to face the "messy swamps" of rural health…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations, Allied Health Personnel
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lilley, Kathleen; Barker, Michelle; Harris, Neil – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Increasingly, university and employer discourse identify a need for graduates to have an intellectual and global "mind-set" beyond disciplinary competencies and national boundaries. Universities aiming to educate global citizens show limited outcomes. Global citizen research has investigated the mobility experience, yet limited attention…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Student Mobility
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Selkrig, Mark – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Community-based arts projects can act as powerful learning opportunities in a variety of lifelong and life wide contexts. Many of these projects involve artists, who usually undertake a leading role to ensure that some type of transformation takes place for those involved. The impact on the leaders--in this case the artists--is difficult to…
Descriptors: Artists, Self Concept, Art Activities, Community Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Madsen, Wendy; O'Mullan, Cathy; Keen-Dyer, Helen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Leadership programs have been extensively promoted in rural communities in Australia. However, few have been evaluated. The results of the evaluation of a rural leadership program provided in this paper highlight the need for adult learning theories to be more overtly identified and utilised as the basis of planning and implementing leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training, Rural Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Christie, Michael; Carey, Michael; Robertson, Ann; Grainger, Peter – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2015
This paper elaborates on a number of key criticisms of Mezirow's transformative learning theory as well as providing arguments that validate it. Our paper exemplifies how Mezirow's theory can help adult educators and prospective school teachers understand that social structures and belief systems can influence student learning, that learners make…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Females, Doctoral Degrees
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wynveen, Christopher J.; Kyle, Gerard T.; Tarrant, Michael A. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2012
Short-term study abroad programs currently account for more than 50% of students who study overseas. Using an adaptation of the Value-Belief-Norm theory of proenvironmental behavior (Stern, 2000), we hypothesized that study abroad nurtures global citizenship related to ecologically conscious behaviors by strengthening core relations among…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Citizenship, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Hodge, Steven – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
Transformative learning theory is a dominant approach to understanding adult learning. The theory addresses the way our perspectives on the world, others and ourselves can be challenged and transformed in our ongoing efforts to make sense of the world. It is a conception of learning that does not focus on the measurable acquisition of knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Competence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wright, Sarah; Hodge, Paul – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2012
Students undertaking field-based learning, in which they work with Indigenous people in Northern Australia, describe a profound learning experience redolent with emotion. Inspired, challenged and transformed, the students are compelled in ways that require them to interrogate their own selves and taken-for-granted beliefs. In this paper, we draw…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Indigenous Populations, Experiential Learning, Cultural Pluralism
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2