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Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article crafts a distinct conceptualization of time in social sciences through two temporal concepts: Chronos and Kairos. Chronos refers to sequential, linear time, which frames quantitative causality and qualitative documentation in research methodology. Kairos, however, captures time as transformative, conceptual, and emotional moments,…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Time Perspective, Attribution Theory
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Truett, Nancy Teresi – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
The purpose of this autoethnographic study is to share the power of writing as a transformative research method (Custer, 2014). This study draws from the life of a nontraditional adult learner doctoral student, who while traveling through Italy alone, embarked on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Using a narrative voice, the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Writing (Composition), Transformative Learning, Nontraditional Students
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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2017
This article offers a reflective analysis on how the author came to a deeper understanding of transformative learning while collaborating on a research project with Patricia Cranton from 2012- 2014, resulting in "A Novel Idea: Researching Transformative Learning in Fiction," published by Sense Publishers in 2015. They read six…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fiction, Dialogs (Language), Literary Devices