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Sensing and Configuring the World with Text: Bringing Neo-Vygotskian Thinking into Dialogue with More-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood
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Rodriguez Leon, Lucy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Research framed by evolving sociocultural theories have been fundamental in advancing the study of early childhood literacies. More recently the field has been enriched by posthumanist theories that have shifted the analytic gaze from children's participation in literacy practices and events, to the fluid relationality of literacies. Concurrently,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Preschool Children, Literacy
Transformative Learning and Online Education: Aesthetics, Dimensions and Concepts
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Yuzer, T. Volkan, Ed.; Kurubacak, Gulsun, Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
Understanding how to prepare transformative learning sessions and courses and design an environment for prospective online learners is a critical, as it facilitates the transfer of information, knowledge and learning from theoretical forms to real life experiences. This book provides an understanding and comprehension of aesthetics and its…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Theories, Graduate Study, Instructional Design
Learning to Be in Graduate School: The Interconnections of Academic Work, Scholarly Identity Formation, and Lived Experience
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van Frank, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
What does it mean to be a graduate student and to "do" graduate school? What happens when we shift our focus away from learning as a process of gaining expertise in a field or being socialized into the literacy conventions of a discipline and instead consider the ontological component of learning--the idea that learning entails becoming a certain…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Educational Experience, Expertise
Teacher Education and Critical Inquiry: The Use of Activity Theory in Exploring Alternative Understandings of Language and Literature
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Doecke, Brenton; Kostogriz, Alex – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
This article explores the challenges of espousing a critical pedagogy within the managerial climate that presently shapes teacher education. Current discourses of professionalism are incommensurate with an understanding of the way that literacy practices are grounded in the social worlds in which both school and university students operate. Such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Learning Theories, Critical Theory
Proceedings of the Intentional Meeting on Future Directions in Developmental Education (1st, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 5-6, 1999).
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Lundell, Dana Britt, Ed.; Higbee, Jeanne L., Ed. – 2000
This collection of essays is intended to spark thoughtful discussion about future directions for developmental education. The essays grew out of a conversation among 21 local, regional, and national leaders in the field of developmental education at the "First Intentional Meeting on Future Directions in Developmental Education," held in October,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Basic Writing, Developmental Psychology
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education/L'Association Canadienne pour L'Etude de L'Education des Adultes (17th, Ontario, Canada, May 29-31, 1998).
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Taylor, Maurice, Ed. – 1998
These proceedings on the theme, Adult Education Research: Shaping the Future, contain 52 papers. The papers are: "Virtual Adult Education" (W. Archer and D. Conrad); "Reversal Theory Approach to Adult Learning and Education" (M. Atleo); "Objectiver L'Action" (A. Balleux et al.); "Cultural Constructions of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning