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Shor, Rachel; Cattaneo, Lauren; Calton, Jenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This study extended research on transformational service learning by examining the impact that a community placement context can have on college students' transformational processes. Kiely's "Transformational Service-Learning Process Model" was used as a framework to better understand how context, dissonance, and student reactions are…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Models, Guidelines
Stephens, Clinton M.; Beatty, Cameron C. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
Leadership development transforms the lives of many students and leadership educators regularly witness these changes. But little research has articulated what is being taught that facilitates this change, how we can make it happen more often, or how we can measure this change. These transformations contribute to desirable outcomes including…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, College Freshmen, Learner Engagement, Social Change
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne; Newton, Norissa – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
Within recent years, there has been a trend of students (traditional and nontraditional) travelling abroad, more particularly to the United States, with the view of pursuing higher education at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Among the most popular influential factors to obtain higher education internationally are government and private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Latin Americans, Transformative Learning
Cox, Amanda J.; John, Vaughn M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
The catalyst for learning and change in transformative learning theory has mostly been explained in terms of a disorientation in a relatively stable life. This article explores a South African, nonformal adult learning program, as a source of "orienting dilemmas," which catalyze learning and change in lives that are regularly and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Western Civilization
Mogliacci, Rada Jancic; Raanhuis, Joyce; Howell, Colleen – Education as Change, 2016
Policy and research have been advocating the importance of teachers in achieving equity and teachers are called to act as agents of social justice. This issue remains central to the development of a post-apartheid South Africa, where a need for reconciliation and healing still dominates the society. Such a landscape requires adequate support…
Descriptors: Social Change, Change Agents, Social Integration, Racial Segregation
Buschlen, Eric; Warner, Cathleen; Goffnett, Sean – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
Each year, millions of people around the world are affected by natural disasters. Following these disasters, many students from colleges and universities arrive to support the affected areas. These seamless leadership learning opportunities engage students by allowing them to implement the concepts they learned in a classroom. Humanitarian relief…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Leadership Training, College Students, Student Leadership
Safari, Parvin; Rashidi, Nasser – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
Critical pedagogy (CP) with the eventual aim of creating changes in society towards the socially just world rests upon the premise that language learning is understood as a sociopolitical event. Schools and classrooms are not merely seen as the neutral and apolitical sites or oxymoron of transmitting taken-for-granted knowledge and common sense to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fisette, Jennifer L.; Walton, Theresa A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors argue for creating a context within education where teachers can utilize critical pedagogical practices to explicate the hidden curriculum, explore students' sense of self and embodied identities, and engage students to empower themselves to speak up and take action about issues of embodiment and their understanding of social…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Social Change, Human Body, Hidden Curriculum
Call-Cummings, Meagan; Hook, Margaret Remstad – Journal of Peace Education, 2015
Is empowering peace education primarily about providing individuals with skills to respond to violence they experience and capabilities to enhance their own lives? Or is inspiring social transformation to alter forms of injustice that contribute to violence an equally valid and important dimension of an empowering peace education program? This…
Descriptors: Peace, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Empowerment
Meeker, Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This inquiry considers the role of emotions and conflict in education practices which align with social justice. The classroom is a significant location to learn and practice resourceful responses to conflict and to the emotions that accompany conflict, and can itself be considered a site of conflict intervention. This research questions how U.S.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Emotional Response, Teaching Methods, Feminism
Da Matta, Gylton; Richards, K. Andrew R.; Hemphill, Michael A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Teacher education, including physical education teacher education (PETE), around the world remains highly autocratic and content focused [Apple, M. W. 2000. "Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age." New York: Routledge]. Scholars in physical education [O'Sullivan, M., D. Siedentop, and L. F. Locke.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Social Change, Critical Theory
Buschlen, Eric L.; Warner, Cathleen A. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2014
This qualitative study explored a high-intensity, transformational service event following a natural disaster. Using data collected from promptbased journals, the researchers in this study sought to understand how social change leadership develops while serving after a natural disaster. This paper outlines how qualitative research can be used to…
Descriptors: Social Change, Qualitative Research, Natural Disasters, Leadership Effectiveness
Scott, Mary Alice; Pyne, Kimberly B.; Means, Darris R. – High School Journal, 2015
To address the persistent failure of schooling to support underserved students, youth participatory action research (YPAR) has emerged as an alternative and critical paradigm for educational practice. YPAR re-centers authority on marginalized voices and understands research as a tool for social change. Grounded in critical pedagogy, such projects…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Participatory Research, Educational Practices
Barnes, Thelma C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Researchers have acknowledged that cooperative extension organizations should rethink dominant agricultural foci and be more inclusive of nontraditional audiences. An extension organization in the southeastern United States has experienced declining workshop participation, requests for technical assistance, and local office visits. These declines…
Descriptors: Universities, Extension Education, Extension Agents, Transformative Learning
Zaal, Mayida; Terry, John – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2013
To engage critically in their communities, young people must be equipped to identify and study problems that directly affect them. Our qualitative study reveals that youth participatory action research (YPAR) is one such approach, disclosing and affirming inherent gifts and talents in youth while collaboratively developing within them the critical…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Qualitative Research, Youth Programs
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