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Kailyn Fullerton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation describes the experience of a group of international school teachers engaging in a cooperative inquiry exploring the influence of mindfulness-based social-emotional learning (MBSEL) practices on their personal and professional lives. The current reality for educators is one of systemic stress and burnout, with teachers working…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, International Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teachers
Sarah Haroon Sualehi – Commission for International Adult Education, 2024
Transformational learning theory is a cornerstone within the field of adult education. However, are all learners ready for their disorienting dilemma which instigates transformational learning? To answer this question, this autoethnographic paper unpacks an adult learner's personal journey on a research expedition to Antarctica. Using Antarctica…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Grief, Death
Cynthia Bavaria Bernardin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This thesis project offers a reflective practice-based learning tool to engage preaching experience--from the hearing side of the event--early in diaconal formation to build connoisseurship of effective preaching as the logical prerequisite to engaging the event as preacher. Chapter One proposes connoisseurship as a fruitful metaphor for building…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Theological Education, Clergy, Religious Factors
Hoggan, Chad; Kloubert, Tetyana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
This is a response to "The Ethical Knower: Rethinking Our Pedagogy in the Age of Trump" by Elana Michelson. We appreciate Michelson's critical evaluation of the appropriateness of transformative learning and the use of personal narrative, as well as the frames and tools she offers to help us deal with current challenges such as…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Epistemology, Hermeneutics
Landry, Julien; von Lieres, Bettina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Participedia is a collaborative, digital learning tool for the co-production of knowledge about new forms of citizen participation across the world (www.participedia.net). In this paper, we analyse using the platform as a learning resource for adult learners who are democracy practitioners and for undergraduate students. We examine Participedia's…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Adult Learning, Democracy, Undergraduate Students
Karen S. Acton – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
The education doctorate program fills an essential niche that allows practitioners to earn a doctorate and make a difference in educational practice and policy. However, critics claim EdD programs are failing to effectively prepare students. There has been a push for the reinvention of the EdD which includes improving EdD student confidence in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Teacher Education, Research Methodology, Student Research
Fleming, Ted – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2018
Mezirow relies on the critical theory of Habermas to give his theory of transformative learning rigor. Yet critiques persist and focus on whether the theory has an adequate understanding of the social dimension of learning and whether it is overly rational. This article addresses these issues and explores relevant ideas from Habermas and Honneth.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Reflection
Ana Lia Oliva – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research has shown that adult learning is a complex and integrative process that requires an interdisciplinary lens of study. Thus, to understand the cognitive dimensions of learning, a multidisciplinary approach is needed. This single case study aimed to examine how the role of language function in self-reflection supports the socio-cognitive and…
Descriptors: Language Role, Adult Learning, Reflection, Transformative Learning
Michelson, Elana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
This article seeks to begin a conversation about pedagogical responses to the current moment. Specifically, I argue that two of adult learning's most venerated practices--transformative learning and the use of personal narrative--are insufficiently nuanced to respond effectively to the political divisions and the epistemological chaos represented…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Transformative Learning, Personal Narratives, Political Issues
Nicolaides, Aliki, Ed.; Eschenbacher, Saskia, Ed.; Buergelt, Petra T., Ed.; Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome, Ed.; Welch, Marguerite, Ed.; Misawa, Mitsunori, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Critical Theory, Freedom, Creativity
Wilson, Stefanie D. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
Co-creating with a diverse population of learners to enhance their educational experience requires apt skills, namely, multiple intelligence practices. Through the lens of adult learning theories to include multiple intelligences developed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, this empirical research study of a classroom scenario examines the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
Hodges, Traci L. – Adult Learning, 2017
Traci L. Hodges is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her research interests are comparative adult education, African American adult education, and critical education. Having witnessed freedom protests in Madrid, Spain, and Ferguson, Missouri, she shares her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Activism, Learning Experience
Foote, Laura S. – Adult Learning, 2015
Transformational learning, narrative learning, and spiritual learning frame adult experiences in new and exciting ways. These types of learning can involve a simple transformation of belief or opinion or a radical transformation involving one's total perspective; learning may occur abruptly or incrementally. Education should liberate students from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Adult Learning, Reflection
Payne, Helen; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This article describes how adults learn to self-manage chronic bodily symptoms, a complex and costly health problem. It proposes a theory of learning for an innovative, research-informed intervention, The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) aimed at developing confidence, competence, skills, and knowledge and understanding for self-management for people…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Self Management, Patients, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Taylor, Edward W.; Laros, Anna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This article identifies factors that have contributed to the challenges associated with the practice and research of fostering transformative learning (TL), by drawing on the work by Rachal and others in reviewing the study of andragogy--theory, research, and practice. Implications are also discussed of how scholars of TL can best respond to the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Andragogy, Educational Theories, Educational Practices