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Meerts-Brandsma, Lisa; Sibthorp, Jim – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This study examines semester schools, which have elements associated with transformative learning, and an adolescent population, where transformative learning has less commonly been studied. We administered the Learning Activities Survey pre/post semester (n = 173) and followed the survey with semistructured interviews (n = 30) to assess whether…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, High School Students, Adolescents, Student Attitudes
Edwards, Thomas Mark; Walker, Michael – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
Transformative learning (TL) is a powerful approach to education. Instead of promoting the efficient encoding and recall of information, TL has students identify, and consider, the assumptions they hold about their discipline and the wider world. Although disorientating dilemmas are the hallmark of TL, personal change cannot happen without…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Critical Theory, Reflection, Self Concept
Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Motter, Alyssa E. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This retrospective case study investigated how learners in a transformative autoethnographic dance course engaged in and navigated self-reflexive identity work and corresponding learning outcomes. Data were drawn from 15 diverse undergraduate students enrolled in a course for credit at an urban community college. Findings indicated that learners…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Dance Education, Transformative Learning, Epistemology
Kumar, Smita – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This study examines how students experienced and made meaning of a novel academic course in mindfulness, offered to foster holistic learning through self-knowledge. For this interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were collected through critical reflective journals and semistructured interviews. The findings suggest that the course allowed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Transformative Learning, Lifelong Learning
Mahalingam, Ramaswami; Rabelo, Verónica Caridad – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
How do emerging adults experience mindfulness and compassion? The goals of this study were to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of a mindfulness curricular intervention and (2) examine how students interpreted their experience. We delivered a mindfulness curriculum to 24 college students who meditated twice a week for 7 weeks. Students completed a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Metacognition, Attention Control, Instructional Effectiveness
Schwartz, Joni; Schwartz, Rebecca – Journal of Transformative Education, 2018
This autoethnographic research project examines the transformational learning of a transracial adoptive adult mother and daughter through the lens of postcolonialism. As collaborative researchers, adult adoptee and adoptive mother, examine this lifelong learning experience through critical self-reflection, qualitative meta-analysis, and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Mothers, Daughters, Imagination