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"I Am 'THAT' Refugee!" Raising Critical Multilingual Language Awareness through Spoken Word Poetry with Refugee-Background Learners
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Jennifer Burton – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Transformative learning in education requires pedagogical change to challenge where knowledge is situated and dislodge the unmerited privileges associated with conventional practices of language and emotion in classrooms. Responding to this call, this paper centers the experiences of two learners with refugee backgrounds and explores how a spoken…
Descriptors: Refugees, Poetry, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Post-Secular Affective Labours of Teaching: Contemplative Practices and the 'Belaboured Self'
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McCaw, Christopher T.; Gerrard, Jessica – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
This paper examines the complex interweaving of the 'personal' and 'professional' in the affective labour of teachers. In line with theorisations of affective labour, contemporary school-teaching involves practices of self-work and self-making, as much as practices of curriculum and pedagogy. One emergent form of self-work, reflective of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Identity, Stress Management, Metacognition
Positive Emotions: Passionate Scholarship and Student Transformation
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Beard, Colin; Humberstone, Barbara; Clayton, Ben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper challenges the practical and conceptual understanding of the role of emotions in higher education from the twin perspectives of transition and transformation. Focusing on the neglected area of positive emotions, exploratory data reveal a rich, low-level milieu of undergraduate emotional awareness in students chiefly attributed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Affective Behavior, Positive Attitudes
Informal Learning as Performance: Toward a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Museum Learning in "Second Life"
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Cool, Kathleen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored how avid users of "Second Life" ("SL") experience and make meaning of informal learning activities in virtual art museums and similar cultural spaces through their avatars. While recent literature has laid the groundwork for studying student engagement and formal learning, the lacuna of research bound by the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Hermeneutics
Triggering Transformative Possibilities: A Case Study of Leaders' Quest in China
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Lau-Kwong, Kenzie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored the nature of transformative learning experiences among global executives who participated in Quest program, a learning journey program designed to facilitate shifting mind-sets and worldviews through 1-week intensives in countries such as China. A mixed methods, multiple case study approach was employed. First, a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, Business