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Potts, Monique; Le Hunte, Bem; Ross, Katie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
The experience of "interbeing" -- or a deep, authentic feeling of the continuum between our inner-selves, each other and the natural world -- gives a profound sense of interconnectedness. Teachings of "interbeing" have roots in ancient knowledges yet offer insight into how we might respond collectively and purposefully to the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Well Being, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Relationship
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Hyde, Brendan – Educational Practice and Theory, 2021
There has been a revived interest Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Notions emanating from his philosophy concerning the human person and that human beings together create and sustain phenomena through social practice speaks of a relational ontology that has relevance for contemporary education. This article argues that such ontology needs to be…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Self Concept, Social Cognition
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Groenewald, Emma; le Roux, Adré – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
University campuses are spaces not only for self-reflection and critique but also where asymmetrical power relations create experiences of exclusion and marginalisation for many students. Within the complexity of such spaces, transformative opportunities are opened up for student agency and agentic actions. This qualitative article uses a…
Descriptors: Universities, Personal Autonomy, Transformative Learning, Student Role
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Jagers, Robert J.; Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Williams, Brittney – Educational Psychologist, 2019
This article seeks to develop transformative social and emotional learning (SEL), a form of SEL intended to promote equity and excellence among children, young people, and adults. We focus on issues of race/ethnicity as a first step toward addressing the broader range of extant inequities. Transformative SEL is anchored in the notion of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Equal Education
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Klatt, Maryanna D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
Contemplative education courses and academic programs emerging in universities across the United States and internationally have a unique opportunity to help students gain both self-awareness and an awareness of how the self is situated in a larger context. Research utilizing meditation in higher education shows promise in strengthening stress…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Self Concept
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Barber, James P.; King, Patricia M.; Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on a study that examined the subset of qualitative cases in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education where students experienced substantial self-authorship shifts over the first three college years (N = 30 students, 90 narratives). Engagement in experiences and roles demanding more sophisticated, internal meaning…
Descriptors: College Students, Qualitative Research, Student Experience, Longitudinal Studies
Lukenchuk, Antonina – 2001
Metaphysics is a necessary point of departure to build a comprehensive understanding of the nature of adult and adulthood at a deeper philosophical level. A group of philosophers representing the school of German Classical Idealism remain highly influential in building elaborate arguments on the nature of self and reality that may assist adult…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Loughlin, Kathleen A. – 1994
Research was conducted to gain insight into both the facilitators of consciousness-raising and the nature of this emancipatory process. Consciousness-raising was defined as a transformation of consciousness in which individuals experience critical reflection and action that develops a deepened consciousness of their situation leading them to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Change Agents, Cognitive Structures