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April C. Black – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how elementary schoolteachers in the United States described their personal perspective of spirituality and spiritual experiences in the educational workplace. This study provides knowledge for the workforce about schoolteachers' transformative change. The research existed within the…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Lisa Baumgartner; Jill Zarestky; Vincente Lechuga – Adult Learning, 2024
Like other workplaces, bullying occurs in academia. Additionally, women report more frequent and severe forms of bullying than men. The purpose of this qualitative study was to unearth women academics' learning because of being bullied. We discuss the learning context and explore the learning that occurred. Understanding these factors can augment…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Work Environment, Bullying, Self Concept
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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
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Nicolaides, Aliki – Myers Education Press, 2022
"Generative Knowing" explores the mystery of learning from the unknown in ways that reveal that learning is a dynamic phenomenon, encompassing both personal and societal contexts. Dewey defines learning in terms of experience, reflection, continuity, and interactivity. When learning happens, it eventually solidifies into reliable truths…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Mastery Learning, Learning Processes
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Burwell, Rebecca; Huyser, Mackenzi – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
This qualitative case study explores the transformative impact of an off-campus US-based experiential education program on female students. Founded by a group of Christian colleges, this program offers students the opportunity to live in a large metropolitan area while learning through experiences in both professional work settings and the city.…
Descriptors: Females, Religious Colleges, Metropolitan Areas, Self Concept
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Yuan, Rui; Liu, Wei; Lee, Icy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
Despite a surge of research interest in pre-service teachers' identities over the past years, scant attention has been paid to the "process" of their identity construction during their teaching practicum. Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study seeks to fill this gap by examining the identity construction experiences of…
Descriptors: Practicums, Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Transformative Learning
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Hegna, Kristinn – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The aim of this paper is to describe changing learner identities and trajectories of identification that take place among vocational education and training (VET) apprentices in Norway. This paper describes 23 young, male VET students' learner identities in compulsory school (age 7-15) in comparison to their learner identities in VET…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Males
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Wallace, Janice; Wallin, Dawn – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper traces the academic identity formation(s) of 10 Canadian female academics whose disciplinary knowledge is in the field of educational administration. We trace the ways in which discourses of gender, institutional power, and other cultural and social influences shaped their sense of themselves as academics in the highly patriarchal…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Hess, Trina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative research study examined the "lived experiences" of learning identity during work transitions among three women (ages 35 to 55) who were not previously married. The research question was how do particular mid-life women who engage in a work transition re-construct the meaning of (or make sense of) their identity? Primary research…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research, Females, Transformative Learning
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This symposium on adult learning and human resource development consists of three presentations. "Adult Learning Principles and Concepts in the Workplace: Implications for Training in HRD" (Margot B. Weinstein) reports on findings from interviews with restaurant employees who reported that training practices using adult learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students