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du Val d'Epremesnil, Diane – Religious Education, 2021
This article investigates a life education initiative from India, directed at children from primary to the end of secondary school. Over the course of the program, students learn to connect with their emotions and values, to understand that their lives are made of stories, and that they have a place in the larger community as agents of change.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Indians, Change Agents, Program Descriptions
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Walshaw, Margaret – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2020
There is a well-established area of work in mathematics education focusing on mathematics for social justice. Much of the work, however, is concerned with "individual" students' understanding the world symbolically -- as evident in the notions of reading and writing the world using mathematics -- while failing to address a transformative…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mathematics Instruction, Transformative Learning, Self Concept
Szarleta, Ellen J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
Business, nonprofit, and government institutions generally agree that a vibrant economy is critical to addressing the multi-faceted, complex issues faced by urban communities. Yet, despite significant targeted efforts aimed at revitalizing economic activity over the past few decades, the state of many communities remains unchanged. A collective…
Descriptors: Universities, School Role, Entrepreneurship, Capacity Building
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Mycroft, Louise – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2016
Since 1978 The Northern College, Barnsley has provided an education focused on the transformation and empowerment of individuals and communities. The demands of an instrumentalist system bite deep and even the most authentic mission might struggle to hold firm against a neo-liberal onslaught which privileges the qualification of economically…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Blended Learning, Social Change, Curriculum Development
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McCunney, Dennis – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
This ethnographic case study describes how civically engaged students understand their commitment to social change. Literature on civic engagement and service-learning abounds, yet gaps remain in understanding how students understand and act on campus mission and culture with respect to civic engagement. Using the frameworks of transformative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Church Related Colleges, Transformative Learning, Citizen Participation
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Hathaway, Mark D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
Joanna Macy's "Work that Reconnects" (WTR) is a transformative learning process that endeavors to help participants acknowledge, experience, and understand the emotions that may either empower or inhibit action to address the ecological crisis. The WTR seeks to work through grief, fear, and despair to animate a sense of active,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Neurosciences, Grief
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Gage, Ondine – Language Awareness, 2020
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of structured student reflection following carefully designed, collaborative student-centered activities to demonstrate how pre-service teachers may initiate perspectives on language awareness necessary in developing a praxis of language awareness. I begin by identifying a framework for a praxis of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Student Centered Learning, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Mariani, Ilaria; Gandolfi, Enrico – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
This study shows the results gathered from 141 subjects playing the persuasive urban game "A Hostile World" via a post-game-experience quantitative questionnaire. The aim is to problematize and deepen the role of negative emotions (e.g., frustration, rage)--explicitly fostered by "A Hostile World" to increase empathy toward…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Change, Questionnaires, Affective Behavior
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Teise, K.; le Roux, A. – Africa Education Review, 2016
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an educational approach that, by being a catalyst of social change, promotes sustainability. Although South African education policy and practice appear to be oriented towards ESD, the concept is contested, and ragged with ambiguity and vagueness. Because the transformation of South African education…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Case Studies, Models, Foreign Countries
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Walters, Shirley – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This paper considers the importance of 'in-between spaces' within the academy for challenging dominant institutional culture and hegemonic power relations towards a 'de-colonised' university. It questions 'mainstreaming' of transformational initiatives, as this can bring about regulation, rather than the turbulence that is often what is needed for…
Descriptors: School Culture, Power Structure, Universities, Lifelong Learning
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Ngui, Kwang-Sing; Voon, Mung-Ling; Lee, Miin-Huui – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of an academic service learning course in a foreign university branch campus in Malaysia, and its outcomes in terms of student learning. Drawing on the transformative learning theory and case study research, it discusses three forms of learning that characterise the students'…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Change, Innovation, Community Involvement
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Aubrey, Meg – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2015
This article discusses CLICK, a collaborative theatre project between the Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company in Wales, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Australian Theatre for Young People, and Inspired Productions in New Zealand. This case study demonstrates the value of using arts education to bring together young people from multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Art Education, Cooperative Programs
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Cox, Amanda J.; John, Vaughn M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
The catalyst for learning and change in transformative learning theory has mostly been explained in terms of a disorientation in a relatively stable life. This article explores a South African, nonformal adult learning program, as a source of "orienting dilemmas," which catalyze learning and change in lives that are regularly and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Western Civilization
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Kark, Ronit; Preser, Ruth; Zion-Waldoks, Tanya – Journal of Management Education, 2016
Transformational learning is a process resulting in deep and significant change in habitual patterns of identity, thought, emotion, and action, enabling new approaches to role enactment. This article explores how moving from a framework of dilemmas, which require solutions and one-sided choices, to a framework of paradoxes that embraces tensions…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Feminism, Educational Practices, Females
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Lasen, Michelle; Tomas, Louisa; Hill, Angela – Teaching Education, 2015
This research investigates the potential of service-learning to develop a situated, embodied and critically reflective human agency for sustainability. It employs document analysis to review the intended curriculum and the institutional contexts of national and international cases wherein service-learning is a component of pre-service teacher…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sustainability, Competence, Preservice Teachers
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