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Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
Varsha Ghosh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Service-learning has become deeply embedded in higher education, as both a co-curricular and curricular tool to achieve learning outcomes, promote civic engagement and promote diversity. Yet it has also struggled with the critique that service-learning, unintentionally, reinforces deficit thinking by promoting a dominant narrative centered on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Race, Predominantly White Institutions
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Rillotta, Fiona; Arthur, Jillian; Hutchinson, Claire; Raghavendra, Parimala – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Inclusive post-secondary education (PSE) delivers positive personal, social and academic outcomes. However, there is limited support for students with intellectual disability (ID) to participate in higher education, particularly in Australia. This study investigated the expectations and experiences of students with ID in an inclusive individual…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Mentors
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McNeill, William H. – Liberal Education, 2011
In this article, the author shares his experiences in his undergraduate years and how he was influenced by his professors regarding human history. The author believes that social change very often arose from encounters with strangers who possessed some obviously superior skill or knowledge that locals could borrow and adjust to their own use. His…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Archaeology, Social Change, Social History
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Instructional Materials Center. – 1982
This guide for postsecondary child development instructors is intended for use in courses on caring for infants and toddlers in a child care setting. The materials are most effective when coordinated with a carefully selected textbook. Access to a quality care center for laboratory work is essential. An introduction describes the instructor's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Instructional Materials Center. – 1982
This manual is designed as a laboratory experience guide and workbook for postsecondary students in courses on caring for infants and toddlers in a child care setting. It is divided into six units: (1) Guidance and Interactions, (2) Physical Development, (3) Intellectual Development, (4) Social and Emotional Development, (5) Environments, and (6)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Development