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Manion, Kathleen; Shah-Preusser, Noreen; Dyck, Trish; Thackeray, Susan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Learning in teams offers unique benefits to understand and address contemporary, global, and local challenges through effective and thoughtful learning journeys. However, learning in teams is not always thoroughly planned or effectively delivered. In trying to better understand what processes support or hinder effective and innovative learning in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
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Purg, Peter; Širok, Klemen; Brasil, Daniela – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2018
Several pedagogical assets of the blended-learning courses conducted within the ADRIART.net partnership originate from their novel site-specific approach and intercultural value. Conducted outside school environments across Austria, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia in 2011-2014, over a dozen of these intensive Master's programme workshops mixed…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Masters Programs
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Tanaka, Michele T. D.; Farish, Maureen; Nicholson, Diana; Tse, Vanessa; Doll, Jenn; Archer, Elizabeth – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
In Transformative Inquiry (TI), pre-service teachers explore issues about which they are personally passionate in order to enter into the delicate work of transformation. We examine how shared vulnerability within three mentor-mentee pairs leads to new pedagogical possibilities. Michele and Vanessa discuss poetry as a way of entering into TI and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Poetry
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Reichenbach, Michael R.; Muth, Allyson B.; Smith, Sanford S. – Journal of Extension, 2013
Transformative learning can lead to great awareness of one's own and others' personal perspectives and result in changes in how participants understand important social issues and how they choose to take action or not. Three examples of Extension teaching that embrace transformative learning are presented: a phenomenological approach to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Extension Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
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Vettraino, Elinor; Linds, Warren; Goulet, Linda – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
This article explores the arts' potential to transform the relationships between students and teachers, so that education becomes an "as if" world, where education is an act of social justice. Interweaving themes from the children's book "Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type" with theories of transformative pedagogy and their own…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Justice, Childrens Literature
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Kenny, Robert F.; Wirth, Jeffery – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2009
Research has shown that quality teacher-student interactions far outweigh all other considerations to produce positive learning outcomes. Although this may be inherently obvious, few teacher preparation programs dedicate much time to training teachers how to create positive interactive, constructivist learning environments. Much can be learned…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Learning Experience, Best Practices, Interaction
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Lim, Soh-Leong – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2008
This study, involving both phenomenological interviews and a survey questionnaire, was designed to gain an in-depth understanding of the "genogram as process." With a particular focus on the transformative aspects of genogram work, this study examined the experiences and perceptions of eight graduate students as they constructed and presented…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Transformative Learning
Miller, Richard L., Ed.; Balcetis, Emily, Ed.; Burns, Susan R., Ed.; Daniel, David B., Ed.; Saville, Bryan K., Ed.; Woody, William Douglas, Ed. – Society for the Teaching of Psychology, 2011
The purpose of the book is to provide teachers of psychology access to teaching techniques that epitomize "happy tact and ingenuity." The principle influence that teachers have on student behavior occurs in the classroom since, as noted by Erickson and Strommer, (1991), today's students spend relatively little time studying outside of class. When…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Adult Development, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Taylor, Edward W. – 2000
The practice of fostering transformative learning was reviewed from an empirical perspective. In the literature, much support was found for Mezirow's ideals for promoting rational discourse and critical reflection, two of the three interrelated components he identified as central to the process of fostering transformational learning. Other factors…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics