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Marieke Schaper – Educational Theory, 2025
Fostering transformative experiences is a central goal of education. In this article, Marieke Schaper examines the relationship between doubt and transformation in education, specifically problematizing the idea that doubt can serve as a catalyst for transformative experiences in the classroom. Schaper's thesis is that doubt is not valuable by…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Transformative Learning, Credibility, Learning Experience
Edward Raymond Janairo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the nature of transformative learning experiences as qualitative shifts in identity by employing a basic interpretative qualitative methodology using data from semi-structured interviews with eight participants in a re-entry job skills program, that is, with participants in a program that was designed to aid them with their…
Descriptors: Participation, Job Skills, Reentry Workers, Self Concept
John D. Egan; Steven Tolman; Juliann Sergi McBrayer; Emily Ballesteros – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Kolb's experiential learning cycle is typically applied in short-term, episodic snapshots of time, while understating the implications of continual, longer-term learning. This fixed-frame, episodic usage may diminish the knowledge that learners bring into an educational experience and the continued shaping of knowledge through future experiences.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Lifelong Learning, Models, Learning Processes
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Sandris Zeivots; Jessica Tyrrell; Dewa Wardak – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
While research exists on what constitutes meaningful learning, our study reveals the term meaningful is an ill-defined concept that is interpreted in multiple ways, often from a teacher-centric perspective. Less is known about what constitutes meaningfulness in the context of higher education, particularly in business education. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Learning Experience
Matthew Edwin Leavenworth – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the lived experience of transformation in mentor-coaches trained and certified through the Center for Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development (CMCLD). The CMCLD describes its training as a transformational process in which mentor-coaches adopt a listening mindset that becomes a lifestyle change. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Mentors, Coaching (Performance), Training, Listening Skills
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Ball, Jonathon Aaron; Holyoke, Laura; Heward, Heather; Kokenge, Elise; Jenkins, Nanci; Wilson, Shannon – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This phenomenological study explored the concept of profound moments. We previously defined a profound moment as an experience that intentionally or unintentionally continues to surface in our consciousness, has transformed our fundamental perspectives, and has been integrated into how we live. Selected participants had experienced highly…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Learning Experience, Personality, Metacognition
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Dike, Felix Okechukwu; Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
The theory of transformative learning (TL) has been criticized secondhand for its lack of clarity in capturing and explaining in detail the processes undergone by learners who are going through TL experiences and their link to learning outcomes. Using a case study design, and carefully synthesized TL processes (TLPs) from Mezirow's TL theory, we…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Reflection, Learning Processes
Sara Jane Blackman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to use a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology to understand the learning experiences of trainers who completed a professional development trainer certification. Specifically, this study explored how trainers described their learning experiences, the catalysts trainers identified as instrumental to their…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Professional Development, Trainers, Certification
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Bonello, Charmaine; Camilleri, Rose Anna; Attard, Charmaine – Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
In 2018, the state Kindergarten sector in Malta (3-5 years) was influenced by the shift from a prescriptive to an emergent curriculum, and the increasing use of eTwinning - a particular scenario that is research-worthy. Through one narrative inquiry of a Kindergarten educator who decided to 'marry' the emergent curriculum and eTwinning in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Transformative Learning, Learning Experience
Jennifer Ortega – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined transformative sustainability learning (TSL) by determining the occurrence of perspective transformation (PT) regarding sustainability in sustainability-focused courses offered at a public university. 131 students in two upper-division general education courses with a sustainability-focused course designation were included in…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Sustainability, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Mezzie Lee Ochoa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Amidst the tapestry of public education lie the stories of early college high school (ECHS) students, students with valuable insights into the transformative nature of juggling secondary and postsecondary education. Their experiences are somewhat unknown to the education community at large. ECHS programs are designed to bridge the gap between high…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, High School Students, Student Experience, Learning Experience
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Sari, Lufi Kartika; De Backer, Free; Joson, Alexis Nouelle; Lombaerts, Koen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Experiencing unfamiliar environments tends to foster transformative learning. However, limited studies investigate how experiencing contrasting localities fosters transformative learning, such as teaching practice in remote areas by pre-service teachers who are from elsewhere. This study focuses on revealing pre-service teachers' transformative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Transformative Learning
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Mat D. Duerden; Jamin C. Rowan – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
What if the focus of learning outcomes shifted from telling students what they will know at the end of a course to who they will become? Learning outcomes have drifted away from informing curriculum design to providing parameters for external assessment. This article reviews this shift along with a proposal to reimagine learning outcomes as…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Outcomes of Education, Curriculum Design, Thinking Skills
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Neil Kramm; Sioux McKenna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The dominant response within higher education to the emergence of free online text- and graphic-generating software has been a concern with identifying AI usage in students' work. We argue that this is both a waste of time and neglects our educational responsibilities. A police-catch-punish approach to AI, as with the use of this process in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Plagiarism, Learning Experience
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Kristen M. Ford; Julie M. Knutson – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Part 1 of this article described THE FUSED Technique (Ford & Knutson, 2024) as a new pedagogical approach to teaching K-12 health education, blending or fusing the best aspects from the standards-based and skill-based health education teaching models. THE stands for teaching health education and FUSED stands for functional (data driven)…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Models
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