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Richard Clark; James Menkhaus; Anne McGinness; Megan Sutterluety – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Service-immersion programs are prevalent at many universities, often housed in ministry, mission, or service-learning departments. These experiences vary from domestic to international exploration, often lasting five to twelve days. Unlike study abroad programs that usually last a semester, service immersion "trips" are shorter and often…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Service Learning, Learning Theories, Adult Students
Lebeloane, Lazarus Donald Mokula; Mmusi-Phetoe, Rose M.; Masaba, Brian Barasa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The present study explored experiences of former markers of undergraduate assignments and examinations at the University of South Africa (Unisa). Methodology: Qualitative method of research was used to gather data. Colaizzi's method (1978) was used to analyze and interpret data. The article's frame of reference was informed by Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Assignments, Tests
Cranton, Patricia; Torrisi-Steele, Geraldine – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2021
The purpose of this article is to explore the potential for fostering transformative learning in an online environment. It provides an overview of transformative learning theory, including the variety of perspectives on the theory that have evolved as the theory matured. Strategies and practices for fostering transformative learning are described,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Online Courses, Learning Theories, Educational Strategies
Hohensee, Charles, Ed.; Lobato, Joanne, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book provides a common language for and makes connections between transfer research in mathematics education and transfer research in related fields. It generates renewed excitement for and increased visibility of transfer research, by showcasing and aggregating leading-edge research from the transfer research community. This book also helps…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Mathematics Education, Learning Theories, Mathematical Logic
Tedford, Keith; Kitchenham, Andrew D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article describes a bounded action research case study that examines how reading and discussing a graphic narrative (March Book Two, a comic autobiography of John Lewis's life as a civil rights activist) enabled transformations in a group of seven adult student participants at a Canadian postsecondary institution. Data primarily gathered from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Case Studies, Action Research
Chwialkowska, Agnieszka – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
While some institutions require their students to spend a semester abroad as a prerequisite to earning a business degree, academics challenge the view that travel abroad helps students become culturally competent. Many students admit that they failed to immerse themselves in a cross-cultural environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cross Cultural Studies, Exchange Programs, Transformative Learning
Fischbach, Sarah; Guerrero, Veronica – Journal of Advertising Education, 2020
The purpose of the study is to explore how the digital brand story assignment creates a transformative learning experience for students. This study involves assessing the levels of learning according to Mezirow's transformational learning theory through the development of digital brand stories. The authors have tested the Digital Brand…
Descriptors: Advertising, Merchandise Information, Story Telling, Transformative Learning
Shelton-Strong, Scott J. – Language Teaching Research, 2022
In this article self-determination theory (SDT) is used as a framework to explore ways in which 'advising in language learning' (advising) can be understood to support language learners' basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. These are defined in SDT as nutrients essential for integration, growth, healthy development…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Learning Theories, Student Attitudes, Self Determination
Wärnestål, Pontus – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016
This paper examines how to leverage the design studio learning environment throughout long-term Digital Design education in order to support students to progress from tactical, well-defined, device-centric routine design, to confidently design sustainable solutions for strategic, complex, problems for a wide range of devices and platforms in the…
Descriptors: Design, Studio Art, Creativity, Learning Theories
Kaowiwattanakul, Sukanya – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This study investigated English as a foreign language learners' global mindedness through the use of transformative learning experiences in the literature classroom. The sample consisted of 50 second-year English major students who were enrolled in the introduction to literature course in the academic year 2018 at a public university in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
Gilbert, Joan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Preparing college students to be contributing members of local and global societies requires educators to analyze the capabilities and needs of their students and to adjust instructional content and practice. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was twofold: (a) to explore how classroom approaches designed to facilitate students' questioning of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Undergraduate Students
Doucet, Fabienne; Grayman-Simpson, Nyasha; Shapses Wertheim, Samantha – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
This article documents the transformation of cognitive and relational dispositions within a group of 14 White female undergraduate students ranging in age from 18 to 21 years and enrolled in a semester-long diversity course. Using Mezirow's transformative learning theory as an interpretive frame to guide our phenomenological analysis of written…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, White Students, Females, Transformative Learning
A Little Bit Can Go a Long Way: An Examination of Required Service in the Basic Communication Course
McIntyre, Kristen A.; Sellnow, Deanna D. – Communication Teacher, 2014
This study examines the utility of service-learning pedagogy in the general education basic communication course to meet service-learning outcomes, with an emphasis on civic engagement. Results of the data suggest that students in both a one-time service site and multiple-site condition indicated that the service experience enhanced three of the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, General Education, Introductory Courses, Communication (Thought Transfer)
McNamara, Rebecca A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Different conceptualizations of service-learning are found in higher education, ranging from charity to social justice focused. Little is known about the lasting impact of social justice focused service-learning on undergraduate participants, especially in a global education setting. This study examined the experience and meaning making of…
Descriptors: Travel, Service Learning, Social Justice, Interpersonal Relationship
Calsolaro Smulsky, Nancy – Online Submission, 2012
As an online institution of higher education, Excelsior College strives to ensure delivery of high quality online courses leading to student success. A key benchmark for student success is student-faculty interaction (SFI). The decade-old National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) measures several benchmarks including student-faculty interaction…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Educational Environment, Interaction
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