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Burk, Adrienne L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter describes an innovative writing program at Simon Fraser University that has implications for fostering transformative learning.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Writing (Composition), College Students, Writing Assignments
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Taylor, Edward W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
In summarizing the shared themes of the authors of the previous chapters, this chapter explores the role of the transformative educator, the transformative classroom environment, the transformative text, and the student when teaching for change.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Student Diversity, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods
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Dlamini, S. Nombuso – International Education, 2006
In this paper the author looks at what it means to tell, live with, and learn from stories of painful losses resulting from traumatic histories, the most recent history being apartheid. The author's examination centers on the concept of "inkumbulo," a Zulu word that embraces several concepts crucial in studies of historical memory and…
Descriptors: Females, Racial Segregation, Depression (Psychology), Transformative Learning
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Backenroth, Ofra; Epstein, Shira D.; Miller, Helena – Religious Education, 2006
This article explores how arts-based learning can facilitate understandings of Jewish religious texts. Through practical examples drawn from our own research, from the worlds of dance, drama, and the visual arts in education, we demonstrate the ways in which arts can allow for the transmission of information and knowledge, as well as offer a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Experience, Visual Arts, Jews
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Becker, Becky – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2006
This article presents a conversation with Agnes Wilcox, Executive Director of Prison Performing Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, about Prison Performing Arts. Although the average person might balk at the notion of interacting with prison inmates, finding it intimidating, worrisome, or self-sacrificial, for Wilcox, Prison Performing Arts is a…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Correctional Institutions, Program Effectiveness, Theater Arts
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Alfaro, Cristina – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2008
Increasing diversity and linguistics complexity in classrooms is occurring in schools throughout the world. Bilingual teachers need to develop knowledge and skills to succees in teaching diverse students. Demographic shifts are bringing increasing numbers of international students from diverse racial, ethnic, religious, class, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Student Diversity, Public Schools
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
Rios, Francisco; Montecinos, Carmen; van Olphen, Marcela – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
This paper works to shed light on challenges and possibilities of helping teacher education faculty to be competent as international teacher educators. This collaborative self study of a USA teacher educator's international experiences provides ideas that might be considered that will help support teacher education faculty in movement toward this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, International Education, Teacher Educators, Phenomenology
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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Mercer, Jenny – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2007
A common outcome of entering post-compulsory education as a mature aged learner appears to be development and growth of the self. However, this is often only viewed as an outcome or considered an added benefit, rather than an integral part of the academic process itself. This paper explores the relationship between academic growth and personal…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Educational Development, Higher Education, Older Adults
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Hadley, Nancy J. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2007
Many electronic portfolios become shining but superficial collections instead of environments for nurturing insight. Instructors must balance instructional time between perfecting the technical expertise of the student and fully developing the critical expertise needed for the student to become a thoughtful scholar. In a deliberate move, I have…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Formative Evaluation, Discovery Processes
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McWilliam, Carol L. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
As the evidence-based practice movement gains momentum, continuing education practitioners increasingly confront the challenge of developing and conducting opportunities for achieving research uptake. Recent thinking invites new approaches to continuing education for health professionals, with due consideration of what knowledge merits uptake by…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Transformative Learning, Health Personnel, Active Learning
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Wheeler, Brad – EDUCAUSE Review, 2007
Colleges and universities and commercial firms have demonstrated great progress in realizing the vision proffered for "Open Source 2007," and 2010 will mark even greater progress. Although much work remains in refining open source for higher education applications, the signals are now clear: the collaborative development of software can provide…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Transformative Learning
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Ada, Alma Flor – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2007
Influenced by Freinet, Freire, and Sherover-Marcuse, the author describes the evolution of her pedagogy, including a demystifying and empowering approach to working with graduate students in the dissertation process. Alma Flor Ada's educational philosophy and praxis, grounded in critical pedagogy and transformative education, developed in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Educational Philosophy, Multicultural Education
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Lee, Shawna J.; Oyserman, Daphna – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This chapter describes the educational possible selves of low-income mothers as they make the transition from welfare to work.
Descriptors: Mothers, Welfare Recipients, Aspiration, Self Actualization
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