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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
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
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
Rogers, P. Clint; Graham, Charles R.; Mayes, Clifford T. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2007
The amount of resources being poured by Western universities, companies, and governments into creating educational content to be exported (via the Internet) to other cultures is astounding. Those assigned to accomplish this task are left with the great challenge of meeting the needs of learners who come from cultures that are foreign to them, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Cultural Differences, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence

Wilcox, Susan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
An educator's self-directed critical reflection on experiences led to the following discoveries about faculty development: articulation of assumptions about educational processes, explication of knowledge claims about development, and identification and examination of faculty development conventions. (SK)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development, Higher Education

Taylor, Edward W. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1997
Review of 39 studies on perspective transformation reveals the need to recognize the significant influence of context, a lesser role for critical reflection, and a greater role for other ways of learning. A more encompassing view of transformative learning includes affective learning, nonconscious learning, relationships, and collective…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Affective Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship, Learning Processes

Lawler, Patricia A.; King, Kathleen P. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2003
An integrative approach views professional development for adult educators as learner centered and transformative; it should address motivation and technology. A new vision of professional development reconceptualizes the process to include understanding of contexts, active learning, reflection, and dialogue. (SK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Educators, Educational Environment, Professional Development

Collard, Susan; Law, Michael – Adult Education Quarterly, 1989
The author discusses the historical development of Mezirow's theory of perspective transformation (seen as adult learning that leads to social action). Problems with this concept are discussed and the author concludes that perspective transformation, while an important concept, is not a complete theory of adult learning and education. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories

Mezirow, Jack; And Others – Adult Education Quarterly, 1994
Mezirow restates the major ideas of his transformation theory and addresses criticisms in terms of adult development, ideology, and Freire's concept of conscientization. Tennant and Newman's reactions are followed by Mezirow's response. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Structures

Carmack, Nancy A. – Adult Basic Education, 1992
Women acquire knowledge and identity in different ways. The history of women's educational inequities, current state of women's literacy, and methods of literacy programs justify gender-specific programing based on adult learning theories that are focused on construction of experience and perspective transformation. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Females, Illiteracy, Literacy Education

Dirkx, John M. – PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning, 1998
Summarizes four theoretical perspectives on transformative learning as consciousness raising, critical reflection, development, and individuation. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Consciousness Raising

Hobson, Peter; Welbourne, Louise – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1998
Transformative adult development involves a qualitative change in world view with resulting tension and struggles of the production of new consciousness. Change occurs through a dialectic process of reconstructing meaning in new ways. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Discourse Analysis, Individual Development, Learning Theories

Oberle, Kathleen; Allen, Marion – Nursing Outlook, 2001
Advanced practice nurses are situated between general knowledge (knowing why, what, and how) and particular knowledge (knowing who--personal knowledge of patients). Integration of the two assists in knowing when a particular action would be most helpful. This practical wisdom is the hallmark of advanced practice. (Contains 45 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Nursing, Nursing Education

Preskill, Hallie; Torres, Rosalie T. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2000
Explores how evaluation leads to transformative learning in organizations and addresses the increased use of evaluation processes and findings and evaluators' roles and practices. Also describes the theories underlying constructivist and transformative learning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Brown, Gary – Syllabus, 2000
Discusses transformative assessment, which considers evidence of student activity or engagement, as an alternative to outcomes-based assessment. Explains the interrelationship of goals, practice, activities, and outcomes in a Venn diagram; considers the new view of students as customers; and describes assessments at Washington State University.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Learning Activities