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Stromquist, Nelly P. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Global policies today encourage greater access by women to formal schooling but leave aside issues of content and school practices essential to the modification of the social relations of gender. This article assumes a holistic approach and compares the promise of education with its actual contribution to transformative knowledge. It examines why…
Descriptors: Education, Nongovernmental Organizations, Justice, Holistic Approach
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Clare, Roberta C. – Religious Education, 2006
How do adult learners make the connection between ethical thinking and ethical action--between what they believe and how they act? This article explores implications for religious education for social justice based on a case study of transformative learning theory, Freirean pedagogy, and popular education principles. (Contains 8 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Middle Class, North Americans, Learning Theories, Religious Education
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Barrow, Mark – Studies in Higher Education, 2006
This article is concerned with the complex role played by student assessment in the formation of the human subjects that are the product of higher education. Using a framework informed by the work of Foucault, it explores the productive effects of assessment regimes. Drawing on narrative data collected during in-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Models, Interviews
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Manley, Theodoric, Jr.; Buffa, Avery S.; Dube, Caleb; Reed, Lauren – Education and Urban Society, 2006
Results of the Black Metropolis Model (BMM) of service learning are analyzed and illustrated in this article to explain how to "put the learning in service learning." There are many soup kitchens or nontransforming models of service learning where students are asked to serve needy populations but internalize and learn little about the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, High School Students, College Students
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Bowser, Don; Danaher, Patrick A.; Somasundaram, Jay – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
While diversity and commonality are not necessarily contradictory aspirations in relation to contemporary teaching in higher education, they exist potentially in a state of dynamic tension, fostered by market-based and government-induced policies that strive to have the largest and widest possible client- or customer-base, while reducing costs by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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MacNaughton, Glenda; Hughes, Patrick; Smith, Kylie – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
This article describes an action-learning project that helped teachers to rethink their approaches to children who challenge. The project enabled and encouraged teachers to reflect critically on why and how particular children challenged them and then to use their critical reflections to strengthen their capacity to work with those children. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education
Lapp, Diane, Ed.; Fisher, Douglas, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Now in its third edition, the "Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts"--sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English--offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Prominent…
Descriptors: Guides, English, Language Arts, Educational History
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Jarmon, Leslie; Keating, Elizabeth; Toprac, Paul – Simulation & Gaming, 2008
This article describes a university-sponsored experiential-based simulation, the NANO SCENARIO, to increase the public's awareness and affect attitudes on the societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology by bringing together diverse stakeholders' perspectives in a participatory learning environment. Nanotechnology has the potential for…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Taylor, Edward W. – 1998
The theory of transformative learning, the process of making meaning of one's experience, emerged from the work of Jack Mezirow and has been explored through numerous research studies and critiques over the last 20 years. The purpose of this monographic is to provide greater insight into the transformative learning theory. The paper begins with an…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Theories
Henderson, Bob; Cushing, Pamela – 1998
The ubiquitous use of the term "transformation" in experiential education has blurred its specific meaning in any given case. Designing an effective curriculum requires instructors to determine what kind of transformation they would like to generate. A review of two research projects provides insights about different types of personal…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Attitude Change, Consciousness Raising, Educational Objectives
Cockburn, Thomas Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2005
This thesis reports and discusses my research on the action-learning project undertaken by MBA students with respect to actively embodied team learning. The teams undertook a number of consultancy projects for local companies during 1997-1999. It was seen that the successful teams evolved into micro learning organisations through a staged process…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Cooperative Learning
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James, Pauline – Journal of Vocational Education and Training: The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1997
Adult students training to be teachers initially reproduced aspects of their former workplace culture in the education classroom. Narrative helped generate a more open learning climate that facilitated transformative learning. In addition to authentic workplace learning, a sequestered classroom environment proved essential for the development of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
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Mallory, Judy L. – Journal of Professional Nursing, 2003
A 6-week experiential course based on a model of death education and transformative learning prepared nursing students to care for dying patients. Pretest/posttest scores for 45 who received the intervention and 59 controls showed the intervention contributed to a significant positive increase in attitudes toward care of the dying. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Death, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Gaikezehongai, Sally – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Prophecies say that Aboriginal peoples of the Americas will educate and illuminate the world by sharing their Sacred Fire, the spiritual strength that has enabled their survival. Such a vision sustains Aboriginal literacy practitioners, who are developing a unique holistic foundation for the healing and nurturing of minds, bodies, and spirits.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Educational Change
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Grace, Andre P.; Gouthro, Patricia A.; Mojab, Shahrzad – Studies in Continuing Education, 2003
Three adult educators who conducted a summer institute for 40 graduate students discuss how their positionalities influence conceptions of pedagogy and multiculturalism and shape inclusive teaching/learning interactions. They describe the sometimes uneasy intersections of the personal, the professional, and the political. (Contains 18 references.)…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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