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Maruatona, Tonic – Adult Basic Education, 2002
The effectiveness of adult literacy education in Botswana is limited by centralization, lack of teacher and learner input, and the national literacy campaign's conventional rather than transformative approach. A critical approach that involves learners in planning, uses native languages, and enables teachers to select materials can better achieve…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Centralization, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries
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Lazenby, Ramona Browder; Morton, Rhonda Collins – Nursing Education Perspectives, 2003
Transformative philosophy was used to redesign a course for special education and nursing majors. To encourage collaboration, dialogue and interaction were included. Course evaluation by 21 students showed positive responses to the presence of medically fragile children in classrooms and awareness of the need for communication and collaboration…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Cooperation, Higher Education, Nursing Education
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Boyd, Robert D.; Myers, J. Gordon – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1988
The authors present the essential aspects composing the framework of transformative education. They discuss the general ends it promotes, the psychosocial theory upon which it is based, and the processes through which transformations are realized. Critical questions and educational virtues that serve as guidelines for implementation of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology, Outcomes of Education
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Merriam, Sharan B.; Clark, M. Carolyn – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1993
A survey of 405 adults and interviews with 19 showed the majority of learning experiences were informal. For learning to be significant, it must personally affect the learner by expanding skills or causing a transformation, and it must be subjectively valued by the learner. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Change Agents, Educational Attitudes
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Pohland, Paul; Bova, Breda – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2000
Analytically describes the annual Educational Leadership Development Conference held at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. Highlights the venue, participants, program goals, activity structure, and learning processes, drawing from the literature in adult learning, andragogy, and transformational learning and using Cranston's process model as…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Donelly, Amy; Morgan, Denise N.; Deford, Diane E.; Files, Janet; Long, Susi; Mills, Heidi; Stephens, Diane; Styslinger, Mary – Language Arts, 2005
South Carolina Reading Initiative (SCRI), a long-term professional development initiative designed to help teachers investigate research-based literacy practices and helps to build a knowledge base from which to inform instructional decisions. A model that shares stories about literacy coaches as learners and highlight engagements that believe to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Improvement
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Hoshmand, Lisa Tsoi – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2004
Transformative learning and development in adult education, as defined in humanistic and critical perspectives, are examined. The transformative potential of counseling education is explored in this article in terms of: (1) program philosophy; (2) pedagogy and curricular features; and (3) student outcomes. Challenges for a transformative approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum, Adult Development, Adult Education
Stewart, Douglas – Education Canada, 2005
"Public education," according to the author, means "public schooling," ie, schooling (K-12) funded and controlled by government, universally accessible, formally concerned with learning and bringing it about in others. In broaching this topic, the author examines how various ministries of education in Canada regard the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Educational Objectives
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Kreber, Carolin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2005
Reflection on teaching in higher education remains poorly understood. This exploratory study had three goals. First, to test, empirically yet in an exploratory way, the applicability of a particular model of reflection. Second, to identify objective indicators of reflection on knowledge about teaching with the intent to make the process of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Science Teachers, Higher Education
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Winkelmes, Mary-Ann – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2004
This essay draws on insights from studies on learning to explore the role of formation in the classroom. Studies of intellectual development, learning styles, and the physiology of learning are reviewed. Methodologies and models for encouraging formative learning in seminary classrooms are explored. This essay was written to address one of the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Classroom Environment, Theological Education, Church Related Colleges
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Turk, Randall L.; Wolff, Krista; Waterbury, Christopher; Zumalt, Jon – NASSP Bulletin, 2002
A field study conducted by 8 students and a faculty supervisor of a principal preparation program determined that individual and team reflection resulted in shared learning from team training and ongoing team activities. An industrial concept known as value-chain teams has implications for monitoring student progress from kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Team Training, Principals, Management Development
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Campbell, Katy; Gibson, Susan; Gramlich, Catherine – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
This article is about how conversation becomes both instructional design process and reflexive narrative inquiry. The narrative is shaped around the story and restorying of a course redevelopment project in teacher education. Told in three parts, the Start of the Journey recalls the authors' individual beliefs and expectations about teaching and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Personal Narratives, Reflection, Teacher Education
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Goulet, Linda; Krentz, Caroline; Christiansen, Helen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2003
In this article we propose a model for collaboration in education. We begin by examining the roots of collaboration in consultation, collegiality, and cooperation. We then delineate the features of collaboration as phenomenon and process, offering the view that through talk, action, and reflection among individuals a community of learners emerges.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Collegiality, Educational Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
Moberg, Eric – Online Submission, 2006
In Alex Haley's "Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), Haley recounts the life of an historical personage of enduring controversy. Whether one reveres or reviles Malcolm, "X", Little, his is a fascinating story of lifelong learning. Rather than conforming to one theory, Malcolm's learning is well explained by certain theorists at certain times in…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Autobiographies, Teaching Methods
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Keener, Catherine D.; Bargerhuff, Mary Ellen – Education, 2006
Pre-licensure, graduate intervention specialist majors participated in an introductory assignment, reporting their reactions to ten hours with an individual who had a moderate to intense disability. Research questions included: 1) How do pre-licensure, graduate students connect theory to practice? 2) What was it about the pre-licensure, graduate…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Intervention, Practicums, Field Experience Programs
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