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Kiely, Richard – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2004
This article reports findings from a longitudinal case study investigating how students experience perspective transformation from their participation in international service-learning program with an explicit social justice orientation. Findings indicate that each student experienced profound changes in their world-view in at least one of six…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies
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Hughes, Mark; Bourner, Tom – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
This account of practice is about starting action learning set meetings. It focuses on a process sometimes known as the "check-in". The paper is based upon the experience of one of the authors (Mark). It raises questions about the contribution of the check-in to an action learning set meeting and whether the checking-in process has a…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Empathy, Reflection, Transformative Learning
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Weinstein, Krystyna – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
This is an account of one particular set meeting during a year long programme for social entrepreneurs. It triggered a number of questions and insights for me about the amazing value of honesty, and its power. It released a great deal of energy, ownership and "control". I realized how important it was to highlight, discuss and reflect on…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Network Analysis
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Leggo, Carl – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
In this essay I offer a series of autobiographical ruminations and poems for inviting readers to reflect on poetic possibilities for conceiving and fostering the well-being of teachers. As an educator, I am confronted daily with challenges. In order to sustain my spirit and energy, I turn to poetry, both reading and writing poetry, and I find in…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Depression (Psychology), Personal Narratives, Poetry
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Daniels, Harry; Warmington, Paul – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Engestrom's "third generation" activity theory, with its emphasis on developing conceptual tools to understand dialogues, multiple perspectives and networks of interacting activity systems, has informed research into professional learning in multiagency service settings in England.…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Interpersonal Communication
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Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
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Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Ortegano-Layne, Ludmila; Carabajal, Kayleigh; Frechette, Casey; Lindemann, Ken; Jennings, Barbara – Distance Education, 2006
We discuss the development of an instructional design model, WisCom (Wisdom Communities), based on socio-constructivist and sociocultural learning philosophies and distance education principles for the development of online wisdom communities, and the application and evaluation of the model in an online graduate course in the USA. The WisCom model…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Design, Internet, Constructivism (Learning)
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Rowland, Michael L. – Adult Learning, 2006
Many adults search for spiritual guidance and direction and persist in seeking answers to life in today's fast-paced world. With burgeoning economic challenges, political corruption, war in Iraq, poverty, health care concerns, environmental concerns, rising fuel costs, violence, racism, and oppression, many adults seek solace and greater…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Self Concept, Improvement, Christianity
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Blount, Alma G. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2006
As faculty director of an undergraduate leadership program that is part of the public policy studies department at Duke University, the author has been developing a pedagogy that introduces students to difficult social issues through community-based internships, and asks them to imagine what kind of leadership it would take to address those issues…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Public Service, Public Policy, Reflection
Welton, Michael R., Ed. – 1995
This book presents six critical commentaries on the state of the discipline and practice of adult education. "The Critical Turn in Adult Education Theory" (Michael R. Welton) takes the position that the critical theoretical tradition from Marx to Habermas can provide a foundation for an emancipatory educational practice.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Critical Theory
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Gumpert, Joanne; Kraybill-Greggo, John W. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2005
The intensive group process inherent in alternative break service trips offers a unique opportunity to foster transformative learning in undergraduate students. This exploratory study focuses on a two-year project in which graduate students who were professionally educated in group work led undergraduate students in national and international…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Graduate Students
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Simpson, Gary – Science Education Review, 2005
How do you transform your own practice, and the practice of your peers? How do you act as a change agent in a positive, open dialogue with peers? The author seeks to explore this complex, often difficult issue, hoping to encourage others to look at their practice, and the practice of their peers, and ask: "Can we do better?" Can we…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Transformative Learning, Change Agents, Active Learning
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Armstrong, Denise – Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, 2004
To claim that ethics and morality lie at the foundation of effective administrative praxis is neither new nor revolutionary--numerous studies have demonstrated that moral issues are embedded in the weave and texture of schooling and influence administrative choices. This paper explores the challenges, tensions and dilemmas new administrators…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Secondary Schools, Assistant Principals
Sharma, Sashi – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
Data reported in this paper is part of a larger study which explored form five (14 to 16 year olds) students' ideas in probability and statistics. This paper presents and discusses the ways in which students made sense of task involving independence construct obtained from the individual interviews. The findings revealed that many of the students…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Studies, Statistics, Transformative Learning
Wyss, Paul Alan – Online Submission, 2005
Experiential and Transformational Learning Theories have strong potential for application in a setting in which academic library skills are taught. These theories imply greater immersion in the academic library environment and scholarly library research and, thus, promote a deeper understanding of information literacy than traditional methods of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Library Research, Transformative Learning, Adult Students
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