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Cranton, Patricia – 1994
This book describes the theory and process of transformative learning (TL) and presents practical strategies for fostering and supporting TL. In chapters 1 and 2, TL is placed within the broader context of adult learning and Mezirow's 1991 theory of TL is presented. Chapter 3 examines the following: TL's relationship to the instrumental,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques
Goos, Merrilyn – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This paper addresses the question of how teachers learn from experience during their pre-service course and early years of teaching. It outlines a theoretical framework that may help us better understand how teachers' professional identities emerge in practice. The framework adapts Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, and Valsiner's Zone of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Education, Professional Development, Classroom Techniques
Gallart, Marta Soler – 2002
A two-year ethnographic study of dialogic literary circles in Spain explored the learning experience of adults who participated in them. In a dialogic society, educational projects providing real opportunities for transformation and overcoming inequalities usually had a dialogic orientation and promoted instrumental learning as well as critical…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Classics (Literature)
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Fannon, Kate – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
This article presents a rationale for why role-play simulation is an effective and socially dynamic learning strategy for VET or HE. The factors of generational change, work world demands due to global economics and rapid technological developments are drivers for educationalists to focus more on the process of learning rather than the content.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes
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Brown, Kathleen M. – Educational Considerations, 2005
The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of an alternative, transformative andragogy, i.e., the art and science of helping others to learn, designed to be responsive to the challenges of preparing educational leaders committed to social justice and equity. Three aspects of Mezirow's (1990) Transformative Learning Theory, which in…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Norris, Cynthia J. – Educational Considerations, 2005
This article presents an exploratory case study that sought to gain insight into the development of both cognitive and affective understandings of place that resulted from the UTK (University of Tennessee in Knoxville) cohort visits to the Cincinnati schools. Ten reflections were collected from the cohort members upon their return from these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Leadership, Regional Characteristics, Rural Urban Differences
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Santo, Susan A. – Qualitative Report, 2005
This study tells the stories of four successful graduate students within a cohort of learners who were earning graduate degrees in technology for education and training by distance. The students were practicing teachers in the Dakota Interactive Academic Link (DIAL) consortium. Courses were offered by the University of South Dakota, using…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Rural Schools, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning
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Ukpokodu, Omiunota Nelly – Social Studies, 2003
For the last nine years, Ukpokodu has taught an elementary social studies methods course. As one who is grounded in multicultural education, global education and critical pedagogy, she approaches the course from a transformative and social reconstructionist perspective (Banks 1996; Sleeter and Grant 1994). That means that the course reflects…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism, Critical Theory, Social Studies
Brooks, Annie – 2001
The concept of narrative was used to examine the process of transformative learning and explore the possibilities for using narrative as a central construct for theorizing transformation and thereby expanding the possibilities for research and practice. The concepts of narrative used in the analysis were as follows: (1) it moves from past to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Change, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Practices
Kerka, Sandra – 2002
Multiple, sometimes competing, purposes for adult arts education are to develop the individual, maintain the dominant culture, or change the culture; develop appreciative audiences or creative practitioners; or liberate creativity or develop technical skills. Art may be the means or a goal in itself; that is, the arts may be used for instrumental…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Aesthetic Education, Art
Russell, Mary; Ginsburg, Lynda – 1999
This report describes the general features of "online learning communities," community organizations that have constructed learning delivery systems that effectively combine elements of the distance learning and traditional models of instruction. It discusses the online learning community framework and explains the four features of these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Bradshaw, Delia – ARIS Resources Bulletin, 2001
Teachers transform lives, and the ripple effect goes on for years. Three pertinent questions are asked in this paper: Where does this power come from? What is its source? and What makes teachers so special? Two aspects of these questions are the multiplicity of identities that coexist within each teacher and the passion inside teachers that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Educators, Developed Nations
Brown, Kathleen M. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of an alternative, transformative pedagogy that may assist us in responding to the urgent call for changes in the way educational leaders are prepared and developed. Within the contextual loom of preparation programs, the two theoretical perspectives of Transformative Learning Theory and Critical…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Social Theories
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King, Kathleen P. – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
School leaders can benefit by considering their faculty as adult learners in transformation while they are learning educational technology. In this article a Journey of Transformation model is presented to assist school leaders in meeting the challenges of the postinformation age. The model is grounded in transformational learning research and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Educational Technology, Models
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Milne, Wendy M. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
Can sharing drawings about pedagogical issues develop trust in a mentoring situation? What other themes and feelings emerge when non-traditional forms of mentoring are utilized? During a seven-week student-teaching period, a student art teacher and experienced art teacher drew and wrote in a sketchbook about daily teaching experiences. These…
Descriptors: Mentors, Art Education, Art Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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