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Bearn, Gordon C. F. – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019
This essay suggests that Wittgenstein's philosophy can be read as an example of what Hadot and Foucault call spiritual practices, and it uses that reading to cast light on the way certain experiences can change one's life. These experiences could as simple as reading a book or even, as might be the case with Thoreau, living alone by a pond. The…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Spiritual Development, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods
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Nagda, Biren A.; Roper, Larry D. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
This chapter proposes a transformative vision of critical-dialogic leadership development. A framework is offered to guide reflection and dialogue among leadership educators to bring the vision to life.
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Social Change
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Holland, Kristopher – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
This essay posits tensions in art, education, and politics by using philosophical discourse to suggest that the way to create transformative events for social change is to understand Lyotard's diagnosis of the current age and Rancière's call to critical art practice. By proposing new strategies and tactics such as 'post-art' and 'strange tools',…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Philosophy, Art, Transformative Learning
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Gary, Kevin; Chambers, Drew – Educational Theory, 2021
This essay focuses on epiphanies -- moments when an insight or revelation captures our attention and summons us to become a better version of ourselves. The role of epiphanies in moral transformation, however, raises a potentially troublesome question. Namely, is the cultivation of epiphanies yet another vexed attempt at moral education? Kevin…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Self Actualization, Critical Theory
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Dai, Kun; Hardy, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
Considerable research has investigated Chinese students' intercultural insights in different national contexts, where culture is understood as coterminous with nationality/regionality. However, few have explored the more micro-political aspects of Chinese doctoral students' narrative experiences in national settings, within a more cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Asians, Foreign Students
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Hyde, Brendan – Educational Practice and Theory, 2021
There has been a revived interest Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Notions emanating from his philosophy concerning the human person and that human beings together create and sustain phenomena through social practice speaks of a relational ontology that has relevance for contemporary education. This article argues that such ontology needs to be…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Self Concept, Social Cognition
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van den Akker, Robin; Noordegraaf-Eelens, Liesbeth; van Eekelen, Bregje F.; Teeuwen, Roger – European Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Living in a Delta, amidst water, land and air, means living and engaging with complex concerns. To address these concerns the Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (RASL) has developed an education- and research program for Higher Education in which the (alpha-, beta-, and gamma-) sciences and the arts are combined to engage with with all of the scales,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Yeh, Cathery; Martinez, Ricardo; Rezvi, Sarah; Shirude, Shraddha – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2021
Ethnic studies is a growing movement for curricular and pedagogical practices that reclaim marginalized voices and histories and create spaces of healing for students of color; however, its application to mathematics education has been limited. In this essay, we provide a framework of five ethea of ethnic studies for mathematics education:…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Mathematics Education, Transformative Learning, Resistance (Psychology)
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Turner, David C., III – Theory Into Practice, 2021
Youth Organizing as a tool for social change has helped to not only change material conditions in some respects, but it has also equipped youth with the critical tools needed to engage in long term social movement building. As a result, youth activists and organizers have been able to increase investments in the highest needs communities, gain…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Social Change, Activism
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Luguetti, Carla; Oliver, Kimberly L. – Curriculum Journal, 2021
Over the past decades, a body of scholarship has highlighted the benefits of an activist approach in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE). This body of research shows that an activist approach enables teacher educators, student teachers and young people to work together in order to become conscious of the power structures in society that…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Activism, Transformative Learning
Marty Jacobs – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Statistics on the success of transformational change efforts within and across organizations consistently indicate a high level of failure, something we can little afford in today's complex world. Transformative learning offers potential for improvement through the practice of intentional dialogue. The purpose of this research study was to develop…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Learning Processes, Dialogs (Language)
Maaly Younis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Learning in adulthood should be a meaningful experience through which adult learners are able to re-examine their values and beliefs acquired over the years. Mezirow (1978a, 1978b)stated that learners' engagement with this process of reflection and making meaning leads to a change in one's perspective. To facilitate such a transformational…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Research Methodology, Transformative Learning
Angela M. Sample – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the instructional design field untrained instructional designers are creating educational content. In these instances, the content is created by subject matter experts. This growing subset of experts is known as instructional designers-by-assignment (DBAs). DBAs are prevalent in the equestrian education field. Unfortunately, in equestrian…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Expertise, Animals, Program Content
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Brown, Mary Kate; Chevrette, Roberta – Communication Teacher, 2022
This unit activity guides students through an interrogation of bias, normativity, and co-cultural experiences within the context of dis/ability and appearance. Specifically, students complete implicit bias tests related to ability and body size, read about historical displays of bodily difference in circuses and "freak shows," and then…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Films
El Mallah, Shereen – Urban Education, 2022
Cultural beliefs, values, and norms influence the frequency and display of behavior. Accordingly, broadening the operational definitions of social and emotional competencies and establishing the equivalence of measures are two necessary steps to ensure that current assessment tools are sensitive to cultural and contextual variations. The purpose…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Emotional Learning, Measures (Individuals), Culturally Relevant Education
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