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Warren, Jane; Stech, Matt; Douglas, Kristin; Lambert, Serena – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2010
Self-reflection, creativity, and experiential education are effective teaching strategies for counselor educators. Understanding and conceptualizing client cases can feel overwhelming for counselors-in-training. This article describes how the process of case conceptualization can be enhanced through the use of film. A case example is provided of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Substance Abuse, Counselor Training, Experiential Learning
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Halx, Mark D. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
In this paper, I advocate for enhancing critical thinking skill development in undergraduate education by taking advantage of the increased experiential maturity of today's students. I argue that many undergraduates are in fact "adults", by virtue of their age or experiential maturity, and they should be educated as such. Undergraduates who have…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Maturity (Individuals), Adult Education
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Shin, Richard Q.; Rogers, Jennifer; Stanciu, Amalia; Silas, Melany; Brown-Smythe, Claudette; Austin, Brenda – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2010
The unique challenges faced by some youth of color living in high poverty contexts necessitate the creation of innovative, culturally relevant, group interventions. Framing the work of group counselors from a social justice perspective provides a structure for emphasizing the complex intersection of economic, political, and socio-historical issues…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Consciousness Raising, Urban Youth
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Wolfe, Paula – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
The objective of this paper is to use psychoanalytic theory to examine how attempts at critical teaching in two English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms related to changes in student subjectivity. The research critiques critical pedagogical assumptions regarding transformation and empowerment through a Lacanian perspective. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Psychiatry, Theories
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Smith, Malcolm – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2011
While exploring the current challenges facing academic institutions and the needs of their scholars to make their work relevant in the lives of university constituents, the author advocates for a reactive and radical approach to engaged scholarship by outlining an 8-step process that considers the importance of transformation, immediacy, and…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Social Science Research, Evidence, Human Services
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Firth, Ann; Martens, Erika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Preparation for research supervision has assumed greater importance in academic departments of universities with the increase in the number and diversity of both research candidates and supervisors and the financial incentives for on-time completions. Over the past decade a body of literature by both academics and academic developers has emerged…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Supervisors, Research, Transformative Learning
Scales, Neil – Adults Learning, 2008
For many involved in further education (FE), the focus on employers' needs, in the wake of the Leitch Review of Skills, may feel a bit frustrating. In exploring what employers need from FE today, the author describes what he and his staff have achieved at Merseytravel, the priorities he, as an employer, has in mind for FE, and the challenges they…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Adult Education, Public Sector, Organizational Culture
Jarrett, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Nine independent women over age 55 who traveled internationally were investigated through a qualitative case study. The purpose of the study was to explore the women's attitudes, actions, and motivations during and after their international travel experiences. The adult, aging, experiential, and transformational theories of researchers such as…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Travel, Tourism, Females
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Wheeler, Tiffany R.; Trail, Amelia El-Hindi – AILACTE Journal, 2010
Today's teachers must be equipped to reach all children and embrace a pedagogy of equity. Toward that end, teacher preparation programs need to foster a transformationist pedagogy which allows students to develop into culturally responsive teachers. This paper describes three components of a teacher preparation program that embraces teaching for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Pluralism
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Geschier, Sofie – Perspectives in Education, 2010
This article is explorative in its attempt to define vulnerability within transformative pedagogy by analysing excerpts from two "volatile conversations" on racism and xenophobia between a teacher and her grade nine class in a well-resourced Jewish school. The two conversations differed in regard to the teacher's use of vulnerability, even though…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Jews, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Interaction
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Lee, Tiffany S.; Quijada Cerecer, Patricia D. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2010
This article reveals Native youth perspectives on socio-culturally responsive education. The authors draw on two studies conducted in the Southwest among Navajo and Pueblo students. Youth convey the importance of meaningful, reciprocal, and transformative learning experiences and relationships at school. The article ends with suggestions for…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Transformative Learning, Educational Environment, American Indian Education
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Viczko, Melody; Wright, Lisa L. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Although practitioners, policy-makers, and academics call for reform in teacher education, there is ambiguity surrounding the identity transformation of graduate students who "become" teacher educators. This self-study uses narratives, based on intricate personal and collaborative reflection, to explore how the assumption of new role identities is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Educational Change, Learning Processes
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Wopereis, Iwan G. J. H.; Sloep, Peter B.; Poortman, Sybilla H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2010
This study examined the use of weblogs as a means to promote student teachers' reflective practice. The assumption was explored that weblogs are suitable tools to support and stimulate reflection on action in teacher training and consequently to enhance the students' ability to reflect. Three groups of student teachers used weblogs to reflect on…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Reflection
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Butler, Michael J. R.; Reddy, Peter – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on developing critical understanding in human resource management (HRM) students in Aston Business School, UK. The paper reveals that innovative teaching methods encourage deep approaches to study, an indicator of students reaching their own understanding of material and ideas. This improves student employability…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Reaction, Focus Groups, Transformative Learning
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Downs, Yvonne – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2010
Drawing heavily on my MA dissertation but influenced by subsequent transcription experience, I relate how a technical problem in the recording of an interview necessitated deliberations on the nature and purpose of transcription that continue to have repercussions for my transcription practice and, furthermore, for my understanding of research as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Methodology, Interviews
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