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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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Kolar, Christine; Dickson, Shirley V. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2002
Seeking to strengthen preparation of preservice general educators for the realities of inclusive school settings, two special education teacher educators from different universities used content-based structured reflective log writing as an integral course requirement. Faced with teaching intensive course content within a limited time frame, the…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Educators, Qualitative Research
Reynolds, Joan – 2002
Thich Nhat Hanh, a 76-year-old Buddhist monk of the Vietnamese meditation school, exemplifies mindfulness in his daily life and teaches these principles around the world. Preferring to be called "Thay" which means teacher, he has written over 75 books on such subjects as mindfulness in daily living and its relation to social action. His teachings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Buddhism, Cross Cultural Studies
2000
Three presentations are provided from Symposium 17, Transformative Learning, of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2000 Conference Proceedings. "Leadership Development as Transformative Pedagogy" (Olga V. Kritskaya, John M. Dirkx) examines the nature of transformative instructional environments, focusing specifically on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Environment
Boss, Jennifer; Mann, Tammy L.; Randolph, Suzanne – Zero to Three (J), 2004
This article describes the Pathways to Prevention (PTP) infant mental health initiative conducted by Early Head Start (EHS). The authors note that staff members who want to build their early childhood programs' capacity in infant mental health are often at a loss about how to do it. They suggest establishing an intensive, ongoing relationship with…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Early Childhood Education, Mental Health, Infants
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Navarro, Diego James – Community College Journal, 2005
There is a growing population of young adults who are underserved by community colleges in the United States, students who are poorly prepared for college work and are at risk of poverty, social problems and failure to realize their full potential. Educational programs offered by community colleges represent this group's best hope of overcoming…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Community Colleges, Self Efficacy, Demonstration Programs
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Hill, Roberta; Capper, Phillip; Wilson, Ken; Whatman, Richard; Wong, Karen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how, from 2004-2006, a New Zealand research team experimented with the "change laboratory" learning process to create a new method of government policy development and implementation, referred to as "practice-making". The apple industry in Hawke's Bay was chosen because of the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Industry, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation's social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged…
Descriptors: Caring, African Americans, Females, Democracy
Grace, Andre P.; Hill, Robert J. – 2001
Adult educators can use historical, cultural, and theoretical queer knowledges to build an alternative pedagogy focused on three themes. The first is engaging queer history and queer studies to transgress adult educational space. They can be used to construct and affirm a transgressive notion of queer as normal that counters a historical notion of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Bisexuality, Emotional Development
Palazon, Francisco – 2000
This paper, which is directed toward adult educators, presents a new approach to understanding the concept of marginalization, as well as a series of educational proposals regarding working with marginalized people that are drawn from transformative learning theory. First, marginalization is defined as being out of religious, legal, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Definitions
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