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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
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
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
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
Parsons, Margaret; Stephenson, Maggie – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
This paper considers ways in which trainee teachers can be helped to develop their ability to engage in reflection on their practice. The context for the research is a Block School Experience developed by tutors in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Sunderland. An exploration of the nature of reflective practice…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Questionnaires, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Experience
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
Cranton, Patricia – 1992
This guide provides practical information, within a theoretical context, for educators who work with adult learners in formal and informal settings ranging from college and university courses to business and industrial training programs to community and special interest groups. The first two chapters examine the theoretical framework within which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Palmer, Parker J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2003
This article revolves around two questions: Is there a "spiritual" dimension to good teaching? If so, do spiritual considerations have a place in teacher education? Defining spirituality as "the eternal human yearning to be connected with something larger than our own egos," the author answers both questions in the affirmative,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Spiritual Development, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism
Gebhard, Jerry G. – TESL-EJ, 2005
To truly develop as teachers, we need to be free to explore teaching, and exploration can be based on a set of principles and ways to explore. Principles can include: (1) transcending the goal of improving our teaching by aiming at seeing teaching differently, (2) taking responsibility for our own teaching while recognizing the need for others,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Principles, Educational Objectives, Transformative Learning
Duncan, P. Kay; Clayburn, Climetine – 1997
The "new science" of leadership encourages and supports participative management and focuses on relationships. As they train educational leaders in democratic, humane, and inclusive principles, educators must model those same principles in their classrooms. Teachers seeking to evoke the voices of adult learners through transformative teaching must…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Drago-Severson, Eleanor E. – 2000
The primary purpose of this paper is to illuminate how a school principal employed three identifiable leadership initiatives to support adult learning within the context of her school and to show how her own thinking about her leadership practices on behalf of teacher learning changed and developed over time. A discussion of current efforts to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Case Studies, Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education
Harrison, Jennifer – Education 3-13, 2004
Helping those teachers designated as Subject Induction Tutors in secondary schools who support Newly Qualified Teachers to become autonomous, self-reflecting practitioners has been the basis of a participatory action research project based at the University of Leicester. The first part of the paper explores the notion of professional autonomy in…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Participatory Research
Education for Integrated Rural Development: Transformative Learning in a Complex and Uncertain World
Wals, Arjen E. J.; Caporali, Fabio; Pace, Paul; Slee, Bill; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Warren, Martyn – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
A key question addressed in this article is: How does the increased pressure for expertise in IRD translate itself into the demand for educational services and the design of appropriate curricula on a European-wide basis? This article examines these issues and generates a number of stepping stones for the development of Education and Training for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning, Rural Development, Integrated Activities
1997
This document contains three papers from a symposium on work force issues facing human resource development (HRD). "Diversity Management in Nonprofit Women's Health Care Settings: A Qualitative Study of Race, Class, and Gender Influences" (Camille A. Cordak) demonstrates which organizational activities support diversity and how an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Clinics, Diversity (Institutional)