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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Jack Mezirow"”.
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Transformative Professional Development Through the Eyes of Jack Mezirow and Thomas Guskey
… development literature through the lens of Jack Mezirow's transformational theory of adult learning. Overlaid with theory was Thomas Guskey's model of effective professional development which resulted in a tool for planning and evaluating ongoing teacher education. A survey crafted around …
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For whom the cruiser rolls: a retrospective analysis of factors relating to recidivism in a sample of graduates from a court-ordered alcohol education and awareness program
… was philosophically akin to the thoughts of Drs. Jack Mezirow, Stephen Brookfield, and Patricia Cranton. Data on the sample of 214 Halton IDEA (Impaired Driver Education and Awareness) graduates were entered into a spread sheet. Descriptive statistics were generated. Each of the 214 program …
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Integrating Idea Mapping into Professional Development and Practice: A Guidebook for Educators
… Howard Garner, Lev Vygotsky, Paulo Freire, and Jack Mezirow. This project provides a means for further professional support with a focus on the individual, informed by one’s own expertise and educational professional practice. This project takes the from of a workshop guidebook, and integrates …
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Adult Learning and School Leadership: Application and Learning from a Group Relations Conference
… theory, typically attributed to the research of Jack Mezirow, Monroe and her colleagues have crafted an excellent site in which to examine how principal leaders modify their worldview regarding leadership and how they are able to apply that learning to their professional roles over time. This …
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I'm not that woman any more! or am I? Can higher education be transformative for mature students despite the challenges and barriers they face?
… focus on the meaning first introduced by Jack Mezirow, assessing the contribution of this theory for understanding if and how higher education can be transformative.
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The political and economic context of Keynes’s 1933 Finlay lecture: transforming a business practitioner’s ways of knowing
… Harvard’s Robert Kegan and Columbia University’s Jack Mezirow. The second part delves further into how meaning-making, the activity of how one organises and makes sense of the world and how meaning-making evolves to different levels of complexity. I explore how past experience and our …
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Post-qualification education and professional identity in the contested landscape of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a case of transformative learning in an online setting
… of transformative learning (TL) was developed by Jack Mezirow in 1978 and has been further expanded upon by Knud Illeris. Mezirow defines TL as learning which transforms the meaning perspectives or frames of reference by which we understand the world, while Illeris proposes that TL also has an …
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Military Resilience and Transformation: A Narrative Inquiry Highlighting the Challenges Faced by Military Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan During Their Transition from Combat to Civil Society
… framework introduced and developed by Jack Mezirow over a period of years that has become known as Transformative Learning Theory (1978, 1981, 1990a, 1991, 2000). It is considered the “most researched and discussed theory in the field of adult education” (Taylor, 2007, p. 173). …
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Tales and testimonies of transformational learning in young adults
… that participants were able to experience Mezirow’s (2000) three criteria for transformation, which carries significance regarding the theoretical foundations of transformational learning. From a practitioner perspective, the data suggested transformations were contextually based, as …