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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Transformative Education"”.
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Transformative education: culture-based pedagogies in urban, predominately Black American elementary schools
… continue to threaten the viability of public education for this and other nontraditional student populations. These problems, along with the growing diversity of American children, prompt a reexamination of extant data on the practices associated with the effective teaching of Black American …
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Psycho-spiritual counselling to enhance resiliency as transformative education: An auto/ethnographic inquiry of the interface between spirituality and positive psychology
… counselling can be comprehended as transformative education. Experientially speaking, as a priest and psychospiritual counsellor, I recognised that people leaned on their moral vulnerabilities and were blinded to spirituality as a source of inner completeness and the development of …
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An exploration of how the teaching and learning of civic education contribute to transformative eduction in Zambian secondary schools: a study of four selected secondary schools in Kabwe district, central province.
… explored how the teaching and learning of civic education contribute to transformative education in selected secondary schools of Kabwe district, Zambia. The study had three research objectives. The first one was to establish how teaching and learning of Civic Education contribute to …
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An exploration of how the teaching and learning of civic education contribute to transformative eduction in Zambian secondary schools: a study of four selected secondary schools in Kabwe district, central province.
… explored how the teaching and learning of civic education contribute to transformative education in selected secondary schools of Kabwe district, Zambia. The study had three research objectives. The first one was to establish how teaching and learning of Civic Education contribute to …
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Walking My Talk as an Intentional, Embodied (Co)constructed Environmental Educator
… (how) can I use personal change to inspire educational and social/cultural change, this work was embodied and action orientated with a thesis that the doing (action) is as important as the thinking and talking about it. A threedimensional model of exploring personal change through …
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The Interdisciplinarity of Tourism Education as an Opportunity for Emancipation
… enrichment of pedagogical practices in higher education in tourism. Based on Freirean Pedagogical Theory, which sees education as the main democratic tool for building awareness of reality and its emancipatory power. Thus, through the methodology of Critical Theory and Freirean Pedagogical …
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Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment
… the context of this dissertation, community transformative education is regarded as a pathway to an explicit community lifelong learning culture of learning. It aims to liberate marginalized communities from states of oppressive socio- economic status-quos within contested urban locations. …
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Developing professional identity: The lived experience of speech and language therapy students becoming speech and language therapists
… namely Mezirow’s (1978 onwards) model of transformative education and Van Gannep’s (1960 [1908]) rites of passage. Dramaturgy (Goffman 1959) and attachment theory (Bowlby 1969) are used to explore reasons behind some of the observations of the participants regarding their journey. …
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Time to Ponder: Transformation in First-generation Creative Industries Students
“Transformative” is often used to describe and promote Higher Education in the UK. I investigated this promise in relation to Creative Industries education by observing it through a Transformative Learning lens (Mezirow, 1978 - 2006). A longitudinal study of the experiences of first-generation …
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Is Transformative Learning Possible in Neoliberal Post 92 Higher Education in England?
Mezirow’s Transformative Learning (TL) theory has become an internationally recognised, enduring signature theory for education researchers. Scholarship has, however, predominantly focused on the process of ‘transformation’, rather than what is ‘transformed’, and how that transformation occurs. …
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Why Are We Settling? Indigenous Cultural Safety Education for Counsellors in Ontario
Indigenous cultural safety education is crucial to achieving greater health equity for Indigenous Peoples (Browne et al., 2016) by helping counsellors recognize the social, historical, political, and economic context of contemporary Indigenous wellness experiences (Ramsden, 2002). Accredited …
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Children's Song-Makers as Messengers of Hope: Participatory Research with Implications for Teacher Educators
… its theoretical framework on arts and music education, transformative education, and folk and socially conscious children's music. Participatory research, based on the revolutionary education theories of Paulo Freire, guided the dialogues with the participants. These activist …
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The transition of Public Adult Learning Centres (PALCs) to Community Education and Training Colleges (CETCs): Perspectives and experiences of a selection of management and lecturer staff in the greater Cape Town area
In 2013, the Department of Higher Education established a new institutional form for the provision of adult education, the Community Education and Training Colleges (CETCs). The growing number of unemployed youths that are not in learning institutions as well as the limited opportunities provided …
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The Impact of Teacher Identity on Curriculum Design
… of the literature looks at limits to the current educational system, transformative practices being implemented, as well as how natural and human systems function in an educational context. Qualitative research was conducted using phenomenological interviews to better understand the multiple …
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Supporting Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: Participatory Action Research in Human Rights Education
<p>Human rights education (HRE) holds the potential for educators to begin an honest dialogue with students and to connect local issues with international struggles for human rights. However, HRE and other teaching approaches that build understanding of systems of power and oppression that lead to …
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Girls' Education as a Means or End of Development? A Case Study of Gender and Education Policy Knowledge and Action in the Gambia
Girls’ education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co-existence of two …
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