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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Transformative Learning Theory"”.
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Nurse Faculty's Strategies to Teach Clinical Judgment: Use of Transformative Learning Theory in the Nursing Classroom
… these methods of instruction beneficial to learning clinical judgment, time restraints and limited facility availability complicates the ability to provide these modalities to the students. Nursing courses incorporate theory credits into the curriculum, providing programs the opportunity to …
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Applying transformative learning theory to the process of parenting programmes. Parenting programmes: A piece in the education jigsaw?
… education. It explores the relevance of transformative learning theory to the process of the learning experienced by the participants and finds that the theory can be applied. The research comprises a narrative inquiry of the experiences of parents who had completed the twelve week …
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Investigating Global Englishes-oriented teacher development through the lens of transformative learning theory: A study of South Korean elementary EFL teachers’ experiences
… GE-oriented teacher development. By drawing on transformative learning theory, a framework that is widely used to explicate critical learning of adults, this study aims to provide a theorised account of the outcomes, processes, and factors of GE-oriented teacher development. The study took place …
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Exploring Faculty Perceptions after Teaching in Active Learning Classrooms through the Lens of Transformative Learning Theory: A Case Study in a Postsecondary Setting
… faculty perceptions and experiences in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) using Stake’s interpretive case study methodology. Focusing on both high-tech and low-tech environments, the research addresses two questions: (1) How have faculty perceptions of active learning and ALCs evolved through …
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Practical Implementation of Transformative Learning in the Adult English as a Second Language Classroom
… this project is to design a resource informed by Transformative Learning Theory for teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL), It provides a practical resource for ESL instructors to use in their adult ESL classrooms. There is an abundance of resources for ESL instructors that focuses on …
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Cultivating Compassion: School Discipline Through a Lens of Equity, Wellbeing, and Decolonization
… to grade seven. A conceptual change model, the transformative wheel, is applied to the problem of practice blending the work of transformative learning theory, compassionate systems leadership, and Indigenous ways of knowing. The change model and suggested strategies align with the BC Teaching …
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Challenging Our Sense of Ourselves: Teacher Leaders' Transformative Learning Experiences
… capacity in that role. This study used transformative learning theory as the framework to explore the phenomenon. Transformative learning theory is a theory of adult learning and is understood as a way of making meaning of our experiences that “transforms problematic frames of reference …
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Teachers’ Conceptions of Students’ Data Literacy in Life Science and Physical Science Classes
… be addressed. The present research employed the transformative learning theory, which suggests that conceptions are cultivated from beliefs, experiences, expectations, and purposes. Teacher conceptions were explored through the lens of the transformative learning theory. Purposeful sampling was …
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Biblical Literalism And Implications For Learning
… complex. There are many factors influencing learning, including environment, social and institutional attitudes, access, conditioning and biases. Among the social and environmental factors, religious affiliation is a powerful force which can either encourage educational pursuit, or discourage …
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A case study examining the transformative impact of a civil discourse program at a Midwestern state university
Adopting the first five phases of Mezirow's transformative learning theory (Mezirow, 1978; 1990; 1994; 1997; 1998; 2009; 2018) as a framework, this study examined the impact of a Midwestern university civil discourse program on participants' transformative learning. The study sample included …
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Learning for Solidarity: transformative journeys into global trade union activism
… the intersection at which UK trade union learning meets global worker solidarity, primarily through the use of in-depth interviews with learners and learning providers. It examines the extent to which trade union learning influences and activates members to respond through solidarity to …
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Learning from the Lived Experience of Addicts in Recovery: How to Obtain and Retain Recovery
… journeys like points on a map. The foundational theory is the Transtheoretical Model of Change (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983). When combined with Mezirow's Transformative Learning Theory (2000), the process whereby participants profoundly changed their perspective from the stage of …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF EDUCATION AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY
… influenced this study. These include critical theory, co-cultural theory, transformative learning theory and the concept of cultural scripts. A qualitative approach was used to gather detailed data from the participants. Data collection included a series of three in-depth, semi-structured …
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Transforming School-Based Mental Health to Heal the Collective Soul Wound
… equity in meeting student mental health needs. Transformative leadership applied within a utilitarian consequentialist lens has the potential to improve individual and collective student well-being. The decolonizing lens of scarring the collective soul wound will elevate system leadership to …
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When Good Intentions Aren't Good Enough: Dismantling Colonial Praxis in Educational Leadership
… viewed through the lens of critical theory, interrogates systemic barriers within Three Bear Hills School Division (a pseudonym) that hinder Indigenous students' graduation and post-secondary transition rates. Indigenous students in K-12 education are adversely impacted by the …
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Critical theory, transformative learning and mindfulness: A case study of a mindfulness training programme
… of my study include Habermas’s critical theory and his emancipatory-cognitive interest in knowledge creation, and Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, which expanded the Habermasian theory in terms of adult education and learning. Guided by my theoretical framework, the primary …
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Predictors of Intercultural Competence Among International Volunteers
… will increase intercultural competence. Contact theory, transformative learning theory, and various stage theories of intercultural learning all suggest, however, that cultural contact will only improve a volunteer's intercultural competence under certain conditions. This dissertation builds on …
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Intercultural Competence Development: Exploring International Graduate Student Leaders' Journeys through Contemplation and Mindfulness-Based Inquiry
… intercultural competence (IC) is a pivotal learning outcome in student mobility and internationalization. While scholars conceptualize IC as the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in cross-cultural contexts, few studies have explored international graduate student leaders’ …
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(S)CORE FOR SUSTAINABILITY. DRIVING CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND ACTION IN MEDITERRANEAN SPORTS ORGANISATIONS
… highly vulnerable to climate change. Grounded in Transformative Learning theory within organisational contexts, the research contributes to the sport ecology framework. The dissertation comprises three studies. The first examines how organisations construct sustainability narratives and how these …
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Narratives of the experiences of music therapists as they transition from expert clinician to novice music therapy educator and then transform into expert music therapy educators
… Schlossberg’s Transition Model, Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory, and Pratt’s Five Perspectives of Teaching serve as the theoretical framework for this study. This study employs narrative inquiry and includes six full-time music therapy educators with at least five years of teaching …
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