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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"transformative learning"”.
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A Phenomenological Study of Indonesian Cohort Group's Transformative Learning
… Chicago. This study was set to capture the transformative learning undergone by these ten teachers as they retrospectively reported in the first four years of their collaboration in the cohort group. It was assumed that the dynamics taking place in the cohort group, the learning materials …
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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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Women veterans in higher education: transitions and transformative learning experiences
… was to evaluate women veteran transitions and transformative learning experiences at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and to replicate Dahan's (2008) study on student veterans conducted at Rowan University. The theoretical framework that guided this study was Mezirow's Transformative …
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Empowering Transformative Learning in Adult Education through Music and Theatre
The power of Transformative learning though Music and Theatre is something I have questioned and wanted to research. By using the medium of music in the classroom, is it possible to teach literacy and numeracy? This thesis explores the possibilities, in action research and the uncovering of …
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An assessment of transformative learning programme in Nkonkola Community in Mazabuka District
This study that assesses transformative learning programme was undertaken among Nkonkola community members of Mazabuka District in Southern Province of Zambia. Nkonkola community is approximately 140 square kilometres, but sparsely populated due to the hilly relief. The study had four objectives: …
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The relationship between discipleship training and transformative learning in Korean Presbyterian congregations
… investigate and analyze the relationship between learning in the process of discipleship training and transformative learning in selected Korean Presbyterian congregations. Three Presbyterian churches that had a good reputation for discipleship training were selected. Personal interviews and …
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The Far Reaching Impact of Transformative Learning: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study
… study that critically examined the impact of the transformative process of its participants and its influence on their socio-cultural context. Results revealed that participants did not necessarily experience a disorienting dilemma as contended by Mezirow (1978, 1991, and 2000). Rather …
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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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Transformative Learning in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Community An Ethnographic Study examining how and in what ways transformative learning is realized and lived out among members of an MS community.
The purpose of this study was to examine how transformative learning takes place in the lives of participants who are in the MS community with the hope of identifying coping strategies and motivational factors influencing transformative learning. This research also seeks to discover and examine the …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
… during a period of formal Indigenous Studies learning. This qualitative study uses the threshold concepts framework as a theoretical guide to explore such transformation processes, for learners. Threshold concepts are key ideas, not always explicitly taught, which foster a learners ability to …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
… during a period of formal Indigenous Studies learning. This qualitative study uses the threshold concepts framework as a theoretical guide to explore such transformation processes, for learners. Threshold concepts are key ideas, not always explicitly taught, which foster a learners ability to …
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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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Critical theory, transformative learning and mindfulness: A case study of a mindfulness training programme
… 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 research question was formulated as follows: ‘What are the relationships between …
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The Role of the Farmacy Garden as a Site for Transformative Learning for Sustainability
… the planetary and emancipatory frameworks of transformative learning, and a conception of sustainability rooted in life values, counter-hegemony, and social justice, this case study explores how a collective community garden is a critical pedagogy space for stakeholders to change their own …
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College students' transformative learning: an ethnographic case study of an alternative break program to Kenya
… the processes and forms of college students' learning resulting from a non-credit-bearing, two week alternative break program to Kenya that took place December 2012 - January 2013. It is necessary to understand students' learning on short-term education abroad programs because of three …
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Being and becoming: a biographical study into the transformative learning processes of three trainee teachers
… of the complex and developmental nature of adult learning as a way of being and becoming a teacher in further education. Learning as a way of 'being' provides a substantive and lasting learning which is essential in today's constantly changing and challenging world (Vaill, 1996). The process of …
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Assessing the Relationship Between Mandatory Faculty Development for Online Career College Instructors and Transformative Learning
<p>Online teaching and learning has become a primary focal point for higher education administrators. Institutions have focused their strategic plans to maximize opportunities to grow their campuses, through distance education. A consistent issue that has surfaced with distance education …
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Exploration of the reflective supervision relationship: Meaning making, communication, and transformative learning in educational environments
… the parallel process to the students and learning environment. Five tenets of reflective supervision in education environments emerged from this qualitative study: (a) historical meaning making; (b) perspective taking; (c) finding voice and choice; (d) inviting a different perspective; and …
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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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