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Bridging Transformation In A Pds Preservice Teacher Education Program, Holly Klock Jan 2019

Bridging Transformation In A Pds Preservice Teacher Education Program, Holly Klock

Adult Education Research Conference

This empirical work explores Transformational Learning within preservice teacher education. Self-identified disorienting dilemmas are a catalyst for communicative discourse in which preservice teachers approach learning by problematizing biases and assumptions.


“I Should Be Able To Play Already!” Promoting Self-Direction In Adult Piano Students Through Transformational Learning Strategies, Leah Coutts May 2015

“I Should Be Able To Play Already!” Promoting Self-Direction In Adult Piano Students Through Transformational Learning Strategies, Leah Coutts

Adult Education Research Conference

Can transformational learning strategies help a piano teacher foster self-direction in her adult piano students? My journey suggests it can, but not without some discomfort and bumps along the way.


Arts-Based Learningimage As A Vehicle For Transformation In Adult Learners, Dianna Bartel May 2015

Arts-Based Learningimage As A Vehicle For Transformation In Adult Learners, Dianna Bartel

Adult Education Research Conference

This study will consider the use of arts-based learning as a means of provoking transformation in the lives of adult students in non-arts classrooms and community environments. Specifically considering the use of image as the vehicle encouraging transformation.


Transformative Learning Is Not An Add-On – It Is The Essence Of Adult Education, Jacqueline Warrell, Colleen Kawalilak Jun 2011

Transformative Learning Is Not An Add-On – It Is The Essence Of Adult Education, Jacqueline Warrell, Colleen Kawalilak

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper draws on different bodies of literature and explores the potential for transformational learning within the context of graduate student- supervisor relationships. The authors (graduate student and supervisor) respond to the question: How can the student-supervisor relationship inform and foster transformative learning?


Critical Transformational Learning In The Post-Postmodern World, Jennifer A. Sandlin, M. Carolyn Clark, Robin Redmon Wright, M. Carolyn Clark Jun 2011

Critical Transformational Learning In The Post-Postmodern World, Jennifer A. Sandlin, M. Carolyn Clark, Robin Redmon Wright, M. Carolyn Clark

Adult Education Research Conference

We examine the modernist underpinnings of traditional adult learning and development theories and evaluate elements of those theories through more contemporary lenses. Drawing upon recent “public pedagogy” literature, we argue that much learning takes place outside of formal educational institutions. We look beyond modernist narratives to consider the possible implications for critical adult learning occurring in and through contemporary fragmented, digital, media-saturated culture.


Integrating The ‘Other’ In Adult Education Curriculum: The Case Of An Indian Tradition, Linda Ziegahn, Beloo Mehra Aug 2006

Integrating The ‘Other’ In Adult Education Curriculum: The Case Of An Indian Tradition, Linda Ziegahn, Beloo Mehra

Adult Education Research Conference

In order to truly globalize the field of adult education, a de-centering of Euro-centric frameworks is needed as we simultaneously integrate non-Western knowledge systems in curricular offerings and theoretical development. This paper explores selected aspects of the philosophy and discipline of Integral Yoga, and presents an example of a curriculum innovation.