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Book Transformative learning  teaching and action in the most challenging times

Download or read book Transformative learning teaching and action in the most challenging times written by Lili-Ann Wolff and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

Download or read book Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning written by Patricia Cranton and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering key issues in transformational learning (TL) theory, this book shows how to help adult educators understand what TL is and how to foster it in their practice. It incorporates theoretical developments, such as the role of imagination and spirituality in transformation, and the author's own attempts to develop a model of TL.

Book Self Determined Learning

Download or read book Self Determined Learning written by Stewart Hase and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heutagogy, or self-determined learning, redefines how we understand learning and provides some exciting opportunities for educators. It is a novel approach to educational practice, drawing on familiar concepts such as constructivism, capability, andragogy and complexity theory. Heutagogy is also supported by a substantial and growing body of neuroscience research. Self-Determined Learning explores how heutagogy was derived, and what this approach to learning involves, drawing on recent research and practical applications. The editors draw together contributions from educators and practitioners in different fields, illustrating how the approach can been used and the benefits its use has produced. The subjects discussed include: the nature of learning, heutagogy in the classroom, flexible curriculum, assessment, e-learning, reflective learning, action learning and research, and heutagogy in professional practice settings.

Book Innovations in Transformative Learning

Download or read book Innovations in Transformative Learning written by Beth Fisher-Yoshida and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the disparity between transformative learning theory as espoused and practiced in the classrooms of the academy, and its application beyond. It articulates new models of transformative education that integrate transformative learning theory with other models of change and development. The three editors and eleven contributors draw on both theory and practice to illustrate how transformative learning has been introduced to a variety of settings and cultures, and synergistically integrated with theories of communication, participatory action research, and communities of inquiry and practice. Organized around the themes of creating space for learning; looking though the lenses of culture, diversity, and difference; and animating awareness through the expressive and performative arts, this collection will broaden awareness and aid scholars, students, and practitioners in using transformative learning as an approach to adult learning and social and organizational change in a range of settings.

Book Worldwise Learning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carla Marschall
  • Publisher : Corwin Press
  • Release : 2021-08-23
  • ISBN : 1071835920
  • Pages : 471 pages

Download or read book Worldwise Learning written by Carla Marschall and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nautilus Gold Award Winner (Books for a Better World) in Social Sciences & Education Create inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens. Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical thinkers who can explore alternative futures. Their own, others’, and the planet’s well-being depend on it. Worldwise Learning presents a "Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity" that supports K-8 educators in nurturing "Worldwise Learners": students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Coupling theory with practice, this book builds educators’ understanding of how curriculum and meaningful interdisciplinary learning can be organized around local, global, and intercultural issues, and provides a detailed framework for making those issues come alive in the classroom. Richly illustrated, each innovative chapter asserts a transformational approach to teaching and learning following an original three-part inquiry cycle, and includes: Practical classroom strategies to implement Worldwise Learning at the lesson level, along with tips for scaffolding students’ thinking. Images of student work and vignettes of learning experiences that help educators visualize authentic Worldwise Learning moments. Stories that spotlight Worldwise Learning in action from diverse student, teacher, and organization perspectives. An exemplar unit plan that illustrates how the planning process links to and can support teaching and learning about global challenges. QR codes that link to additional lesson and unit plans, educational resources, videos of strategies, and interviews with educators and thought leaders on a companion website, where teachers can discuss topics and share ideas with each other. Worldwise Learning turns students into local and global citizens who feel genuine concern for the world around them, living their learning with intention and purpose. The time is now.

Book Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis

Download or read book Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis written by Effrosyni Kostara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis examines the multi-faceted nature of transformative learning and transformation theory including its merits, restrictions, and possibilities, and presents carefully chosen international case studies and theoretical approaches that enrich the application of the theory within a wide variety of educational settings. By including new approaches to transformative learning theory, this book provides examples and teaching approaches coming from a variety of disciplines, including higher education, arts, classics, new technologies, and academic development. It bridges the gap between theory and practice to help teachers and adult educators embed potentially transformational techniques in the curriculum. Based on in-depth research, this key title provides a means of measuring and documenting transformative outcomes in qualitative studies of high impact learning experiences, and raises new questions and opportunities for the future development of the field. Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis is a must-read text for anyone interested in the research behind, and applications of, transformative learning and transformation theory, including researchers, students, and policy-makers in the field.

Book Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

Download or read book Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning written by Patricia Cranton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative learning is, distinguish it from other forms of learning, and foster it in their practice. The first part of the book is dedicated to clarifying transformative learning theory and relating it to other theoretical frameworks. The author examines transformative learning from the learner’s perspective, and discusses individual differences in how learners go through the process. In the second half of the book, the focus is squarely on strategies for promoting transformative learning in a wide variety of adult and higher education contexts. Practitioners will be able to take ideas from the text and apply them directly in their teaching.Since 1975, transformative learning has become a core theoretical perspective in adult and higher education, and research has proliferated. In the past decade, adult education and especially transformative learning grew into a noticeably larger field. The numbers of undergraduate and graduate programs in adult education have increased and continue to increase as more and more individuals are seeking the expertise, skills, and training necessary to work with adult learners in higher education, business, industry, government, health professions, non-profit organizations, and community development. In addition, the number of programs in higher education (both undergraduate and graduate) that include courses in transformative learning has grown dramatically. These academic audiences use the book to further their understanding of transformative learning theory and practice.Drawing on the latest research as well as the author’s own teaching experience in both online and face-to-face courses, this new edition will be a vital resource for members of the transformative learning community, as well as those encountering the topic for the first time.

Book Active and Transformative Learning in STEAM Disciplines

Download or read book Active and Transformative Learning in STEAM Disciplines written by Miltiadis D. Lytras and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active and Transformative Learning in STEAM Disciplines is a unique reference volume for the new student-centric and objectives-oriented learning environment where individual and team learning paths enhance problem solving capabilities.

Book Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning

Download or read book Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning written by E. O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy. The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning. The editors argue that transformative learning theory cannot be constructed in a content-neutral or context-free way. Their second challenge, which assumes the importance content for transformative learning, is to educators as practitioners. The editors argue that transformative learning requires new educational practices consistent with the content. Arts-based research and arts-based teaching/learning practices are one example of such new educational practices. Education for the soul, or spiritual practices such as meditation or modified martial arts or indigenous peoples' forms of teaching/learning, is another example. Each article in the collection presents a possible model of these new practices.

Book It   s Not About Grit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Goodman
  • Publisher : Teachers College Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0807776866
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book It s Not About Grit written by Steven Goodman and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking out against decades of injustice and challenging deficit perceptions of young learners and their families, It’s Not About Grit pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalize and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of color and their communities. At the same time, author Steven Goodman, founding executive director of NYC’s highly acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) for nearly 35 years, shows the tremendous intelligence, resilience, and sense of agency of these students. Through the students’ in-school and out-of-school experiences, enhanced with a curriculum guide and award-winning video clips from EVC, Goodman encourages educators to make a difference and demonstrates how to create a safe and inclusive school climate where their teaching responds to students’ culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, language, housing status, and ability. Teachers will use this book to develop a pedagogy of transformative teaching. “To those of you who are educators, teaching in ‘revolting times,’ under difficult circumstances, working with students who need you as much as ever, this book is a gift and a life raft.” —From the Foreword by Michelle Fine, distinguished professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY “This is a vivid and arresting answer to a newly cultish fashion . . . a terrific book and badly needed at this time when ‘grit’ has become the magic word in pedagogic thinking about inner-city kids.” —Jonathan Kozol, education activist and bestselling author “This book reads like an absorbing documentary; these are stories that need a public response to match the work of EVC.” —Deborah Meier, education reform leader “Nobody knows better than Steve Goodman how to help young people tell their stories and, in the process, empower themselves with research and video skills and an activist sense of justice.” —Joseph P. McDonald, professor emeritus, New York University

Book Transformative Learning and Identity

Download or read book Transformative Learning and Identity written by Knud Illeris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current ever changing world – the liquid modernity – the most pressing psychological challenge to all of us is to create and maintain a personal balance between mental stability and mental flexibility. In Transformative Learning and Identity Knud Illeris, one of the leading thinkers on the way people learn, explores, updates and re-defines the concept and understanding of transformative learning while linking the concept of transformative learning to the concept of identity. He thoroughly discusses what transformative learning is or could be in a broader learning theoretical perspective, including various concepts of learning by change, as opposed to learning by addition, and ends up with a new, short and distinct definition. He also explores and discusses the concept of identity and presents a general model depicting the complexity of identities today. Building on the work of Mezirow, various perspectives of transformative learning are analysed and discussed, including; transformative learning in different life ages; progressive and regressive transformations; motivation and identity defence; development of identity; personality and competence, and transformative learning in school, education, working life, and in relation to current and future life conditions. This vital new book by one of the leading learning theorists of our time will prove of lasting interest to academics, teachers, instructors, leaders and researchers in the field of adult learning and education. It will also appeal to many students and researchers of psychology and sociology in general.

Book Transformative Professional Learning

Download or read book Transformative Professional Learning written by Margery B. Ginsberg and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation is foundational to learning This book′s bold new vision for professional learning emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and respect for cultural diversity to create a transformative approach to school improvement. Knowing that culture and motivation are inseparable influences on learning, Margery B. Ginsberg provides practical steps that focus on teaching and learning grounded in the reality of children′s lives. Because motivated teachers tend to have motivated students, Ginsberg′s professional development program creates the same motivational conditions for adult learning that work well for students. The book′s processes include Shadowing students to help sharpen teachers′ understanding of student motivation. Conducting home visits to better connect with students′ lives and families Collaborating with other teachers to design lessons Analyzing data in collaboration with students, families, and community members Included are an abundance of field-tested tools, templates, and protocols. Teachers and administrators will find an experienced voice of reason to guide them through today′s maze of increasing demands as they work toward the ultimate goal of engaging all students.

Book ECMLG 2022 18th European Conference on Management  Leadership and Governance

Download or read book ECMLG 2022 18th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by Florinda Matos and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transformative Learning and Online Education  Aesthetics  Dimensions and Concepts

Download or read book Transformative Learning and Online Education Aesthetics Dimensions and Concepts written by Yuzer, T. Volkan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together online distance education, transformative online learning, and the aesthetics concepts discussing innovation, creativity, inclusion, society, culture, mobility, usability, discourse, feminism, ecology and spirituality"--Provided by publisher.

Book Transformative Leadership in Action

Download or read book Transformative Leadership in Action written by Jacklyn A. Bruce and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism challenges the reader to do the necessary self-work required of a 21st century leader, while also providing the road map to developing the skills necessary to take on increasing public leadership roles to support causes related to justice and equity.

Book Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy

Download or read book Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy written by Mohammed Raei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the entire world experiencing the global pandemic and its aftermath, VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) conditions have never been more extreme and the need for adaptive leadership never more urgent. But how is adaptive leadership applied outside Western cultures? How can it be taught through leadership development programs? Which tools enhance its practice and its teaching? How does adaptive leadership relate to other key theories and practices? This volume answers these questions and more as it illustrates how adaptive leadership practices address some of the world’s most pressing challenges-political and cultural division, remote work, crisis management-across a variety of sectors. Adaptive leadership has been explained as a key leadership approach for dealing with adaptive, as distinguished from technical or predictable, problems, especially prevalent in complex environments. However, adaptive leadership scholarship has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity and casual application of its core concepts. It remains solidly Western in its prescriptions. This book will expand readers’ understanding of adaptive leadership and its potential to solve local and global adaptive challenges and will explore its relevance and application to cultures outside the United States. Aiming to increase conceptual clarity about adaptive leadership to enhance future scholarship and application and illustrate novel approaches and perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of leadership, strategy, and organizational studies.

Book Narrating Transformative Learning in Education

Download or read book Narrating Transformative Learning in Education written by M. Gardner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection highlights the experiences of an international group of educators as they explore the art of teaching, the philosophy of learning, and the tensions of working across socially constructed borders.