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Laura Montanari – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This study investigates how songs and songwriting can facilitate transformative learning experiences. Semi-structured interviews conducted with three professional singer-songwriters from different backgrounds helped define how songs and songwriting can nurture one's soul work, that is, emotions individuation, dialogue between conscious and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Singing, Musical Composition, Self Concept
Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
Björn Peters; Michael Göhlich – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
Our study examines transformative learning outcomes of a group coaching format in a postgraduate program of a German University that is based on the cognitive-developmental approach to coaching. We administered a survey based on Kirkpatrick's 4-Level Evaluation Model and its advancement by Alliger et al. that includes items from the Transformative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Coaching (Performance), Graduate Students
Jordan, Daniel; Walker, Jude – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This paper examines the stories of transformative learning of two men reflecting on their recovery from addictions and trauma. We employ the Hero's journey as a useful frame within which to understand their stories of becoming more and progressing towards a recovered self. The article challenges the dominant biomedical model of addiction, and of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Males, Reflection, Story Telling
Monk, Sue; Riley, Tasha; Van Issum, Harry – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
In this article, we discuss the role of affective learning and arts-based inquiry as a catalyst for providing transformative learning experiences in teaching social justice issues related to Indigenous cultures and histories. The research was conducted with first-year pre-service teachers studying an Indigenous Knowledges course as part of their…
Descriptors: Art Education, Inquiry, Indigenous Populations, Teaching Methods
Thomas, Paul – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This paper applies a critical lens to a Master's degree program in education in one University in Norway and its stated aim of promoting critical skills in students from the global south in particular. Two groups of students, one an international mix in Oslo, and the other, South Sudanese students studying in Hawassa, Ethiopia, were compared. The…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking
Bruno, Luana; Iborra, Alejandro; García-Varela, Ana Belén – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Most emotional intervention programs are based on remedial approaches designed to improve one's emotional management. However, few programs have aimed at promoting developmental changes not to mention value creation processes regarding their coping with emotional experiences. Accordingly, we implement and evaluate an emotional intervention program…
Descriptors: Self Management, Emotional Intelligence, Intervention, Emotional Development
Colgan, Anna L. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
21st century early years practitioners are expected to become agents of change by challenging societal inequalities and embracing anti-oppressive approaches. Yet, research suggests that many practitioners hold negative attitudes about children and families who are ethnically, culturally, linguistically and economically different from those in the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers
Branlat, Jennifer; Velasquez, Juan; Hellstrand, Ingvil – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Integrative transformative learning in a feminist perspective asks students to engage in potentially troublesome and unsettling debates, to confront their own privilege and situated knowledges, and to experiment with conventional boundaries for knowledge production. We introduce the idea of the "tentacular classroom" grounded in the work…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Womens Studies, Feminism, Transformative Learning
Pisters, Siri R.; Vihinen, Hilkka; Figueiredo, Elisabete; Wals, Arjen E. J. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This article explores learning processes that underpin ecovillages as place based 'sustainability initiatives'. Through the theoretical lens of place- based transformative learning (PBTL), developed in earlier work (Pisters et al., 2019, 2020), empirical data from life-story interviews and photovoice sessions from three ecovillages is analysed and…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Transformative Learning, Photography, Ecology
Sommer, Mona; Andvig, Ellen; Riis, Ragnhild; Bongaardt, Rob – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Students in mental health care are urged to develop professionally as well as personally, according to the Norwegian national state curriculum. The purpose of this study was to describe mental healthcare students' experiences with the use of Immunity to Change (ITC) workshops and endorse this as a transformative learning approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health Workers, Mental Health Programs, Professional Education
Lyngstad, Michael – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This study uses a framework of transformative learning theory to explore fourteen participants' experiences with learning William Glasser's Choice Theory. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with students, staff and alumni of an alternative secondary school in order to explore their perspectives on the transformative potential of a…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, School Choice, Guidelines, Transformative Learning
Sari, Lufi Kartika; De Backer, Free; Joson, Alexis Nouelle; Lombaerts, Koen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Experiencing unfamiliar environments tends to foster transformative learning. However, limited studies investigate how experiencing contrasting localities fosters transformative learning, such as teaching practice in remote areas by pre-service teachers who are from elsewhere. This study focuses on revealing pre-service teachers' transformative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Transformative Learning
Maison, Léa Marie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This article discusses the contributions of different worldviews to the debates on what a transformative sustainability education could be. It focuses on mainstream and alternative strands of thought present in the West, as well as Indigenous worldviews, taking the Zapatistas as an example. The Zapatista social movement of Mexico fights for the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Political Socialization, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
King, Kelley M.; Dixon, Kathryn V.; González-Carriedo, Ricardo; Dixon-Krauss, Lisbeth – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
This case study addressed effects of international student teaching on U.S. teacher candidates' cross-cultural adaptability and perspectives on language, culture, and schooling. Interviews and the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory were collected from 18 participants before and after 4 weeks student teaching internationally. Interviews were…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Case Studies, Student Teaching