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Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This chapter explores the interconnection of transformative learning, spirituality, and creativity, and how the discussion of these connections has unfolded since the new millennium.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Religious Factors, Creativity
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Riley, Timothy D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter provides an overview and critique of the mindfulness and meditation literature in popular culture, adult education and health care, and provides discussion based on both experience and the literature for teaching and learning for well-being.
Descriptors: Relaxation Training, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Well Being
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Doyle, James F.; Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Palmer, Charles – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter discusses ways of engaging the plant-human connection and exchange by learning about bonsai and then engaging and meditating on the tree to eventually cultivate the experience of bonsai as meditation.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Adult Learning, Plants (Botany), Forestry
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Palmer, Charles – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter focuses on negotiating life transitions that facilitate positive adult development, and the importance of self-care for health professions educators.
Descriptors: Adult Development, Self Management, College Faculty, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Wojnar, Margaret; Sinz, Elizabeth – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter focuses on how to negotiate power and interest among multiple stakeholders to develop continuing professional education programs as graduate study for those in the health and medical professions.
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Health Education, Medical Education, Stakeholders
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter discusses some of the assumptions of financial education, and then considers the role of emotions, beliefs, and attitudes in culturally responsive financial education practice.
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Attitudes, Influences
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
In this article, the author begins by providing an overview of the literature on wisdom itself and then considers what some of its insights might suggest for dealing with a few current challenges facing the field of adult education. This article is grounded in two basic assumptions: (1) that there is an integration quality to wisdom that attends…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Knowledge Level, Adult Development