How our culture thinks about particular events as linear, normal, and expected does not always fit with the experiences of every learner, particularly underserved urban adult learners. As adult educators in this context, are there ways we might improve or change our pedagogy of instruction by developing a better understanding of transitional life moments for vocational learners. What is the rol...

Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical, process-oriented model that is responsive to the challenges of...

Observations and experiences confirm that most university instructors lecturers have migrated from traditional teaching, but many teaching styles are not transformative. That is, classrooms still within "teach go" without concerted consideration to the future products of classroom stakeholders. This study examined transformative pedagogy as a philosophy increases critical epistemology towards s...

The transformative dimensions of adult learning emphasize processes of fundamental change occurring both within the learners themselves and with their relationships with the broader world. In this paper, we conceptualize this process as inherently spiritual and discuss its implications for a spirituallyinformed transformative education grounded in the work of soul. Studies on transformative lea...

Abstract The article demonstrates an action research approach for constructing Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy (TSP) to empower teachers a sustainable future. starting point the TSP was Education Gross National Happiness (GNH) teacher project in Bhutan (2010–2013) – collaboration between author, co-researcher and Royal Council. Two Leadership Training Courses (LTC) were developed from se...

The chapter aims to identify and describe the professional development critical success factors that underpin the successful implementation of digital interactive whiteboard technologies. It draws heavily on in-depth, government-commissioned evaluations of IWB implementation in England (Somekh et al., 2007) and Scotland (Pearson et al., 2004) in which findings derived from the analysis of digit...