... Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competency-based curriculum Language education Self-efficacy Sustainability competencies Sustainability education Systems thinking Transformative learning Continuous improvement Educational innovation...

... workshop integrated into an undergraduate course. Thematic analysis was conducted using an inductive coding strategy, guided by transformative learning theory and affective-emotional frameworks. Findings Students reported experiencing emotional dissonance (e.g. shock, anxiety, guilt), which prompted...

... hopefulness and support transformative learning. Design/methodology/approach Drama workshops were carried out in a higher education course and with young adults in a youth project. The participants were interviewed after the drama interventions and the transcripts were analysed from the perspective...

...Vasiliki Kioupi; George Giannopoulos Purpose This paper aims to explore a new direction for higher education (HE) in the Anthropocene era. HE is envisioned as the steward of the safe and just space for the transformation of learner self-identity. Transformative learning for sustainability (LfS...

...Vanessa de Campos Junges; Simone Alves Pacheco de Campos; Shalimar Gallon; Rúbia Goi Becker Purpose This study aims to propose a framework for constructing a sustainable higher education institution (HEI) from the perspective of transformative learning. Design/methodology/approach...

... knowledge is unlikely, on its own, to support transformative learning. Survey responses indicated students were, however, motivated to apply what they learned to their design work, with the most significant improvement in transformative indicators seen in students enrolled in the design-centric course...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Experiential learning Sustainability education Sustainable business Active learning Transformative learning Sustainability pedagogy The concept of sustainability hinges on simultaneously attaining...

... human’ life on our planet. O’Brien and Howard (2016 , p. 115) neatly summarise the motivation that advocates of transformative learning have to pursue this alternative pedagogic agenda within sustainable development education: These concerns have led to the development of transformative...

... of this study show that the discipline supported the students' transformative learning towards sustainability. Research limitations/implications This study has both theoretical and practical implications by describing and evaluating an innovative and engaging pedagogical approach to sustainable development...

... is to investigate the transformative learning (TL) experience from the perspective of the external partners. The outcomes of the TL experience were assessed through four elements: disorienting dilemma; critical reflection; engagement in discourse; and reflective and critical taking action. The claim...

...Lise Janssens; Tom Kuppens; Ingrid Mulà; Egle Staniskiene; Anne B. Zimmermann A transition toward sustainable development requires engagement of university students in transformative learning. Therefore, quality frameworks and processes should support deep approaches to sustainable...

... transformative learning spaces that help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to understand and contribute to shaping a world based on communities living within the limits of earth’s resources. This paper aims to offer a novel solution to the challenge of teaching students from different disciplines...

...: emancipatory; problematizing metaphors and premises; and rational, process and means-focused cases, not triggering transformative learning theory. Of 10 cases classified as PP cases, 3 were subclassified as emancipatory. This research is limited to case study titles containing “sustainability...

...: students as co-creators of knowledge; and students as participants in action research. Transformative learning Higher education Participatory action research Ecological thinking Action-oriented learning Ingrid Molderez can be contacted at: ingrid.molderez@kuleuven.be 22 05 2020...

...Jorge Gustavo Rodríguez Aboytes; Matthias Barth Purpose This study aims to investigate how transformative learning has been conceptualised and operationalised in education for sustainable development (ESD) and sustainability learning and to collect evidence on how to support transformative...

...Patrick A. Müller; Thomas Bäumer; Jan Silberer; Stefan Zimmermann Patrick A. Müller can be contacted at: patrick.mueller@hft-stuttgart.de 29 08 2019 08 11 2019 09 01 2020 10 01 2020 One way to achieve such transformative learning environments is to not only focus...

... of learning that appears to be suited for this endeavor is transformative learning. A number of authors have explored the concept of transformative learning and the dynamics of transformation (Mezirow, 1991 ; Mezirow and Taylor, 2009 ; Dirkx, 1998). Transformative learning is intended in this study...

...Usha Iyer-Raniga; Mary Myla Andamon Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate how transformative learning is key to innovating sustainability education in the built environment in the region’s universities, in addition to reporting on the research project undertaken to integrate sustainability...

... for university commitments to sustainability needs to be rethought with the benefit of passing time and in view of a wider, and largely subsequent, literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Talloires Declaration Transformative learning Environmental literacy Critical consciousness...