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Stephanie Desiree Goldsmith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to view the influence that implementing growth mindset could have on a private preparatory school and the students' academic achievements. Qualitative methodology was used to investigate the influence of growth mindset could have on student learning in a private preparatory school. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Administrators
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Warden, Claire – Childhood Education, 2019
Recognizing the valuable role nature plays in human development as well as humans' responsibility toward the earth is critically important when considering how to transform education for the betterment of the individual and society. In this article, the author views nature as a force or phenomenon of the metaphysical world. As such, she suggests…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Individual Development, Educational Change, Environment
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Gorodetsky, Malka; Barak, Judith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This paper suggests a conjunction between the learning space of educational edge community (EEC) and the Deleuzeguattarian thought regarding the nature of teachers' "becoming." It attends to the emerging subjectivities of teachers/learners within an EEC, a nomadic, open, and smooth space of learning. It is suggested that autonomous…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Freedom, Educational Philosophy, Elementary School Teachers
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Goh, Adeline Yuen Sze – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
In this paper, I address a perceived gap in the lifelong learning literature. There is very little research which addresses how learning should be construed, when individuals transition across a longitudinal span of their working life. This transition which could be viewed as a process of "becoming somebody", often oversimplifies the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Teacher Education
Sullivan, Debra R. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Watching babies learn to walk can teach one a lot about himself/herself and one's ability to change. Changing one's self, perspectives, or assumptions requires: (1) the determination and perseverance to persist; (2) the openness to believe that if one can't change now, maybe he/she can later; (3) the ability to take a stand, even if one knows it…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Personality Change, Personality Development, Transformative Learning
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Rohani, Cyrus – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Education is a continuous and creative process, which primarily fulfils the moral potential of each individual. Its aim is to develop the capacities latent in human nature and to coordinate their expression for the enrichment, progress and transformation of society. (Contains 6 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Ethical Instruction, Learning Processes