Self practices – mental and bodily activities through which individuals try to give a shape to their existence – have been a topic of interest in the social science literature for over a century now. These studies bring into focus that such activities play important roles in our relationship to our social environment. But beyond this general insight we still do not have a framework for elucidat...

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the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of volleyball skills training and problem solving on adolescent girls self-efficacy. the research method was semi-experimental and conducted in as pre-test and post-test with four experimental groups.the research statistical population consisted of all first grade students of broujen high schools in the academic year of 2009-2010(1388-89s...

This paper proposes a way to understand transformative choices, choices that change ‘who you are.’ First, it distinguishes two broad models of transformative choice: 1) ‘event-based’ transformative choices in which some event—perhaps an experience—downstream from a choice transforms you, and 2) ‘choice-based’ transformative choices in which the choice itself—and not something downstream from th...

Educators are increasingly encouraged to practice life-long learning. Learning to cope with emerging technologies for educational purposes is, for most educators, a complex process. Consequently, educators engage in critical reflective processes, and consider new views as they learn new knowledge and skills so as how to best apply information and communication technologies to teaching and learn...

The qualitative analysis of concept maps produced by students and teachers from secondary and higher education consistently show the occurrence of three morphological types: spokes, chains and nets. The significance of these structures is discussed in terms of their implications for university teaching and for further learning, and supports a reconceptualisation of the notion of expertise as a ...

Project Summary We propose to prove the concept that institutions of higher education can intentionally undergo a benevolent, spontaneous epidemic change toward cultures of transformational teaching and learning innovation. The type of innovating that we are referring to is that which expands the presently accepted boundaries of recognized ways of knowing, doing and being to encompass new pract...