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Dispositional Development and Assessment in Teacher Preparation Programs
It refers to the act, process, or instance of transforming or being transformed. Regarding transformative learning, Mezirow indicates learning occurs when there is a transformation in one of our beliefs or attitudes, or a change of our entire perspective.
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Connecting Teachers' Dispositions With Their Teaching Philosophies
Viktor Wang (California State University, San Bernardino, USA) and Geraldine Torrisi-Steele (Griffith University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4089-6.ch003
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Adult learners are unique. Caught up in the social, economic, and political dynamics of a complex and fluid society, adults are highly diverse learners, and their motivations and needs are changeable, depending on their current life situation. Transformative and emancipatory learning is core to adult education. But to achieve this, educators must employ practices appropriate to the adult learners they teach. Educator practices are dictated by their dispositions. The authors suggest that dispositions are connected to underpinning teaching philosophies.
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Two Languages, One Self: The Story of My Bilingual Journey
A process of change and development. When it refers to human transformation, it implies an internal change and growth to one’s highest potential or best oneself, which affects one’s worldview, behaviors, and thought.
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Instructional Technologies of the XXI Century: Theoretical Approach
In general it is a result of an effect of environment that changes an object. In everyday practice it is a set of actions that change the state or properties of different materials, goods, services or knowledge.
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Transformation Framework for Supply Chain Segmentation in Digital Business
Is the journey of taking an organization in a new direction and reaching an entirely different level of effectiveness. It is a change to processes, systems, structure, and culture.
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Entrepreneurial Intent and Opportunities Linkage for the Sustainable Tourism Sector
The act or process of transforming, change in form, appearance, nature, or character or alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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Circular-Green Economy: Analysis Based on the Theory of Resources and Capabilities
The result of a process of change of form. It happens when one thing, fact or idea is converted into another.
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Examining the Strategic Leadership of Organizations Using Metaphor: Brains and Flux-Interconnected and Interlocked
The outcome of a system, person, group, or organization that undergoes paradigm-shifting change.
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Agricultural Schemes in Namibia for Meeting Essential Needs
The act or process of transforming in form, appearance, nature, or character; or an alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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Technology Use Among Academics With Disabilities Within a Transforming University
This involves processes f redress targeted at addressing socio-economic injustices.
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Transformative Learning
Transformation refers to pervasive forms of development that occur in every culture as an aspect of every rite of passage in the grand movements from one social paradigm to the next. All transformations have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There are conditions that support changes, processes that initiate them, and ones that complete the changes. Typically, a transformation is considered irreversible, although there are conditions that drive a situation back to an earlier form. Transformation is a possibility in the mind of every social revolution and the awakening of consciousness that gives meaning to life for many people.
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Brand-Led Transformation: Operationalising the Brand in Complex Service Businesses
In an organizational context, a process of profound and radical change that orients an organization in a new direction and takes it to an entirely different level of effectiveness. Unlike 'turnaround' (which implies incremental progress on the same plane) transformation implies a basic change of character and little or no resemblance with the past configuration or structure.
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Banking Perspective of E-Commerce and Digital Enterprise Transformation
A marked change in form, nature, or appearance. over significant distances by electronic means.
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Religious Leaders Leading and Managing in Times of Crisis and Change
Influencing persons/followers to perform beyond their perceived capabilities, achieving unexpected or remarkable results with the end goal of followers emerging as leaders.
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Digital Transformation Demystified: The Full Story About Digital Transformation
This is the movement from one defined state to another by making significant improvement in the value delivery. Focus is to provide more value to clients by improving the organization.
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Parental Involvement Contributes to Family Cultural Capital in J District in Shanghai: Based on Taoyuan Private Primary Migrant School
Transformation means that parents promote education ability and change education methods in practice. Transformation is mainly relevant with operating cultural capital and describes the process from idea to action.
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How Incumbents Respond Strategically to Emerging Digital Platform-Mediated Settings?: Analysis of Enterprise Software Vendors
Changes to organizational strategy, business models, and business processes and information systems that support value creation.
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An Evaluation on Turkey Within the Scope of Digital Transformation
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Transforming Lesson Design through Animation: Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Plan-Imations
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Ecological Areas and Challenges of Urbanization: A Stride Towards Environmental Restoration
A process of alteration in essential attributes and functions of a natural or man-made system.
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Circular Green Economy: Resources and Capabilities – Theory-Based Analysis
The result of a process of change of form. It happens when one thing, fact or idea is converted into another.
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Digital Government Competences for Digital Public Administration Transformation
The process of completely changing the character or appearance of something in order to improve it. When associated to digital technologies, digital transformation is an ongoing process of using new digital technologies in everyday organizational life, which recognizes agility as the core mechanism for the strategic renewal of an organization’s business model, collaborative approach, and eventually the culture.
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Quadruple Change: Cultivating Digital Transformation Agent
A future-based journey with continuous improvement process toward creating effective outcomes.
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Technology-Enhanced Professional Development With a Situated Community of Practice: Promoting Transformational Teaching
In the context of technology-enhanced instruction, technology changes the role of teachers and students in teaching and learning, with students taking a more central role in the use of technology and related sense making.
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Visual Literacy and Young Learners
To change from one form to another like the caterpillar which transforms into a butterfly. In the context of this chapter, it refers to change in a wide sense, for example, when an experience changes into a new perspective or way of life.
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How to Implement the Supply Chain Digital Segmentation Strategy Successfully
The journey of taking an organization in a new direction and reaching an entirely different level of effectiveness. It is a change to processes, systems, structure, and culture.
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Thriving Through Disruption: COVID-19, Online Education, and Innovation
The process of accepting that past practices are no longer effective and imagining new ways of being in the world. Transformation often requires elements of the unexpected, reflection and movement into novel intellectual and emotional spaces.
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Transforming and Facilitating Quality Education in Developing Knowledge Economy: The Indian Perspective
The process of profound change in appearance, functioning, nature and form in order to improve the current state in order to achieve profound shared goals.
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The Mystery of Spirit: Implications for Integrating a Spiritual Perspective in Secular Education
One component of the process of transformation is the successful resolution of a sequence of ‘problems’ or ‘encounters’ that naturally present themselves and require a change in the person’s understanding (level of Being).
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Effects of Public Capital Investments on the Productivity of the United States, 1992-2022
The resources of a firms, activities, countries, individuals to be transformed from inputs into outputs.
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Characteristic and Agentic Qualities of Women Leaders Amidst Global Crises: Lessons for Higher Education
An alteration or a marked change in perspective thinking, form, nature, or appearance.
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New Trends and Tools for Customer Relationship: Challenges in Digital Transformation
In an organizational context, a process of profound and radical change that orients an organization in a new direction and takes it to an entirely different level of effectiveness. Unlike 'turnaround' transformation implies a basic change of character and little or no resemblance with the past configuration or structure.
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ICT Adoption Cordons in SMEs for Competitive Advantage
The act or process of transforming, change in form, appearance, nature, or character or alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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What Sparks Critical Learning?: Exploring the Dialogical Teaching Context Facilitated in the LEAD Course
A process of shifting the collective consciousness of a society so that reality is refined by consensus. This process may occur by external stimulus and sometimes intentionally. Societal transformations occur when the newly held values and attitudes are sustained over time and new societal norms are created and internalized.
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Stakeholder Strategy to Lessen Agriculture Distress
The act or process of transforming in form, appearance, nature, or character; or an alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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Reimagining Sustainability Leadership: Integral Action Research in a Non-Profit Organization
A term used in this study to indicate deep or revolutionary change, particularly involving structures in the lower left (cultural) and lower right (systems) quadrants.
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Guidance and Counselling Through the Teaching of Life Orientation
A state of complete change that brings about improvement in something or someone.
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Educational Leadership for Enhancing Quality in Teacher Education
The act or process of transforming, change in form, appearance, nature, or character or alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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Educational Leadership as a Process in Today's Changing Society
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Unifying Instructional and Game Design
The ability of an individual to turn a game playing experience into a personal and potentially life changing series of experiences (Murray, 1997).
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Political and Economic Determinants of Social Policy Evolution in Poland after 1989
A process of radical or profound change that orients a given subject in a new direction and changes its level of effectiveness.
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Transforming Supply Chains (SCs) to Meet Sustainability Challenges
Transformation in supply chain management refers to integrating advanced technologies within organisations. By introducing new technologies, businesses can enhance their operational efficiency and the overall performance of their supply chain networks. The technological transformation also involves examining existing business processes and implementing advanced technologies to manage high supply chain demands and align a company's supply chain with its objectives and goals. This requires effective planning, analytics, implementation, and digitisation.
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Adapting Adult Educators’ Teaching Philosophies to Foster Adult Learners’ Transformation and Emancipation
It refers to the act, process, or instance of transforming or being transformed. Regarding transformative learning, Mezirow indicates learning occurs when there is a transformation in one of our beliefs or attitudes, or a change of our entire perspective.
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Learner-Centred Pedagogy Framing Authentic Identity and Positionality in Higher Education
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Meaning of Space in Cinema: An Analysis on Dogtooth
Differentiation of people after the events happening around them.
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Supporting Model-Driven Development: Key Concepts and Support Approaches
Generating a model from another, using a set of transformation rules that describe how this model can be transformed.
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Extremophiles and Their Application in Bioremediation
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Spirituality at Work: Past, Present, and Future Trends
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Engaging the Community in Curriculum Reforms for More Engaged Learners: An English Case Study
Is the journey of taking an organization in a new direction and reaching an entirely different level of effectiveness. It is a change to processes, systems, structure, and culture.
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Leadership for Enhancing Organisational Performance Through Workforce Reskilling
The act or process of transforming, change in form, appearance, nature, or character or alteration, especially a radical one. A change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.
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Decentralization of the Water Industry in the Context of Economies in Transition: On the Example of the Czech Republic From 1992-1998
Fundamental change of functioning of basic market mechanisms in society. Most commonly, this term is used in connection with the transition from a centrally-planned economy to market economy.
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A Strategic Paradigm for Transformational Leadership Theory in the Digital Age: Scope of the Analytical Third
Transformations are drastic changes in appearance in social or organizational life. It covers all aspects of change in life that slowly, drastically, or forcefully changes.
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Virtual Environments for Geospatial Applications
Operations such as translation, rotation, or scaling involving objects in a virtual environment.
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The Civic University, the Engaged Scholar: Implications for Scholarly Work
Any change in which there is a radical rearrangement of the relationships among the components of the system (i.e. the change from a hierarchical social system to a network social system). Wicked Problems: A problem in which there is no agreement and any attempt to solve the problem changes the problem.
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The Virtual, Alternate Spaces, and the Effects upon Artwork
This term is used to reference the potential change in form, appearance or character from one thing to another.
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Formalized Algorithm Design and Auto-Tuning of Programs
The process of conversion of algorithm schemes based on equalities represented in algorithmic algebra.
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The Current State of Dialogue in South African Universities: Change through Open Conversations and the Facilitating Role of ICTs
The processes to redress socio-economic historical imbalances that are as a result of the apartheid government in South Africa.
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