What is Transformation

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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. Learn more in: Instructional Technologies of the XXI Century: Theoretical Approach

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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. Learn more in: Transformation Framework for Supply Chain Segmentation in Digital Business

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The outcome of a system, person, group, or organization that undergoes paradigm-shifting change. Learn more in: Examining the Strategic Leadership of Organizations Using Metaphor: Brains and Flux-Interconnected and Interlocked

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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. Learn more in: Agricultural Schemes in Namibia for Meeting Essential Needs

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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. Learn more in: Transformative Learning

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Shifts in social consciousness. Learn more in: Creating Authentic Preservice Art Teaching Experiences through Service-Learning

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The use of positive and effective strategies to be transferred for the better good. Learn more in: The Relationship between Transformational Leadership Characteristics and Multicultural Education Practices in Teacher Educators

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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. Learn more in: Brand-Led Transformation: Operationalising the Brand in Complex Service Businesses

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Action to transform or changing. Learn more in: Economic and Environmental Effects of Rural and Urban Shrinkage Transformation Processes in Mexico

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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. Learn more in: Parental Involvement Contributes to Family Cultural Capital in J District in Shanghai: Based on Taoyuan Private Primary Migrant School

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Use of a tool to change a process and incorporate a previously unfeasible component. Learn more in: Transforming Lesson Design through Animation: Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Plan-Imations

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The result of a process of change of form. It happens when one thing, fact or idea is converted into another. Learn more in: Circular Green Economy: Resources and Capabilities – Theory-Based Analysis

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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. Learn more in: Digital Government Competences for Digital Public Administration Transformation

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An automated replacement learning resource or control. Learn more in: Specification of an Adaptable and Inclusive E-Learning Support System

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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. Learn more in: Visual Literacy and Young Learners

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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. Learn more in: New Trends and Tools for Customer Relationship: Challenges in Digital Transformation

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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. Learn more in: What Sparks Critical Learning?: Exploring the Dialogical Teaching Context Facilitated in the LEAD Course

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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. Learn more in: Stakeholder Strategy to Lessen Agriculture Distress

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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. Learn more in: Reimagining Sustainability Leadership: Integral Action Research in a Non-Profit Organization

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A state of complete change that brings about improvement in something or someone. Learn more in: Guidance and Counselling Through the Teaching of Life Orientation

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Deep change in form, thought, and practice. Learn more in: Transformation and Social Justice in South African Higher Education: An Unequal Turf

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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. Learn more in: Educational Leadership for Enhancing Quality in Teacher Education

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Major change or evolution. Learn more in: Transformation of Higher Education in China: A Teaching Methods Perspective

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The use of technologies to provide all educational services effectively. Learn more in: Employing Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges

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The ability of an individual to turn a game playing experience into a personal and potentially life changing series of experiences (Murray, 1997). Learn more in: Unifying Instructional and Game Design

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A process of radical or profound change that orients a given subject in a new direction and changes its level of effectiveness. Learn more in: Political and Economic Determinants of Social Policy Evolution in Poland after 1989

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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. Learn more in: Adapting Adult Educators’ Teaching Philosophies to Foster Adult Learners’ Transformation and Emancipation

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A complete change or improvement for the better in something or someone. Learn more in: Learner-Centred Pedagogy Framing Authentic Identity and Positionality in Higher Education

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Generating a model from another, using a set of transformation rules that describe how this model can be transformed. Learn more in: Supporting Model-Driven Development: Key Concepts and Support Approaches

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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. Learn more in: Leadership for Enhancing Organisational Performance Through Workforce Reskilling

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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. Learn more in: Decentralization of the Water Industry in the Context of Economies in Transition: On the Example of the Czech Republic From 1992-1998

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A significant change in the form, structure, character, or nature of something or someone. Learn more in: The Cultural Clash: Traditional Automakers vs. Digital Companies – Can They Work Together? Transformation of Business Culture in the Digital Age

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Operations such as translation, rotation, or scaling involving objects in a virtual environment. Learn more in: Virtual Environments for Geospatial Applications

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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. Learn more in: The Civic University, the Engaged Scholar: Implications for Scholarly Work

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This term is used to reference the potential change in form, appearance or character from one thing to another. Learn more in: The Virtual, Alternate Spaces, and the Effects upon Artwork

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The processes to redress socio-economic historical imbalances that are as a result of the apartheid government in South Africa. Learn more in: The Current State of Dialogue in South African Universities: Change through Open Conversations and the Facilitating Role of ICTs