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Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw
Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw
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This exploratory, theoretical study develops the concept of profound learning through a mutual interrogation of the literature and research of transformative learning.
Making The Invisible Visible: The Role Of The Cuban Socio-Cultural Contexts In Fostering Transformative Learning, James West, John Dirkx
Making The Invisible Visible: The Role Of The Cuban Socio-Cultural Contexts In Fostering Transformative Learning, James West, John Dirkx
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In this study, we sought to develop a deeper understanding of how socio-cultural and socio-material contexts contributed to intercultural and transformative learning on a short-term study abroad program in Cuba.
All You Need Is Love: The Role Of Relationships In Transformative Learning As Seen In Contemporary Fiction, Randee Lipson Lawrence
All You Need Is Love: The Role Of Relationships In Transformative Learning As Seen In Contemporary Fiction, Randee Lipson Lawrence
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Fiction is the major source of research data in this study of transformative learning. Personal relationships are highlighted as being pivotal to the transformative learning process. Relationships both facilitate and inhibit transformation.
Bringing Clarity To Transformative Learning Research, Chad Hoggan
Bringing Clarity To Transformative Learning Research, Chad Hoggan
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This paper presents the results of a review of the literature on transformative learning theory that focused on transformational outcomes. The wide variety of outcomes present in the research literature are organized into a typology, and recommendations are made for future scholarly work using the theory.
Teaching With New Eyes: Transformative Faculty Professional Development For Online Teaching, Carol A. Mcquiggan
Teaching With New Eyes: Transformative Faculty Professional Development For Online Teaching, Carol A. Mcquiggan
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This qualitative action research study explored the changes in teaching assumptions and beliefs and face-to-face teaching practices fostered by transformative learning among higher education faculty as a result of participating in a blended professional development program to prepare them to teach online. Keywords: transformative learning, faculty development, action research
Transformative Learning And The Ecological Crisis: Insights From The Tao Of Liberation, Mark Hathaway
Transformative Learning And The Ecological Crisis: Insights From The Tao Of Liberation, Mark Hathaway
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The complexity and scale of the ecological crisis poses unique challenges to transformative learning. To address these, The Tao of Liberation (Hathaway & Boff, 2009) offers insights to reconceptualize transformative learning from an ecological perspective, including new ways of framing learning goals, the nature of liberation, and the process of worldviews transformation. The Tao also provides analysis addressing some of the key psychological obstacles impeding transformative learning related to the ecological crisis. Finally, The Tao outlines four “paths to liberation” that suggest concrete processes that can foster integral transformative learning.
Theological Education In Action: A Study Of Racial Perspective Change Among Participants In The Student Interracial Ministry Of Union Theological Seminary (1960-1968), Kirk A. Moll
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This qualitative research study investigated the role played by white theological seminary student participation in the Student Interracial Ministry (1960-1968) in the transformation of the participants’ racial perspectives. The central theoretical framework was transformative learning. The role of racism as a disorienting dilemma; interpersonal, affective, and spiritual/religious factors, and transformative learning across the lifespan were explored.
A Transformative Dance Through “Language Mountains” And “Blind Spots”: Park Educators Learn Responsiveness To Immigrant Newcomers, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Vogels, Zenobia Jamal
A Transformative Dance Through “Language Mountains” And “Blind Spots”: Park Educators Learn Responsiveness To Immigrant Newcomers, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Vogels, Zenobia Jamal
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This paper describes a project Learning Language, Learning the Land, created to enhance park accessibility and social belonging for immigrant newcomers by combining language learning and environmental literacy in a city park and provincial park setting. This paper reports on the dialectics of transformative learning for parks staff as they discovered the inappropriateness of didactic methods and how effective adult learning emerges from rapport, educational responsiveness and ethnocultural knowledge. Second, through informal learning, staff became allies in these traditionally white, middle class spaces, helping build a sense of place and social belonging.
Methodological Challenges In Studying Transformative Learning, Seon Joo Kim, Sharan B. Merriam
Methodological Challenges In Studying Transformative Learning, Seon Joo Kim, Sharan B. Merriam
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First discussed are philosophical perspectives in relation to the research design and methodology for studying transformative learning. Second, several promising research designs for studying this phenomenon are reviewed including narrative analysis, arts-based research, critical approaches, and action research. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of methodological challenges at this point in the evolution of the knowledge base of transformative learning.
Transformative Learning With Women: A Critical Review Proposing Linkages For The Personal And Political Spheres*, Catherine J. Irving, Leona M. English
Transformative Learning With Women: A Critical Review Proposing Linkages For The Personal And Political Spheres*, Catherine J. Irving, Leona M. English
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Theoretical developments in the field of transformative learning have progressed significantly over the past two decades, yet little attention has been paid to women’s experiences of transformative learning and to the issues of race, class and gender in this learning. We explore the apparent hesitation at both the personal and political ends of the transformative learning spectrum, and help to create alliances and strengthen the theory.
Through The Fears And Years: Applying A Transformative Learning Model To Abe And Workplace Learning, Barbara P. Heuer, Kathleen P. King
Through The Fears And Years: Applying A Transformative Learning Model To Abe And Workplace Learning, Barbara P. Heuer, Kathleen P. King
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The process and effects of applying a model of transformative learning to three adult learning settings are examined. They suggest benefits of collaborative learner centered adult education and qualitative evaluations.
Transformative Learning For Social Justice: Insights From A Blended Seminar, Placida V. Gallegos, Steven A. Schapiro
Transformative Learning For Social Justice: Insights From A Blended Seminar, Placida V. Gallegos, Steven A. Schapiro
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This paper identifies phases of change and key process factors in a blended graduate seminar on structural inequality and diversity, integrating theory with personal reflection and practice.
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
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This is a review of transformative learning (TL) since 1998 involving 40 empirical studies. Findings include trends of less emphasis on identifying transformative experiences in different setting, and more about fostering TL and better understanding the nature of critical reflection, relationships, a perspective transformation, and context. Also, research designs are becoming more sophisticated.
From Student Activism To A Way Of Life: The Student Activists-Turned-Peasant Activists In South Korea, Sik Son
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this paper explores the life-experience of six student activists who turned themselves into peasants in their search for social justice and egalitarian society in South Korea. The praxis of the activists crossing class line in the social movement reveals their transformative learning process as well as the development of their own pedagogy of the oppressed.