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Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
The article discusses (the restoration of a sense of) continuity as a necessary part of transformative learning. Using the lenses of rhythm theory, biographical learning, and memory studies, it highlights both the individual and social dimensions for making sense of the past after a period of change. Discussing the example of an individual…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Self Concept, History
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Qi Sun; Xi Lin; Xiaoqiao Zhang; Rachel Rui – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
This qualitative case study examines the learning experiences of self-organized Chinese and Chinese American adults from the X Care Group amid the political repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed how care group members created meaning in their daily life experiences, reformed their identity, and increased their Chinese and…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Community Involvement, Asian Americans, Asians
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Schroeder, Stephanie; Currin, Elizabeth; Washington, Elizabeth; Curcio, Rachelle; Lundgren, Lisa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
This article explores adult participation in online social media resistance groups that formed after the 2016 U.S. presidential election (e.g., Indivisible), why individuals participate, and how their views of citizenship are transformed as a result of their participation. Reporting on demographic and open-ended qualitative survey data, this study…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Presidents, Democracy, Social Media
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Newman, Michael – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
The author identifies six flaws that commonly occur in explanations of transformative learning, and suggests that transformative learning may not exist as an identifiable phenomenon. He proposes that we abandon the term "transformative learning," and adopt the straightforward term "good learning." Good learning, he argues, has nine aspects.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Discourse Modes, Adult Learning
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English, Leona M.; Peters, Nancy – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
This article reports on interpretive research, influenced by a feminist theoretical framework, with 8 women, in their 20s to 60s, who work or volunteer in feminist nonprofit organizations. Particular emphasis is placed on their experience of transformative learning in these organizations; the linkages with the theory of transformative learning;…
Descriptors: Feminism, Transformative Learning, Nonprofit Organizations, Females
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Swartz, Ann L.; Triscari, Jacqlyn S. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
Two collaborative writing partners sought to deepen their understanding of transformative learning by conducting several spirals of grounded theory research on their own collaborative relationship. Drawing from adult education, business, and social science literature and including descriptive analysis of their records of activity and interaction…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Transformative Learning, Cooperative Learning, Models
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Stevens, Karen; Gerber, Dan; Hendra, Rick – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
Upon graduation from University Without Walls (UWW), Robin said, "During first semester you told us that if we allowed it to, this experience [writing a prior learning portfolio] would change us. I was so angry with you for saying that because I liked who I was and didn't want to change. But you were right. And I'm glad." For the past 39…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Chang, Wei-Wen; Chen, Cheng-Hui Lucy; Huang, Yu-Fu; Yuan, Yu-Hsi – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
Empirical studies have found that participation in international service increases learners' intercultural competence, language skills, appreciation of cultural differences, and tolerance for ambiguity. While previous studies suggest that international service experience is potentially transformative in nature, the present study examined…
Descriptors: Service Learning, International Programs, Transformative Learning, Social Psychology
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Newman, Michael – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
A rationalist is prevailed upon to enroll in a program on meditation. During a day of silence, he begins to wonder about the concept of the self as implied in some forms of educational practice. Over the next few weeks, he identifies four doubts, which he calls a Marxian doubt, a dialectical doubt, an absurd doubt, and a moral doubt. He argues…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adult Education, Individual Development, Self Concept
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Kreber, Carolin; Klampfleitner, Monika; McCune, Velda; Bayne, Sian; Knottenbelt, Miesbeth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2007
"Authenticity in teaching" has been recognized as an important yet under-researched phenomenon. To gain greater insight into the meaning of authenticity in teaching in adult and higher education settings, the authors delved into some of the philosophical and educational literature on authenticity, giving particular attention, but not confining…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Behavior, Higher Education, Adult Education