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Green, Larry – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
A central concern that TL theory approaches but does not fully address is the process whereby an individual generates a more adequate meaning perspective after shedding an outmoded one. This article complements TL theory's account with a phenomenological description of the dangers and opportunities encountered on that quest. It employs the concept…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Phenomenology, Familiarity
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McDonald, Stephanie; Perry, J. Adam – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Dimensional ontology is Viktor E. Frankl's theory that contends humans are composed of their biological, psychological, and noological (spiritual) dimensions. Frankl maintains that it is in the noological dimension where humans freely choose their responses to the environmental, psychological, and biological conditions that befall them. Frankl's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Philosophy, Motivation, Psychology
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Dike, Felix Okechukwu; Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
The theory of transformative learning (TL) has been criticized secondhand for its lack of clarity in capturing and explaining in detail the processes undergone by learners who are going through TL experiences and their link to learning outcomes. Using a case study design, and carefully synthesized TL processes (TLPs) from Mezirow's TL theory, we…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Reflection, Learning Processes
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Moström Åberg, Marie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
The need of being able to foster transformative learning (TL) has increased due to the demands for continuous development in today's work life. Previous research has proposed six core elements to foster TL; however, in these a process perspective is missing. By using an adaptive approach and inspired by action research, drawing on teachers'…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Context Effect, Prior Learning, Learning Theories
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Green, Larry – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Mezirow's theory of transformative learning presupposes agency. Agency is the means by which the limitations of an inadequate meaning perspective are transcended. It is the creative activity necessitated by an encounter with a disorienting dilemma. This implies that transformation cannot be achieved "from within" the existent meaning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Personal Autonomy, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept
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Karpen, Samuel C. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
In an appeal to establish transformative learning's (TL) boundaries, Kegan (2000) implored researchers to identify "what from transforms?" As a social psychologist, I am particularly drawn to theorists who identify the self as the form that transforms; however, I argue that a model of the self that specifies how it is represented in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Self Concept
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Buttigieg, Karen; Calleja, Colin – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
Both "Bildung" and transformative learning theory focus on the transformative nature of education. Even though they have been developed in different continents and fairly independently of each other, they intersect, and at face value, they might appear to be very similar to each other. Both notions, though are perceived differently by…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Social Change
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Pederson, JoEllen G.; Lettner-Rust, Heather G.; Dowling Fink, Alix D.; Fink, Mark L.; Gutiérrez, Ann Renee; Kinman, Edward L.; Koski, Connie M.; Mergen, Michael J.; Poplin, Phillip L.; Rhoten, Melissa C.; Roberts, Brent S.; Znosko, Jessi B. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Emerging from faculty collaboration across disciplines, the four-stage Field Immersion Framework (FIF) marries place-based experiential learning with civic engagement to promote important transformative learning outcomes such as shifts in Worldview, Self, Epistemology, Ontology, Behavior, and Capacity. To support those outcomes, we developed this…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Civics, Place Based Education, Transformative Learning
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Hodge, Steven – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
Mainstream transformative learning emphasizes personally significant learning and liberation from limited ways of being in the world. Reflecting humanistic and emancipatory philosophical commitments, this emphasis can make it difficult to appreciate the transformative potential of learning for and by knowledge, a type of transformation adults can…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fundamental Concepts, Educational Philosophy, Adult Education
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Chang, Ching-Wen – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
Transformative learning theory has provided a sound theoretical base for adult education's Western and Eastern academic field. This article aims to introduce the mandala model of transformative learning by transferring Mezirow's theory of perspective transformation onto a mandala map. In the mandala model, the learning agent exercises two…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Models, Problem Solving
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Washburn, Allyson – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article develops a framework for this special issue of "JTE," and assesses the assessment of transformative learning. What and whom are the contributors assessing? For what ends? And how effectively? The call for manuscripts cited two "megatrends" in the transformative learning literature: (1) the importance of deep and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Adult Learning
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Searle, Michelle; Ahn, Claire; Fels, Lynn; Carbone, Katrina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
In this article, the authors speak to the paradox of assessing transformative learning (TL) in higher education. TL theory, developed by Jack Mezirow, is a theory of learning to describe the process of change in how individuals view the world based on previous experiences. Recognizing that the 10 phases of Mezirow's TL theory are fluid and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, College Students, Student Evaluation
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Watkins, C. Edward, Jr. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
The beginning period of psychotherapist development has been conceptually and empirically identified as the most difficult and potentially problematic. The budding therapist is struggling to define a therapist identity, settle into the role of being a "helper," and come to grips with being a helper who can "heal." That…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Allied Health Personnel, Counselor Training, Transformative Learning
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Eschenbacher, Saskia – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
This article aims at expanding transformation theory through the work of the philosopher Richard Rorty. His concept of redescription allows us to distinguish between good learning and transformative learning and to counteract the critique of conceptional looseness. In addition, Rorty's thesis of contingency and his notion of irony are going to be…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Criticism, Transformative Learning
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Pomeroy, Eva; Oliver, Keira – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article reports on the findings from an interview-based, qualitative study of adult learners in Scotland participating in the MITx u.lab massive open online course in 2015 and 2016. It focuses on interviewees' accounts of the impact of participating in u.lab on their work and lives. Using grounded theory as an analytical guide, we explore…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Students, Online Courses, Mass Instruction
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