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Direct linkNicolaides, Aliki, Ed.; Eschenbacher, Saskia, Ed.; Buergelt, Petra T., Ed.; Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome, Ed.; Welch, Marguerite, Ed.; Misawa, Mitsunori, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Critical Theory, Freedom, Creativity
Walter, Pierre – Adult Learning, 2019
The difficult times in which we live require innovative, creative, and hopeful pedagogies of adult education. This article describes a nontraditional experiential, "empathy-invoking" approach to the teaching of a graduate course on the theory and research of adult learning. The approach begins with the building of a safe learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nontraditional Education, Empathy, Graduate Study
Morntountak, Aliki – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2013
The purpose of study was to explore the change process described in "The Shack" using Mezirow's (1997) phases of meaning-making in transformational learning. Results suggest that transformational learning is a useful lens for examining the individual change process in the novel, and offers teaching opportunities in classes that explore personal…
Descriptors: Grief, Transformative Learning, Novels, Adult Learning
Download full textTaylor, Megan A.; Fischer, Jerome M.; Taylor, Linda – Journal of Adult Education, 2009
Current directions in transformational learning theory incorporate the concept of emotional intelligence. The purpose of this study was to understand emotional intelligence as it relates to transformational learning by identifying factors related to individuals' emotional responses to literature. Specifically, the study investigated the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Emotional Intelligence
Peer reviewedDirkx, John M. – Adult Learning, 2001
Emotional reactions to text are manifestations of learners' inner selves. Adult learners can engage in the process of meaning making by working with images and integrating them into their holistic beings. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Emotional Response, Imagery
Dirkx, John M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Emotion-laden images that arise within adult learning provide a symbolic language for helping teachers and learners understand and facilitate transformation at both the individual and group levels.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Symbolic Language, Emotional Response
Taylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Perry, Sally-Anne – 2000
A practitioner's model of the processes of learning and knowing was developed through a review of global, societal, individual, and personal perspectives on learning. The first phase of the model's development consisted of using a method of exploration based on determining who, what, where, when, why, and how to investigate the following 10…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Associative Learning
