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Rebecca Bamberger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Being uncomfortable by choice as a means of personal growth has been touted for hundreds of years among scholars, philosophers, religious leaders, modern pop culture icons, and more. Yet, research pertaining to the benefits of being uncomfortable by choice is sparse. This qualitative, grounded theory study addressed the first step of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Grounded Theory, Learning Processes, Psychological Patterns
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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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Perry, Shannon A. B. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
John Heron's whole person theory can expand transformative learning theory by elaborating a more nuanced understanding of affect. In contrast to the vague conceptualization of affect's role and the interchangeable treatment of emotion and feeling in most adult learning scholarship, Heron's holistic theory grounds all experience in affective…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Holistic Approach
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Ali, Farhan; Tan, Seng Chee – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
Research in disparate fields of education, psychology and neuroscience suggests that emotions play a central role in learning. We critically examine research at the intersection of emotions, adult learning and neuroscience. First, we review studies in the "IJLE" related to emotions and adult learning. In particular, we focus on the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Lifelong Learning, Neurosciences, Transformative Learning
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MacKenzie, Michael D. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
While spirituality has emerged as a topic of interest in adult education, much of the current scholarship considers spirituality as distinct from religion. This literature review questions those conclusions, including the use of theistic terminology to describe a concept (spirituality) that many posit is non-theistic. Spirituality is also…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Spiritual Development
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Spannring, Reingard; Grušovnik, Tomaž – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Despite growing evidence of many environmental and other problems being caused by industrialized meat production, the issue of meat consumption is still generally seen as a private affair that has nothing to do with politics or education. This article problematizes meat consumption and discusses transformative learning theory in the light of the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Eating Habits, Animals
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Tillmanns, Tanja – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Since sustainability is subjective and context dependent, sustainability education should focus on the development of a personal understanding of sustainability through critical reflection of values and behaviour. Emotions can motivate value clarification -- a prerequisite to transform worldviews and behaviour. The article presents the disruptive…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Higher Education, Psychological Patterns
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Maiese, Michelle – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2017
Education theorists have emphasized that transformative learning is not simply a matter of students gaining access to new knowledge and information, but instead centers upon personal transformation: it alters students' perspectives, interpretations, and responses. How should learning that brings about this sort of self-transformation be understood…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Human Body, Cognitive Processes
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Hoggan, Chad; Mälkki, Kaisu; Finnegan, Fergal – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
Mezirow's theory of perspective transformation has proved to be a great asset to the scholarship of adult education and has provided a solid theoretical base for understanding complex learning phenomena. However, in the discussions surrounding Mezirow's work, a certain "stuckness" appears which we think is unproductive. Critiques of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Sustainability, Interpersonal Relationship
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Truett, Nancy Teresi – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
The purpose of this autoethnographic study is to share the power of writing as a transformative research method (Custer, 2014). This study draws from the life of a nontraditional adult learner doctoral student, who while traveling through Italy alone, embarked on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Using a narrative voice, the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Writing (Composition), Transformative Learning, Nontraditional Students
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Mälkki, Kaisu; Green, Larry – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
Although the notion of transformative learning points to a desirable destination for educational endeavors, the difficulty in the journey is often neglected. Our intention is to map the experiential micro-processes involved in transformative learning such that the phenomenon is illuminated from a first-person rather than third-person point of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Attitude Change, Learning Processes
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Kucukaydin, Ilhan; Cranton, Patricia – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
In this article, the authors critically examine the way discourse enters into and becomes embedded in transformative learning theory, especially from the extrarational or depth psychology perspective. The authors begin by providing an overview of how transformative learning theory has developed in diverse directions, including the extrarational…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Psychology, Criticism
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Malkki, Kaisu – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
This study elaborates on how a disorienting dilemma, a life-event crisis, may trigger reflection. The study comprised an analysis of interviews with involuntarily childless women, who were in the process of negotiating emotionally chaotic experiences. The implications for Jack Mezirow's theory of transformative learning are explored. Compared with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experience, Problems, Role
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Holyoke, Laura; Heath-Simpson, Delta – Journal of Adult Education, 2013
This study explored connections between adult learners and their experiences in the context of small boutique wineries operating in the start-up phase of the organizational life cycle. The research objective was to gain insight regarding the pairing of adult learners with the entering of a specialty industry. Fourteen individuals from four…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Experience, Interviews, Workplace Learning
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Britzman, Deborah P. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2013
With the question of what is between psychoanalysis and pedagogy, this essay presents a psychoanalytic frame for thinking about the study of uncertainty in teaching and learning from the vantage of the education of the author and her notion of "difficult knowledge." I review my body of research through these dilemmas to picture a theory of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Research, Essays, Teaching Experience
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