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Transformative Learning

 18 January 06

Hi! Thanks for the opportunity to do the session; sorry if it rambled a bit, but our discussion should provide a framework for your further explorations from this page.

Thanks for the mini-presentations on Dewey and Freire; they were really useful in setting some of the context, and for being prepared to share your "critical incidents". I should perhaps have mentioned that critical incident technique is explicitly used by teachers wanting to create conditions for transformative learning.

Here is the presentation material Note that if you use Internet Explorer, you may see nothing! But there will be a bar across the top of the screen telling you that IE has blocked the content; click on the bar and select "allow blocked content". This will also happen if you try to show the slide-show. Moral; get a proper browser!

The critical article I referred to was;

Ecclestone, K.(2004) “Learning or Therapy? The Demoralisation of Education” British Journal of Educational Studies Vol. 52 No. 2 pp112-137

You might find the following links useful for web resources (I have vetted them):

1. Mezirow's Three Domains of Learning...
http://www.fsu.edu/~adult-ed/jenny/learning.html

2. "Transformational learning: theory to practice links"
http://www.iupui.edu/~adulted/mwr2p/prior/daley.htm

3. Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Transformative learning' ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_learning

4. Transformative Learning in Adulthood. ERIC Digest
Authoritative account with references
http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-2/adulthood.htm

5. PEDABLOGUE - Shifting the Paradigm: Transformative Learning Theory
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/010220.html

6. Jack Mezirow
http://www.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/JackMezirow.cfm

7. Transformative Learning and the Journey of Individuation. ERIC Digest
http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/journey.htm

8. Humanistic approaches to learning
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/humanist.htm

9. Critical Reflection
.http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/critical1.htm

10. Transformative Learning
.http://www.bigthree.info/info/Transformative-Learning

11. EEE: News & Events: Article: Transformative Learning Theory
http://eee.uci.edu/news/articles/0601transformative.php

12. http://www.geocities.com/transformativelearning/theory/printtheory.htm

The library has the following Mezirow texts;

Other stuff mentioned in passing;

The Saljo (1979) conceptions of learning idea is outlined in context at; http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/deepsurf.htm#conceptionsoflearning

The Caplan crisis model is discussed as part of a longer paper based on my own research, which clearly links to "transformative learning" but treats it less optimistically than Mezirow does. I didn't mention it because it is not strictly to the point, but the paper is here; http://www.doceo.co.uk/original/learnloss_1.htm