Full Description
Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis examines the multi-faceted nature of transformative learning and transformation theory including its merits, restrictions, and possibilities, and presents carefully chosen international case studies and theoretical approaches that enrich the application of the theory within a wide variety of educational settings.
By including new approaches to transformative learning theory, this book provides examples and teaching approaches coming from a variety of disciplines, including higher education, arts, classics, new technologies, and academic development. It bridges the gap between theory and practice to help teachers and adult educators embed potentially transformational techniques in the curriculum. Based on in-depth research, this key title provides a means of measuring and documenting transformative outcomes in qualitative studies of high impact learning experiences, and raises new questions and opportunities for the future development of the field.
Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis is a must-read text for anyone interested in the research behind, and applications of, transformative learning and transformation theory, including researchers, students, and policy-makers in the field.
Contents
ForewordKnud Illeris
PrefaceEffrosyni Kostara, Daphne Loads
Theory: Social dimension of transformation
Chapter 1 Mezirow's Theory of Transformative Learning: In dialogue with Honneth's critical theoryTed Fleming
Chapter 2 On the feminist origins of Transformative Learning TheoryAlessandra Romano
Theory: Developments and Possibilities
Chapter 3 Transformation and Stoic pedagogy in Seneca's Epistulae Morales
Andreas Gavrielatos
Chapter 4 Traces of Transformation Theory in Ancient Greek TragedyEffrosyni Kostara
Chapter 5 Transformative learning to solve the impossible: Edge emotions and intuition in expanding the limitations of our rational abilitiesKaisu Mälkki, Asta Raami
Praxis: In and Beyond Education
Chapter 6 Transformation of assumptions through the use of art: Activating an educational methodAlexis Kokkos
Chapter 7 Behind the cotton wool...: knowing and transformation through aesthetic reflexivityGaia Del Negro
Chapter 8 Splitting the Lark: Semantic Levity and Transformative LearningDaphne Loads
Praxis: Transforming Higher Education
Chapter 9 Cultivating authentic professional identities through transformative higher education: An application of Mezirow's comprehensive theory of adult learningCarolin Kreber
Chapter 10 Click here for Transformation: Examining a course for Graduate Teaching Assistants around technology-enhanced learning through the lens of Mezirow's transformative learning theorySarah Moore, Rachel Bovill
Chapter 11 High Impact Learning in Higher Education: Operationalizing the Self-Constructive Outcomes of Transformative Learning TheoryKris Acheson, John M. Dirkx, Craig N. Shealy
Praxis: Further applications
Chapter 12 A practice-based view of transformative learning. The case of a craft organisationFrancesca Bracci, Alessandra Romano, Victoria Marsick
Reflections Living theory in transforming timesFergal Finnegan
