Full Description
Transformative learning is a compelling approach to learning that is becoming increasingly popular in a diverse range of educational settings and encounters. This book reconceptualises transformative learning through an investigation of the learning process and outcomes of International Service-Learning (ISL), a pedagogical approach that blends student learning with community engagement overseas and the development of a more just society. Drawing upon key philosophers and theorists, Bamber offers an integrated, multi-dimensional approach, linking transformative learning to the development of the authentic self, and analysing the aesthetic, moral and relational dimensions of ISL in an increasingly globalized world. Chapters explore rich empirical data to provide a timely framework and ethical ecology of transformative learning, detailing the challenges facing the approach, and how it can be embedded at the levels of practice, institutional ethos and partnership.
Transformative Learning through International Service-Learning will appeal to academics, researchers, teachers, instructors and leaders in the fields of service-learning, international education, character education and in adult learning and education. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in international education, development education, volunteering, service-learning and community engagement.
Contents
Part 1: Transformative Learning Towards an Integrative Model of Transformative Learning. The Knowing, Being and Doing of Transformation. The Centrality of Authenticity to Transformative Learning Part 2: International Service-Learning Key Concepts and Practices in International Service-Learning. The Student Experience of International Service-Learning Part 3: Transformative Learning as the Process of Becoming Authentic Authenticity as Selfhood: Becoming Oneself [Integrity]. Authenticity as Reciprocity: Becoming Persons-in-Relation [Recognition]. Authenticity as Worldliness: Becoming Other-Wise [Cosmopolitanism] Part 4: An Ethical Ecology of Transformative Learning Towards an Ethical Ecology of Transformative Learning.
