Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults

By Marilyn E. Laiken. 2013

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Measuring the Importance of Precursor Steps to Transformative Learning (2010, background): “From the educator’s perspective, transformative learning is when a learner is struck by a new concept or way of thinking and then follows through to make a life change; it supplements more common types of learning such as acquiring facts or learning new skills (Cranton, 1994).”
Expect the Unexpected: International Short-Term Study Course Pedagogies and Practices (2013, background): “Transformative learning scholars (Brookfield, 2000; Cranton, 1994; Mezirow, 1990) describe critical reflection as a process with three phases: (1) identify assumptions that underlie our thoughts and actions; (2) scrutinize the accuracy and validity of those assumptions and how they connect with our…”
Transforming online teaching practice: critical analysis of the literature on the roles and competencies of online teachers (2011, background): “Since being proposed by Mezirow in 1991, transformative learning theory has evolved ‘ into a comprehensive and complex description of how learners construct, validate, and reformulate the meaning of their experience ’ (Cranton, 1994, p. 22).”
Rethinking Disorienting Dilemmas Within Real-Life Crises (2012, background): “In fact, as noted above, there has been criticism concerning Mezirow’s theory in that it emphasizes the cognitive dimension at the expense of the emotional and social dimensions (see Clark & Wilson, 1991; Cranton, 2006; Illeris, 2004, 2007; Sands & Tennant, 2010; Taylor, 2000, 2007).”
Revealing the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2018, unknown): “…through interaction has been found to continue at least during early adulthood and probably also throughout life (Trevino & McCabe 1994; Cranton, 1994; M. Jones, 1989; Kolb, 1984; Lengnick Hall & Sanders, 1997); and HE also involves socialization processes e.g. into academic,…”
Calling Transformative Learning Into Question (2012, background): “Dirkx talks of making ourselves open to symbols from our “inner world,” and calls this process “soul work” (Dirkx, Mezirow, & Cranton, 2006).”
Teachers As Learners: Implications Of Adult Education For Professional Development (2011, unknown): “Patricia Cranton (1994) has applied the theories of transformational learning to the practice of teaching.”
From reflection to action? Barriers and bridges between higher education teachers’ thoughts and actions (2012, background): “Some of the most influential conceptualizations of reflection in the field of higher education are Kolb’s (1984), Dewey’s (1989) and Mezirow’s (1991, 2000) work (see Cranton 2006; Illeris 2007; Moon 2004).”