1st Edition
Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis New Perspectives and Possibilities
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.
Foreword
Knud Illeris
Preface
Effrosyni Kostara, Daphne Loads
Theory: Social dimension of transformation
Chapter 1 Mezirow’s Theory of Transformative Learning: In dialogue with Honneth’s critical theory
Ted Fleming
Chapter 2 On the feminist origins of Transformative Learning Theory
Alessandra 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 Tragedy
Effrosyni Kostara
Chapter 5 Transformative learning to solve the impossible: Edge emotions and intuition in expanding the limitations of our rational abilities
Kaisu Mälkki, Asta Raami
Praxis: In and Beyond Education
Chapter 6 Transformation of assumptions through the use of art: Activating an educational method
Alexis Kokkos
Chapter 7 Behind the cotton wool…: knowing and transformation through aesthetic reflexivity
Gaia Del Negro
Chapter 8 Splitting the Lark: Semantic Levity and Transformative Learning
Daphne Loads
Praxis: Transforming Higher Education
Chapter 9 Cultivating authentic professional identities through transformative higher education: An application of Mezirow’s comprehensive theory of adult learning
Carolin 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 theory
Sarah Moore, Rachel Bovill
Chapter 11 High Impact Learning in Higher Education: Operationalizing the Self-Constructive Outcomes of Transformative Learning Theory
Kris Acheson, John M. Dirkx, Craig N. Shealy
Praxis: Further applications
Chapter 12 A practice-based view of transformative learning. The case of a craft organisation
Francesca Bracci, Alessandra Romano, Victoria Marsick
Reflections Living theory in transforming times
Fergal Finnegan
Biography
Effrosyni Kostara is Adjunct Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is also a Research Associate at the Institute of Education Policy, Greece, responsible for the training of school teachers.
Andreas Gavrielatos is Lecturer in Classics & Ancient History at the University of Reading, UK, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK.
Daphne Loads has professional qualifications in counselling and social work and was until recently an academic developer in the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
