The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How does the teaching setting shape the practice of TL? What are the successes, strengths, and outcomes of fostering TL? What are the risks and challenges when practicing TL in the classroom?
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Preface xi
About the Authors xv
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
1 Fostering Transformative Learning 3
Edward W. Taylor
2 Transformative Learning Theory 18
Jack Mezirow
PART TWO: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS HIGHER EDUCATION 33
3 Creating Alternative Realities: Arts-Based Approaches to Transformative Learning 35
Shauna Butterwick, Randee Lipson Lawrence
4 Constructive Teaching and Learning: Collaboration in a Sociology Classroom 46
Debra Langan, Ron Sheese, Deborah Davidson
5 Facilitating Transformative Learning: Engaging Emotions in an Online Context 57
John M. Dirkx, Regina O. Smith
6 Fostering Transformative Learning in Leadership Development 67
Joe F. Donaldson
7 Mentoring: When Learners Make the Learning 78
Alan Mandell, Lee Herman
8 Transformative Approaches to Culturally Responsive Teaching: Engaging Cultural Imagination 89
Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Derise E. Tolliver
9 Promoting Dialogic Teaching Among Higher Education Faculty in South Africa 100
Sarah Gravett, Nadine Petersen
10 Transformative Palliative Care Education 111
Rod Mac Leod, Tony Egan
PART THREE: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS WORKPLACE EDUCATION 123
11 Engaging Critical Reflection in Corporate America 125
Stephen Brookfield
12 Charting the Course: How Storytelling Can Foster Communicative Learning in the Workplace 136
Jo A. Tyler
13 Coaching to Transform Perspective 148
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
14 The Transformative Potential of Action Learning Conversations: Developing Critically Reflective Practice Skills 160
Victoria J. Marsick, Terrence E. Maltbia
15 Transformative Learning in Adult Basic Education 172
Kathleen P. King, Barbara P. Heuer
16 From Tradesperson to Teacher: A Transformative Transition 182
Patricia Cranton
PART FOUR: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE 191
17 Fostering a Learning Sanctuary for Transformation in Sustainability Education 193
Elizabeth A. Lange
18 Popular Education, Women’s Work, and Transforming Lives in Bolivia 205
Catherine A. Hansman, Judith Kollins Wright
19 Promoting Personal Empowerment with Women in East Harlem Through Journaling and Coaching 216
Susan R. Meyer
20 Breaking Out of the Egg: Methods of Transformative Learning in Rural West Africa 227
Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, Rebecca Miles
21 Farmer Field Schools: A Platform for Transformative Learning in Rural Africa 240
Deborah Duveskog, Esbern Friis-Hansen
22 Collaborative Inquiry in Action: Transformative Learning Through Co-Inquiry 251
Lucia Alc ´ antara, Sandra Hayes, Lyle Yorks
23 Challenging Racism in Self and Others: Transformative Learning as a Living Practice 262
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness
PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS 273
24 Looking Forward by Looking Back: Reflections on the Practice of Transformative Learning 275
Edward W. Taylor, Jodi Jarecke
Index 291
Despre autor
The Editors
Jack Mezirow is professor emeritus of adult and continuing education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His previous books include Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning, Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood, Learning as Transformation, and others.
Edward W. Taylor is associate professor in adult education at Penn State Capitol College University in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has published widely on transformative learning including in the journals Adult Education Quarterly, International Journal of Lifelong Education, and the Journal of Transformative Education. He is a coeditor of Adult
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