[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1137] Transformative learning...

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Hello--

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education has 
produced another ERIC Digest.  It is available at no cost in electronic 
format and paper copy and will be on our website within a week. Please send 
your request to ericacve@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu and be sure to include 
your mailing address if you want paper copy. Subscribers to ERICACVE have 
already received it.

Transformative Learning and the Journey of Individuation
ERIC Digest No. 223
by John M. Dirkx
ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 2000

Over the last 20 years, transformation theory has deepened our 
understanding of what it means
to learn in adulthood. Collectively, the work of Paulo Freire, Phyllis 
Cunningham, Laurent Daloz,
and Jack Mezirow, among others, addresses the sociocultural and personal 
dimensions of
transformative learning. Dominant views of transformative learning 
emphasize rational, cognitive
processes related to critical reflection. An additional perspective on 
transformation, however, has
emerged, led by Robert Boyd and his colleagues (Boyd 1989, 1991; Boyd and 
Myers 1988). This
work focuses on deeper emotional and spiritual dimensions of learning that 
many have suggested
are underdeveloped in dominant conceptions of transformative learning 
(Merriam and Caffarella
1999). This Digest summarizes and expands on Boyd's notion of 
transformative learning,
discussing the role of image, symbol, ritual, fantasy, and imagination in 
transformation.

Thanks.

Judy


Judy Wagner  /   wagner.6@osu.edu  /  ericacve.org/
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