by Elizabeth Kasl & Lyle Yorks — January 27, 2002An extension of transformative learning theory and consideration of collaborative inquiry as a strategy for facilitating transformative learning. |
by Susan R. Meyer — February 05, 2003The document describes using structured journaling or personal transformative learning. Life history and focused journaling serve as the basis for a life planning workshop for women. Utilizing structured life history and framing a reflective process through journaling exercises and analysis, the workshop leaders encourage an examination of assumptions that may lead to personal transformation. |
by Victoria Marsick & Jack Mezirow — January 25, 2002An introduction to a series of articles on transformative learning |
reviewed by John M. Dirkx — November 08, 2006 |  |
by Dorothy Ettling — January 31, 2002A report on the use of transformative learning in collaboration with women in transition from situations of domestic violence. |
by Henry A. Giroux — 1986A strong conservative current underlies much of what is currently said about authority in schooling. Educational authority should be rooted in the ideal of democratic social transformation, a function it cannot have when conceived of more narrowly in terms of institutional heirarchy and stability. |
by Eleanor Drago-Severson — 2007This qualitative study investigated how 25 principals from public, Catholic, and independent schools with varying financial resources understand the practices they use to support teacher learning. This research illuminates how these leaders understand the challenges (e.g., financial, human) they face in supporting teacher learning and highlights their creative responses to challenges across schools. This paper offers insight into another way to accomplish important national goals and points toward a qualitatively different way of leadership in support of teacher learning and development. |
by Ted Fleming — January 27, 2002A discussion of key ideas from Habermas that are important for delineating the social dimension in transformation theory. |
by Kevin Pugh — 2002The article reports on a quasi experimental study, which examined the relative effectiveness of two instructional approaches (an innovative approach developed by the author and a case-study approach) at fostering idea-based, transformative experiences in a high school science class. The construct of an idea-based, transformative experience was derived from Dewey's work on aesthetics, experience, and education. Such experience involves the active use of a concept and an expansion of perspection and value. |
by The European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiten — January 28, 2002This case narrative describes how Cooperative Inquiry helped participants understand the dynamics of racism, transform personal consciousness about cultural imperialism, and change behavior. |
