Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy. The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning—the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning. The editors argue that transformative learning theory cannot be constructed in a content-neutral or context-free way. Their second challenge, which assumes the importance of content for transformative learning, is to educators as practitioners. The editors argue that transformative learning requires new educational practices consistent with the content. Arts-based research and arts-based teaching/learning practices are one example of such new educational practices. Education for the soul, or spiritual practices such as meditation or modified martial arts or indigenous peoples’ forms of teaching/learning, is another example. Each article in the collection presents a possible model of these new practices.
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"Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning offers a new vision of global community and new strategies for political struggle." --Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
"If we are to prevent global disaster, we need a totally different way of educating our children. The essays in this book take us an important part of the way toward the transformation we need." --Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine and author, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul
"If we are to prevent global disaster, we need a totally different way of educating our children. The essays in this book take us an important part of the way toward the transformation we need." --Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine and author, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul
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Edmund V. O'Sullivan is the Director of the Transformation Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, at the University of Toronto.
Amish Morrell is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.
Mary Ann O'Connor is Director of the Women's Educational Center at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Amish Morrell is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.
Mary Ann O'Connor is Director of the Women's Educational Center at the University of Michigan-Flint.
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environmental adult education, global market utopia, transformative learning theory, cog labor, assimilative learning, radical interconnectedness, transformative criticism, participatory budget, transformative education, spontaneous painting, ecological education, nuclear ships, environmental educators, web metaphor, green economy, educational vision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Toronto, United States, Marczak Collection, North American, United Nations, Porto Alegre, Rosa Parks, Big Intervale, Green Lane, African American, San Francisco Harper, Adult Education Quarterly, Press Miller, Susan Griffin, Thomas Berry, Two Trees, World Watch, Great Depression, Mount Meru, Parks Daloz, Raging Granny, Hatha Yoga, New Utopian, Paulo Freire, Toronto Between the Lines New!
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