Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

Mezirow, Jack

ISBN 10: 0470257903 / ISBN 13: 9780470257906

Editore: Jossey-Bass, 2009

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Titolo: Transformative Learning in Practice: ...

Casa editrice: Jossey-Bass

Data di pubblicazione: 2009

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: New

Edizione: 1st Edition.

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Riassunto:

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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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 Education Quarterly.