Stories of transformative learning [electronic resource] / Michael Kroth (University of Idaho Boise, USA) and Patricia Cranton (University of New Brunswick, Canada).
2014
LC1100 .K76 2014eb
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Title
Stories of transformative learning [electronic resource] / Michael Kroth (University of Idaho Boise, USA) and Patricia Cranton (University of New Brunswick, Canada).
Author
Kroth, Michael S., author.
ISBN
9789462097919 electronic book
9462097917 electronic book
9789462097896
9462097895
9462097917 electronic book
9789462097896
9462097895
Published
Rotterdam ; Boston ; Taipai : Sense Publishers, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 117 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-6209-791-9 doi
Call Number
LC1100 .K76 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.11/5
Summary
"Stories of Transformative Learning is intended to encourage people to explore the potential for transformative learning in their lives, practices, and communities. This book illustrates the transformative learning process through ten stories of individuals from both inside and outside of the classroom. Adult educators and adult learners will find the book to be personally insightful and professionally useful. There have been many accounts of transformative learning experiences, but it is not often that we have the opportunity to hear first-hand personal stories of transformative learning. Here, ten stories are told directly by the people who experienced them, with additional commentary from the authors. These stories are intended to resonate with readers and to inspire people to create the conditions where transformative learning can occur in their lives and professional practice. Storytelling is one way in which both educators and learners can understand the process of transformative learning. Telling stories, reading others? stories, and contemplating our own stories all help us to become aware of alternative perspectives, a process that is at the heart of critical reflection and critical self-reflection, which is, in turn, central to transformative learning. We hope to increase readers? sense of agency and more self-directed, self-fulfilling lives. By demonstrating how others have examined and reconsidered otherwise hidden assumptions that constrained the quality and potential of their lives, we show readers how they may do the same."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-113) and index.
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Description based on print version record.
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Cranton, Patricia, author.
Series
International issues in adult education ; . 14.
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Table of Contents
Fostering transformative learning
Understanding self and society through storytelling
Transformative learning through storytelling
Transformative learning based on psychological dilemmas
Transformation in response to loss and trauma
Transformation through educational experiences
Transformative learning and social change
Transformative learning and spirituality
Discussion : stories and transformative learning
What we have learned.
Understanding self and society through storytelling
Transformative learning through storytelling
Transformative learning based on psychological dilemmas
Transformation in response to loss and trauma
Transformation through educational experiences
Transformative learning and social change
Transformative learning and spirituality
Discussion : stories and transformative learning
What we have learned.