Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults
Praise for Patricia Cranton\ "Perceptive, provocative, and lucid, Patricia Cranton's clear and careful analysis and her down-to-earth examples of transformative learning concepts move my work significantly closer to the practitioner. Highly recommended!"\ —Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University\ "Patricia Cranton shows us how teachers and facilitators can and must be understood as adults engaged in transformative learning. By highlighting...
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In the second edition of her landmark book, Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning, Patricia Cranton helps translate theory to practice and guides readers through the many and varied new developments in transformative learning that have emerged in the decade since publication of the first edition. As in the first edition, the book explains the transformative learning theory, describes the process from the learner’s perspective, explores individual differences in transformative learning, presents strategies for fostering transformative learning, and discusses how adult educators themselves are transformative learners. The second edition of this important book draws on the most recent scholarship in adult education and contains information about new theoretical developments including the role of imagination and spirituality in transformation, the importance of affect in the process, the idea of connected knowing, contributions from critical theory, and a holistic model of transformative learning. Booknews Describes the theory and process of transformative learning and relates transformative learning to current adult education perspectives. Examines individual differences among learners and presents strategies for supporting transformative learning, including questioning techniques, journal writing, and consciousness-raising exercises. For practicing educators and students of adult education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1Dimensions of adult learning12Transformative learning theory193A theory in progress394Transformation : the learner's story575Individual differences796Educator roles1017Empowering learners1178Fostering critical self-reflection and self-knowledge1359Supporting transformative learning15910The educator's transformative journey181
\ BooknewsDescribes the theory and process of transformative learning and relates transformative learning to current adult education perspectives. Examines individual differences among learners and presents strategies for supporting transformative learning, including questioning techniques, journal writing, and consciousness-raising exercises. For practicing educators and students of adult education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
