Thanks, another eye-opening read. Those trained to teach children are not always as aware as we ought to be on the wealth and depth of research into the processes of life-long learning.
The idea of transformative learning came up in discussions today with partner organisations. This reminded me of Prof. Jack Mezirow, who is widely acknowledged as founding the ‘transformative learning’ concept and a worthy member of this blog’s ‘Educational Thinkers’ Hall of Fame’.
Mezirow first applied the label ‘transformation’ in a 1978 study of U.S.women returning to post-secondary study or the workplace after an extended time out of education. He built his professional reputation on developing an evolving Transformation Theory that tries to define the features and processes of learning and their implications for adult educators. His work has led to a transformative learning movement in adult education. Other great educational thinkers including Thomas Kuhn, Paulo Freire and Jürgen Habermas all influenced Mezirow’s work.
One of his main areas of work on transformative learning has been the division of knowledge into three distinct types:
• Instrumental
• Communicative
• Emancipatory
Educators…
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