Transformative

Education
Cabrera, Jeremiah S.
Danseco, Louriel M.
Encallado, Danica Joy S.

Activity

Definition of Terms
TRANSFORM

Definition of Terms
LEARNING

Definition of Terms
EDUCATION

Transformative
Education

Open to perspective of others, socially

responsible and clear thinking decision makers

Transformative learning
Transformative learning is
about change, dramatic,
fundamental change on the
way we see ourselves and
the world in which we live.
(Merriam, 2007)

Transformative learning
Develops autonomous
thinking
(Mezirow, 1997)

Transformative learning
Described as being
constructivist, an orientation
which holds that the way
learners interpret and
reinterpret their sense
experience is, central to
making meaning and hence
learning
(Mezirow, 1991)

Transformative learning
It involves experiencing a
deep, structural shift in the
basic premises of thought,
feelings and actions.
(OSullivan, 1999)

Process

Transformative learning
Educators Learners
Role
Role
3 things to
consider

Role of the
Rational

Educators role
Subject Oriented
See learning as primary the
attainment of a body of
knowledge or set of skills.

Educators role
Subject Oriented
Disseminating & Clarifying
knowledge
Designer of instruction

Educators role
Consumer Oriented
Educators who see learning
as being initiated by the
expressed needs individual
Facilitator of learnerdirected process

Educators role
Emancipatory Learning
Educators who see learning
as leading to freedom from
personal or societal
constraints will see the goal
of education.

Learners role
Learners are responsible for
creating learning
environment.
Share the responsibility for
constructing and creating
the conditions.

Role of the rational and the

affective
Teacher need to consider
how they can help student
connect the rational and the
affective by using feelings &
emotions both in critical
reflection and as a means of
reflection.

Transformative
Education
Principles and its processes

Transformative education
Transformative Education has
evolved into a comprehensive
and complex description of
how learners construe, validate
and reformulate the meaning
of their experiences.

Transformative education
How we learn to negotiate and
act on our own purposes,
values, feelings and meanings
rather than those we have
uncritically assimilated from
others to gain greater control
over our lives as socially
responsible, clear thinking
decision makers.

Transformative education
Temporal
Dimension

Inner
Dimension
Issues
Dimension

Spatial
Dimension

Principles
Transformational Learning Theory
Originally developed by Jack Mezirow.

Constructivist, an orientation which

holds that the way learners interpret and
reinterpret their sense experience is,
central to making meaning and hence
learning. (Mezirow, 1991)

Principles
Transformative
Learning Theory
Instrumental
Learning

Communicativ
e Learning

Processes
Transformative learning theory says
that the process of "perspective
transformation" has three dimensions:
psychological (changes in
understanding of the self),
convictional (revision of belief
systems), and behavioral (changes in
lifestyle).

Processes
Behavioral
(Lifestyle)

Convictional
(Belief
System)

Psychologic
(Self)