SOCSTUD613 | Peace Education

TRANSFORMATIVE
LEARNINGS
Prepared by: Maymona E. Kanapia
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WHAT IS TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING?

is about change, dramatic, fundamental change in the way we see

ourselves and the world in which we live

involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of

thought, feelings and actions.
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WHAT IS TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING?

Mezirow (1994) described the transformational learning theory 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.
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INSTRUMENTAL LEARNING COMMUNICATIVE LEARNING

Involved with how others communicate their

Focuses on learning through task – oriented feelings, needs,s and desires with another
problem solving and determination of cause person. It helps the learners to become
and effect relationships critical, autonomous, and responsible
thinkers
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Although adults may developmentally acquire the capabilities to become

critically self-reflective and exercise reflective judgment, the task of adult
education is to help the learner realize these capabilities by developing
the skills, insights, and dispositions essential for their practice.

Learners must acquire the skills, sensitivities, and understandings

essential to become critically reflective of assumptions and to participate
more fully and freely in critical-dialectical discourse
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Educators must foster the learner’s skills, habit of mind, disposition, and
will to become a more active and rational learner. This involves becoming
more critically reflective of assumptions supporting one’s own beliefs and
those of others and more discriminating, open, and disposed to
transformative learning.

Creating the conditions for and the skills of effective adult reasoning and
the disposition for transformative learning— including critical reflection
and dialectical discourse.
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WURDINGER & CARLSON, 2010

Experiential learning is any learning that supports students in applying

their knowledge and conceptual understanding to real-world problems
or situations where the instructor directs and facilitates learning. The
classroom, laboratory, or studio can serve as a setting for experiential
learning through embedded activities such as case and problem-based
studies, guided inquiry, simulations, experiments, or art projects
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