- Transformative learning is one theory of learning, and particularly focuses on adult education and young adult learning. Transformative learning is sometimes called transformation learning, and focuses on the idea that learners can adjust their thinking based on new information. It situates learners as recipients of knowledge and thus education as participants in knowledge creation, and thus education as transformative. The purpose of transformative education is to empower learners to see the social world differently, so that they will challenge and change the status quo as agents of change.
2. How can transformative education be truly transformative?
- Transformative education includes cognitive understanding of how students learn, emotional preparation to relate to many students whose varied needs are not always evident, content knowledge from which to draw different ways to present a concept, and, lastly, the ability to make teaching decisions quickly and act on them. Usually, teachers have students ask questions and solve real-world problems. Questions which requires students to analyze, synthesize, create, empathize, interpret, reference background knowledge, defend alternative perspectives, and determine what they know and don't know and organizing them.
3. Enumerate the issues CEAP is addressing in terms of Transformative Education.
- The conservative and transformative dimensions of Catholic Education - What must be transformed must be discerned. - JEEPGY Concerns (Justice and Peace, Environmental Stewardship, Engaged Citizenship, Poverty reduction, Gender equality, Youth empowerment) - Activated Freedom - Transformation of agents of transformation - Transformative action from schools - Not isolated but networked Ref: https://taborasj.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/transformation-education-in-the-catholic-educational- association-of-the-philippines-ceap/