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ack Mezirow in 1978,
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critically reflecting on their assumptions and beliefs and consciously making and implementing plans that bring about new ways of defining their worlds.
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The process of discernment is central to transformative education
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One advocates a rational approach that depends primarily on critical reflection whereas the other relies more on intuition and emotion.
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Both use rational processes and incorporate imagination as a part of a creative process.
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"humanism, emancipation, autonomy, critical reflection, equity, self-knowledge, participation, communication and discourse"
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Because people learn in different but interwoven ways, educators should not see transformative learning as the only goal of education
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establishing an environment
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learners share the responsibility for constructing and creating the conditions under which transformative learning can occur
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Transformative learning may not always be a goal of adult education, but its importance should not be overlooked and all adult educators should strive to understand it, even if they do not choose to foster it.
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The theory of transformative learning that has been developed by Mezirow during the past 2 decades has evolved "into a comprehensive and complex description of how learners construe, validate, and reformulate the meaning of their experience
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Perspective transformation explains how the meaning structures that adults have acquired over a lifetime become transformed.
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Meaning schemes are based upon experiences that can be deconstructed and acted upon in a rational way
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extrarational sources as symbols, images, and archetypes to assist in creating a personal vision or meaning of what it means to be human (ibid.; Cranton 1994).
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receptivity, recognition, and grieving.
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discernme
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discernment
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Transformative learning has two layers that at times seem to be in conflict: the cognitive, rational, and objective and the intuitive, imaginative, and subjective
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A defining condition of being human is that we have to understand the meaning of our experience
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we must learn to make our own interpretations rather than act on the purposes, beliefs, judgments, and feelings of others.
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Facilitating such understandings is the cardinal goal of adult education. Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking (Mezirow 1997, p. 5).
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Facilitating such understandings is the cardinal goal of adult education. Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking (Mezirow 1997, p. 5).
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how learners construe, validate, and reformulate the meaning of their experience"
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Centrality of experience, critical reflection, and rational discourse are three common themes in Mezirow's theory
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Jamie BillinghamA defining condition of being human is that we have to understand the meaning of our experience. For some, any uncritically assimilated explanation by an authority figure will suffice. But in contemporary societies we must learn to make our own interpreta
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