jack mezirow transformative learning theory
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Jack Mezirow Transformative Learning Theory. Wife named Edee Son who is a captain of a charter sport-fishing boat in Seward, Alaska. Family. Received Bachelor’s (1945) and Master’s(1946) degrees fro U. of Minnesota in social sciences and education - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jack MezirowTransformative Learning Theory
Family
Wife named EdeeSon who is a
captain of a charter sport-fishing boat in Seward, Alaska
Education
Received Bachelor’s (1945) and Master’s(1946) degrees fro U. of Minnesota in social sciences and education
Ed.D from U. of California in adult education
Life WorkEarlier professional life as an adult educatorFocused on fostering social action through
community developmentTaught in adult literacy programs in US and
abroadServed as a consultant in many Third World
countriesTrained professionals in community development
Life Work
Devoted to developing Transformative Learning Theory
Self-proclaimed Social Action Educator
What is Transformative Learning Theory?
Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking, and is the process of effecting change in a frame of reference
Works to transform individual lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitations
Development
Transformative education/learning developed in early 1970’s
Discovered Paulo Freire’s writings◦Says, “the critical dimension missing from my
work was my lack of awareness of centrality of conscientization”
What is conscientization?
Paulo Friere defines it as: “the process by which adults achieve a deepening awareness of both the socio-cultural reality which shapes their lives
and their capacity to transform that realitythrough action upon it”
Development
His wife, Edee, went back to collegeHe noticed his wife’s transformative
experience
Socio-Cultural Context: Early 1970’s
Economic liberty of women
Key Contributions
Worked to transform lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitations
Outlined what transformative learning was◦Paulo Freire◦Booker T. Washington
Course Material
Learner’s need to knowReadiness to LearnPrior Experience: Adults have acquired a
coherent body of experience associations, concepts, values, feelings, conditional responses- frames of reference that define their life world. Frames of reference are the structures of assumptions through which we understand our experiences. They set our “line of action”
Jesus?
Although Dr. Jack Mezirow was not a believer, this theory is EXTREMELY applicable to Christianity
