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Transformative Learning Nathan Loynes

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  • 1. Transformative LearningNathan Loynes

2. When you first encounter theories? 3. Mezirow The Disorientating Dilemma 4. Remember Adairs (1985) model ofdecision making? 5. When you have consider options: Youare left with a dilemma (Mezirow) (click image) 6. The Trolley ProblemWhat role doethics play inour day to daydecisionmaking? 7. Group discussion: Have you faced adilemma in your learning experience/Practice experience? 8. A disorientating dilemma? (click Image)1. Can you relate to any aspect of the video? Does it disorientate your thinking in anyway?2. How does pro-social behaviour impact on outcomes?3. Do you think that your working context shares any features with the experiment? 9. A bit off topic : Remember theEasterlin Paradox? (a disorientatingdilemma?) http://www.politicsofwellbeing.com/2008/06/problem-with-measuring-happiness.html 10. Mezirows transformational theory in more detail (Taken from part 6 and 7 in your Clarcs Pack) Transformation involves changing meaningschemes (Beliefs, attitudes, emotional reactions). Read the final paragraph on page 1-2 of Imel.What do you think perspective transformationmeans? Consider the following three diagrams wheredo you think perspective transformation mighttake place? 11. Kolb: 12. Rolfe: 13. Gibbs: 14. Therefore: Reflection promotes perspectivetransformation. Perspective Transformation is a type ofCHANGE. Well see how we can manage perspectivetransformation with reference to changetheories shortly. (See other presentation) 15. Another Dilemma?Dickens Hard Times Gradgrind and Facts.Throughout the novel, Gradgrindundergoes a transformativeexperience away from hisfactual and Informationallearning towards a morehumanistic ontology. 16. Informative Learning orTransformational Learning? 17. Transformative Learning Its aboutYOU! (Click Image) 18. The Individual as The Change Agent.(Click Image) 19. Remember this clip on divergent thinking? (Click image) 20. Is this transformative learning? (click image) 21. Taylor (1998), Loughlin (1993), identify how teachers might facilitatetransformative learning (Imel, 1998:4) Establish trust and care. Develop sensitive relationships. Create a community of knowers united insharing meanings and making sense of lifeexperience. Role model a willingness to learn and change. 22. And for learners, Taylor (1998) goeson: Too much emphasis placed on role of teacher. Participants also have responsibility forcreating the learning environment. Learners create and construct the conditionsunder which transformative learning canoccur. 23. Mezirow (rational) or Boyd (Intuitive)Mezirow Boyd Critical Intuitive Rational Imaginative Objective Subjective Frames of reference Habits of mind Goal is autonomousthinking Learn how to learn 24. Conclusions Many studies (Mitra, Robinson) demonstrate howself directed, self-controlled learning is effective. Mezirow and others identify that negotiatingthrough dilemmas leads to transformationallearning. (The role of the adult educator is topresent dilemmas whilst the student constructsthe solution; new meaning scheme andperspective transformation). Change is inherent within transformationallearning.