Transformative learning

vrijdag 2nd september 2005 - 3:07:37 PM

From this Pedablogue post on teaching tips from Transformative Learning Theory:

[Kelly McGonigal] recommends, for example, creating disorienting dilemmas through examples or evidence which challenges what students believe. More controversial, perhaps, she talks about setting students up for failure so that they must seek out new methods to succeed, or new paradigms for understanding a concept.

This sounds rather problem posing (in the Utrecht sense) to me, in a low-treshold, ad-hoc kind of way.

Transformative learning is apparently invented by Mezirow in the context of adult education. Keywords seem to be: reframing reference frames, challenging assumptions, discourse, critical thinking… From Transformative Learning: Theory to Practice:

Transformative learning requires a form of education very different from that commonly associated with children. New information is only a resource in the adult learning process. To become meaningful, learning requires that new information be incorporated by the learner into an already well-developed symbolic frame of reference, an active process involving thought, feelings and disposition. the learner may also need to be helped to transform his or her frame of reference to fully understand the experience.

There even exists a complete journal devoted to it.

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