About the Book
This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.
The purpose of this handbook is not to resolve or unify a theory of transformation and all the disciplinary contributions that clearly promote a living concept of transformation. Instead, the intent is to catalyze a more complex and deeper inquiry into the “Why of transformation.” Each discipline, culture, ethics and practice has its own specialized care and reasons for paying attention to transformation. How can scholars, practitioners, and active members of discourses on transformative learning make a difference? How can they foster and create conditions that allow us to move on to other, unaddressed or understudiedquestions? To answer these questions, the editors and their authors employ the metaphor of the many turns into passageways to convey the potential of transformation that may emerge from the many connecting passageways between, for instance, people and society, theory and practice, knowledge created by diverse disciplines and fields/professions, individual and collective transformations, and individual and social action.
Table of Contents:
1. The Many Turns Of Transformation Creating New Vocabularies For Transformative Learning, Aliki Nicolaides And Saskia Eschenbacher.- 2. Transformative Learning And Critical Theory: Making Connections With Habermas, Honneth And Negt, Ted Fleming.- 3. Reconsidering The Roots Of Transformative Education: Habermas And Mezirow, Saskia Eschenbacher, & Peter Levine.- 4. The Pulse Of Freedom And Transformative Learning: Winding Paths, Blind Alleys And New Horizons, Fergal Finnegan.- 5. The Transformation Of The Reader, Effrosyni Kostara.- 6. Mapping The Terrain: Analytic Tools For Future Thinking About Transformation, Chad Hoggan.- 7. A Practice-Based View Of Transformative Learning. An Exploratory Study On The Practical Creativity, Alessandra Romano, Francesca Bracci, & Victoria Marsick.- 8. One Of The Doors: Exploring Contemplative Practices For Transformative Sustainability Education, Heather Burns, Nora Stoelting , Julie Wilcox, & Chantal Krystiniak.- 9. Transformative Learning AndBlack Spirituality, Maureen Ann Miller, & Karen E. Watkins.- 10. Transformative Learning And Sociomateriality, Claudio Melacarne, & Loretta Fabbri.- 11. Developmental Reflexivity With Power And Emotion: Action Research Transformations For Generative Conflict, Hilary Bradbury.- 12. Transformative Pilgrimage Learning And The Big Questions In The COVID-19 Era—Love, Death, And Legacy: Implications For Lifelong Learning And Nursing Education, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, & Ann L. Swartz.- 13. Washing The Dead-Bed, From Poem To Digitalstory, Janet Ferguson, & Massimo Lambert.- 14. Transforming Individual To Structural Thinking About Race, Stephen Brookfield.- 15. Transforming First Nations Individual And Community Realities: Reflections On A Decolonizing Higher Education Project, Roz Walker, & Rob Mcphee.- 16. Fostering Reorienting Connections Via Ecological Practices, Mark Hathaway.- 17. Revitalizing Reflection In Teacher Education: A Digital Tool For Reflection As A Gentle Trigger For Transformation, Kaisu Mälkki, Marita Mäkinen, & Joni Forsell.- 18. Women In The Workplace: Negotiating Influence As A Leader, Beth Fisher-Yoshida.- 19. A Deliberately Developmental Organizations: A New Organizational Space For Inclusion, Chang-Kyu Kwon.- 20. The Power Of Women Learning Together: Transcending The Bounds Of A Transformative Leadership Development Program, Alexandra B. Cox, Kara L. Fresk, Carla A. Dennis, Emily J. Saunders, & Kristy L. Walker.- 21. The Role Of Senior Management In Organizational Transformation, Dr Nitasha Ramparsad.- 22. Liberating A Transformative Imagination: Leadership Learning At The Burren Leadership Retreat, Mary A. Stacey & Reilly L. Dow.- 23. Integral We-Spaces For Racial Equity: Loving Fiercely Across Our Differences, Placida V. Gallegos, Akasha Saunders, Steven A. Schapiro, & Carol Wishcamper.- 24. Listening For Transformation: Discovering Third Space And Connection Using A Listening Protocol, Laurie Anderson-Sathe, Tes Cotter Zakrzewski, Anne-LiisaLongmore, Alessandra Romano, Deborah Kramlich, Janette Brunstein, Ed Cunliff, & Victoria Marsick.- 25. Curating The Imagination: Perspective Transformations And The Feminist Exhibition, Darlene E. Clover.- 26. Creating A Sense Of Belonging. Enabling Transformative Learning Through Participatory Action Research In An Ubuntu Paradigm, Maren Seehawer1, Sipho R. Nuntsu, Farasten Mashozhera, Abongile Ludwane & Margaret Speckman.- 27. More Than Harmony: Transformational Teaching And Learning In Canada In An Age Of Reconciliation, David Newhouse (Onondaga), Phil Abbott, Jason Fenno, Mara Heiber, Gabriel Maracle (Mohawk) Robin Quantick, & Heather Shpuniarsky.- 28. The Witness Blanket: Responsibility Through An Ongoing Journey Of Transformation, Ha̱Yałka̱Ng̱A̱Me’ – Carey Newman, & Catherine Etmanski.- 29. Reflections On Transformation: Stories From Southern Africa, Moyra Keane, Constance Khupe, & Vongai Mpofu.- 30. Pedagogy For Transformative Learning In Post-Colonial Contexts, SalMuthaya.- 31. Transformation As Resistance, Bill Ashcroft.- 32. Transformative Learning As A Passageway To Social Justice In Higher Education: An Asian American And Pacific Islander (AAPI) Perspective On Anti-Bullyist Practice In A North American Context, Mitsunori Misawa.- 33. Informal Transformative Learning Experiences From Humanitarian Emergencies And Other Life Events And Transitions, Akpomuje Paul, Akinsooto Tajudeen Ade, & Olutoyin Mejiuni.- 34. Dialogic And Noncoercive Learning For Transformational Change: A Systems Approach, Fodé Beaudet.- 35. In Service To My Community: Exploring Oppression And Internalized Racism, Taj (Toni) Johns.- 36. Imaginative Perspectives On Transformative Learning, Randee Lipson Lawrence.- 37. Perspective Transformation In Interfaith Dialogue: A Six-Step Process, Elizabeth M. Pope.- 38. The Interpenetration Of Individual And Collective Transformation: A Framework For Development, Collective Intelligence, And Emergence, Abigail Lynam, Geoff Fitch, Tamara Androsoff , And John Wood.- 39. Power Of Questions: Transformation In Complex Systems, Glenda H. Eoyang.- 40. Emotions, Affective Neuroscience, And Changing One’s Mind,Kathleen Taylor And Catherine Marienau.- 41. 41. Living Transformation: The Alchemy Of Change In An Epochal Shift, Elizabeth A Lange.- 42. Learning, Experience And The Societal Unconscious: Combining A Materialistic Theory And A Dialectic Methodology, Henning Salling Olesen.- 43. Transformative Learning And Microradicalization, Dante Caramellino, Claudio Melacarne, & Benjamin Ducol.- 44. Evaluation As A Pathway To Transformation Lessons From Sustainable Development, Scott G. Chaplowe, Adam Hejnowicz And Marlene Laeubli Loud.- 45. Restoring The Transformative Bridge: Remembering And Regenerating Our Western Transformative Ancient Traditions To Solve The Riddle Of Our Existential Crisis, Petra T. Buergelt & Douglas Paton.- 46. The Embodying Of Transformative Learning, Christina Schlattner.- 47. Transformation AndThe Language We Use, Linden West.- 48. Lessons From Utopia: Reflections On Peak Transformative Experiences In A University Studio In Auroville, India, Bem Le Hunte , Katie Ross, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, & Aditi Rosegger.- 49. Could Transformative Learning Involve Youth?, Alexis Kokkos.- 50. Between Smoke And Crystal: The Practice Of In-Transformation, Sarah J. Owusu.- 51. Conclusion Chapter: Propositions At The Threshold Of Transformation, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Marguerite Welch.
About the Author :
Aliki Nicolaides is Associate Professor of Adult Learning and Leadership at the University of Georgia, USA.
Saskia Eschenbacher is Professor of Adult Learning and Counseling at Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
Petra T. Buergelt is Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is a scholar-practitioner in Human & Organization Development with research and professional awards in Canada, UK and the United States.
Marguerite Welch is Program Director and Faculty for the MA in Leadership Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA.
Mitsunori Misawa is Associate Professor of Adult Learning in the Educational Psychology and Research program, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
