Transformative learning in practice
Subtitle: insights from community, workplace, and higher education
By: Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor, and associates.
Contributors: Taylor, Edward W. 1952-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass higher education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780470257906
Subjects: Transformative learning -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: Introduction: Fostering transformative learning - Transformative learning theory; Transformative learning as higher education: Creating alternative realities, arts-based approaches - Constructive learning and teaching, collaboration in a sociology classroom - Facilitating transformative learning, engaging emotions in an online context - Fostering transformative learning in leadership development - Mentoring - Transformative approaches to culturally responsive teaching - Promoting dialogic teaching among higher education faculty in South Africa - Transformative palliative care education; Transforming learning as workplace education: Engaging critical reflection in corporate America - Charting the course, how storytelling can foster communicative learning in the workplace - Coaching to transform perspective - The transformative potential of action learning conversations - Transformative learning in adult basic education - From tradesperson to teacher; Transformative learning as community and social change: Fostering a learning sanctuary for transformation in sustainability education - Popular education, women's work and transforming lives in Bolivia - Promoting personal empowerment with women in East Harlem through journaling and coaching - Breaking out of the egg, methods of transformative education in rural West Africa - Farmer field schools - Collaborative enquiry in action, transformative learning through co-inquiry - Challenging racism in self and others; Reflections.
Notes: "The Jossey-Bass higher education series"--P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fostering transformative learning / Edward W. Taylor; title: Transformative learning theory / Jack Mezirow; title: Creating alternative realities : arts-based approaches to transformative learning / Shauna Butterwick, Randee Lipson Lawrence; title: Constructive teaching and learning : collaboration in a sociology classroom / Debra Langan, Ron Sheese, Deborah Davidson; title: Facilitating transformative learning : engaging emotions in an online context / John M. Dirkx, Regina O. Smith; title: Fostering transformative learning in leadership development / Joe F. Donaldson; title: Mentoring : when learners make the learning / Alan Mandell, Lee Harman; title: Transformative approaches to culturally responsive teaching : engaging cultural imagination / Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Derise E. Tolliver; title: Promoting dialogic teaching among higher education faculty in South Africa / Sarah Gravett, Nadine Petersen; title: Transformative palliative care education / Rod MacLeod, Tony Egan; title: Engaging critical reflection in corporate America / Stephen Brookfield; title: Charting the course : how storytelling can foster communicative learning in the workplace / Jo A. Tyler; title: Coaching to transform perspective / Beth Fisher-Yoshida; title: The transformative potential of action learning conversations : developing critically reflective practice skills / Victoria J. Marsick, Terrence E. Maltbia; title: Transformative learning in adult basic education / Kathleen P. King, Barbara P. Heuer; title: From tradesperson to teacher : a transformative transition / Patricia Cranton; title: Fostering a learning sanctuary for transformation in sustainability education / Elizabeth A. Lange; title: Popular education, women's work, and transforming lives in Bolivia / Catherine A. Hansman, Judith Kollins Wright; title: Promoting personal empowerment with women in east Harlem through journaling and coaching / Susan R. Meyer; title: Breaking out of the egg : methods of transformative learning in rural west Africa / Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, Rebecca Miles; title: Farmer field schools : a platform for transformative learning in rural Africa / Deborah Duveskog, Esbern Friis-Hansen; title: Collaborative inquiry in action : transformative learning through co-inquiry / Lucia Alcá́ntara, Sandra Hayes, Lyle Yorks; title: Challenging racism in self and others : transformative learning as a living practice / European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness; title: Looking forward by looking back : reflections on the practice of transformative learning / Edward W. Taylor, Jodi Jarecke.