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Transformative Learning: An Emotional (R)evolution
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Carter, Patricia L.; Nicolaides, Aliki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This update to Mezirow's Transformative Learning theory seeks to advance Mälkki's enhancement to the emotional dimension in phase one--the disorienting dilemma--by proposing the need for a complete grief process (as theorized by Kübler-Ross), to support movement from Mälkki's conceptualization of "edge-emotions" to a "comfort…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes, Barriers
Organizing the Faculty around the Students: Walden University
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Peinovich, Paula E.; Hodgkinson, Harold L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Emerging from the 1960s and a focus on transformative learning, Walden University is a pioneering program for adult learners. The authors outline how Walden's doctoral program engaged mid-career professionals in student-designed inquiry and applied scholarship. They first discuss the founding of Walden University. Then they describe how the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Doctoral Programs, Adult Learning
Immigration, Racial Profiling, and White Privilege: Community-Based Challenges and Practices for Adult Educators
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Kong, Luis J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
In this chapter, the author will explore the significance of race from a social constructionist perspective. He will focus on immigration laws and on examples of legal cases that have set the stage for current definitions of whiteness and racial identification. A community-based transformational organizing model will be presented. The model will…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Race, Law Enforcement, Immigration