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Publication Date: 2020-Oct
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Transformative Education
Paul, L. A.; Quiggin, John
Educational Theory, v70 n5 p561-579 Oct 2020
Universities aspire to offer students a transformative experience, but rarely spell out the nature of this transformation. In this essay, L. A. Paul and John Quiggin frame the successful university education as transformative in the philosophical sense. They explain the way that a successful college education can be understood as generating an individual conceptual revolution, and thus, as a transformative experience. Education can create epistemically transformative change through the process of developing critical thinking skills, leading to conceptual replacement and the discovery of new intellectual frameworks. This epistemic transformation, if deep enough, scales up into a personal transformation. After explicating the nature and structure of transformative education, Paul and Quiggin show how understanding transformation in terms of personal change and awareness of unawareness clarifies the debate over its value.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, Universities, Role of Education, Critical Thinking, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning, Epistemology, Student Development, College Students, Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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