Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Jack Mezirow

Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How does the teaching setting shape the practice of TL? What are the successes, strengths, and outcomes of fostering TL? What are the risks and challenges when practicing TL in the classroom?

✦ Subjects

Education; Nonfiction; EDU000000

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