Mezirow Transformative Learning Theory Family Wife named Edee Son who is a captain of a charter sportfishing boat in Seward Alaska Education Received Bachelors 1945 and Masters1946 degrees fro U of Minnesota in social sciences and education ID: 603405
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Jack MezirowTransformative Learning TheorySlide2
FamilyWife named Edee
Son who is a captain of a charter sport-fishing boat in Seward, AlaskaSlide3
Education
Received Bachelor’s (1945) and Master’s(1946) degrees fro U. of Minnesota in social sciences and education
Ed.D
from U. of California in adult education Slide4
Life WorkEarlier professional life as an adult educator
Focused on fostering social action through community development
Taught in adult literacy programs in US and abroad
Served as a consultant in many Third World countries
Trained professionals in community developmentSlide5
Life WorkDevoted to developing Transformative Learning TheorySelf-proclaimed Social Action EducatorSlide6
What is Transformative Learning Theory?Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking, and is the process of effecting change in a frame of reference
Works to transform individual lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitationsSlide7Slide8
DevelopmentTransformative education/learning developed in early 1970’sDiscovered Paulo
Freire’s
writings
Says, “the critical dimension missing from my work was my lack of awareness of centrality of
conscientization
”
What is
conscientization
?Slide9
Paulo Friere defines it as: “the process by which adults achieve a deepening awareness of both the socio-cultural reality which
shapes
their lives
and their capacity to
transform
that reality
through action upon it”Slide10
DevelopmentHis wife, Edee, went back to college
He noticed his wife’s transformative experience Slide11
Socio-Cultural Context: Early 1970’sEconomic liberty of womenSlide12
Key ContributionsWorked to transform lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitationsOutlined what transformative learning was
Paulo
Freire
Booker T. WashingtonSlide13
Course MaterialLearner’s need to knowReadiness to Learn
Prior Experience: Adults have acquired a coherent body of experience associations, concepts, values, feelings, conditional responses- frames of reference that define their life world. Frames of reference are the structures of assumptions through which we understand our experiences. They set our “line of action”Slide14
Jesus?Although Dr. Jack Mezirow was not a believer, this theory is EXTREMELY applicable to ChristianitySlide15Slide16