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Green, Larry – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Mezirow's theory of transformative learning presupposes agency. Agency is the means by which the limitations of an inadequate meaning perspective are transcended. It is the creative activity necessitated by an encounter with a disorienting dilemma. This implies that transformation cannot be achieved "from within" the existent meaning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Personal Autonomy, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept
Karpen, Samuel C. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
In an appeal to establish transformative learning's (TL) boundaries, Kegan (2000) implored researchers to identify "what from transforms?" As a social psychologist, I am particularly drawn to theorists who identify the self as the form that transforms; however, I argue that a model of the self that specifies how it is represented in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Self Concept
Kloubert, Tetyana – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This article explores both the prerequisites and barriers of perspective transformation in the context of two Eastern European societies as examples of post-totalitarian states. Although personal cognitive development is considered as an outcome of perspective transformation, I will demonstrate that certain manifestations of cognitive development…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Barriers, Cognitive Development
Lear, Glenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This article explores women's midlife learning as an awakening of the self in the process of being in the world and interacting with others and uses the author's personal experience of transformation as a developmental change with the emergence of personal growth and self-realization of a more complete, balanced, and fulfilled self. In the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Individual Development, Metacognition
Illeris, Knud – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
Transformative learning has usually been defined as transformations of meaning perspectives, frames of reference, and habits of mind--as proposed initially by Jack Mezirow. However, several authors have found this definition too narrow and too cognitively oriented, and Mezirow has later emphasized that emotional and social conditions are also…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Self Concept, Definitions, Cognitive Processes