Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide to Theory and Practice

194 Pages·2016·3.984 MB·English

by  Patricia Cranton

Praise for the Second Edition of Understanding and Promoting
Transformative Learning
“Researchers and students seeking an understandable intro to this fi eld. . .
will fi nd this text a very helpful place to begin.”—Teachers College Record
“Very strongly recommended.”—Library Bookwatch
Praise for Patricia Cranton
“ Perceptive, provocative, and lucid, Patricia Cranton’s clear and careful
analysis and her down-to-earth examples of transformative learning concepts
move my work signifi cantly closer to the practitioner. Highly recommended!”
—Jack Mezirow, Professor Emeritus of Adult Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University
“Patricia Cranton shows us how teachers and facilitators can and must be
understood as adults engaged in transformative learning. By highlighting
case studies of how individual educators learn about their practice, she helps
us rethink the way professional development is conceived and conducted.”—
Stephen Brookfi eld, Distinguished Professor, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul,
Minnesota
“Patricia Cranton has given us a book that is insightful and inclusive, practi-
cal as well as analytical. She provides a skillful integration of theory and prac-
tice about the complex issue of professional development for adult educators
without denying that complexity or losing contextual concerns.”—Dorothy
MacKeracher, Professor of Adult Education, University of New Brunswick

UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING

UNDERSTANDING
AND PROMOTING
TRANSFORMATIVE
LEARNING
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Patricia Cranton
Th ird Edition
STERLING, VIRGINIA
COPYRIGHT © 2016 BY
STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC.
Published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cranton, Patricia.
Title: Understanding and promoting transformative learning: a
guide to theory and practice / Patricia Cranton.
Description: Third edition. | Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing,
[2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2015051160 (print) |
LCCN 2016000287 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781620364116 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781620364123 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781620364130 (library networkable e-edition) |
ISBN 9781620364147 (consumer e-edition)
Subjects: LCSH: Adult learning. | Transformative learning. |
Transfer of training. | Adult education.
Classifi cation: LCC LC5225.L42 C72 2016 (print) |
LCC LC5225.L42 (ebook) | DDC 374--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015051160
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-411-6 (cloth)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-412-3 (paperback)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-413-0 (library networkable e-edition)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-414-7 (consumer e-edition)
Printed in the United States of America
All fi rst editions printed on acid-free paper
that meets the American National Standards Institute
Z39-48 Standard.
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Dedicated to the memory of Jack and Edee Mezirow