Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
eBook - PDF

Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

A Dialogue

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

A Dialogue

About this book

Winner of the AAACE Cyril O. Houle Award This book constructs a deepening, interdisciplinary understanding of adult learning and imaginatively reframes its transformative aspects. The authors explore the tension at the heart of current understanding of 'transformative' adult learning: that while it can be framed as both easy and imperative, personal transformation is in fact rooted in the context in which we live, our stories and relationships.
At its core, transformation is never easy – nor always desirable – and the authors thus draw on interdisciplinary and auto/biographical inquiry to explore what it means to change our presuppositions and frames of meaning that guide our thinking. Using their linguistic, gendered, academic and cultural differences, the authors illuminate how the social, contextual, cultural, cognitive and psychological dimensions of transformation intertwine. In doing so, they emphasise the importance of transformation as a contingent struggle for meaning and recognition, social justice, fraternity, and the pursuit of truth. This engaging book will be of interest to students and scholars of transformative learning and education.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. 1 Landscapes of Transforming Perspectives
  6. 2 Form and Formlessness
  7. 3 On Perspective
  8. 4 Critical Perspectives on Transformation
  9. 5 A Difficult Business
  10. 6 Soul Work
  11. 7 Body Matters
  12. 8 Popular Education and Democratization
  13. 9 Imagine
  14. 10 The Spirit of Transformation
  15. Epilogue: So What?
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index