TRANSFORMATIVE

EDUCATION

Why is it Transformative?
It cultivates the knowledgebase, skills, attitudes and values that
seek to transform peoples mindsets,
attitudes and behaviors.

What is transformative education?

Merriam (2007)
Transformative Education/ Learning is
about change, dramatic, fundamental change
in the way we see ourselves and the world in
which we live. This involves becoming more
reflective and critical, being more open to the
perspectives of others and being less
defensive and more accepting of new ideas.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING THEORY

(Mezirow 1994)
Described as being
constructivist, an orientation which
holds that the way learners interpret
and reinterpret their sense experience
is central to making meaning and
hence learning.

OSullivan, Morell and OConnor

A deep structural shift in the basic

premises of thoughts, feelings and
actions
A shift of consciousness that alters our
way of being in the world

Understanding ourselves, our selflocations and our relationships with

others in the world

Understanding relations of power in

interlocking structures of race, class
and gender

Jack Mezirow (1997)

Taylor, E. W., 1998 and Mezirow 1997

Kinds of Learning
1. Instrumental Learning
Focuses on learning through
task-oriented problem solving
and determination of cause and
effect relationship
2. Communicative learning
involves with how others
communicate their feelings,
needs and desires with another
person
Helps learners to become
critical, autonomous and
responsible thinkers

Transformative learning involves the

transformation of frame of reference
(points of view, habits of mind,
worldviews) and critical reflection on
how we come to know.
Transformative learning occurs when
individuals change their frames of
reference by critically reflecting on
their assumptions and belief and
consciously implementing plans that
bring about new ways of defining their
worlds.

FOR EDUCATORS
Through
critical
thinking,
teachers
can
encourage
through
dialogue
and
questioning, and through more
creative, emotional processes
such as artistic activities.
Reference:
Books
Buenavista, Cherry T.et al.
Social Dimension of Education.
Philippines,2014

Parpa, Janet C. et al. Special

Topics. Volume 2. Quezon City: Lorimar
Publishing Inc.2012

Internet
http://www.teaching4change.ed
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