Overview
- Advances a multidisciplinary theory of transformative learning which is inclusive to numerous perspectives
- Sheds light onto the dynamic interactions between individual and collective transformations
- Features diverse voices from seasoned practitioners, emerging researchers, and skilled scholars
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This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.
The purpose of this handbook is not to resolve or unify a theory of transformation and all the disciplinary contributions that clearly promote a living concept of transformation. Instead, the intent is to catalyze a more complex and deeper inquiry into the “Why of transformation.” Each discipline, culture, ethics and practice has its own specialized care and reasons for paying attention to transformation. How can scholars, practitioners, and active members of discourses on transformative learning make a difference? How can they foster and create conditions that allow us to move on to other, unaddressed or understudiedquestions? To answer these questions, the editors and their authors employ the metaphor of the many turns into passageways to convey the potential of transformation that may emerge from the many connecting passageways between, for instance, people and society, theory and practice, knowledge created by diverse disciplines and fields/professions, individual and collective transformations, and individual and social action.
The purpose of this handbook is not to resolve or unify a theory of transformation and all the disciplinary contributions that clearly promote a living concept of transformation. Instead, the intent is to catalyze a more complex and deeper inquiry into the “Why of transformation.” Each discipline, culture, ethics and practice has its own specialized care and reasons for paying attention to transformation. How can scholars, practitioners, and active members of discourses on transformative learning make a difference? How can they foster and create conditions that allow us to move on to other, unaddressed or understudiedquestions? To answer these questions, the editors and their authors employ the metaphor of the many turns into passageways to convey the potential of transformation that may emerge from the many connecting passageways between, for instance, people and society, theory and practice, knowledge created by diverse disciplines and fields/professions, individual and collective transformations, and individual and social action.
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Provocation 1: The Many Turns of Transformation
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Provocation 2: Generating Conditions for Transformation
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Aliki Nicolaides is Associate Professor of Adult Learning and Leadership at the University of Georgia, USA.
Saskia Eschenbacher is Professor of Adult Learning and Counseling at Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
Petra T. Buergelt is Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is a scholar-practitioner in Human & Organization Development with research and professional awards in Canada, UK and the United States.
Marguerite Welch is Program Director and Faculty for the MA in Leadership Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA.
Mitsunori Misawa is Associate Professor of Adult Learning in the Educational Psychology and Research program, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Saskia Eschenbacher is Professor of Adult Learning and Counseling at Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
Petra T. Buergelt is Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is a scholar-practitioner in Human & Organization Development with research and professional awards in Canada, UK and the United States.
Marguerite Welch is Program Director and Faculty for the MA in Leadership Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA.
Mitsunori Misawa is Associate Professor of Adult Learning in the Educational Psychology and Research program, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation
Editors: Aliki Nicolaides, Saskia Eschenbacher, Petra T. Buergelt, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Marguerite Welch, Mitsunori Misawa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84693-0Published: 25 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84696-1Published: 26 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84694-7Published: 24 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVII, 956
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Human Resource Development