The Handbook of Transformative Learning 
The leading resource for the field, this handbook provides a comprehensive and critical review of more than three decades of theory development, research, and practice in transformative learning. The starting place for understanding and fostering transformative learning, as well as diving deeper, the volume distinguishes transformative learning from other forms of learning, explores future perspectives, and is designed for scholars, students, and practitioners. 
PRAISE FOR THE HANDBOOK OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING 
"This book will be of inestimable value to students and scholars of learning irrespective of whether or not their emphasis is on transformative learning. It should find its way to the reference bookshelves of every academic library focusing on education, teaching, learning, or the care professions." ―PETER JARVIS, professor of continuing education, University of Surrey 
"Can there be a coherent theory of transformative learning? Perhaps. This handbook goes a long way to answering this question by offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives, including non-Western, that consider the meaning and practice of transformative learning." ―SHAUNA BUTTERWICK, associate professor, University of British Columbia 
"This handbook will be valuable and accessible to both scholars and practitioners who are new to the study of adult education and transformative learning and to more seasoned scholars who seek a sophisticated analysis of the state of transformative learning thirty years after Mezirow first shared his version of a then-fledgling theory of adult learning." ―JOVITA ROSS-GORDON, professor and program coordinator, MA in Adult Education, Texas State University

The Handbook of Transformative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice

Education & Teaching

Cranton, Patricia

Taylor, Edward W.

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Perceptive, provocative, and lucid...Patricia Cranton's clear and careful analysis and her down-to-earth examples of transformative learning concepts move my work significantly closer to the practitioner. Highly recommAnded! --Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults

This creative and pioneering book adapts and extAnds the transformation theory of adult learning to the professional development of adult educators. Well written and easy to read, with many examples, this volume is highly recommAnded. ?Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Professional Development as Transformative Learning: New Perspectives for Teachers of Adults

In the second edition of her landmark book, Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning, Patricia Cranton helps translate theory to practice and guides readers through the many and varied new developments in transformative learning that have emerged in the decade since publication of the first edition. As in the first edition, the book explains the transformative learning theory, describes the process from the learner’s perspective, explores individual differences in transformative learning, presents strategies for fostering transformative learning, and discusses how adult educators themselves are transformative learners. The second edition of this important book draws on the most recent scholarship in adult education and contains information about new theoretical developments including the role of imagination and spirituality in transformation, the importance of affect in the process, the idea of connected knowing, contributions from critical theory, and a holistic model of transformative learning.

This volume offers nine first-hand accounts of transformative learning theory in practice, illuminating the rational, practical, intuitive, and emotional routes adults use to understand and change their values and perspectives in order to learn. The authors interpret the original theory in new and exciting ways; they present it not only as a rational process of critical reflection but also as an extrarational or intuitive process of discernment and learning through soulwork. Adult educators from diverse settings and contexts describe how the transformative learning approach changed the perspectives of students in a French class, helped an author overcome writer's block, rebuilt faltering self-images in a workforce training class, and more. Their stories will provide readers with practical and insightful ways to encourage transformative learning in their own work with adult learners. This is the 74th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.

Transformative Learning in Action: Insights from Practice (J-B ACE Single Issue Adult & Continuing Education)

Planning Instruction for Adult Learners, our best-selling book in adult education, provides a thorough grounding in principles of instructional planning based on studies of how adults learn. Both a practical guide and stimulus to good teaching, it is essential reading for all instructors of adults in any setting, including university or college, industry or business, and evening or leisure courses. htm

Planning Instruction for Adult Learners

Wall & Thompson

Teachers must construct a personal ideal--the good teacher--based on who they are as people. Teacher development is presented here as a process of coming to know our Self, recognizing the archetype of the Good Teacher, and seeing how this archetype can lead us to feel we are the Bad Teacher. Coming to see the teacher that is a part of the Self and to find congruence between the authentic self and the teacher within the self is at the core of our personal and professional empowerment as educators. The process is illustrated with case studies of authentic teachers. Teaching is discussed in context, within our discipline, institution, community, and culture. The unique contribution of this book is to focus on the teacher as a person, encouraging teachers to understand their own preferences, values, and experiences and use them positively. The book concludes with a chapter on the transforming teacher, an exploration of how personal and professional growth intersect in working toward the ultimate goal of developing the Teacher as Self.

Becoming an Authentic Teacher in Higher Education (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series)

Krieger Pub. Co

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative learning is, distinguish it from other forms of learning, and foster it in their practice. The first part of the book is dedicated to clarifying transformative learning theory and relating it to other theoretical frameworks. The author examines transformative learning from the learner’s perspective, and discusses individual differences in how learners go through the process. In the second half of the book, the focus is squarely on strategies for promoting transformative learning in a wide variety of adult and higher education contexts. Practitioners will be able to take ideas from the text and apply them directly in their teaching. Since 1975, transformative learning has become a core theoretical perspective in adult and higher education, and research has proliferated. In the past decade, adult education and especially transformative learning grew into a noticeably larger field. The numbers of undergraduate and graduate programs in adult education have increased and continue to increase as more and more individuals are seeking the expertise, skills, and training necessary to work with adult learners in higher education, business, industry, government, health professions, non-profit organizations, and community development. In addition, the number of programs in higher education (both undergraduate and graduate) that include courses in transformative learning has grown dramatically. These academic audiences use the book to further their understanding of transformative learning theory and practice. Drawing on the latest research as well as the author’s own teaching experience in both online and face-to-face courses, this new edition will be a vital resource for members of the transformative learning community, as well as those encountering the topic for the first time.

Routledge

No One Way: Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationa book for all educators who wish to improve the quality of teaching and learning in their institutions. With a theoretical framework based on research on domains of knowledge and psychological type are effective and versatile ideas and strategies for classroom practice for both beginning and experienced university or college teachers. htm

No One Way: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Literature & Fiction

Wall & Emerson, Inc.

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The Handbook of Transformative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults

Professional Development as Transformative Learning: New Perspectives for Teachers of Adults

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults

Transformative Learning in Action: Insights from Practice (J-B ACE Single Issue Adult & Continuing Education)

Planning Instruction for Adult Learners

Becoming an Authentic Teacher in Higher Education (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series)

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

No One Way: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education