1. Jack Mezirow Transformative Learning Theory

2. Wife named Edee
Son who is a captain of a charter sport-fishing boat in Seward, Alaska
Family

3. Received Bachelor’s (1945) and Master’s(1946) degrees fro U
Received Bachelor’s (1945) and Master’s(1946) degrees fro U. of Minnesota in social sciences and education
Ed.D from U. of California in adult education
Education

4. Life Work Earlier professional life as an adult educator
Focused on fostering social action through community development
Taught in adult literacy programs in US and abroad
Served as a consultant in many Third World countries
Trained professionals in community development

5. Life Work Devoted to developing Transformative Learning Theory
Self-proclaimed Social Action Educator
Life Work

6. What is Transformative Learning Theory?
Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking, and is the process of effecting change in a frame of reference
Works to transform individual lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitations
What is Transformative Learning Theory?

8. Transformative education/learning developed in early 1970’s
Discovered Paulo Freire’s writings
Says, “the critical dimension missing from my work was my lack of awareness of centrality of conscientization”
What is conscientization?
Development

9. Paulo Friere defines it as: “the process by which adults achieve a deepening awareness of both the socio-cultural reality which shapes their lives and their capacity to transform that reality through action upon it”

10. Development His wife, Edee, went back to college
He noticed his wife’s transformative experience
Development

11. Socio-Cultural Context: Early 1970’s
Economic liberty of women
Socio-Cultural Context: Early 1970’s

12. Worked to transform lives by challenging previously held perspectives and limitations
Outlined what transformative learning was
Paulo Freire
Booker T. Washington
Key Contributions

13. Course Material Learner’s need to know Readiness to Learn
Prior Experience: Adults have acquired a coherent body of experience associations, concepts, values, feelings, conditional responses- frames of reference that define their life world. Frames of reference are the structures of assumptions through which we understand our experiences. They set our “line of action”
Course Material

14. Although Dr. Jack Mezirow was not a believer, this theory is EXTREMELY applicable to Christianity
Jesus?