Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide to Theory and Practice

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 p