Presentation Sessions
ITLC 2022 features more than 90 presentations in 5 session types: Paper, Experiential, Symposium, Roundtable and PechaKucha. To sort by category, click on a session type above.
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“Confronting Myself”: The Role of Disorienting Dilemmas in the Work of White Identified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practitioners
Case study was used as a method to explore the experiences of White identified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioners who are paid by their employer to develop and/or implement diversity, equity, and/or inclusion initiatives in their organizations. This...
“Daughter in law”, “Mother” or “The Self”: A Transformational Journey of an Oppressed Oppressor
Family conflicts could be leveraged as opportunities to conduct critical-dialectical discourse for fostering family members’ perspective transformation. In this Pecha Kucha session, I will be sharing the critical reflection of a woman who became conscious of how her...
A Case Study Exploring Mentor Teachers’ Experience in a Teacher Preparation Program Through the Lens of Communities of Practice and Transformative Learning
This study explores the learning theories communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and transformative learning theory (Mezirow, 1978) in the context of mentor teaching. The landscape of teacher education preparation programs is shifting its focus to...
A critical understanding about the motivation of Gen-Z in Higher Education and the impact upon Transformative Learning
Higher Degree Apprenticeships provide both work-based experience and tertiary knowledge development but facilitated insightfully, it can also lead to transformation. Traditionally, many students focus on the outcome of education – ‘the Grade’ – rather than the process...
A Narrative Inquiry on the Transformative Experiences of Adult Refugee Learners in U.S. Higher Education: Bird in a Cage
Each year, refugees enter the U.S. in search of a safe place to rebuild their lives after surviving life-threatening traumas of violence, persecution, or environmental dangers. As refugees seek to establish a stable life for their families, education is seen as a...
A Parallax Jew: Autoethnography and Transformative Learning
Scholars in many fields have contributed to our knowledge of transformative learning, guiding students toward understanding its foundations, practices, and outcomes. This paper looks at the experience of transformative learning by a scholar using a well established...
A Practice-based view of transformative learning: How to enhance professional development in teachers and school directors
This paper analyses transformative learning in relation to professional development, intertwining it with practice-based studies. It contextualizes and addresses limitations of theories of individual reason-based transformative learning, as conceptualized by Mezirow...
Annunciation and denunciation in Paulo Freire’s transformative education
I consider in this paper the question of balance in transformative popular education between what we can call annunciation and denunciation, inspired by the work of Paulo Freire. By annunciation, I mean the role of love, affirmation, encouragement and profound...
Applying Transformative Coaching Methods to Facilitate Student Reflection and Assessment
This experiential session will explore a rational, critical self-reflection process used to facilitate transformative learning through transformative coaching methods during interview-style, one-on-one meetings with undergraduate students. Coaching is a professional...
Articulated Pointing: From Transformative Learning Theory to Transformative Teaching Theory
In our contribution we will shed new light on the theory of transformative learning by reframing it through the lens of articulation theory. Transformative learning theory does not model classroom learning, but rather longer-term learning processes that extend far...
A Parallax Jew: Autoethnography and Transformative Learning
Scholars in many fields have contributed to our knowledge of transformative learning, guiding students toward understanding its foundations, practices, and outcomes. This paper looks at the experience of transformative learning by a scholar using a well established...
A Practice-based view of transformative learning: How to enhance professional development in teachers and school directors
This paper analyses transformative learning in relation to professional development, intertwining it with practice-based studies. It contextualizes and addresses limitations of theories of individual reason-based transformative learning, as conceptualized by Mezirow...
Annunciation and denunciation in Paulo Freire’s transformative education
I consider in this paper the question of balance in transformative popular education between what we can call annunciation and denunciation, inspired by the work of Paulo Freire. By annunciation, I mean the role of love, affirmation, encouragement and profound...
Articulated Pointing: From Transformative Learning Theory to Transformative Teaching Theory
In our contribution we will shed new light on the theory of transformative learning by reframing it through the lens of articulation theory. Transformative learning theory does not model classroom learning, but rather longer-term learning processes that extend far...
Barriers and Obstacles to Transformative Learning: Embracing Immunity and Resistance on the Journey to Transformation
Transformative learning is 'an approach to teaching based on promoting change, where educators challenge learners to critically question and assess the integrity of their deeply held assumptions about how they relate to the world around them' (Mezirow & Taylor, 2009,...
Bringing the Ego to the Fore: Addressing the Form that Trans-forms
The developmental psychologist Robert Kegan responded to an essential and unanswered question within transformative learning: “What form transforms?” (2000, p. 35), highlighting, “The form that is undergoing transformation needs to be better understood; if there is no...
Can Parents’-Teachers Partnership transform? An Action Research
Research seems to be explicit on children’s benefit from parents’-school partnership and enhanced relationship. The ways in which parents can be better involved, however, are not yet apparent even though a variety of educational approaches and programs are studied...
Change agents at Univeristy of Padua: A transformative experience in Teaching and Learning
The university of Padua has embarked on a faculty development program that uses change agents (CA) within a faculty learning community as trained faculty who promote innovation in teaching and learning within departments. Their transformative learning experience is...
Confucianism and its Transformative Power in a Human-centered Era
Confucianism is one of the most influential learning philosophies of East Asian countries. It is concerned with inner virtue, morality, and respect for the community and its values. Many scholars have studied and categorized Confucianism as a system of social and...
Creating Dissonance: Transformative Learning Through the Provocative Arts
This session focuses on the role of the arts to disturb or disrupt the status quo, waking us up to what is wrong in the world and calling us to action to right the wrong. Transformative learning often occurs when our normal everyday way of viewing the world no longer...
Applying Transformative Coaching Methods to Facilitate Student Reflection and Assessment
This experiential session will explore a rational, critical self-reflection process used to facilitate transformative learning through transformative coaching methods during interview-style, one-on-one meetings with undergraduate students. Coaching is a professional...
Co-Creating Sacred Classroom Space for Transformative Learning
Ritual, and repetition of ritual, in the classroom brings familiarity and comfort, and thus a sense of safety, ownership and belonging, for participants. In this session we will elaborate upon a specific routine that is utilized in our classroom spaces, how we elevate...
Creative Listening Workshop: Exploring the Potential for Transformational Learning
The Creative Listening Workshop (CLW) utilizes movement, breath, and visual dialogue to prepare the participant for foundational transformative listening. CLW aims to promote transformative learning by shifting perceptions and cultural and psychic assumptions relating...
Deepening the understanding of transformative learning processes and outcomes
Adult education practitioners and researchers in the field of adult learning and education assume that transformative learning does occur in Adult Basic Education (ABE). However, while this broad view of learning processes and outcomes in ABE is shared in adult...
Embracing transformative listening as rarity: Fostering self- and other connectedness with the Transformative Listening Protocol
We invite participants to an experiential session to explore and expand their capacity of embodied and transformative listening in dyads In this interactive/reflective session, participants actively engage with the Transformative Listening Protocol (hereby TLP). Pairs...
Explore Cultural Transformation: Promote transformative learning by using a narrative building tool
In this experiential learning session, participants will explore multicultural narratives about women leaders influencing their community culture. Applying a provided narrative building template, the participants will identify the dilemma the leader faced in the story...
Exploring and Mapping a Collective Dilemma Through Dialogue (Contemplating the Pandemic through Conversation)
This experiential workshop will be conversational in nature. Conversation with a difference. These pandemic dialogues will draw on participants’ lived experience. We believe that meaningful conversations develop when the language used continually refers to experience...
French “Kairos” vs American “Action Learning Conversations”: Presenting and contrasting two powerful practical methods for facilitating transformation
Although many models and frameworks have been developed, the practice of fostering transformative learning remains as illusive (Mezirow & Taylor, 2009). As Taylor points out: “like any other education approach, it is rooted in ideals and when the realities of practice...
Learning and Transformation of Human and Social Material Systems in Times of Disruption: An Experiential Session
People’s lives and traditional learning paths have been significantly disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic and society further complexified by a collective awakening to the deep structural inequalities that have been made all too apparent by the disparate impacts of the...
Meaning Making at the Edge of Chaos: A Transformative Experience
The pressing social problems we have are demanding that we build our capacity for meaning making to address them effectively. Meaning making at the edge of chaos is the type of meaning making we engage in when our current worldview is profoundly challenged by new...
Developing Democratic Citizens: (Transformational) Civic Education in Times of Uncertainty
Polarization in the U.S. hit its recent zenith during and since the tenure of Donald Trump as president, and political activism hit a similar peak in the wake of the murder of George Floyd through the election of Joe Biden. Interest in civic and social action is at a...
Learning For Transformation: Entanglements and passageways for transformation
This symposium will bring together the co-editors of the handbook on learning for transformation to explore new passageways to transformation building from the work of Jack Mezirow who in the 1970’s began his quest to develop a comprehensive theory of adult learning....
Sociocratic governance: Facilitating individual, cultural and social transformations
Mounting evidence suggests that the source of the growing apocalyptic crisis we experience is spiritual and cultural. Thus, to survive we need to urgently engage in transforming our fundamental collectivistic philosophical beliefs towards a holistic, nature-based...
Using Quantitative Approaches for the Study and Practice of Transformative Learning
In this symposium, presenters challenge the community of transformative learning scholars to consider what quantitative approaches to the study and practice of transformative learning might look like. Symposium presenters will address the need for quantitative...
“Confronting Myself”: The Role of Disorienting Dilemmas in the Work of White Identified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practitioners
Case study was used as a method to explore the experiences of White identified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioners who are paid by their employer to develop and/or implement diversity, equity, and/or inclusion initiatives in their organizations. This...
A Case Study Exploring Mentor Teachers’ Experience in a Teacher Preparation Program Through the Lens of Communities of Practice and Transformative Learning
This study explores the learning theories communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and transformative learning theory (Mezirow, 1978) in the context of mentor teaching. The landscape of teacher education preparation programs is shifting its focus to...
A critical understanding about the motivation of Gen-Z in Higher Education and the impact upon Transformative Learning
Higher Degree Apprenticeships provide both work-based experience and tertiary knowledge development but facilitated insightfully, it can also lead to transformation. Traditionally, many students focus on the outcome of education – ‘the Grade’ – rather than the process...
A Narrative Inquiry on the Transformative Experiences of Adult Refugee Learners in U.S. Higher Education: Bird in a Cage
Each year, refugees enter the U.S. in search of a safe place to rebuild their lives after surviving life-threatening traumas of violence, persecution, or environmental dangers. As refugees seek to establish a stable life for their families, education is seen as a...
Community Transformation: Asian American Community Leaders
This paper is a study on transformation and how one particular minority group, the Asian Americans, have collectively transformed itself politically and socio-economically. Asian Americans are a highly diverse population segment due to the various ethnic groups within...
Debating Applied Transformation via Translational Research: Evidencing Impact in Practice-Based Research
Interdisciplinary professional doctoral pathways and their associated learning trajectories are now a recognised mechanism of operationalising translational research from the context of work-based praxis. These programmes differ from traditional reductionist...
Faculty Professional Development as a Catalyst for Campus Cultural Shifts towards Transformative Learning – from Oklahoma to Brazil
This roundtable discussion will focus on faculty development activities around transformative learning (TL) that were implemented at two campuses. The goals were to shift campus cultures towards a priority on holistic student development leading to increases in the...
Managing Energy for Peak Performance: Expanding individual and group capacity through transformative learning
This is an exploratory paper that examines a novel approach to increasing employee effectiveness and encouraging more moments of peak performance through educating and coaching individuals and teams on The Ten Pillar Model of Giving and Replenishing Energy. This paper...
Mindful Meditation as a Conductor of Transformation
Stress in adulthood is inevitable and has significant effects on a person’s physical and psychological wellbeing, therefore, finding a healthy way to manage stress is essential. Mindfulness meditation practices have been shown to reduce stress and can be used as a...
Posttraumatic Growth – Finding the Rare Pearl in The Oyster
Posttraumatic growth has been documented among a small subset of the population, particularly military veterans. The phenomenon is not generally known outside of a narrow audience within the field of trauma psychology, and is seen as an exceptional outcome, not the...
“Daughter in law”, “Mother” or “The Self”: A Transformational Journey of an Oppressed Oppressor
Family conflicts could be leveraged as opportunities to conduct critical-dialectical discourse for fostering family members’ perspective transformation. In this Pecha Kucha session, I will be sharing the critical reflection of a woman who became conscious of how her...
Exploring an experience of Arts-based courses via visual research methods
Visual inquiry methodology allows researchers to think and make meaning outside of written language to inquire and provide chances to make meaning through artistic practices (Rose, 2016). The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate how artistic experience...
Imagining More Artful, More-than-Human Collaborative Inquiry
This Pecha Kucha performance considers John Heron’s whole person theory together with Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman philosophy to imagine how collaborative inquiry, or CI, might be designed for virtual contexts.
Traditional Leadership Development is Broken: Using Transformative Learning to Create Transformational Leaders
Traditional leadership training is broken. Workforce development, and leadership development in particular, is still organized around a behaviorism theory of learning (Marsick, 1998). In today’s knowledge economy, work is more complex and the behaviorism training of...