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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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Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning: A transformative perspective
The paper focuses on the Italian higher education context, where the number of minority students has significantly increased in the last decades. As reported in scientific literature, attending multicultural campuses can be associated with richer educational...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Enhancing the Transformative Potential of Scholarly-Practice Doctorateness: Cultural-Historical Considerations on the Doctoral Ecosystem
The COVID-19 pandemic epitomizes how quickly and dramatically our lives can permanently change. The sobering finding that the pandemic affected historically disadvantaged groups in greater measure calls for the consideration of underlying cultural-historical factors...
Experiences of applying for promotion as counter-cultural transformative learning
In this paper we use the methodology of self-study to explore our experiences as academics applying for promotion. We use Mezirow's transformative learning theory and the African philosophy of Ubuntu to frame the study. Through narrative inquiry, we document our...
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 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...
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...
Metamorphosis via Suicide: An Autoethnographic Exploration of the Transformative Learning Journeys of Mothers who Lost a Child to Suicide
The purpose of this study is to understand to what extent can the learning that takes place after a suicide loss of a child be considered transformative. The study is designed to combine narrative inquiry and evocative autoethnography. The personal experiences of the...
Mezirow’s Theory of Transformative Learning and Critical Theory: Oskar Negt and his Reconstruction of Experience
From the beginning Mezirow’s transformation theory relied on the critical theory of Habermas for intellectual rigour. Because of this, transformation theory is often seen as overly rational, lacking emotional or non-rational routes to transformation. The theory is...
Perspective Transformation through Aesthetic Experience
As argued by important scholars, the exploration of works of art- aesthetic experience- may enhance learning for change. This happens because our contact with art may unearth critical reflection, feelings and insights that contribute to a meaningful, emancipatory...
Practices that Support Transformation
This paper articulates the practices that I employ to encourage persons who might be standing on the threshold (a disorienting dilemma) of a potentially transformative process. Because their ontological security has been disrupted, they welcome a guide to accompany...
Practicing transformative learning in graduate school: A mentoring approach
Although transformative learning theory has been studied and utilized in the field of adult education to help adults learn, there is still a lack of understanding of how adult educators and adult learners collaboratively process transformative learning in...
Reapproaching Transformative Learning Theory from an Enactivist Perspective
Posing an inquiry on Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, this study aims to reapproach transformative learning (TL) theory from an enactivist perspective. Grounded in complexity theories, ecological theories, pragmatism, and Buddhist philosophy, enactivism...
Seeking a Reliable Process for Identifying Transformative Learning Outcomes in Events Capable of Producing Transformative Learning
Literature is replete on the importance of Transformative Learning (TL) in solving global sustainability problems. This is evidenced in the application of the Transformative Learning Theory (TLT) in diverse fields of studies such as in Climate Change, Environmental...
So You Say Our Work is Essential: Essential workers, moral injury and “learning to repair” during and after the pandemic
This paper explores the transformative potential of learning in and about essential work in the wake of COVID-19’s social and economic disruption. We ask, what potential does this current moment hold to repair the western social and economic order predicated on the...
Teacher-Learner Relationships in the Classroom: From the Margins to the Center
Teaching is a deeply relational activity, however despite the import of teacher-learner relationships within the general field of higher education, adult education and when fostering transformative learning it is often overlooked, poorly defined and understood. This...
The Development of Transformative Digital Learning for Adult Learners: Online Learning Platforms
Recently, transformative digital learning (TDL) has been an urgent topic for adult learning and education according to COVID-19. The development of digital tools transforms learning activities from traditional classrooms to online platforms. Hundreds of adult learners...
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