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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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Exploring Visceral Experiences of Physiology: The Role of Embodied Cognition in Fostering Transformative Learning
Barriers to embodied cognition—or integrated emotional and cognitive brain functions—interrupt the transformative learning process, which is vital to healthy adult development, and decrease the potential for a self-authoring, transcendent, and humanistic society. This...
Faculty Feedback as an Enabler of Transformative Learning
Transformation does not occur in isolation. To move beyond “becom(ing) critically aware of the… assumptions that have influenced the way we see ourselves and our relationships” (Mezirow, 1978, p. 101) towards “perspectives which are more inclusive, discriminating and...
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...
Following up an experience of a transformational learning community for teachers as adult learners during the pandemic
This paper presents the design and implementation of an online distance learning professional development course that took place during the Covid 19 pandemic and aimed to transform teachers' attitudes towards the use of digital education content and Open Educational...
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...
Future of Work: A Solicitation for Critical-Ecological Perspective of Transformative Learning
This paper aims to seek the position of transformative learning theory in the future of work context which requires the individuals to critically examine the neoliberal logic embedded in the technological affordances. In the backdrop of the critical inquiry around the...
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.
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...
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....
Leveraging Action Research for Transformative Learning in a School-University Partnership
In the context of increasingly complex challenges facing 21st century school systems, action research has incredible potential to generate transformative learning for educators who engage in the collaborative process. The authors of this paper, a doctoral candidate...
The impact of applied transformative learning techniques to potentiate learner’s transformative disposition on critical issues
The basic axe of the presentation is to elaborate on the idea that a critical way of observing works of art can help the learner to reconsider his/her established perceptions about crucial maters and to see in a bright new way his/her habits of mind. Likewise, by...
The Process of Identity Transformation: Analysis of Illustrative Examples from the Literature
Drawing on Illeris’ (2014) framing of transformative learning, this literature review explored the process of identity change. Using stringent inclusion criteria, a content analysis was completed of six empirical articles selected for their explicit conceptual framing...
The Right and Wrong of Transformative Education: Toward an Ethical Framework
Although helping people to learn, and therefore also sometimes to change, is precisely the role of education, there is a danger in our efforts to change people. Few authors have addressed the ethical conundrums inherent in transformative education, and those who have...
The Students’ Experience of Research, Researching and Being a Researcher: Creating a Digital Transformative Learning Space for Postgraduate Students in Higher Education
Emergency remote online teaching was introduced in response to national lockdowns aimed at slowing down the rate of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about how postgraduate research students maintained scholarly relationships with their peers...
The Super-vision of Autoethnographic Dissertation Studies: Transformative Learning of the Supervisor and the Supervised
The purpose of this paper is to explore the supervision of dissertations, from the perspective of the supervisor and two supervisees who did dissertations grounded in transformative learning theory that had an evocative autoethnographic component. We argue that...
Transformative Andragogy and Radicalization: A Curricular Innovation
If the pandemic has proffered a common lesson to communities across the globe, it is that suffering is a shared reality. The nature of decision-making shifts during a crisis, where complexity has cognitive and emotional consequenceson one’s sense of integrity. Moral...
Transformative Learning and Ideological Discomfort Theory: Understanding the Escape from Oppressive Ideology Toward a Shared Humanity
In a world flush with disturbing manifestations of right-wing fanaticism fueled by notions of white supremacy, understanding why some people abandon such notions in pursuit of justice is imperative. Ideological Discomfort Theory suggests discomfort in one’s familial...
Transformative Learning Experiences of Japanese Women Entrepreneurs in Time of Crisis
Even though empowering Japanese women in entrepreneurial leadership is a crucial issue especially given Japan’s economically stagnant situation, limited research exists that examines the ways in which women entrepreneurs is developed in Japan. The purpose of this...
Transformative Learning from Black Fathers on the Doctoral Journey
The American Council on Education (2012) made a commitment to diversity in education, but it has not upheld the commitment by supporting learners at all levels. This roundtable will present findings from a doctoral study about Black doctoral student fathers and their...
Transformative Learning in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Study of the Meaning Making Process by Chinese Visiting Scholars During Study Abroad Program in the USA
This qualitative, ethnographic, multi-case study investigates the learning experiences of Chinese visiting scholars using a Transformative Learning Theory (TLT) lens (Mezirow, 1978, 1991, 1994, 2000). TLT was used to understand learning as a meaning making process....
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