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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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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...
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...
Mentoring toward Equity: How a Praxis of Repair Can Inform Transformative Learning
The interlocking challenges of racial injustice, economic disparities, and global pandemics brings renewed attention to the need for educators to scaffold effective responses to these crises with students. This paper moves away from examining how Transformative...
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...
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...
Opening brave spaces through practices of connectedness: Embodied and experiential experiences from the ‘collective enacting’ of four doctoral students learning in crisis
Building upon Buechner et al.’s (2020) “From Liminality to Communitas: The Collective Dimensions of Transformative Learning”, a group of four doctoral students offer an account of their own liminal experience that fostered transformation in a dynamic, collective...
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...
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...
Practices of an International Virtual Learning Community: A Story of Holistic Authentic Connection
In this session, we model a virtual learning community that emerged from a 2017 planning committee for the 2018 International Transformative Learning Conference. With listening at the center, we suggest that community can be created and nurtured across differences,...
Transformative Learning through Process Consultation
Transformative learning occurs when individuals add to their existing meaning schemes or add new meaning schemes to their storehouse of knowledge that is highly significant and a source of achievement and success for them. Explorations of how transformative learning...
Transformative Pilgrimage Learning in Adult Development Toward Healthier Communities: Rooting in Human Wildness, Wandering in Darkness and Shaping Our Legacies
There has been little consideration of the role of our relationship with the land in transformative learning. This has been touched on in some discussions of transformative learning (TL) and pilgrimage, and in recent discussions of transformative pilgrimage learning...
Understanding the Impact of Transformative Learning Theory on Pre-Retirement Anxiety and Post-Retirement Career Planning: Literature Review
“The retirement crisis is simply too big to ignore” (Harkin, 2012, p.1). “The experience of a crisis can become a source of transformative learning and growth” (Alhadeff et al., 2011, p. 394). The opportunities to learn dramatically, derive from the experience of...
Understanding Transformative Learning Experience During a Global Pandemic through Trio-Autoethnographic Dialogues
This study employs a trio-ethnographic research design, by connecting three autoethnographies to create a better understanding of the process of transformative learning during the global pandemic. The goal of this paper is to expand our understanding of transformative...
Unpacking the Theory of Self Formation in Transformative Learning
Using a developmental psychology model this paper offers a conceptual lens to integrate two unique perspectives in transformative learning theory. While one perspective focuses on the rational and analytical aspects initiated by Mezirow, the other examines the...
Using Generative Pedagogy: Challenges and opportunities for learning and growth in a Freshman Seminar
In this study, we share our collective experience of designing a course to provide a space for individual and collective ontological inquiry as a part of a freshman seminar program operated by a university in the United States. Building upon the inquiry-based learning...
Vlogging as a Transformative Tool for Critical Self-Reflection
Initial findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) explored the utility of vlogging as a transformative tool for critical self-reflection. Transformative learning concepts provide the theoretical framework: (a) critical self-reflection focuses on...
What is critical in transformative learning? A critical review of the research on transformative learning in intercultural contexts (1990–2020)
Intercultural contexts provide richer socio-political environments for the fostering of critical reflection for transformation, but no known critical review has been dedicated to examining how research demonstrates the connection. Hence, our critical review answers...
Young people, transformative learning and the disorienting dilemma of climate change
Given the significance of climate change as a universal ‘disorientating dilemma’ how might educators working within schools start to explore the potential of transformative education in this space? Does a young person’s identity, values and views need to be largely...
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