Expanding Transformation Theory: Affinities Between Jack Mezirow and Emancipatory Educationalists

ISBN-13: 9781032237503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 234 str.

Alexis Kokkos

Opis

Expanding Transformation Theory offers a deeper understanding of the philosophy, principles and major components of Transformation Theory, which was developed by Jack Mezirow

Spis treści

Introduction. Part 1: Strong Influences.  1. Seeking the traces of Dewey's thought in Mezirow's work.  2. Freire and Mezirow: Parallel lives, congruent views.  3. Mezirow and Gould: Their relationship and distinct routes.  4. Marsick and Mezirow: Dancing to Different Tunes.  Part 2: Epistemological Affinities.  5. Tracing the Transformational Dimension within the teaching of Socrates.  6. Mezirow meets Kegan: Conceptual links and insights for English as a lingua franca teacher education.  7. Greene and Mezirow: The discovery of a significant but silent pedagogical and philosophical relationship.  8. Argyris and Mezirow: A relationship revealed.  Part 3: European Interlocutors.  9. Knud Illeris and the transformative type of human learning.  10. Learning as an Individual and Social Developmental Process: Thoughts on the Intellectual Quests of Jarvis and Mezirow. Concluding Reflections.

 

O autorze

Alexis Kokkos is Emeritus Professor of Adult Education at the Hellenic Open University, Chairman of the Hellenic Adult Education Association, co-convener of the ESREA’s Network on Transformative Processes and member of the Stewards Committee of the International Transformative Learning Association.