11. Developmental Reflexivity with Power and Emotion: Action Research Transformations for Generative Conflict
Hilary Bradbury
12. Transformative Pilgrimage Learning and the Big Questions in the COVID-19 Era—Love, Death, and Legacy: Implications for Lifelong Learning and Nursing Education
Elizabeth J. Tisdell, & Ann L. Swartz
13. Washing the Dead-bed, from Poem to Digitalstory
Janet Ferguson, & Massimo Lambert
14. Transforming Individual to Structural Thinking About Race
Stephen Brookfield
PROVOCATION 2: Generating conditions for transformation
15. Transforming First Nations Individual and Community Realities: Reflections on a Decolonizing Higher Education Project
Roz Walker, &Rob McPhee
16. Fostering Reorienting Connections via Ecological Practices
Mark Hathaway
17. Revitalizing Reflection in Teacher Education: A Digital Tool for Reflection as a Gentle Trigger for Transformation
Kaisu Mälkki, Marita Mäkinen, & Joni Forsell
18. Women in the Workplace: Negotiating Influence as a Leader
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
19. A Deliberately Developmental Organizations: A New Organizational Space for Inclusion
Chang-kyu Kwon
20. The Power of Women Learning Together: Transcending the Bounds of a Transformative Leadership Development Program
Alexandra B. Cox, Kara L. Fresk, Carla A. Dennis, Emily J. Saunders, & Kristy L. Walker
21. The Role of Senior Management in Organizational Transformation
Dr Nitasha Ramparsad
22. Liberating a Transformative Imagination: Leadership Learning at the Burren Leadership Retreat
Mary A. Stacey, & Reilly L. Dow
23. Integral We-Spaces for Racial Equity: Loving Fiercely Across our Differences
Placida V. Gallegos, Akasha Saunders, Steven A. Schapiro, & Carol Wishcamper
24. Listening for Transformation: Discovering Third Space and Connection Using a Listening Protocol
Laurie Anderson-Sathe, Tes Cotter Zakrzewski, Anne-Liisa Longmore, Alessandra Romano, Deborah Kramlich, Janette Brunstein, Ed Cunliff, & Victoria Marsick
25. Curating the Imagination: Perspective Transformations and the Feminist Exhibition
Darlene E. Clover
26. Creating a Sense of Belonging. Enabling Transformative Learning Through Participatory Action Research in an Ubuntu Paradigm
Maren Seehawer1, Sipho R. Nuntsu, Farasten Mashozhera, Abongile Ludwane & Margaret Speckman
PROVOCATION 3: (Un)known discourses of transformation
27. More than Harmony: Transformational Teaching and Learning in Canada in an Age of Reconciliation
David Newhouse (Onondaga), Phil Abbott, Jason Fenno, Mara Heiber, Gabriel Maracle (Mohawk) Robin Quantick, & Heather Shpuniarsky
28. The Witness Blanket: Responsibility through an Ongoing Journey of Transformation
29. Reflections on Transformation: Stories from Southern Africa
Moyra Keane, Constance Khupe, & Vongai Mpofu
30. Pedagogy for Transformative Learning in Post-Colonial Contexts
Sal Muthayan
31. Transformation as Resistance
Bill Ashcroft
32. Transformative Learning as a Passageway to Social Justice in Higher Education: An Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Perspective on Anti-Bullyist Practice in a North American Context
Mitsunori Misawa
33. Informal Transformative Learning Experiences from Humanitarian Emergencies and Other Life Events and Transitions
34. Dialogic and Noncoercive Learning for Transformational Change: A Systems Approach
Fodé Beaudet
35. In Service to My Community: Exploring Oppression and Internalized Racism
Taj (Toni) Johns
36. Imaginative Perspectives on Transformative Learning
Randee Lipson Lawrence
37. Perspective Transformation in Interfaith Dialogue: A Six-Step Process
Elizabeth M. Pope
38. The Interpenetration of Individual and Collective Transformation: A Framework for Development, Collective Intelligence, and Emergence
Abigail Lynam, Geoff Fitch, Tamara Androsoff , and John Wood
PROVOCATION 4 : Challenges and emerging future of transformation
39. Power of Questions: Transformation in Complex Systems
Glenda H. Eoyang
40. Emotions, Affective Neuroscience, and Changing One’s Mind
Kathleen Taylor and Catherine Marienau
41. Living Transformation: The Alchemy of Change in an Epochal Shift
Elizabeth A Lange
42. Learning, Experience and the Societal Unconscious: Combining a Materialistic Theory and a Dialectic Methodology
Henning Salling Olesen
43. Transformative Learning and Microradicalization
Dante Caramellino, Claudio Melacarne, & Benjamin Ducol
44. Evaluation as a Pathway to Transformation Lessons from Sustainable Development
Scott G. Chaplowe, Adam Hejnowicz and Marlene Laeubli Loud
45. Restoring the Transformative Bridge: Remembering and Regenerating our Western Transformative Ancient Traditions to solve the Riddle of our Existential Crisis
Petra T. Buergelt & Douglas Paton
46. The Embodying of Transformative Learning
Christina Schlattner, MA
47. Transformation and the Language we use
Linden West
48. Lessons from Utopia: Reflections on Peak Transformative Experiences in a University Studio in Auroville, India
Bem Le Hunte , Katie Ross, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, & Aditi Rosegger
49. Could Transformative Learning Involve Youth?
Alexis Kokkos
50. Between Smoke and Crystal: The Practice of In-Transformation
Sarah J. Owusu
51. Conclusion Chapter: Propositions at the Threshold of Transformation
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Marguerite Welch
Aliki Nicolaides is Associate Professor of Adult Learning and Leadership at the University of Georgia, USA.
Saskia Eschenbacher is Professor of Adult Learning and Counseling at Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
Petra T. Buergelt is Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is a scholar-practitioner in Human & Organization Development with research and professional awards in Canada, UK and the United States.
Marguerite Welch is Program Director and Faculty for the MA in Leadership Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA.
Mitsunori Misawa is Associate Professor of Adult Learning in the Educational Psychology and Research program, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.
The purpose of this handbook is not to resolve or unify a theory of transformation and all the disciplinary contributions that clearly promote a living concept of transformation. Instead, the intent is to catalyze a more complex and deeper inquiry into the “Why of transformation.” Each discipline, culture, ethics and practice has its own specialized care and reasons for paying attention to transformation. How can scholars, practitioners, and active members of discourses on transformative learning make a difference? How can they foster and create conditions that allow us to move on to other, unaddressed or understudied questions? To answer these questions, the editors and their authors employ the metaphor of the many turns into passageways to convey the potential of transformation that may emerge from the many connecting passageways between, for instance, people and society, theory and practice, knowledge created by diverse disciplines and fields/professions, individual and collective transformations, and individual and social action.