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What is the Transformative Learning Theory?
To be a successful individual, you have to learn things and understand different way in learning. In this changing world, teachers and students are greatly benefitted from each other on how learning works. Educators give their efforts and create a classroom for learners to understand learning.
The transformative learning is one theory of learning, particularly focuses on adult education and young adult learning. It is sometimes called transformation learning, and focuses on the idea that learners can adjust their thinking based on new information. I want to mentioned Jack Mezirow who studied about this theory of transformational learning. He mentioned about an adult women who went back to school, that this adult women don't apply their old understanding to new situation, instead they find they need to look at new understanding of things as they change.
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Transformative learning involves ‘learning to do.’ This includes a critique of an assertion
itself. It also requires a critique of the relevant social norms and cultural codes. The basis for TL is
communicative tasks. The problem-solving process, involved in this type of learning,includes
learner’s attempt to understand another’s meaning through speech, real-life role plays, various
scenarios, writing, drama or art. Communicative learning involves searching, often intuitively, for
themes and metaphors in order to fit the unfamiliar into a meaningful perspective. Therefore,in
communicative learning, reflection requires a critical assessment of this distinctive process of
problem solving. Achieving criticalthinking represents culmination of transformative learning.