From: Following Mezirow A Roadmap Through Transformative Learning
Have a look at this interesting page about Transformational Learning from RU Training @ Roosevelt University in Chicago, Graduate Program in Training & Development. From this page author Daniel Harbecke notes:
“Mezirow outlined transformational learning as it takes place in some variation of the following 10 phases:
- A disorienting dilemma;
- Self-examination (with feelings of shame or guilt);
- A critical assessment of epistemic, sociocultural, or psychic assumptions;
- Recognition of a connection between one’s discontent and the process of transformation;
- Exploration of options for new roles, relationships, and actions;
- Planning a course of action;
- Acquisition of knowledge and skills for implementing one’s plan;
- Provisional trying of new roles;
- Building of competence and self-confidence in new roles and relationships;
- A reintegration into one’s life on the basis of conditions dictated by one’s new perspective.”
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In my opinion, this makes a great deal of sense when I consider my own experiences as an adult in a new learning situation, how I integrate new information and how it becomes a building block to the next “new thing”. Consider how adult students you may instruct will move through this chain of experience as they move through the learning continuum.
I see through the structure of our course work within the PIDP the use of reflection as a tool in our learning path. This is another element of Mezirow’s theory, again from the article noted above:
“One of the most important aspects of Transformational Learning is what Mezirow called critical reflection: the ability to reflect upon what has been learned to fit the new information into one’s worldview. “
Reference: https://rutraining.org/2012/10/08/following-mezirow-a-roadmap-through-transformative-learning/ accessed April 26, 2017