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Saturday, February 02, 2002
http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10878 An Extended Epistemology for Transformative Learning Theory and Its Application Through Collaborative Inquiry Elizabeth Kasl, California Institute of Integral Studies; Lyle Yorks, Teachers College, Columbia University Executive Summary The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion about the epistemology of transformative learning and to describe collaborative inquiry as an ideal strategy for facilitating such learning. Jack Mezirow's work outlining the transformative dimensions of adult learning has been generative for theory building and research. We join the discourse with suggestions that extend Mezirow's theory to a more wholistic conceptualization. We then show how collaborative inquiry, a methodology based on an epistemology rooted in experience and dependent on relationship, provides practitioners with a useful structure for facilitating adult learning....
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