Transformative learning meets bildung : : an international exchange / / edited by Anna Laros, Thomas Fuhr, Edward W. Taylor.

• Superior document: International Issues in Adult Education
• HerausgeberIn: Laros, Anna.; Fuhr, Thomas.; Taylor, Edward W.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: International Issues in Adult Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 400 p.)

This edited volume sets the groundwork for a dialogue between transformative learning and continental theories of Bildung in adulthood. Both theoretical frameworks bring meaning to the complex learning process of individuals as they develop a more critical worldview. In this volume, a variety of aut...

Table of Contents

• Transformative Learning Meets Bildung: Introduction
• Section 1: Overview on Bildung and Transformative Learning; Bildung: An Introduction; Transformative Learning Theory
• Section 2: Transformative Learning and Transformative Bildung; Bildung as a Transformative Process; A Subject-Theoretical Perspective on Transformative Learning and Transformative Bildung: Transformative Bildung as a Research Strategy on the Processes of Bildung; Bildung as Transformation of Self-World-Relations
• Section 3: Crisis and Continuity; Repetition and Transformation in Learning: A Hermeneutic and Phenomenological View on Transformative Learning Experiences; Disorienting Dilemmas as a Catalyst for Transformative Learning: Examining Predisorienting Experiences of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs; Problematic Commonalities of Bildung and Transformative Learning; Time as a Reflective Moment of Bildung and Transformative Learning
• Section 4: Theoretical Approaches to Bildung and Learning; Bildung and Humanist Learning; Hermeneutic Phenomenology Meets Transformative Learning: Epistemological and Methodological Issues; Transformative Learning Theory and Systems Thinking: Enabling Transformation through Communication; Transformative Learning, Bildung and Biographical Research
• Section 5: The Role of the Other in Bildung and Transformative Learning; From Self-Directed Learning to Self-Formation: Transforming the Self through Bildung? A French Approach to the Notions of Formation and Transformation; Transformative Learning as Change and Development of Identity; Re-Narrating a Moral Self: Transformative and Restorative Learning for Re-Building Social Solidarity; Sustaining Collective Transformative Learning: Informal Learning and Revisions; Love Actually: Transformative Learning Meets Bildung, and the Psychosocial Concept of Recognition; Comparative Perspectives on Theoretical Frameworks of Adult Education: Transformative Learning and Critical Educational Theory
• Section 6: Transformative Learning and Bildung in Times of Lifelong Learning; A Re-Imagination of the Transition to Adulthood: Transformative Learning and Bildung’s Function in the Lives of Youth; Bildung and Transformative Learning in a Globalized World: Change of Concepts through Craftsmanship, Professionalism and Entrepreneurship; Is There Space for Bildung and Transformative Learning in the Lifelong Learning Discourse?
• Section 7: Fostering Transformative Learning and Bildung; From Transformative Leadership to Transformative Learning: New Approaches in Leadership Development; Parent Training Experiences in Italy: Transformative Learning Models in Comparison; Fostering Transformative Learning through Dialogical Writing; Transformative Learning, Bildung, and Art Education for Adults: Two Different Theoretical Angles on Arts Education and on How They May Help to Identify Research Questions in the Field; The Contribution of Aesthetic Experience in Transformative Learning and Bildung; Transformative Pilgrimage Learning and Spirituality on the Caminio de Santiago: Making the Way by Walking; Narrating Migration: The Result of Transformative Learning; Afterword: Transformative Learning Met Bildung: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward; Name Index; Subject Index.