then full ofwonderful ideas. I was not involved in the academic world then, so can attest to
Mezirow's ideas having relevance to a practitioner. If I could use his ideas, ifI couldhelp …

Perspective transformation does necessitate a critique ofalienating social forms when one is
addressing socio-linguistic codes, which include social norms, language codes, ideologies …

Pietrykowski attributes to me an assumption that adult learners occupy different stages of
development. I believe that adult learners are at different phases in their movement toward …

I would like to respond to Clark and Wilson's critique of my interpretation of the nature of
adult learning,“Context and Rationality in Mezirow's Theory of Transformational Learning,” …

Empirical research on adult learning conducted by Jack Mezirow in the 1970s was
revolutionary and groundbreaking and contributed to the creation of a critical theory of adult …

This book draws on recent scholarship in adult education to provide practical ideas for adult
educators on how to stimulate and support their own development as educators and better …

Jack Mezirow's theory of transformative learning has evolved into a description of how
learners learn by integrating new knowledge with their existing knowledge, beliefs, and …

In the Spring, 1992 issue of AEQ, Phyllis Cunningham reviews, inter alia, my recent book,
Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning (Jossey-Bass, 1991). This book presents a …

A defining condition of being human is that we have to understand the meaning of our
experience. For some, any uncritically assimilated explanation by an authority figure will …

14 6. Adult Learning raditionally, developmental strategies for adult educators have focused
on the improvement ofskills and the acquisition of new techniques. As important as itis to be …