Humanism & Transformational Learning

1. Humanism & Transformational Learning

2. humanism Maslow (1908 – 1970) Rogers (1902-1987)

3. maslow • Motivation based on a hierarchy of needs

4. Rogers • Student-centered learning • We behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation. As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

5. Transformative Learning • "The process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or revised interpretation of the meaning of one’s experience in order to guide future action" • (Mezirow, 1996: 162).

6. Freire • 1921 – 1997 • Brazil • Working primarily among the illiterate poor in Brazil • Attacked "banking" concept of education

7. Jack Mezirow • 1927 - present • 1978

8. Mezirow’s Phases • A disorienting dilemma • A self examination with feelings of guilt or shame • A critical assessment of epistemic, sociocultural, or psychic assumptions • Recognition that one’s discontent and the process of transformation are shared and that others have negotiated a similar change • Exploration of options for new roles, relationships, and actions   • Planning a course of action • Acquisition of knowledge and skills for implementing one’s plan • Provision 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 perspective

9. Kegan & Lahey • Robert Kegan • 1946 – present • Lisa Lahey • Professors - Harvard University College of Education

10. Immunity to change