Jack Mezirow
Jack Mezirow is a currently retired professor of adult and continuing education.[1] Mezirow is widely acknowledged as the founder of the concept transformative learning One of his main points in his work with transformative learning, is the division of the knowledge sphere into three types of knowledge
- Instrumental
- Communicative
- Emancipatory
Where the two former are considered the most common types of technical and practical knowledge, especially the so called emancipatory dimension beholds the notion that every individual possesses the potential to breake free from its own situation: to transform its life. This acquires the individual learner's realization of its current life conditions.
Professional Life
- B.A. and M.A. Degree in Social Sciences and Education from the University of Minnesota
- Ed.D. Degree in Adult Education from the University of California at Los Angeles.
- Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.[2]
- Founder and director of Adult Education Guided Independent Study doctoral programme (AEGIS) at C.U.
Influences
Paulo Freire Paulo Freire and Jürgen Habemas[3]
Bibliography
- Fostering Critical reflection in adulthood, Jossey-Bass Inc, 1990
- Learning as transformation: Critical Perspectives on a theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass Inc, 2000
- Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning, Jossey-Bass Inc, 1991
- Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace and Education, Jossey-Bass Inc, 2009
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