Transformative learning theory illustrates how individuals can experience significant changes in relation to their own behaviours, beliefs, and perspectives during the course of their lives through critical reflection that acts as a form of self-emancipation on the questioning of personal assumptions and beliefs. In his formulation, Jack Mezirow interprets the adult learning process as an effort towards personal change with a view to restructuring the frames of reference towards more open and integrated models. These frames are crucial as they comprise the basis on which the meaning attributed to life experience takes shape and directs the course of action. In recent years, a number of different currents and interpretative strands have emerged that contribute to the extension and evolution of transformative learning from a critical and ameliorative developmental perspective. They are based on the work of a series of international scholars interested in transformative discourse leading to a more complex understanding of the theory as well as the concept of transformation, starting from its strengths, weaknesses, and open issues, with important effects and implications for the practice. Indeed, transformative theory is nowadays applied to a variety of contexts and situations from organisational development to training and educational innovation as well as community development consistently with the social, educational needs of current society. Following an extensive exploration of transformative theory in its being and becoming, this study maps and monitors its recent evolution in relation to the studies carried out within the Italian scientific community, by outlining how the transformative model has established itself and what directions it takes and aims to pursue. With a qualitative design declined in a narrative form the research gives voice to the contemporary scholars most involved and representative of transformative learning inside the Italian academic setting. The objective is to outline what are the orientations, motivations, contributions, emerging applications, and future directions of transformative theory in order to create a deeper understanding of its manifestations with an eye to new insights which are crucial for the cultural and scientific progression of the transformative challenge.
La teoria dell’apprendimento trasformativo illustra come gli individui possono arrivare a sperimentare durante il corso della propria vita cambiamenti significativi in relazione ai propri comportamenti, alle convinzioni e alle proprie prospettive, attraverso un processo di riflessione critica che agisce, come forma di auto-emancipazione, sulla messa in discussione degli assunti e delle credenze personali. Nella formulazione della teoria dell’apprendimento trasformativo Jack Mezirow interpreta il processo di apprendimento adulto come uno sforzo per il cambiamento personale in un’ottica di ristrutturazione, verso modelli più aperti e integrati, delle cornici di riferimento su cui il significato attribuito all’esperienza prende forma, orientandone il corso dell’azione. A partire dal lavoro svolto da numerosi studiosi e studiose interessate al discorso trasformativo, negli anni più recenti sono emersi una serie di correnti e filoni interpretativi che contribuiscono all’estensione e all’evoluzione del modello trasformativo in un’ottica di sviluppo critico e migliorativo, a partire dai suoi punti di forza così come dalle criticità emerse, con importanti ricadute e implicazioni per la pratica. La teoria trasformativa, infatti, si applica oggigiorno a una varietà di contesti e situazioni, dallo sviluppo organizzativo alla formazione e innovazione della didattica fino allo sviluppo di comunità, in relazione alle esigenze educative e alle sfide della società contemporanea. In seguito all’amplia esplorazione della teoria trasformativa nel suo essere e divenire, il presente studio si propone di mappare e monitorare la sua recente evoluzione in connessione agli studi svolti nell’ambito e per conto della comunità scientifica italiana, osservando come il modello trasformativo si è affermato in uno specifico approccio peculiare e quali direzioni percorre e intende perseguire. Attraverso un disegno metodologico qualitativo declinato in forma narrativa teso a dare voce agli studiosi e alle studiose contemporanee maggiormente implicate e rappresentative dello sviluppo trasformativo italiano, si intendono delineare gli orientamenti, le motivazioni, i contributi, le applicazioni emergenti e le direzioni future al fine di ottenere una comprensione più profonda delle sue manifestazioni, mettendo in luce nuove intuizioni e spunti di riflessione vitali per la progressione culturale e scientifica della sfida trasformativa.
APPRENDIMENTO TRASFORMATIVO E ADULTITA’. Apprendere in età adulta tra nuove sfide e future prospettive
MANTOVANI, LETIZIA
2023/2024
Abstract
Transformative learning theory illustrates how individuals can experience significant changes in relation to their own behaviours, beliefs, and perspectives during the course of their lives through critical reflection that acts as a form of self-emancipation on the questioning of personal assumptions and beliefs. In his formulation, Jack Mezirow interprets the adult learning process as an effort towards personal change with a view to restructuring the frames of reference towards more open and integrated models. These frames are crucial as they comprise the basis on which the meaning attributed to life experience takes shape and directs the course of action. In recent years, a number of different currents and interpretative strands have emerged that contribute to the extension and evolution of transformative learning from a critical and ameliorative developmental perspective. They are based on the work of a series of international scholars interested in transformative discourse leading to a more complex understanding of the theory as well as the concept of transformation, starting from its strengths, weaknesses, and open issues, with important effects and implications for the practice. Indeed, transformative theory is nowadays applied to a variety of contexts and situations from organisational development to training and educational innovation as well as community development consistently with the social, educational needs of current society. Following an extensive exploration of transformative theory in its being and becoming, this study maps and monitors its recent evolution in relation to the studies carried out within the Italian scientific community, by outlining how the transformative model has established itself and what directions it takes and aims to pursue. With a qualitative design declined in a narrative form the research gives voice to the contemporary scholars most involved and representative of transformative learning inside the Italian academic setting. The objective is to outline what are the orientations, motivations, contributions, emerging applications, and future directions of transformative theory in order to create a deeper understanding of its manifestations with an eye to new insights which are crucial for the cultural and scientific progression of the transformative challenge.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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