Transformative and Restorative Learning: A Vital Dialectic for Sustainable Societies

作者：Elizabeth A. Lange · 发表于：Adult Education Quarterly · 年份：2004 · DOI：10.1177/0741713603260276 · 被引用次数：246 · 研究领域：Adult and Continuing Education Topics、Service-Learning and Community Engagement、Critical and Liberation Pedagogy

This study explores the potential of critical transformative learning for revitalizing citizen action, particularly action toward a sustainable society. Through an action research process with 14 university extension participants, it was found that a dialectic of transformative and restorative learning is vital for fostering active citizenship. This study also found that transformation is not just an epistemological process involving a change in worldview and habits of thinking; it is also an ontological process where participants experienced a change in their being in the world. As participants shifted into a new mode of relatedness with their material, social, and environmental realities, they sought avenues for socially responsible involvement as active citizens.