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This Chapter introduces the objectives of the collection which includes identifying a European perspective on Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning. The structure of the collection and the contributing authors are introduced.
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It is interesting that Mezirow, in his later texts, uses alternatively the terms “Transformation Theory” and “transformative learning theory” in order to name his theory, while at the same time using the latter in order to refer to the broad transformative learning’s theoretical framework (see Mezirow, 2006, 2009).
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Mezirow, J. (2009). Transformative learning theory. In J. Mezirow, E. W. Taylor, & Associates (Eds.), Transformative learning in practice. Insights from community, workplace and higher education (pp. 18–32). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Nicoll, K., Biesta, G., & Morgan-Klein, N. (2014). (His)story of the European Society of Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA): A narrative history of intellectual evolution and transformation in the field of adult education in Europe. Retrieved from http://www.esrea.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/11/ESREA_HISTORY_REPORT_SUBMITTED.pdf
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Kokkos, A., Fleming, T., Finnegan, F. (2019). Introduction. In: Fleming, T., Kokkos, A., Finnegan, F. (eds) European Perspectives on Transformation Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19159-7_1
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