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  • A beautiful metaphor: Transformative learning theory

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    Howie, Peter
    Bagnall, Richard
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    Bagnall, Richard G.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    This article presents a critique of both transformative learning theory and critical comments on it to date. It argues that transformative learning theory remains substantively the same as its initial exposition, in spite of a raft of problematic contentions voiced against it. The theory is argued here to be conceptually problematic, except at the level of a conceptual metaphor, which latter renders its many inconsistencies inconsequential and which explains, not just its continued popularity among educational practitioners, but also it's largely being ignored as a subject worthy of serious critique.This article presents a critique of both transformative learning theory and critical comments on it to date. It argues that transformative learning theory remains substantively the same as its initial exposition, in spite of a raft of problematic contentions voiced against it. The theory is argued here to be conceptually problematic, except at the level of a conceptual metaphor, which latter renders its many inconsistencies inconsequential and which explains, not just its continued popularity among educational practitioners, but also it's largely being ignored as a subject worthy of serious critique.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Lifelong Education
    Volume
    32
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.817486
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 32(6), 2013, pp. 816-836. International Journal of Lifelong Education is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Education systems
    Education systems not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/59730
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