Beyond the rhetoric: What do the empirical studies say about Mezirow’s transformative learning theory?

Edward W. Taylor

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Beyond the rhetoric: What do the empirical studies say about Mezirow’s transformative learning theory?

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- Edward W. Taylor
- Antioch University-Seattle

Abstract

This literature review is an attempt to get beyond the theoretical rhetoric of Mezirow’s transformative learning and investigate what the empirical studies have to say about a perspective transformation. The review finds much support for Mezirow’s theory, but at the same time suggest a need to reconceptualize the process of a perspective transformation.

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How to Cite: Taylor, E. W. (1995) “Beyond the rhetoric: What do the empirical studies say about Mezirow’s transformative learning theory?”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(1995).