Jack Mezirow Explained

Jack Mezirow (1923 - September 24, 2014)[1] [2] was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.[3] [4]

Mezirow received his B.A. and M.A. Degree in Social Sciences and Education from the University of Minnesota, and his Ed.D. Degree in Adult Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York,[5] and the founder of the Adult Education Guided Intensive Study (AEGIS) doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University.[6]

Work

Mezirow was influenced by Paulo Freire and Jürgen Habermas.[7] He was widely acknowledged as the founder of the concept of transformative learning.

Perspective transformation

Mezirow began his theory of perspective transformation when he studied adult women who chose to re-enter higher education.[8] Mezirow's initial research and further study led him to surmise that adults do not simply make application of old ways of learning to new situations - instead they "discover a need to acquire new perspectives in order to gain a more complete understanding of changing events".[9] Mezirow then coined this "reflective-change-action" process as Perspective Transformation. Mezirow continued to find consistencies in the adult learners he studied. He then identified 10 stages that adult learners encounter as they experience perspective transformations.[10]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jack Mezirow, Who Transformed the Field of Adult Learning, Dies at 91 . October 11, 2014 . TC Media Center . Teachers College, Columbia University . July 9, 2015.
  2. Web site: Dear Colleagues: It is with sadness that... - International Adult Education Facebook. www.facebook.com. en. 2017-01-19.
  3. Web site: Digital Commons at NLU National Louis University Scholarship and Digital Collections. nlu.nl.edu. en. 2018-02-10.
  4. News: Jack Mezirow, Who Transformed the Field of Adult Learning, Dies at 91. columbia.edu. October 11, 2014. Joe Levine.
  5. Web site: Jack Mezirow. 2011-03-27. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110505002036/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/tc/parker/adlearnville/transformativelearning/mezirow.htm. 2011-05-05.
  6. Web site: Adult Education Guided Intensive Study (AEGIS) Program at Teachers College, Columbia University . 2012-01-23.
  7. An Overview on Transformative Learning in Ed. Illeris, Knud: Contemporary Theories of Learning, Routledge, 2009, pp. 90-105
  8. Book: Mezirow. Jack. Education for perspective transformation: Women's re-entry programs in community colleges.. 1978. Teacher's College, Columbia University. New York.
  9. Book: Mezirow. Jack. Transformative dimensions of adult learning.. 1991. Jossey Bass. San Francisco. 3.
  10. Book: Mezirow. Jack. Transformative Dimensions of adult learning. 1991. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco. 168–169.

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