Critical Reflection

Transformational learning precipitates deep and lasting personal change, and often involves a paradigm shift in perception of self in the world. How Does Transformation Occur? Perspective transformation involves a sequence of learning activities that begins with a disorienting dilemma and concludes with a changed self-concept that enables a reintegration into one’s life context on the basis of conditions dictated by a new perspective. (Mezirow, 1998). Transformational learning as described by Cranton (1994) occurs through critical reflection and enables individuals to revise and develop new assumptions and ways of seeing the world