Catalysts for Transformative Learning in the Making of Scientist- Environmentalists: A Consideration of the Lives of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and David Suzuki1

This is a study of the role of transformative learning in the lives of three well-known scientist-environmentalists. It identifies catalysts for transformative learning in their life transitions from positivist-scientists to scientist-environmentalists. The paper concludes that transformative learning was not only an individual process, but also that each scientist helped provoke a collective process of transformative learning and social change