Agency: The Force and Compass of Transformation

Autor/in	Green, Larry
Titel	Agency: The Force and Compass of Transformation
Quelle	In: Journal of Transformative Education, 20 (2022) 2, S.105-121 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Green, Larry)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-3446
DOI	10.1177/15413446211028522
Schlagwörter	Transformative Learning; Personal Autonomy; Psychological Patterns; Self Concept; Learning Theories; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pädagogische Transformation; Individuelle Autonomie; Selbstkonzept; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Angst
Abstract	Mezirow's theory of transformative learning presupposes agency. Agency is the means by which the limitations of an inadequate meaning perspective are transcended. It is the creative activity necessitated by an encounter with a disorienting dilemma. This implies that transformation cannot be achieved "from within" the existent meaning perspective. It can only be exercised from "outside" that constellation of constructs. This depends on the person dissociating from that perspective in order to enter a groundless state where originary thought is possible. In that state, they have access to an impersonal consciousness. That impersonal consciousness, which constructed the problematic meaning perspective, is now utilized for designing a more adequate one. These processes are accompanied by associated affects. For example, anxiety is the affect associated with groundlessness whereas depression with the lack of agency. I suggest that agency arises when the situation demands it and falls away after the dilemma has been addressed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01