Narrating Transformative Learning in Education

MORGAN GARDNER is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University, Canada, and the author of Linking Activism. URSULA KELLY is Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University, Canada, and author of Schooling Desire: Literacy, Cultural Politics and Pedagogy.

• Introduction * Integral Transformative Learning: An Overview - Edmund O'Sullivan * Transforming Education through a Pedagogy of Movement - Morgan Garnder * The Passion of Melancholy in Transformative Teaching - Ursula Kelly * "In Vision": Taking a Closer Look at the Educational, Creative, and Acvtivating Implications of What it Means to See - Angela MacDonald * Mapping the Transformative - Clar Doyle * Coffee Room Talk - Elizabeth Yeoman * Caring as Health Promotion: A Psychosocial and an Ethical Perspective - Martha Traverson-Yepez * All Stars and Discards: Schooling the Rest of Our Lives - Rosanna Tite * Art as Transformation - Kathy Browning * Pedagogical Crisis...Again: Some Reflections on the Work of Learning to Teach - Kate Bride * Academic Administration and the Journey Towards Holism - Alice Collins * Metamorphosis, Seeing Beauty and Social and Cultural Difference in Education - Connie Morrison * Epilogue: The Transformative Journey of a Vietnam War Resister - Jack Miller

"Here is a brave, refreshing and hopeful collection of counter-cultural stories which are at once passionate, honest and engaging. Together they map out diverse yet linking pathways, demonstrating that - despite operating within uncomprehending systems - the practice of education can be made both deeply relevant to our lives and actively transformative towards a more whole, sane future where the quality of all relationships is paramount." - Dr Stephen Sterling, Schumacher Reader in Education for Sustainability, Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth, UK"These narratives tell the story of what we transformative educators have taken on - learning in the dark. Story is one of the few forms that can hold the angst of our not knowing while moving our hearts to a deepened understanding. This is a work that gives meaning to the patterns that relate uncertainty to minute, but precious insights - the disorienting path of the transformative educator." - Joanne Gozawa, California Institute of Integral Studies