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- Seven fictional characters meet at the Butterfly Café to engage in conversations about transformative learning.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Readers are given a window into Lawrence and Cranton’s analysis and interpretive process as they engage in dialogue with Celie from the Color Purple, Macon from Accidental Tourist, Mariam and Laila from A Thousand Splendid Suns, and others. The dialogues become a story within the stories told in the novels.
The end product is the introduction of a new model of transformative learning based on a metaphor of planting, cultivating, and growing seeds. Central to the model is becoming conscious, a process that appeared in each of the novels.
Readers will find insights into transformative learning that are outside of the standard academic treatment of the topic. Moving the research into the realm of fiction provides the opportunity for a creative exploration of transformative learning. Yet, since fiction inevitably mirrors reality, readers will be able to relate the analysis, the dialogues, and the ensuing model to their own lives and to their adult education practice.
Authors and Affiliations
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National Louis University, Chicago, USA
Randee Lipson Lawrence
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University of New Brunswick, Canada
Patricia Cranton
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Novel Idea
Book Subtitle: Researching Transformative Learning in Fiction
Authors: Randee Lipson Lawrence, Patricia Cranton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-037-6
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-037-6Published: 25 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 92
Topics: Education, general