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This contribution aims to explore the connections between the Transformative Learning Theory and the Actor Network Theory (ANT). Starting from a different theoretical framework, the two perspectives can be compared in their core concepts: meanings and materiality, individuals and practices, emancipation rather than power. This analysis could improve a deep understanding of transformational processes as sociomaterial phenomena.
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Melacarne, C., Fabbri, L. (2022). Transformative Learning and Sociomateriality. In: Nicolaides, A., Eschenbacher, S., Buergelt, P.T., Gilpin-Jackson, Y., Welch, M., Misawa, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_10
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