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Knowing the Self Through Fantasy: Toward a Mytho-poetic View of Transformative Learning

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    Knowing the Self Through Fantasy: Toward a Mytho-poetic View of Transformative Learning

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Research suggests that adult learning can have a profound effect on our sense of self. Emergence of transformational theory provides a framework for understanding these processes of self-knowing. Yet, this research and theory is dominated by an heroic perspective, in which transformation results from hard effort of a rational ego. Relying on a philosophy of imagination and Jungian psychology, transformative learning is re-visioned here as a journey of soul, in which image and fantasy mediate processes of self-knowing.

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Dirkx, J. M., (1998) “Knowing the Self Through Fantasy: Toward a Mytho-poetic View of Transformative Learning”, Adult Education Research Conference 1(1998).

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1998-05-29