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Perspective Transformation

Mezirow, Jack·1978·Adult Education
DOI 10.1177/074171367802800202
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A cardinal dimension of adult development and the learning most uniquely adult pertains to becoming aware that one is caught in one's own history and is reliving it. This leads to a process of perspective transforma tion involving a structural change in the way we see ourselves and our rela tionships. If the culture permits, we move toward perspectives which are more inclusive, discriminating and integrative of experience. We move away from uncritical, organic relationships toward contractual relation ships with others, institutions and society. Perspective transformation refor mulates the criteria for valuing and for taking action. Behavior change is often a function of such transformation. In this emerging transformation theory, adult education finds its own inherent goals and functions.

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  1. Bruner, Jerome S., 1973, The Relevance of Education
  2. Camus, Albert., 1955, The Myth of Sysyphus
  3. Freire, Paulo., 1970, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  4. Laing, R.D., 1969, Knots
  5. Singer, Irwin, 1965, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 5, 140

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Authors
Mezirow, J.
Affiliations
Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author
Mezirow, Jack
Venue
Adult Education
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1978-01
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
100-110
ISSN
0001-8481 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1177/074171367802800202
OpenAlex
W4238999211
Cited by
1,463
References
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Citations by year
2026: 90 · 2025: 142 · 2024: 109 · 2023: 119 · 2022: 144 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 115 · 2019: 110 · 2018: 76 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 51 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 29
FWCI
24.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Adult Education (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Adult and Continuing Education Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Ego Development and Educational Practices
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords
homography, adult development, adult learning, self-awareness, history and identity, relational change, behavior change, transformation theory

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