Mezirow's Transformative Learning

Transformative Learning operates on the learner's builtin schema. We all have schema's built up early in our life experience. New learning must attach to previous learning or the existing schema. Truly Transformative learning takes more work since it may involve rearranging the current schema in new ways to attach new learning. Usually we need precipitating events to shake us up to work on the schema. For example, people with privileged schemas must encounter a stark inequity at an emotional level before they might reconsider their automatically accepted privileges inn order to negotiate a more equitable balance of sharing privilege. GIVC provides that kind of cross cultural experiences.

Transformative Learning

Transformative learning is being transformed by the material and changing the schema or paradigm you have.
I recently was exposed to Transformative Teaching which was not fully explained but seems to follow the idea of tranformative learning but once executed by teachers who do not fully comprehend it becomes do as we do teaching. And the example I learnt from was a preschool or grade school teacher's processes.

Kolb's Experiential Learning

GIVC is designed with educational and technology theories in mind.
One such is Kolb's theory of experiential learning. There are four quadrants and each contributes to the learning through the conceptual understanding and finally "doing" or taking action. In the GIVC system a learner is part of a class where a new principle is introduced and the learner can understand the conceptual basis of the new learning and can ask questions with the aim to actually "doing something" to solidify the learning.