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.