extrarational sources as symbols, images, and archetypes to assist in creating a
personal vision or meaning of what it means to be human (ibid.; Cranton 1994).
Transformative learning has two
layers that at times seem to be in conflict: the cognitive, rational, and
objective and the intuitive, imaginative, and subjective
By Susan Imel, published in ERIC Digest No. 200, 1998. This paper traces the concept of "transformative learning" from its development by Mezirow in 1978 through Robert Boyd and other contemporary thinkers.