Transformative Learning and Adult Higher Education

EDITORS' NOTES 7 Judith Beth Cohen, Jo Ann Gammel, Amy Rutstein-Riley 1. The Spiral Road of Transformative Learning: Through the Lens of College Students with Learning Differences 11 Lynn Abrahams This chapter explores how college students with diagnosed learning differences develop identity within the family system. 2. Transformative Learning and the Road to Maternal Leadership 19 Rachel Panton This study of three African-American holistic health educators shows how their woman-centered learning cultures influenced their personal transformations and leadership roles. 3. A Relational Approach to Mentoring Women Doctoral Students 27 Jo Ann Gammel, Amy Rutstein-Riley In an examination of six dyads of women advisors and advisees in one doctoral program, the authors found that a relational model for mentoring women can be an alternative to the authority-based approach most common to doctoral work. 4. Examining Transformation on the Road to the Professoriate 37 Anne C. Benoit In this chapter, two college teachers, an African-American woman and a White man, identify pivotal events in their development as educators. 5. Whose Job Is It to Change? 47 Kathryn L. Nielsen Co-director of a college writing center proposes a plan for insitutional change that honors the voices of English language learners rather than expecting them to adjust to the dominant instituational culture. 6. Making Voices Visible: Using Visual Data in Teacher Education and Research 57 Debra Murphy This chapter describes changes in the thinking and practice of eight early childhood teachers after they used visual data to complete a teacher research assignment in a community college teacher education course. 7. Teaching Creative Nonfiction: The Transformative Nature of the Workshop Method 67 Suzanne Cope A writer and teacher of nonfiction examines the widely used workshop method to show how student writers gain greater control over their choice of language, and insight into the meaning of their writing. 8. Transformative Graduate Education Through the Use of Restorative Practices 75 John W. Bailie, Craig W. Adamson As professors and administrators in a graduate program based upon Restorative Justice, these authors show how classroom pedagogy can model alternatives that promote personal and professional transformation. 9. Adult Learning, Transformative Education, and Indigenous Epistemology 87 Diane McEachern A social worker, teaching in an undergraduate satellite program in Alaska, explores how a culturally resonant degree program can overcome the barriers faced by native Yupik women attending college. 10. Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood: Teaching Transformation in a Nonformal Learning Environment 97 Amy Tate A yoga teacher and practitioner explores the widespread phenomenon of yoga by focusing on its empowering effects for pregnant women and its implications for challenging the traditional medical model. 11. Embodying Authenticity in Higher Education 107 Laura Douglass The author explores how listening to the wisdom of her body was a primary method she used to interpret the competing demands and disorienting dilemmas of scholarship, teaching, and administration. INDEX 117