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Teachers as Agents of Societal Change Cover
By: Dzintra Iliško  
Open Access
|May 2009

Abstract

This article discusses theoretical and practical aspects of transformative learning that can become a way for adults to critically evaluate and essentially comprehend themselves and their input in education, whose goal is to create action towards a sustainable society. The review of contemporary literature focuses on sustainability as a holistic concept linked to the idea of vision as significant in engendering alternative transformative power. The framework of a sustainable development has a potential to stimulate teachers' engagement with educational and societal processes with respect to the future development of a society within an ethical framework around values of democracy and active societal engagement. The aim of the research presented here is to explore the effect of critical transformative learning process for revitalizing adults' societal action brought about by engagement with in-service course for adults, aiming to gradually assist adults helping them to become creative producers of self and agents of transformations in education.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10099-009-0002-9 | Journal eISSN: 1691-5534 | Journal ISSN: 1691-4147
Language: English
Page range: 14 - 26
Published on: May 4, 2009
Published by: Daugavpils University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2009 Dzintra Iliško, published by Daugavpils University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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