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      Transformative dimensions of lifelong learning: Mezirow, Rorty and COVID-19

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          COVID-19 has done significant damage to individuals, families, workers and the economy. What is not known about the virus is part of the problem, and the knowledge gap drives an unprecedented and urgent search for knowledge. This article explores the challenges for lifelong learning and the relevance of transformative learning. Disorientation, disorienting dilemmas and critical reflection are the ingredients of such learning, since we can only learn our way out of this situation. The authors present American adult educator Jack Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning (TL) as an appropriate learning framework for lifelong learning. They draw on the work of American philosopher Richard Rorty and German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas to re-shape TL so that it supports the kind of learning that is sufficiently complex and nuanced to enable us to deal with contradictions, ambivalence and meaning-making in a world where not-knowing is the new normal.

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          Les dimensions transformatrices de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie : Mezirow, Rorty et la COVID-19 – La COVID-19 a causé des dommages considérables aux individus, aux familles, aux travailleurs et à l’économie. Ce que nous ignorons du virus fait partie du problème et cette absence de savoir impulse une quête de connaissances urgente et sans précédent. Cet article se penche sur les défis qui se posent à l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie et sur la pertinence de l’apprentissage transformateur. La désorientation, les dilemmes désorientants et la réflexion critique sont les ingrédients de cet apprentissage étant donné que nous ne pouvons sortir de cette situation qu’en apprenant. Les auteurs présentent la théorie de l’apprentissage transformateur du professeur américain en éducation des adultes Jack Mezirow comme un cadre didactique approprié pour l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie. Ils s’inspirent des travaux du philosophe américain Richard Rorty et du philosophe et sociologue allemand Jürgen Habermas pour refondre l’apprentissage transformateur de sorte qu’il accompagne un type d’apprentissage suffisamment complexe et nuancé qui nous permette de faire face aux contradictions, à l’ambivalence et la recherche de sens dans un monde où ne pas savoir est la nouvelle norme.

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                saskia.eschenbacher@akkon-hochschule.de
                ejf2129@tc.columbia.edu
                Journal
                Int Rev Educ
                Int Rev Educ
                International Review of Education. Internationale Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft. Revue Internationale De Pedagogie
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                0020-8566
                1573-0638
                25 September 2020
                25 September 2020
                : 1-16
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                [1 ]Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany
                [2 ]GRID grid.21729.3f, ISNI 0000000419368729, Teachers College, , Columbia University, ; New York, USA
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3460-3881
                Article
                9859
                10.1007/s11159-020-09859-6
                7517743
                33012842
                d4b84366-f0a2-4f7d-8b9d-80eb1aa48e83
                © The Author(s) 2020

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