![]() ![]() Expansion of Perception – coming to see objects, events, or issues in the world through the lens of the content (e.g., seeing rocks as stories).Motivate Use – application of learning even when you don’t have to (e.g., analyzing the story of a rock when hanging out at the lake).Transformative experience has been more precisely defined in terms of three characteristics: ![]() How great is that? Learning geology enriched and expanded this girl’s everyday experience and transformed her relationship with rocks. I think about where it came from, where it formed, where it’s been, what its name is… I used to skip rocks down at the lake but now I can’t bear to throw away all those stories! (Girod & Wong, 2002, p. Now when I don’t have anything to do, I look at a rock and try to tell its story. I think about rocks differently than I did before. Take the comments of this fourth-grade student after completing a unit on rocks: Transformative experiences occur when students take ideas outside the classroom and use them to see and experience the world in exciting new ways. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38, 317-336. J., & The Dewey Ideas Group at Michigan State University. Philosophical groundings for a theory of transformative experience. Pugh, K., Kriescher, D., Cropp, S., & Younis, M. Transformative experience: An integrative construct in the spirit of Deweyan pragmatism. It combines ideas from John Dewey’s theory of aesthetics and his philosophy of education.įor an overview of the theory and related work see: Transformative Experience Theory focuses on how in-school learning can enrich out-of-school experience by expanding perception, contributing meaning and value to future experience, and transforming our relationship with the world. Hence, what concerns him, as teacher, is the ways in which that subject may become a part of experience. problem is that of inducing a vital and personal experiencing. (Jackson, John Dewey and the Lessons of Art, p. They modify our ways of perceiving the world, thus leaving us and the world itself irrevocably changed. They contribute meaning and value to future experience. The arts do more than provide us with fleeting moments of elation and delight. Our interactions with art objects epitomize what it means to undergo an experience, a term with a very special meaning for Dewey. ![]() Transformative science education: Change how your students experience the world. ![]()
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