Generally, humans learn from experience as soon as their eyes begin to see the reality around them, after they are born. Their raw experiences from their parents, friends, school and the society, as they grow, develop their meaning perspective. Acting on their acquired knowledge, beliefs, moral values and emotional perspectives tended to shape their attitude and character that becomes the person that they are. However, since many of their flawed meaning perspective have not been challenged to undergo transformation of meaning advancing in age, therefore, their flawed perspective created wrong values for them that somehow flawed their judgment and characters as well. How can this personality problem be rectified undergoing Mezirow’s “Theory
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”The first important theory is the “Meaning Organization or the Frame of Reference.” This is defined as the organization of presumptions and anticipation from which students sift their thoughts, this then provides a substance for making meaning within which they may appropriate their sensory experience. In detail, “Meaning Organization” has two dimensions, and they are the “Habit of Mind” and “Points of View.” The “Habit of Mind” is composed of a set of generalized conceptions and behaviors that filters interpretations to generate meaning of an experience. While “Point of View” is the generalized mental grasp of individuals how they see and consider their beliefs, feelings and attitude value of people. However, further awareness of any situations, provides a person a more concrete meaning of the experience that makes him easily change his considerations. Notably, most people are not aware that they have a “Habit of Mind”. Based on the above information, Mezirow defines “Transformative Learning” as a process by which the person transforms his taken for granted frames of reference, meaning perspectives, and habit of mind. The learning outcome made him more discerning, and reflective of his ways that he developed the courage to change his self and his ways. Moreover, his mind generates acceptable …show more content…
The dictionary.com defines experience as knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what has observed, encountered or undergone. Therefore, experience is learning, however it has to be processed well to get to the bottom of its fundamental meaning. The procedure of processing experience leads to the Second component, which is the “Critical Reflection.” This is the analytical method of examining beliefs and assumptions that meaningfully influence beliefs and assumptions which make sense of the experience. Thus, this initiated revision of the distorted assumptions about ourselves and others creating a new meaning. There are three different ways people reflect on their very experience, they are the following: 1.Content Reflection; 2. Process Reflection; 3. Premise Reflection.” The “Content Reflection” is when one deeply thinks about the substance, essence and significance of the actual experience. The “Process Reflection” is when one weighs up the series of action to deal with the usefulness of the experience and decide how to use it to achieve a suitable outcome. The “Premise Reflection” permits people to correlate and differentiate their fresh experience with their previously held conceptions and long held values and
”The first important theory is the “Meaning Organization or the Frame of Reference.” This is defined as the organization of presumptions and anticipation from which students sift their thoughts, this then provides a substance for making meaning within which they may appropriate their sensory experience. In detail, “Meaning Organization” has two dimensions, and they are the “Habit of Mind” and “Points of View.” The “Habit of Mind” is composed of a set of generalized conceptions and behaviors that filters interpretations to generate meaning of an experience. While “Point of View” is the generalized mental grasp of individuals how they see and consider their beliefs, feelings and attitude value of people. However, further awareness of any situations, provides a person a more concrete meaning of the experience that makes him easily change his considerations. Notably, most people are not aware that they have a “Habit of Mind”. Based on the above information, Mezirow defines “Transformative Learning” as a process by which the person transforms his taken for granted frames of reference, meaning perspectives, and habit of mind. The learning outcome made him more discerning, and reflective of his ways that he developed the courage to change his self and his ways. Moreover, his mind generates acceptable …show more content…
The dictionary.com defines experience as knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what has observed, encountered or undergone. Therefore, experience is learning, however it has to be processed well to get to the bottom of its fundamental meaning. The procedure of processing experience leads to the Second component, which is the “Critical Reflection.” This is the analytical method of examining beliefs and assumptions that meaningfully influence beliefs and assumptions which make sense of the experience. Thus, this initiated revision of the distorted assumptions about ourselves and others creating a new meaning. There are three different ways people reflect on their very experience, they are the following: 1.Content Reflection; 2. Process Reflection; 3. Premise Reflection.” The “Content Reflection” is when one deeply thinks about the substance, essence and significance of the actual experience. The “Process Reflection” is when one weighs up the series of action to deal with the usefulness of the experience and decide how to use it to achieve a suitable outcome. The “Premise Reflection” permits people to correlate and differentiate their fresh experience with their previously held conceptions and long held values and