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Informal Transformative Learning from a Life-Threatening Illness

Informal Transformative Learning from a Life-Threatening Illness

Chad Hoggan
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466682658|ISBN10: 1466682655|EISBN13: 9781466682665
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8265-8.ch005
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Hoggan, Chad. "Informal Transformative Learning from a Life-Threatening Illness." Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age, edited by Olutoyin Mejiuni, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 64-79. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8265-8.ch005

APA

Hoggan, C. (2015). Informal Transformative Learning from a Life-Threatening Illness. In O. Mejiuni, P. Cranton, & O. Táíwò (Eds.), Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age (pp. 64-79). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8265-8.ch005

Chicago

Hoggan, Chad. "Informal Transformative Learning from a Life-Threatening Illness." In Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age, edited by Olutoyin Mejiuni, Patricia Cranton, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, 64-79. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8265-8.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter explores how a life-threatening illness, specifically breast cancer, is an important site of informal learning. Research literature on the psychosocial transition of breast cancer, posttraumatic growth, and transformative learning theory are connected. Based on research, a model for informal transformative learning is presented. Broadly, this model has three elements: Crisis, Coping, and Engagement. The model addresses ways that a life-threatening illness can cause acute challenges, and that transformative learning occurs when a particular type of challenge is particularly problematic based on the person's habitual ways of thinking and being. The model positions this type of learning as an adaptive response to changes in a person's physical or social context changes, as well as when her positionality is altered within existing social contexts.

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