- attempts to explain how our expections, framed within cultural assumptions and presuppositions, directly influence the meaning we derive from experience
- not all learning is transformational
- Emancipatory learning is highly transformational
- communicative competence is necessary for tranformative learning, we must be able to negotiate meaning and question others' views rather than accept things because "they" say it is so
-transformative learning: a rational, cognitive process of critical reflection
- development and action follow on transformative learning (Taylor, p.11)... and the outcome of the development process is a more inclusive and dicriminating world view