9th Transformative Learning Conference

The theme for the conference is Transformative Learning in Time of Crisis: Individual and Collective Challenges. The emergence of crisis represents both an opportunity and a challenge for professionals in the field of education. The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity to reinterpret through the lens of transformative learning theories the nature of contemporary political, economic, social, psychological, cultural or environmental crisis, as experienced individually and collectively. Proposal deadline is 1 Nov. 2010; paper
deadline is 15 April 2011.
Keynote speakers and plenary sessions will center on the conference theme. In addition to sessions dealing with individual and collective experiences of crisis, proposals are invited on all dimensions of research, theory and practice dealing with transformative learning. We invite you to submit proposals in four categories: paper presentations, innovative experiential sessions, symposia
and roundtable.
Led by a group of conference presenters and leaders, participants will collaboratively explore a diversity of perspectives on transformative learning and the various contexts where it can happen. The conference will juxtapose and articulate conceptions, practices, ideologies and epistemologies in conversation with each other, exploring differing definitions and visions of transformative learning, appreciating existing contributions, and envisioning future possibilities. We invite you to come together in community through authentic engagement with other scholars and practitioners who care about the transformative potential of learning and other related issues. Participants will focus on transformative learning for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities, as well as for social change.
Although English is the official language of the conference, there will be translation in Greek and French during the plenary sessions. Papers, experiential sessions, symposia and roundtables proposals and abstracts have to be submitted in English. However, we will to work together, drawing on the linguistic skills of attendees, as much as we can, and in the interests of inclusivity, to ensure that
people may present in, say, French, or other languages, but with colleagues present to assist with translation and communication issues.

To see more details on the conference, click to download the full package of information in English or in French