Transformative Learning

Jack Mezirow was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is generally considered to be the founder of the Transformative Learning concept, which divides knowledge into three types:...

Emergent Knowledge Concept, The

The Emergent Knowledge concept: a person’s location can have a dramatic effect on thinking, and aid the stimulation of different attitudes or unlock feelings. This might be simply standing rather than sitting, or moving to a different part of the room, or relocating...

Institute for Leadership and Management, The

The institute for Leadership and Management advocates Critical reflection. It means to contemplate with evaluation, through questioning and examining knowledge, beliefs and possible changes that need to be made. You think about your practice, for example in the...

Critical Reflection

The National School for Healthcare Competence describes Critical Reflection in the following terms: It is highly relevant as you transition from training into practice. It is particularly valuable during periods of unusual/rapid change to maintain safe clinical...

Scamper Method, The

The Scamper method was proposed by Alex Osborne in 1953. In 1971, American psychologist Bob Elerle advocated the SCAMPER method in his book SCAMPER: “Games for Imagination Development.” It is a way to stimulate people’s creative thinking and it is one of the easiest...