When the bottom falls out of the bucket: Toward a holistic perspective on transformative learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Ĭranton, P., & Roy, M. Grace (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass reader on contemporary issues in adult education. Journal of Transformative Education, 6(1), 33–47.Ĭranton, P. The transformative educator as learning companion. Understanding and promoting transformative learning (2nd ed.). Understanding and promoting transformative learning: A guide for educators and adults. Radicalizing learning: Adult education for a just world. Journal of Transformative Education, 11(1), 26–44.īrookfield, S. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īladdin. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This chapter explores film narrative, character development (particularly the student/teacher relationship) and the star persona in order to engage with the transformative education process as represented through the films of Robin Williams. USA: Universal Pictures), Williams is a medical student, Hunter Adams, who rejects the impersonalized approach to doctor/patient relationships that are taught at the university the student, in this case, transforms the university academic staff, and some of its students, and their idea of the quality of patient treatment. Lastly, in Patch Adams (1998 Tom Shadyac. Sean Maguire, who takes in the troubled, eponymous Will for personalized behavioral therapy which shifts Will’s worldview. USA: Miramax), Robin Williams is a therapist/educator, Dr. In Good Will Hunting (1997 Gus Van Sant, dir. USA: Touchstone Pictures) Williams’ character, John Keating, is a high school English teacher who uses teaching techniques that ultimately transform his students. In Dead Poets Society (1989 Peter Weir, dir. In particular, this chapter will address the roles that Robin Williams played in three Hollywood feature films from 1989 to 1998. Drawing from the foundational scholarly theories of Mezirow, the continued research of Cranton, and others, this chapter analyzes transformative learning, examining the student/teacher relationship in the context of contemporary Hollywood film. Carpe Diem.According to Jack Mezirow the student, in the transformative learning experience, goes through a distinct change in identity: his or her world view has been significantly changed in some way, shape or form. Will I watch this movie again, I don't think so.īut please, please watch it just once, you won't ever regret it. Robin Williams was not acting he was believing, everything in this movie comes across as genuine, a slice of reality, a harsh but beautiful one at that. The themes this movie explores such as, never letting a moment slip by where you don't think for yourself, where you don't seize an opportunity, it does so beautifully. For something to be beautiful it must also have a side of danger, and that's what freedom of thought is, as is mentioned in the movie "we must constantly look at things in a different way," and that's beautiful! Yes, it means at times we don't agree, yes it means you might give this movie a 4/10 but I'll be damned if that changes my opinion of it. The thing conformity doesn't give you though, is a life, one worth living. Conformity is easy, conformity is comfortable, conformity gets you good grades, trust me you're listening right now to a past perfect GPA teacher's pet. Your feelings I can assure you will be the same as mine when the credits start rolling, rolling like the tears down your cheeks. This review is written by a boy who also finds himself on the edge of adolescence and adulthood, does that mean I'm biased, absolutely, but everyone who watches this film is, everyone can relate. I'll be honest, I could find things to critique about this film, the instance of a scene that was used twice and felt sloppy perhaps but this movie never claimed to be perfect, just to be emotionally moving, and that it certainly is. There's the expression that something "tugs at your heartstrings," well this movie ripped mine out. Personal Rating: 9/10 This movie shattered me.
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