Any number of institutions promote the idea of 'transformative learning' but leave it undefined as Duke does in its strategic plan, and the authors right take the document to task for its lack of specificity. "The document fails to fully answer the question 'transformative learning towards what end?'" Yet in a tango worthy of the Scholastics they assert that transformative learning is nonetheless happening, describing it as "students who arrive on campus with unexamined assumptions and limited capacity for perspective-taking (and) graduate with deeper and more nuanced ways of seeing the world and approaching social and intellectual problems." You can either say transformative learning is happening or you can say you don't know what it is - you can't say both.
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