Randee Lipson Lawrence

What You See Depends Upon How You Look: A Photographic Journey of Transformative Learning:

In this article, the authors explore the camera lens as a metaphor for seeing the world in different ways. Their own stories and backgrounds with photography illustrate how they have come to make these connections. The authors present six increasingly abstract approaches to photography, as a way of demonstrating ‘‘what you see depends upon how you look.’’ They relate this to a holistic approach to transformative learning.

Macon, Celie, Patricia and Me: Deepening Understanding of Transformative Learning through the Lives of Fictional Characters and Dialogue.

This article offers a reflective analysis on how the author came to a deeper understanding of transformative learning while collaborating on a research project with Patricia Cranton from 20122014, resulting in A Novel Idea: Researching Transformative Learning in Fiction, published by Sense Publishers in 2015. They read six contemporary novels and then analyzed the transformative experiences of the main characters. They created imagined dialogues between the characters to explore emergent themes from the research. They further explored the themes through dialogues between the two of them. Through her work and relationship with Patricia Cranton, Randee had the opportunity to explore new and exciting ways to understand transformative learning and to contribute to the development of theory. This writing is her tribute to Patricia. KEywoRDS Arts-Based Research, Collaborative Inquiry, Dialogue, Fiction, Transformative Learning

The Butterfly Cafe

In this chapter we explore the six themes that we found in the data: traumatic events, cultural norms, relationships, identity, consciousness and reality, and standing up for oneself, through a series of dialogues with our research participants. The dialogues take place in the Butterfly Cafe