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 An example of a meaning schema is how we act around a homeless person.(([[http://​www.calpro-online.org/​eric/​docs/​taylor/​taylor_02.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. The theory and practice of transformative learning: a critical review. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 1998.]])) All the meaning schemata together form the //**meaning perspective**//,​ as Mezirow describes one's complete perspective on the world or a //general frame of reference//​. Meaning perspectives are acquired passively until early adulthood, often through significant experiences with teachers, or parents, and are later modified through transformative learning. An example of a meaning schema is how we act around a homeless person.(([[http://​www.calpro-online.org/​eric/​docs/​taylor/​taylor_02.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. The theory and practice of transformative learning: a critical review. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 1998.]])) All the meaning schemata together form the //**meaning perspective**//,​ as Mezirow describes one's complete perspective on the world or a //general frame of reference//​. Meaning perspectives are acquired passively until early adulthood, often through significant experiences with teachers, or parents, and are later modified through transformative learning.
  
-What characterizes transformative learning is the initial inability to fit the new material into the existing frames of schemata, what results in a need to change them. For example, a change of attitude to homeless people after realizing how hard their life is. These-like experiences are also called //​perspective transformations//​. They often come due to life experiences,​ often related to strong emotional responses. These may be personal crises like divorce, death of a friend or a family member, wars, natural or man-caused disasters, health crises, etc, but do not have to be so radical.(([[http://​meds.queensu.ca/ohse/​assets/​new_article_tl.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. Transformative learning theory. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 119: 5-15., 2008.]])) ​+What characterizes transformative learning is the initial inability to fit the new material into the existing frames of schemata, what results in a need to change them. For example, a change of attitude to homeless people after realizing how hard their life is. These-like experiences are also called //​perspective transformations//​. They often come due to life experiences,​ often related to strong emotional responses. These may be personal crises like divorce, death of a friend or a family member, wars, natural or man-caused disasters, health crises, etc, but do not have to be so radical.(([[http://​healthsci.queensu.ca/​assets/ohse/​new_article_tl.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. Transformative learning theory. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 119: 5-15., 2008.]])) ​
  
 **In the classroom**,​ commonly three types of experience can result in transformative learning(([[http://​www.calpro-online.org/​eric/​docs/​taylor/​taylor_02.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. The theory and practice of transformative learning: a critical review. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 1998.]])): **In the classroom**,​ commonly three types of experience can result in transformative learning(([[http://​www.calpro-online.org/​eric/​docs/​taylor/​taylor_02.pdf|Taylor,​ Edward W. The theory and practice of transformative learning: a critical review. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 1998.]])):
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