transformative experience – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Kahane (2025): “Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement”

mglessmer — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:52:46 +0000

I found a new book that I would love to do a slow-reading book club on! I really enjoyed what we did with the Everyday Changemaker book, and I would love to read Kahane (2025)’s “Everyday habits for transforming systems” with a group of close colleagues so we can think through what it means for […]

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Currently reading: “The Ideal Outcome of Education for Sustainability: Transformative Sustainability Learning” (Michel et al., 2020)

mglessmer — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:04:49 +0000

I have written about transformative experiences (wave watching! When you suddenly see the world with new eyes) and transformative learning (with my favourite head-hands-heart model) before, but here comes the transformative sustainability learning theory (Michel et al., 2020)! Transformative learning is learning that goes beyond just acquiring knowledge and skills, where learning is defined as […]

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Learning together across courses — our iSSOTL presentation

mglessmer — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:38:47 +0000

Last week, Kjersti Daae and I gave a virtual presentation at the iSSOTL conference, and here is a short summary. We presented an ongoing teaching innovation project, funded by Olsen legat and conducted together with Jakob Skavang, Elin Darelius and Camille Li, that we started last year at the Geophysical Institute in Bergen: Bringing together […]

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Why should students want engage in something that changes their identity as well as their view of themselves in relation to friends and family?

mglessmer — Mon, 31 May 2021 12:05:47 +0000

Another iEarth Teaching Conversation with Kjersti Daae and Torgny Roxå, summarized by Mirjam Glessmer “Transformative experiences” (Pugh et al., 2010) are those experiences that change the way a person looks at the world, so that they henceforth voluntarily engage in a new-to-them practice of sensemaking on this new topic, and perceive it as valuable. There are […]

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#WaveWatching as “transformative experience”? (Based on articles by Pugh et al. 2019, 2011, 2010)

mglessmer — Thu, 27 May 2021 06:00:54 +0000

I was reading an article on “active learning” by Lombardi et al. (2021), when the sentence “In undergraduate geoscience, Pugh et al. (2019) found that students who made observations of the world and recognized how they might be explained by concepts from their classes were more likely to stay in their major than those who […]

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