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Three Approaches to Understanding Transformative Learning
for Older People in Public Open Spaces
The paper discusses three approaches to understanding transformative learn-
ing for older people in a public open space at the Path of Remembrance and
ComradeshipinLjubljana.First,wedefinethepublicopenspacetounderstand
how it determines learning for older people. We then introduce the theory of
transformative learning and focus on the changes that transformative learn-
ing promotes at the micro, meso and macro levels. In the empirical section, we
examine how the Path as a public open space enables and promotes change
at the individual level, how it facilitates transpersonal change, and how social
change occurs in public open spaces. We find that a public open space facili-
tates transformative learning for older people at all three levels and that public
open spaces are important for identity formation.
Keywords: transformative learning, older people, public open space
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