School as a site of transformative adult learning: parents’ experiences of Polish democratic schools

According to the challenges of globalization age and demands of international community to determine the role and content of education in the processes of transformation, internationalization and integration, there are some problems of transformative education for adults both on theoretical and practical plane: what is a nature of "Holistic Subjectivity’s" transformation; which role do rational and extra-rational components of cognitive processes perform; what adequate pedagogical practices should be; what creative potential of individuals is revealed through new semantic horizons. In the process of intersubjective becoming, the theory of transformative learning, founded by Jack Mezirow, has found both its internal and external development potential. The first one is ability of the Theory to self-transformation on the basis of scientific communication, critical reflection and rational discourse. The second one is related to openness and inclusiveness of the Theory in pluralistic space of methodologies of the transdisciplinary science. The combination of internal and external development factors has created the conditions for implementation of a methodological turn-shifting emphasis from rational-cognitive paradigm to enactivism as a concept that is based on the principles of holism, corporeality, affectivity, emotionality of cognitive processes and their self-organization as complex dynamic systems. This allowed us to look at the person's transformation as a corporeal and affective reframing and make a conclusion about his important role in the transformative adult learning. In the context of the given methodological turn, the main task is to mobilize researchers’ attention to the nature and role of all extra-rational components of transformative learning. It is the enactivist approach, including theory of self-organization of complex dynamical systems, which can help us clarify the role of feelings and dynamics of a holistic living body in the person's transformation.

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Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100054911 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 492-495

Author(s):

O.L. Krivanek ◽

J. TaftØ

Keyword(s):

Standing Wave ◽

Wave Conditions ◽

Set Up ◽

A Site ◽

Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

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Head Size and DNA Content in Bacteriophage T4

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100094255 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 200-201

Author(s):

Fred Eiserling ◽

A. H. Doermann ◽

Linde Boehner

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Dna Content ◽

Bacteriophage T4 ◽

Head Size ◽

Virus Particles ◽

Altered Protein ◽

A Cell ◽

Bacterial Viruses ◽

A Site ◽

Protein Shell

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).

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