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Download fileNavigating personal change: Transforming perceptions of self as learner
"Thesis is based on the findings of a qualitative case study that examined perceptions of self as learner for a small group of mature age participants who engaged in a thirteen week Enabling program [conducted within the context of STEPS, an Enabling program offered at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University]. Transformative learning theory ... is drawn upon to frame the phases of personal transformation the participants experienced when they came into contact with various Discourses of a formal learning context"--Abstract.