Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing

Conclusion

 

 

 

I began this book by suggesting that the changes I saw taking place amongst students of the CWPD programme represented an increase in their sense of agency: their ability to be more self-directed and self-determining in their writing and learning processes and in their relations with others. And indeed agency has been a central concept throughout my explorations. By focusing on underlying structures of students' experience and attempting to understand them within a bio-psycho-social conceptual framework I have learned that agency emerges in the context of structures that are simultaneously robust and flexible and that these structures are both in the psyche and in the learning environment.

It turns out that agency is about ...