A practice-based view of transformative learning. The case of a craft organisation

This chapter analyses transformative learning in relationship to workplace education, intertwining it with the theoretical frameworks of informal and incidental learning, and practice-based studies. Our purpose is to examine the contribution that a practice-based view of transformative learning offers to the study of creativity and to the construction of organisational areas of reflexivity. We present a case study, based on action research, to illustrate the potentialities and shortcomings of using these approaches to create—through an emergent collaborative process of inquiry into—trajectories of professional development, organizational change, and models of collective actions within a craft-based workplace.