“…First emerging in the late 1970s (Mezirow, 1978a, 1978b), transformative learning theory has (a) since become a much critiqued, roundly robust, and soundly grounded explanatory perspective (Cranton, 2016; Hoggan, Mälkki, & Finnegan, 2017); (b) proven preeminently provocative and heuristic, having spawned numerous international conferences, over a dozen books, and hundreds of doctoral dissertations and scholarly presentations and papers (Kitchenham, 2008); (c) increasingly expanded its reach and relevance, being applied to varied areas beyond adult education (spirituality, sustainability; Taylor, Cranton, & Associates, 2012); and (d) increasingly gone global in the last 10–15 years, spreading from North America into Europe and beyond (Schapiro, Gallegos, Stashower, & Clark, 2017). Although having its critics (DeSapio, 2017; Newman, 2012), transformative learning theory has generally gained wide acclaim, being referred to as a “definitive framework” (Kitchenham, 2008, p. 120), “detailed theoretical foundation” (Hoggan, 2016b, p. 57), having “great staying power” (Howie & Bagnall, 2013, p. 816), and even being the “new andragogy” (Cranton & Taylor, 2012; Taylor & Laros, 2014).…”