Thompson, Patricia M. "The Influence of Popular Culture and Entertainment Media on Adult Education." Review. New Direction for Adult and Continuing Education (2007): 83-90. 10 Nov. 2010.
Walsh, Jennifer, and Monique Ward. "Magazine Reading and Involvement and Young Adults' Sexual Health Knowledge, Efficacy, and Behaviors." Journal of Sex Research. 47. (2010): 285-300. Print.Transformative learning is how we reshape our opinions, beliefs, and ways of thinking as we previously understood them. Literacy is key when taking part in this process. In order to transform our opinions and ways of doing things, we need to understand the ideology and root of why we have them. As black women in a college setting, we must be strong, intelligent, and independent. Upon entering college, we are exposed to a whole new way of thinking.
In the time before college, individuals get surrounded by ideas and opinions of those family members and peers, college presents a new situation. Generally throughout years in college, and individual will get introduced to a countless number of ideas, idealogies and ways of life, all of which have to be analysized. Through this analyzation, the individual figures out exactly who he or she is. The person enters a period of transformation depending on a number of choices. The article written by Robin Wisniewski touches on the importance of peer counseling during this pivotal time in the student’s life.
Robin Wisniewski focuses on the necessity of familial interaction and individual identity and its influence on the college experience. She hones in on the journey of Lauryn and Vania and how their comparatively different backgrounds made for different understandings of college life. Basically, based on the spectrum of the students’ background the counselors had to tailor their regiment specific to the students’ needs. We may be overwhelmed by the real life application of our knowledge. Peer counseling is crucial among students because there is necessary guidance concerning identity, adulthood, and other college experiences. It is both supportive and challenging to the ideas of the student body. “In college literacy programs, we need to not only acknowledge a democratic philosophy, but also engage in the practice of leading a democratic curriculum. Democratic curriculum leadership is comprised of inquiry that is deliberative and multiperspective, includes the exposure of biases, and the necessary effort to create our own transformation as educators.”
