CSUN

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Transformational Learning Through Loop
Learning

• CSUN
• ELPS 715

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Single Loop Learning
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Single vs. Double Loop Learning
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Discussion Single Double Loop Learning

• In single-loop learning, an individual does not
  question
• the appropriateness or "rightness" of an
  action or the assumptions from which it derives
  the single change made is in the manner in which
  an individual performs the action
• In double-loop learning, an individual questions
  the assumptions or frame of reference from which
  the action emerged

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Single, Double, Triple Looping
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Discussion Transformational or Triple Loop
Learning

• Robert Hargrove (1999) extended the double-loop
  learning concept to what he calls "triple-loop
  learning.
• The triple-loop pattern of learning adds another
  level of learning by engaging an individual in
  examining his or her perception of who he or she
  is and what his or her role or purpose is, and
  transforming that self-image into a new way of
  seeing himself or herself and his or her purpose.
• Hargrove describes the triple-loop pattern as
  "transformational learning
• through such learning experiences an individual
  fundamentally transforms his or her way of being.

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Relationship to the CP Leader

• Learning to become a culturally proficient leader
  requires
• An Individual to go beyond improving his/her
  behavior to
• Reframing thinking shifting perceptions about
  who s/he is and,
• Asking what is the context of the practice
  undertaken?
• For the CP Leader, this Transformational model,
  provides a three dimensional view of learning to
  transform the individual and the organization
  (Gregory, 2009)

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References Sources

• Double-Loop Learning (adapted from Argyris, 1990,
  p. 94)
• Triple-Loop Learning (Transformational Learning,
  adapted
• from Hargrove, 1999, p. 2)
• Out of the Box Coaching (1999) Mary R. Bast