This edited volume sets the groundwork for a dialogue between transformative learning and continental theories of Bildung in adulthood. Both theoretical frameworks bring meaning to the complex learning process of individuals as they develop a more critical worldview. In this volume, a variety of authors from different countries and theoretical backgrounds offer new understandings about Bildung and transformative learning through discussion of theoretical analyses, educational practices, and empirical research. As a result, readers gain greater insight into these theories and related implications for teaching for change. From the various chapters an exciting relationship between both theories begins to emerge and provides impetus for greater discussion and further research about two important theories of change in the field of adult education.

Transformative Learning Meets Bildung: Introduction.- Section 1: Overview on Bildung and Transformative Learning; Bildung: An Introduction; Transformative Learning Theory.- Section 2: Transformative Learning and Transformative Bildung; Bildung as a Transformative Process; A Subject-Theoretical Perspective on Transformative Learning and Transformative Bildung: Transformative Bildung as a Research Strategy on the Processes of Bildung; Bildung as Transformation of Self-World-Relations.- Section 3: Crisis and Continuity; Repetition and Transformation in Learning: A Hermeneutic and Phenomenological View on Transformative Learning Experiences; Disorienting Dilemmas as a Catalyst for Transformative Learning: Examining Predisorienting Experiences of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs; Problematic Commonalities of Bildung and Transformative Learning; Time as a Reflective Moment of Bildung and Transformative Learning.- Section 4: Theoretical Approaches to Bildung and Learning; Bildung and Humanist Learning; Hermeneutic Phenomenology Meets Transformative Learning: Epistemological and Methodological Issues; Transformative Learning Theory and Systems Thinking: Enabling Transformation through Communication; Transformative Learning, Bildung and Biographical Research.- Section 5: The Role of the Other in Bildung and Transformative Learning; From Self-Directed Learning to Self-Formation: Transforming the Self through Bildung? A French Approach to the Notions of Formation and Transformation; Transformative Learning as Change and Development of Identity; Re-Narrating a Moral Self: Transformative and Restorative Learning for Re-Building Social Solidarity; Sustaining Collective Transformative Learning: Informal Learning and Revisions; Love Actually: Transformative Learning Meets Bildung, and the Psychosocial Concept of Recognition; Comparative Perspectives on Theoretical Frameworks of Adult Education: Transformative Learning and Critical Educational Theory.- Section 6: Transformative Learning and Bildung in Times of Lifelong Learning; A Re-Imagination of the Transition to Adulthood: Transformative Learning and Bildung's Function in the Lives of Youth; Bildung and Transformative Learning in a Globalized World: Change of Concepts through Craftsmanship, Professionalism and Entrepreneurship; Is There Space for Bildung and Transformative Learning in the Lifelong Learning Discourse?.- Section 7: Fostering Transformative Learning and Bildung; From Transformative Leadership to Transformative Learning: New Approaches in Leadership Development; Parent Training Experiences in Italy: Transformative Learning Models in Comparison; Fostering Transformative Learning through Dialogical Writing; Transformative Learning, Bildung, and Art Education for Adults: Two Different Theoretical Angles on Arts Education and on How They May Help to Identify Research Questions in the Field; The Contribution of Aesthetic Experience in Transformative Learning and Bildung; TransformativePilgrimage Learning and Spirituality on the Caminio de Santiago: Making the Way by Walking; Narrating Migration: The Result of Transformative Learning; Afterword: Transformative Learning Met Bildung: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward; Name Index; Subject Index.