Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey
Transformative learning occurs when a person, group, or larger social unit encounters ideas that are at odds with their prevailing perspective. This discrepant perspective can lead to an examination of previously held beliefs, values, and assumptions. The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in...
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author | Ruhweza Katahoire, Anne Allison, Jill Vicente-Crespo, Marta Fonn, Sharon |
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description | Transformative learning occurs when a person, group, or larger social unit encounters ideas that are at odds with their prevailing perspective. This discrepant perspective can lead to an examination of previously held beliefs, values, and assumptions. The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has since 2011 been training and supporting faculty from different African universities, to become more reflective and productive researchers, research leaders, educators, and change agents who will drive institutional changes in their institutions. As part of a mid-term evaluation of CARTA, an open-ended question was posed to the CARTA fellows asking them to describe any changes they had experienced in their professional lives as a result of the CARTA Programme. The 135 responses were inductively coded and analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. These themes were subsequently mapped onto Hoggan’s typology of transformative learning outcomes. CARTA fellows reported shifts in their sense of self; worldviews; beliefs about the definition of knowledge, how it is constructed and evaluated; and changes in behaviour/practices and capacities. This paper argues that the changes described by the CARTA fellows reflect transformative learning that is embedded in CARTA’s Theory of Change. The reported transformation was enabled by a curriculum intentionally designed to facilitate critical reflection, further exploration, and questioning, both formally and informally during the fellows’ PhD journey with the support of CARTA facilitators. Documenting and disseminating these lessons provide a guide for future practice, and educators wishing to revitalise their PhD training may find it useful to review the CARTA PhD curriculum. |
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spelling | pubmed-106536872023-11-09 Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey Ruhweza Katahoire, Anne Allison, Jill Vicente-Crespo, Marta Fonn, Sharon Glob Health Action Research Article Transformative learning occurs when a person, group, or larger social unit encounters ideas that are at odds with their prevailing perspective. This discrepant perspective can lead to an examination of previously held beliefs, values, and assumptions. The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has since 2011 been training and supporting faculty from different African universities, to become more reflective and productive researchers, research leaders, educators, and change agents who will drive institutional changes in their institutions. As part of a mid-term evaluation of CARTA, an open-ended question was posed to the CARTA fellows asking them to describe any changes they had experienced in their professional lives as a result of the CARTA Programme. The 135 responses were inductively coded and analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. These themes were subsequently mapped onto Hoggan’s typology of transformative learning outcomes. CARTA fellows reported shifts in their sense of self; worldviews; beliefs about the definition of knowledge, how it is constructed and evaluated; and changes in behaviour/practices and capacities. This paper argues that the changes described by the CARTA fellows reflect transformative learning that is embedded in CARTA’s Theory of Change. The reported transformation was enabled by a curriculum intentionally designed to facilitate critical reflection, further exploration, and questioning, both formally and informally during the fellows’ PhD journey with the support of CARTA facilitators. Documenting and disseminating these lessons provide a guide for future practice, and educators wishing to revitalise their PhD training may find it useful to review the CARTA PhD curriculum. Taylor & Francis 2023-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10653687/ /pubmed/37942510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2272392 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ruhweza Katahoire, Anne Allison, Jill Vicente-Crespo, Marta Fonn, Sharon Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title | Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title_full | Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title_fullStr | Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title_full_unstemmed | Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title_short | Transformed through the CARTA experience: changes reported by CARTA fellows about their PhD journey |
title_sort | transformed through the carta experience: changes reported by carta fellows about their phd journey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37942510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2272392 |
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