Transformational Learning in the Diffusion of Gender Mainstreaming Policy

DOI

10.2991/iceri-18.2019.94How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender mainstreaming, transformational learning, diffusiom, gender policy.

Abstract

Transformational learning is counted as the highest level of cognitive learning process. It leads to the core that is reassessment of a belief system and reflection to assumptions and bias which affect an individual’s critical awareness on some evindence detaining the ways of how he or she feels and understands the world. This research aims to make an abstract of transformational learning process done by those who have adopted the gender mainstreaming policy. This study used constructivism paradigm with the qualitative-phenomenology approach. The subjects were the members of ‘Fatayat’, a female Muslim organization, who were selected by the snowball sampling technique. The object of this research is the learning process going on in the diffusion of gender mainstreaming policy. The data were collected through in-depth interview and were then analysed by using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Transformational learning has occurred in the diffusion of gender mainstreaming policy. The belief system of individuals is assessed as they learn gender mainstreaming. What they had believed as the truth about the norms and values of their religion or cultures does not fit to the fact and it needs change. Reassessment of the old belief has affected the attitude and action of individuals in reflecting the reality of their lives or others’ lives. There has been critical awareness on how and why the gender relationship had obstructed them, women in general, in their lives. In addition, transformational learning has brought up new awareness on how and why they needed to make a change to create a freer, equal, and just life. In the process of transformational learning, individuals have learned how to negotiate and act aligned with the goals of their lives which are in line with the values, norms, and feelings. Therefore, they still could live their lives by adopting the gender mainstreaming concept under the rules of Islam.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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