ABSTRACT This paper elaborates on a number of key success factors of transformative learning (TL) theory as well as provides arguments that validate them. The paper at hands lines out how transformative learning can improve teams in start-ups and NGOs to the direction of education for sustainable development (ESD). Moreover, social structures and belief systems can influence learning in a way that learners make transformation of their experiences in various means. It exemplifies how Mezirow’s theory can be put into practice and includes results from collaborative and social learning, personal transformation, team spirit as well as learning environments. The case studies make use of new skills and values via guided interviews. Data from 42 qualitative interviews are analysed and used to argument that transformative learning can be practiced, with success factors, in start-ups and NGOs.

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变革性学习的成功因素：将理论付诸实践

摘要本文详细介绍了转化学习（TL）理论的许多关键成功因素，并提供了验证它们的论据。这篇论文概述了变革性学习如何使初创企业和非政府组织的团队朝着可持续发展教育（ESD）的方向发展。此外，社会结构和信仰体系可以通过学习者以各种方式改变其经历的方式来影响学习。它举例说明了Mezirow的理论可以如何付诸实践，并包括来自协作和社交学习，个人转变，团队合作精神以及学习环境的结果。案例研究通过指导性访谈利用了新的技能和价值观。分析了来自42个定性访谈的数据，并将其用于论证可以实施变革性学习的论据，