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The Setting

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A Novel Idea

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Our purpose is to identify how transformative learning is reflected in fiction and to understand how fiction portrays a typical life journey that includes transformative experiences. Most readers of fiction identify with the stories and identify with the characters in the stories. What does this mean? How do we learn through reading fiction?

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Lawrence, R.L., Cranton, P. (2015). The Setting. In: A Novel Idea. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-037-6_1

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