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Artistic literacy texts include storytelling, creative writing, popular theatre, music, dance, poetry, fiction, or memoir, and visual art. Creative possibilities for diverse adult literacy learners can open when artistic literacies are integrated across the disciplines. This paper will highlight the way that transformative learning theory can enrich our understanding of artistic literacies and adult learning processes. Connections to transcultural literacies, affective (emotional and social) literacies, and environmental literacies within the context of adult literacy education will be explored. Visual art is used to highlight key dimensions of transformative learning and multimodal literacies. In multimodal learning, written-linguistic modes of expression interact with oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile and spatial patterns of meaning (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012). For example, visual literacies can encourage the exploration, analysis, interpretation, and expression of artistic forms that include painting, sculpture, collage, photography, graffiti art, mobile art installations, protest art, and film.  \n348 Karen Magro  \nTransformative learning and multimodal learning disrupt singular conceptions of literacy to enable multiple entry points (e.g., aesthetic, narrational, experiential, intrapersonal, etc.) for creative learning and multimodal literacy development.  \nKeywords: artistic literacies, adult literacy learning  \nExploring artistic literacies through the lens of transformative learning theory  \nHow can the different strands of transformative learning theory inform our understanding of multiliteracies? How can artistic literacies open new possibilities and opportunities for adult literacy learners? Are there specific teaching and learning strategies that can mobilise reflection, analysis, and creativity within the context of artistic literacies? Transformative learning, as originally conceptualized by Mezirow, is a process “by which we transform our taken-for-granted frames of references (meaning perspectives, habits of mind, mind-sets) to make them more inclusive, discriminating, open, emotionally capable of change, and reflective so that they may generate beliefs and opinions that will prove more true or justified to guide action”(Mezirow, 2000, p. 8).Itis a deeper level of learning that is holistic, creative, and dynamic. Individual change and collective social action can be emergent or epochal.Artistic literacies tap into emotional, contemplative, intuitive, symbolic, and contemplative modalities of learning. Multiliteracy theory (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012) and transformative learning theory (Mezirow, Taylor, and Associates, 2012) emphasise complexity, critical thinking, multimodality, and creative learning processes.Masny (2006) emphasises that“literacies are about transformation” and involve creative learning processes that focus on “becoming:”  \nLiteracies are about texts that take on multiple meaningsand are manifested as visual, oral, written, and tactile. They constitute texts, in a broad sense (for example, in music, music score or a symphony; in art, sculpture; in physics, an equation; in architecture, a museum) that fuse with region, gender, race, culture, and power, producing speakers, writers, artists, and communities. In short, literacies are about reading the world  \nEncouraging transformative and creative learning in adult literacy education through artistic 349  \nliteracies  \nand self as texts (p. 151).  \nAdult literacy educators play an important role in mobilising and creating a learning climate that is dynamic and evolving.Transformative learning theor","cbCaibspABYj0xvG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibspABYj0xvG","pdf",362948,29,"English","# Encouraging transformative and creative learning in adult literacy education through artistic literacies\n## Exploring artistic literacies through the lens of transformative learning theory\n## Encouraging empathy, perspectives taking, and transcultural literacies","[{\"question\":\"How does artistic literacies support transformative learning in adult literacy education?\",\"answer\":\"Artistic literacies can catalyze creative and potentially transformative learning by engaging emotional, symbolic, intuitive, and contemplative modalities. 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