ABSTRACT
The concept of transformative learning generally describes the acquisition and development of and changes in understandings of and dealings with the essential conditions of life and the outside world. The concept of identity is about being a person in the world, who one experiences being, and how one relates to and wants to be experienced by others. Both of these concepts were more explicitly developed during the last half of the twentieth century, the first as part of the discipline of learning psychology, especially adult learning, the second as part of personality psychology and to some extent also clinical psychology, and, since the 1980s, mainly through sociology. Thus the two concepts have been cultivated separately and in different professional areas, but at the same time they deal with the same questions seen from different perspectives, namely, in general terms, how to relate to one ’s self, to one ’s existence and to the outside world as it is today.
