"Transformative Education" --> who transforming whom? --> from what to what? ## Hidden assumptions - there is a better state (current state --> desire state) - students are shapable - students need to be transformed -- a deficit view on learners; consent for being transformed? - only external forces can transform students -- the power of self-transformation? - the educator knows what transformation is needed - education is justified to be used as a tool for transforming others -- power dynamics between "the transformer" and "the transformed"