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Transformative Pilgrimage Learning and the Big Questions in the COVID-19 Era—Love, Death, and Legacy: Implications for Lifelong Learning and Nursing Education

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This chapter explores the concept of Transformative Pilgrimage Learning (TPL) in light of transformative learning theory, what it means to live “life as pilgrimage” in light of having gone on a number of physical pilgrimage journeys. In particular, the authors write as aging academics and explore what the concept of TPL means for dealing with the Big Questions of life, namely love, death, and legacy, and what it means for their current areas of practice as professors of lifelong learning, and nursing education, and their continuing work as lifelong learners as they move toward retirement.

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  1. Penn State University—Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, USA

    Elizabeth J. Tisdell & Ann L. Swartz

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  1. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Aliki Nicolaides

  2. Adult Learning & Counseling, Akkon University of Applied Sciences for Human Sciences, Berlin, Germany

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  4. SLD Consulting, Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada

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  5. Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA, USA

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  6. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

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Tisdell, E.J., Swartz, A.L. (2022). Transformative Pilgrimage Learning and the Big Questions in the COVID-19 Era—Love, Death, and Legacy: Implications for Lifelong Learning and Nursing Education. In: Nicolaides, A., Eschenbacher, S., Buergelt, P.T., Gilpin-Jackson, Y., Welch, M., Misawa, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_12

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