It appears that transformative learning occurs when the meta-learning opportunity is of a high quality.
Consider the task given to the primary preservice teachers described in this paper: To participate in an inquirybased
teaching and learning experience where physics principles were explored through a biological context -
the motion of an aquatic invertebrate is represented and described in an animation. The primary preservice
teachers, who travelled down Pathway D, did so as a result of awareness of the inquiry learning process from the
learners’ and teachers’ perspectives (“I think it is the benefit of knowing inquiry. I can see that a teacher might
use this thinking in lots of subjects with different activities”, Preservice Teacher 2).