Andragogy in Action: Applying Modern Principles of Adult Learning

Andragogy and Self-Directed Learning: Pillars of Adult Learning Theory

The central question of how adults learn has occupied the attention of scholars and practitioners since the founding of adult education as a professional field of practice in the 1920s. Some eighty years later, we have no single answer, no one theory or model of adult learning that explains all that we know about adult learners, the various contexts where learning takes place, and the process o...

Andragogy and Motivation: An Examination of the Principles of Andragogy through Two Motivation Theories

THE MODERN PRACTICE OF ADULT EDUCATION, From Pedagogy to Andragogy REVISED AND UPDATED

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Principles of adult learning: the learning process.

Learning involves adding to the knowledge and skills of a student, and can be divided into a 'process' and an 'end product' or 'outcome'. In formal teaching, the focus is on pre-defined end products and it is hoped that the improvements in knowledge and skills are relatively permanent. However, this is not always the case, which is why it becomes important to examine the concept of 'transfer' m...