Summary The theory behind adult learning and the principles used gives you an understanding of what and how to motivate adults to learn. There clearly is a huge difference in children and adults learning patterns. Learning as an adult can be self motivated, peer motivated, or motivated by the desire to excel in today’s job market. The theory elaborated upon in these articles gives you an up close look at the learning capacity of an adult versus a child and timeline when learning becomes challenging. Article 1 highlighted several theories of adult learning.
Therefore, the student was viewed as an adult learner. Honey and Mumford (1989) describes learning styles as activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist. The author’s student’s preferred learning style was examined by using Honey and Mumford learning style questionnaire for much more effective learning to take place and this showed that the learner is an activist who thrives on the challenge of new experiences and learns by active experimentation (Kolb, 1984). The student was required to adopt a reflective learning style for more successful and efficient
What are some of the barriers & problems faced by adults when returning to formal education and learning? How can they be overcome? Introduction The focus on this essay will be about the barriers and problems faced by adults, when they return back to formal education and learning, the question is how can they overcome this? The most essential part of adult education is by engaging in a continuous learning in order to remove barriers to their learning skills, for this, Merriam & Brockett (1997) defined adult education‘ as activities intentionally designed for the purpose of bringing about learning among those whose age, social roles, or self-perception define them as adults." Adult education may also be designed for those that did not have the opportunity to attend formal education when they were young or due to one reason or the other they have decided to upgrade their educational qualification by going back to study and can be able to develop their ethical minds for the fact that the ethical minds, according to Gardner (2011) ‘falls within the province of adolescences and adulthood’ and developing ethical minds is a way of overpowering powerful habit of unschooled mind.
The Theory of Adult Learning: Andragogy James Bryant College 100 American Military University Karine Blackett The way people learned new things always interested me growing up. I knew as we grow up from children to adults the way we learn new things changes. The way we learn as adults is factored by a lot of things such as experiences we had over the years. I will be discussing the theory of adult learning. The term for this theory is andragogy.
Here what I want to say is I am an adult person, I have my wife and kids behind me, my degree goal is influenced by my job experience and immediate job requirement rather than my interest and future dream. Generally adults are more self-guided in their learning. They bring more, and expect to bring more, to a learning situation because of their wider experience. They require learning "to make sense" - they will not perform a learning activity just because the instructor said to do it. Adults often have a problem centered approach to learning.
Knowles’ concept for andragogy incorporated four assumptions: maturity, allowing a person to move from dependent to self directing learning, adults accumulating experiences that they use as resources for learning, adults learning relying on their social culture and adults learning that is problem centered opposed to subject centered. From these assumptions, Knowles felt that successful adult learning programs could be established. His premise was that adult learners are “self-directed” and have the desire to take part in their own learning experiences, (Merriam, Carrafella & Baumgartner, 2007). In other words, andragogy focus the learning experience on the adults learning process instead of the content. Since inception, andragogy has taken on a broader meaning than adult learners, but now the term defines alternative to pedagogy and is linked to learner-focused education for all ages, children to adults.
A large concern to some students may have when considering attending college online is the fact that it may be harder to get personal help and learn the material through your professor. Without having any physical interaction with your professor, some hands on learners may struggle more than the students who learn well from reading the material on their own. The professor in online schools can still be very helpful; the students just have to take the initiative to ask for help when they need it. When attending a college on campus, some universities require their students to attend all classes, while others leave it as an option. It is
Education has traditionally been associated with young children and youth but the twenty first century has turned the tables on the concept of education by incorporating a revolutionary term called “ Adult learning” . It is a known fact that humans learn through out their life span but a conscious learning process is termed as education and when Adults involve themselves in the process of learning it is called training or Adult learning. The main features which define adult learning are -: 1. Adults learn best when they determine for themselves what ,how and when they should learn unlike a school defined curriculum designed by a board and compulsorily taught and tested by a system. 2.
College is a social environment, and a great place to make new friends and relationships and get exposed to new kinds of people. I can also make connections with professors, other students, speakers, and visiting professionals that will become valuable future contacts. Finally, it will help me learn more new knowledge. As an adult student, our knowledge may be a little bit old in today society, special like me from other country’s immigrants. It is necessary to learn more to update it.
My Learning Style How can learning styles define a person or does it really matters to achieve the goal of completing a college degree? Students see, hear and feel things in different ways, but each individual prefers one above all. Maybe it’s time to embrace what works the best to suit our needs and excel at the task given. I will discuss why I chose to finish college, how I’m catalogued in reference to my learning style and what do I think about this. My reason for seeking a college degree are many, most jobs require knowledge, advance skills, and experience.