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The Adult Learner
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"The art of teaching is the
art of assisting discovery."
- Mark Van Doren
What is Learning? Learning involves change.
concerned with the acquisition of habits, knowledge, and attitudes.
What is Learning?
It enables the individual to make both personal and social adjustments.
What is Learning? Learning is a change in the
individual, due to the interaction of that individual, and his environment, which fills a need and makes him more capable of dealing adequately with his environment.
What is learning?
Learning is a change in human disposition or capability, which can be retained and applied.
Key Assumptions about
Adult Learners:
1.Adults are motivated to learn as they experience needs and interests that learning will satisfy.
Key Assumptions about
Adult Learners:
2. Experience is the richest source for adults’ learning.
Key Assumptions about
Adult Learners:
3. Adults have a need to be self-directing.
Dewey’s Key Concepts of Teaching:
All genuine education comes about through experience.
Democracy/Participation - promotes quality human experience
Dewey’s Key Concepts of Teaching:
Continuity - builds upon experiences that are worth while
Interaction/Participative- it’s a social process
What Adults Need to Know Prior to
Learning: how learning will be conducted
what will be learned
why it will be valuable
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether
at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young."
- Henry Ford
Breakdown of the Principals of Adult
Learning
Learning is enhanced when it can
immediately be applied in a real-life
context.
Learning is enhanced when
adult learners have control
or influence over their educational experiences.
Learning depends
on past and current experiences.
Learning is enhanced
when people are active
participants.
Learning requires an environment
of comfort and respect.
Learning is enhanced
when self-directed.
Adult learningis enhanced when
participants experience success.
KWL
What do we know?
What do we want to know?
What did we learn?
“Show me and I forget;Teach me and I
remember; Involve me and I learn.”
- B. Franklin
Jane Vella’s 12 Principles
of teaching adults
Principle 1
Needs Assessment.
Learners need to participate in naming, what is to be learned
Principle 2
Safety Learners need a safe, nurturing environment in which there is trust.
Principle 3
Sound Relationship
Friendship without dependency
Fun without trivializationDialogue of peers
Principle 4
Sequencing.Small to bigEasy to hardSlow to fast
Principle 5
Action with reflection.
Description / Analysis / Application / Implementation
Principle 6
Control.
Learners as subjects.
Learners as decision makers.
Principle 7
Feelings / Emotions
Learning through pictures / sound / opinion / discussion.
Learning through the learners experiences / beliefs.
Principle 8
Immediacy. Learning that is practical, can be used in their workplace, learning directly relevant to tomorrow.
Principle 9
Clear Roles.
Clearly defined roles and who does what in the learning process.
Principle 10
Teamwork. A social aspect to the learning. Adults need to network, learn by facilitation with other peers.
Principle 11
Engagement. Learners are active participants with an investment in the learning beyond the classroom.
Principle 12
Accountability.Learners expect results.What was planned for should be seen/reviewed in an outcome.
REFERENCES http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/F
acDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-1.htm Merriam, S. B. and Caffarella, R. S. (1991)
Learning in Adulthood. A comprehensive guide, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Knowles, Malcolm,(1978), The adult learner : a neglected species, Houston, Gulf Pub. Co.
Vella, Jane, (1994), Learning to listen, learning to teach, San Francisco,Jossey-Bass Publishers
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