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The Adult Education Challenge Highlights from the literature

The Adult Education Challenge Highlights from the literature. Dr. Arnold T. Hence. Principles of Adult Learning Stephen Lieb. Adults: Are goal oriented Are autonomous and self directed Have accumulated a foundation of life experiences Are relevancy oriented Need to be shown respect.

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The Adult Education Challenge Highlights from the literature

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  1. The Adult Education ChallengeHighlights from the literature Dr. Arnold T. Hence

  2. Principles of Adult LearningStephen Lieb Adults: • Are goal oriented • Are autonomous and self directed • Have accumulated a foundation of life experiences • Are relevancy oriented • Need to be shown respect

  3. Principles of Adult Learning Jane Vella’s 12 Principles • Needs assessment: Learners need to participate in naming what’s to be learned • Safety: People need safe environments in which to trust themselves to dialogue esp if it may be intentionally transformational • Sound relationship: Friendship but not dependency, fun w/o trivialization of learning

  4. Vella dialogue between men and women who consider themselves as peers. • Sequence and reinforcement: Move from small to big, slow to fast, easy to hard • Action with reflection (praxis) Description, analysis, application, implication • Learners as subjects of their own learning: Decision makers in their own learning process.

  5. Vella • Learning with ideas, feelings and actions • Immediacy: Learning and teaching what is really useful in a particular context • Clear roles: What are you expected to be (professor, mentor, decision-maker, etc) • Teamwork: What kinds are expected in your institutional setting, classroom etc? • Engagement: Helping learners express interest and invest in a learning event

  6. Vella • Accountability: You are accountable to the students and they are accountable to you. Ascertain that learning occurs. • Teach what you proposed to teach, make sure they learn what they were supposed to learn and can demonstrate it. Measurable learning outcomes and assessment

  7. Learning Centered College • The Forsyth Tech Learning Centered College Initiative • College wide training in developing and writing measurable outcomes • Mapped all programs • Assessment • Ready for upcoming SACS visit

  8. Six Learning Principles • The Learning College creates substantive change in individual learners • The Learning College engages learners in the learning process as full partners who must assume primary responsibility for their own choices • The Learning College creates and offers as many options for learning as possible

  9. Six Learning Principles • The Learning College helps learners to form and participate in collaborative learning activities • The Learning College defines the roles of learning facilitators in response to the needs of the learners • The Learning College and its learning facilitators succeed only when improved and expanded can be documented for learners

  10. Seventh Learning Principle • Create and nurture an organizational culture that is open and responsive to change and learning

  11. Andragogy For Adult Learners in Higher Education-Thompson & Deis Food for thought on curriculum development (Derived from Malcolm Knowles) • Pedagogy (“child conductor” in the Greek) does not always fit the needs of the adult learner • Andragogy (the art and science of helping adults learn) provides a better model. • A problem/project orientation; experienced based techniques; facilitation of self motivation to encourage learning

  12. Thompson and Deis--cont • A student moves from being dependent to being self directed • Students accumulate a growing reservoir of experience that becomes an increasing resource for learning • Student’s readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly toward the development tasks of his/her social role • Student’s time perspective changes from postponed application of knowledge to immediate application. • The orientation toward learning shifts from subject centered to problem-centered • New models for learning must be developed based on andragogy

  13. Adult Learning Theory Adults • Bring prior experience and knowledge with them. Validate where they are; create allies, not pupils • Want to know what’s in it for them • Enjoy speaking to each other not just listening to you talk • Like to feel like an active part of the learning process

  14. Adult Learning Theory Adults • Expect to be respected • Enjoy active learning, small group exercises and moving around the room • Expect to be able to use what they learn immediately • Learn and different speeds and thru different methods • Need feedback and constructive criticism: Don’t tear ‘em down—build ‘em up

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