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AHED 701 Fall Term 2005 November 2005

AHED 701 Fall Term 2005 November 2005. Introducing the adult Learner/education Mejai B.M. Avoseh, Ph. D. Introducing the Adult Learner. Self-concept: not dependent but self-directing. A reservoir of experience that is a resource for learning.

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AHED 701 Fall Term 2005 November 2005

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  1. AHED 701 Fall Term 2005November 2005 Introducing the adult Learner/education Mejai B.M. Avoseh, Ph. D.

  2. Introducing the Adult Learner • Self-concept: not dependent but self-directing. • A reservoir of experience that is a resource for learning. • Learning is oriented towards the developmental tasks of her/his social roles. • Not postponed but immediacy of application of knowledge/skill

  3. Introducing the Adult Learner: Fundamental Factors • The factor of age, • The factor of experience, • The imports of self-respect and dignity, • The autonomy and freedom factor, • The social responsibility factor.

  4. “The entire body of organized educational processes, whatever the content, level, or method, whether formal or otherwise, whether they prolong or replace initial education in schools or colleges, and universities as well as in apprenticeship, whereby persons regarded as adult by society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical or professional qualifications, or turn them in a new direction and bring about changes in their attitudes or behavior in the two-fold perspective of full personal development and participation in balanced, independent, social, economic and cultural development” (UNESCO) What is Adult Education?

  5. What is Adult Education? “The provision and utilization of facilities whereby those who are no longer participants in the full-time school system may learn whatever they need to learn at any period of their lives” (Murphy Committee, cited in Jarvis 1990, p.6)

  6. What is Adult Education? “Adult education is a process whereby persons whose major social roles are characteristic of adult status undertake systematic and sustained learning activities for purpose of bringing about changes in knowledge, attitudes, values, or skills” (Darkenwald & Merriam- cited in Merriam et al 1997, p.7)

  7. Introducing Adult Education • Planned systematic learning experience • Supplemental to primary role in society • A process with the conscious intention of bringing about change • Purposeful efforts towards self-development. • Determined by some characteristic of adulthood.

  8. Introducing Adult Education The basics of adult education includes the following: • Educational, • Adults as targets, • Organized, • Learner-centered,

  9. Introducing Adult Education (contd.) • Supplemental, • Needs-oriented, and • Beyond schools

  10. Some variations of Adult Education? • Adult literacy education sometimes called adult basic education (ABE) • Liberal adult education- non-vocational • Mass education- targets whole populations • Continuing/Remedial Education: - continuing ed. covers a wide range of activities - remedial ed. helps ‘remedy’ set-backs or deficiencies suffered in formal education

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