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Adult Education

Models of Adult Learning

 

  • Andragogy
    From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide
    Do adults learn differently than children do? What distinguishes adult learning and adult education from other areas of education?
  • Experience and Learning
    From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide
    In addition to there being different dimensions to experiential learning, there are different theoretical conceptualizations of this type of learning.
  • Self-Directed Learning
    From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide
    Since Tough's work on adult learning projects was published in 1971, self-directed learning has captured the imagination of researchers and writers both inside and outside the field of adult education.
  • Transformational Learning
    From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide
    Transformative or transformational (terms used interchangeably in the literature) learning is about change—dramatic, fundamental change in the way we see ourselves and the world in which we live.
  • Collaborative learning
    From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
    Forms of cooperative or collaborative learning have been used for centuries and a variety of peer learning techniques have emerged. The underlying premise of these techniques is that learning is enhanced by peer interaction.

Righting Relations: Adult Education for Social Change

A growing network of Canadian Adult Educators coming together to effect social change

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