Exploring Andragogy: Understanding Adult Learners

📚 Andragogy is the study of teaching adults.

👥 Adult learners have unique characteristics and motivations.

🔁 Andragogy differs from traditional teaching methods.

💼 Self-directed learning is important for adult learners.

💡 Adults need to understand the value of learning before undertaking it.

🔑 Adult learners are responsible for their own decisions and lives.

🎓 The learner's experience is a valuable resource in the classroom.

Andragogy is a problem-centered approach to learning, emphasizing the importance of connecting learning to life experiences.

Motivation of adult learners is not driven by external rewards, but rather by intrinsic factors.

Andragogy is a learner-centered approach that encourages the transfer of knowledge between instructors and learners, as well as among learners themselves.

📚 In pedagogy, the instructor determines what and how students learn, while in andragogy, learners identify their own learning needs.

🏫 Pedagogy classrooms are formal and competitive, while andragogy classrooms are collaborative, informal, and focused on individual respect and value.

🗓️ In pedagogy, the teacher plans the lessons, while in andragogy, learners actively participate in planning their own learning process.

🔑 In an andragogy model, learning plans are individualized based on learner experience.

🔎 Andragogy focuses on assessing the needs of learners in tandem with the learner, while pedagogy relies on the teacher or school administration to determine the needs of students.

📚 In pedagogy, content is divided into subject-specific units, while in andragogy, content is sequenced based on readiness and problem/task oriented in nature.

💡 Pedagogy uses memorization-focused learning activities, while andragogy employs experiential techniques that are problem-focused and tied to real-life experiences.

📝 In pedagogy, the teacher evaluates the learning, whereas in andragogy, evaluation is a more mutual process between the learner and the instructor.

🧠 Knowles' work revolutionized adult learning, emphasizing the involvement of adults in planning and evaluating their instruction.

📚 Adult learning is based on experience and relevance to their job or personal life.

🔄 Adult learning should be problem-centered and not content-oriented.

🎓 Self-directed learning is another foundational theory to adult learning.

📚 Andragogy promotes emancipatory learning and social action.

🔑 The characteristics of adult learners were discussed.

🔄 Andragogy was compared to pedagogy.

🎯 Self-directed learning was introduced.