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The Development Status of Adult Pedagogy in Europe and the United States
Research and Advances in Education, 2023The field of adult pedagogy is of paramount importance for the education and development of adults across various domains, ranging from basic skills and literacy to advanced professional development. This research paper investigates the current situation of adult pedagogy in Europe and the United States by reviewing relevant legislation, research ...
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Understanding Adult Pedagogy and Technology Use
2020Theories exist in number that concern how adults learn. Despite surface differences, these theories also contain common themes relevant to adult learning. They include self-direction, problem- or need-based motivation to learn, the ability to anchor past experiences to make meaning from current learning, and the skills to self-assess one’s learning ...
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Reexamining Theories of Adult Learning and Adult Development Through the Lenses of Public Pedagogy
Adult Education Quarterly, 2011The authors examine the modernist underpinnings of traditional adult learning and development theories and evaluate elements of those theories through more contemporary lenses. Drawing on recent literature focused on “public pedagogy,” the authors argue that much learning takes place outside of formal educational institutions.
Jennifer A. Sandlin +2 more
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Adult learning: andragogy versus pedagogy or from pedagogy to andragogy
2011In 1970 Malcolm Knowles wrote The Modern Practice of Adult Education and he subtitled it andragogy versus pedagogy, but, as a result of the discussion that followed, he changed the sub-title in the second edition of the book in 1980 to from pedagogy to andragogy. The question is, which of these is right, if either? The argument of this chapter is that,
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The limits of pedagogy:diaculturalist pedagogyas paradigm shift in the education of adult immigrants
Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2016AbstractPedagogy develops through the interventions of scholars who believe injustice should not be normalised. Such interventions nonetheless subsume monoculturalist assumptions constructed within the US social and academic narrative. The top-down paradigm of ‘designing pedagogy’ is inappropriate for educating adult immigrants, whose cultural ways of ...
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Freirean Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Adult Education Context: The Case of Older Adults’ Learning
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2007Central tenets of Freirean philosophy and pedagogy are explored and applied to the emerging field of older adults’ learning (educational gerontology), a sub-field of adult education. I argue that many of Freire’s concepts and principles have direct applicability to the tasks of adult educators working alongside marginalized older adults. In particular,
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Playworlds of Children and Adults: Cultural Perspectives on Play Pedagogy
Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2009In recent decades the major trend in public education in the United States and some other Western countries was to focus on teaching specific academic skills and to prepare students for statewide a...
Sonja Baumer, Kristen Radsliff
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Clinical supervision as pedagogy for adults
2021Loredana-Ileana Vîșcu +1 more
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Grounding Adult Education in Radical Guyanese and Caribbean Pedagogy
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019AbstractThe evolution of education in postcolonial Guyana was closely tied to the state through the socialist government's policy of Free Education from Nursery to University. Walter Rodney, a product of the colonial education system and a revolutionary scholar was able to both critique the shortcomings of the existing system while creating a critical ...
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Public Pedagogy, Adult Education, and Sexuality Education
2023Ash Grover, Nancy Taber
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