Childhood Andragogy

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Andragogy
Learning is a process continued throughout an individual’s life. From the time people are born they learn to understand the world in our own unique way. Children are put into grade school and are taught by teachers all the way through high school. Some students choose to continue higher education while some do not. Pedagogy is the process in which children learn and andragogy is the process in which adults learn. Essentially children and adults learn in different ways. Children start out learning everything new whereas adults should already have a foundation. Depending on age there are different ways people learn.
The adult learning theory was created because of the need to better understand how adults learn. Since most learning …show more content…

Adults Have the Need to Know Why They are Learning Something Adults need to know why they are learning something. If adults understand why they are learning something and how it is important they be more motivated to learn. In an article on adult learning Wuestewald (2016) stated:
Compared with pre-adult students, Knowles noted adults bring experiential knowledge to the classroom, are prepared to learn based on a self-recognized need, are highly task- and goal-oriented, and have internal and external learning motivations. These attributes offer educational opportunities that can fundamentally change classroom dynamics (pg. 71).
Adults have a need to be self- directed. Learners become progressively more self-directed as they age according to Knowles. Self-directed learning is widespread and used by many adults which do not need to learn from a teacher they teach themselves (Merriam, 2001). With the internet self-directed learning is becoming increasingly easier to do. If someone does know how to do something they can simply Google it or watch an instructional YouTube video. The internet is valuable resource for learning. There are even online classes which is a type of self-directed learning. Some adults prefer to learn independently. Self-directed learning may possibly be the most effective way a person learns. Everybody’s learning style is

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