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The Adult Learner
Shawky Allam
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"The art of teaching is the
art of assisting discovery."
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What is Learning? Learning involves change. It is concerned with the acquisition
of habits, knowledge, and attitudes.
It enables the individual to make both personal and social adjustments.
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What is Learning? Learning is a change in the individual,
due to the interaction of that individual, and his environment, which fills a need and makes him more capable of dealing adequately with his environment.
Learning is a change in human disposition or capability, which can be retained and applied.
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Key Assumptions about Adult Learners:
1. Adults are motivated to learn as they experience needs and interests that learning will satisfy.
2. Adults’ orientation to learning is life-centered.
3. Experience is the richest source for adults’ learning.
4. Adults have a need to be self-directing.
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Key Concepts of Teaching:
All genuine education comes about through experience.
Democracy/Participation - promotes quality human experience
Continuity - builds upon experiences that are worth while
Interaction/Participative- it’s a social process
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What Adults Need to Know Prior to Learning:
Need to know how learning will be conducted
Need to know what will be learned Need to know why it will be valuable
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether
at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young."
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Breakdown of the Principals of Adult
LearningLearning is enhanced
when it can immediately be
applied in a real-life context.
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Learning is enhanced when
adult learners have control
or influence over their educational experiences.
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Learning depends on past
and current experiences.
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Learning is enhanced when
people are active participants.
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Learning requires an environment
of comfort and respect.
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Learning is enhanced when
learning is self-directed.
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Adult learning is enhanced when
participants experience success.
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Helpful Format
What do we know about…What do we want to know
about…What did we learn about…
(after)
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“Show me and I forget;Teach me and I
remember; Involve me and I learn.”
- B. Franklin