Adult Education Types and Content Areas
Moving Adult Education Forward
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Adult Learning Theory
What, More Adult Learning Concepts
100
Independent adult education organizations; educational institutions; quasi-educational organizations; and non educational organizations
What is categories of Adult Education Institutions and Agencies?
100
This author noted, "[W]ithout question, the workplace is the engine that is changing the nature of adult education, and technology is its fuel" (p. 7).
Who is Rachal?
100
Area focused on delivering program which includes what to offer, how to offer it, and how to evaluate it.
What is program planning?
100
Set assumptions which began with 4 but the theorist expanded by adding 2. The original set included assumptions about self-concept, the role of experiences, readiness to learn, and orientation of learning.
What is Andragogy?
100
3 environments of adult learning.
What are physical, psychological, and social environments?
200
This person identified 6 characteristics of the growth of adult education institutions; 3 of which include: response to a need; attach to agencies, and develop secondary status in institutional hierarchy
Who is Knowles?
200
People who organized and deliver adult education programs, as well as the clienteles to who the programs are target.
What is personnel in Adult Education?
200
The most popular model used in program planning.
What is Tyler's, linear process discussed in Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction?
200
Assuming control of your own learning.
What is self-directed learning?
200
This model of learning stresses the attainment of measurable outcomes tied to established objectives.
What is performance-based (or competency-based) model of learning?
300
Adult education has a marginal status; as a result; these researchers recommended some type of certification to legitimatize the field.
Who is Gilley and Galbraith?
300
Pyramid identifying 3 areas: volunteers at the base; part-time works in the middle, and full-time adult educators at the top.
What is Houle's pyramid of leadership?
300
3 major funding sources for adult education.
What are taxes, private gifts or grants, and participation fees?
300
The way individuals make meaning of their experiences facilitates growth and learning.
What is a foundational concept of transformation learning?
300
This person developed a 4-stage cycle of experiential learning which includes: concrete experiences, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation.
Who is Kolb?
400
Work related programs, remedial education, personal improvement courses, civic education, and recreational and leisure pursuits
What are content areas?
400
Programs for women, men, middle-aged people, parents, rural people, African Americans, alumni, older adults, veterans, handicapped individuals, etc.
What is clienteles of adult education/ people served?
400
First step in creating, designing, and implementing an adult education program.
What is understanding the adult learner?
400
These authors argued: life events serve as a major trigger to adult learning; as a result, most adult learning efforts are undertaken in response to a life transition.
Who is Aslanian and Brickell?
400
This is the idea that what we know and the meaning we attach to what we know are socially constructed.
What is situated cognition?
500
Is the single biggest work -related content area, and is adult education that occurs in business and industry.
What is human resource development (HRD)?
500
Planning, administration, and financing.
What are 3 aspects of delivery of adult education?
500
This author identified 3 major categories of barriers to participating adult learning: situational barriers, institutional barriers, dispositional barriers.
Who is Cross?
500
The idea that for true learning takes place, it is necessary to ensure that the voices of those people who have traditionally been marginalized are fully engaged in the learning process.
What is critical pedagogy?
500
These 2 authors stressed, freedom is the goal of education, and dialogue is the means of ensuring freedom.
Who is Vella and hooks?