Androgagy
What is the best known frameworks that contributes to our understanding of adults as learners?
Andragogy
What are the 3 types of learning within Self-Directed Learning?
Linear, Interactive, and Instructional.
What is transformational learning?
Transformative learning occurs when there is a transformation in one of our beliefs or attitudes (a meaning scheme), or a transformation of our entire perspective (habit of mind).
What is one controversy about Andragogy?
Whether it can be considered a theory, a set of assumptions, or just good practice.
What self-directed learning model considers environments, past and new knowledge, and chance occurrences?
Spear’s Model
Which 2 groups is transformational learning divided into?
Individual and sociocultural.
What is the formula or ratio presented in McClusky’s Theory of Margin?
The “load” (L) of life, which dissipates energy, and the “power” (P) of life, which allows one to deal with the load. “Margin in life” is the ratio of load to power.
What did Knowles (1975, 1980) believe about Self-Directed Learning?
Adults are naturally self-directing, at different rates and not always in every area of life.
Which 2 kinds of education are explained in Freire’s theory?
Banking and problem posing.
What are the three dimensions of Illeris’s Learning Model?
Cognition, emotion, and society.
What important resource has Self-Directed Learning research uncovered?
The internet!
What is Mezirow’s psychocritical approach?
Defines learning as the process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or a revised interpretation of the meaning of one’s experience in order to guide future action.
What does Jarvis learning process begins with?
An adult’s life situation or an adult’s experience.
What term describes the experience of being part of meaningful wholes and in harmony with superindividual units such as family, social group, culture, and cosmic order?
Homonomy
Why is dialogue important in transformational learning?
Dialogue with other learners can helps us become aware of certain factors/forms, especially in social change.