Androgogy
What is the best known frameworks that contributes to our understanding of adults as learners.
Andragogy
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 are the 3 types of learning within Self-Directed Learning?
Linear, Interactive, Instructional
What is one controversy about andragogy?
Whether it can be considered a theory, a set of assumptions, or just good practice.
Which 2 groups is transformational learning divided into?
Individual and sociocultural
What self-directed learning model considers environments, past and new knowledge, and chance occurrences?
Spear’s Model
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.
Which 2 kinds of education are explained in Freire’s theory?
Banking and problem posing.
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.
What are the three dimensions of Illeris’s Learning Model?
Cognition, emotion, and society.
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 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
What does Jarvis learning process begins with?
An adult’s life situation or an adult’s experience.
What is Daloz’s psychodevelopmental perspective?
The goal of transformative learning is lifelong personal development, with the teacher serving as a mentor in the transformative learning process.