Andragogy: Prerequisites for Adult Educators

Andragogy and Self-Directed Learning: Pillars of Adult Learning Theory

The central question of how adults learn has occupied the attention of scholars and practitioners since the founding of adult education as a professional field of practice in the 1920s. Some eighty years later, we have no single answer, no one theory or model of adult learning that explains all that we know about adult learners, the various contexts where learning takes place, and the process o...

Andragogy and the Socratic Method: The Adult Learner Perspective

One of the teaching methods available to teachers in the ‘andragogic’ model of teaching is the method of ‘Socratic Seminars’. This is a teacher-directed form of instruction in which questions are used as the sole method of teaching, placing students in the position of having to recognise the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them to learn. This paper aims at initiating the di...

Moving from Pedagogy to Andragogy

There is little doubt that the most dominant form of instruction in Europe and America is pedagogy, or what some people refer to as didactic, traditional, or teacher-directed approaches. A competing idea in terms of instructing adult learners, and one that gathered momentum within the past three decades, has been dubbed andragogy. The purpose of this resource piece is to provide the interested ...

Andragogy and Motivation: An Examination of the Principles of Andragogy through Two Motivation Theories

THE MODERN PRACTICE OF ADULT EDUCATION, From Pedagogy to Andragogy REVISED AND UPDATED