Posts Tagged adult learning

Trauma and Adult Learning

Posted by Robert Bacal in Research, adult education on August 18, 2009

Trauma and Adult Learning. ERIC Digest.
by Kerka, Sandra
Adult learning can often be challenging, and traumatic events add extreme challenges to the learning process. The catalog of sources of trauma is sadly long: psychological or physical abuse, rape, war, forced relocation, diagnosis of a terminal illness, job loss, death or suicide of a loved one, [...]

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Adult Learning In Groups – Practice Application Brief

Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, Training For Trainers, adult education on July 28, 2009

Adult Learning In Groups
Practice Application Brief
by Susan Imel
1997

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Experiential Learning: A Theoretical Critique Explored from Five Perspectives

Posted by Third Party in Learning Theory To Practice, Research, adult education on July 24, 2009

Experiential Learning: A Theoretical Critique Explored from Five Perspectives, Information Series, No. 385 by Tara J. Fenwick  Order No. IN 385, Price $9.75  Ordering Information Full text available online
What does it mean to learn from experience? And, what, if any, is an appropriate role for educators in this process?

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A Well Deserved Poke At Adult Learning Principles and Styles

Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, MBTI - Learning Styles, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness on July 20, 2009

It is no secret that I believe adult learning principles and styles are essentially vague and useless in terms of instructing “adults” versus “non-adults” and that the work of many popular adult learning “experts” is terrible, and that includes Knowles. I’m not alone in that respect.
So I was browsing around and came across a well [...]

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Andragogy Revisited: Theory for the 21st Century? #trdev

Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, Thought Jolts on May 19, 2009

Myths and Realities no. 19 by Ralf St. Clair
Malcolm Knowles’ theory of andragogy is almost certainly the best known concept in adult education, and it often appears to gain uncritical acceptance based on name recognition rather than careful [...]

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When is a learner an adult?

Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice on May 27, 2008

The bottom line on the adult learning, which is not solely my opinion but that of others who have published and critiqued the “theory”. Formalized adult learning theory is not a description of reality but a notion of what adults “should” be within a very specific cultural bias. It’s the way us adults would like to be seen rather than the way we are. And because of it’s cultural bias, it applies completely to such a small segment of society as to be useless.

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