Andragogy and Self-Direction

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Andragogy and Self-Direction

• Learning in Adulthood
• Fall, 2006

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Andragogys Claims

• Self concept
• Experience
• Readiness to learn
• Orientation to learning
• Motivation to learn

• Independence
• Seasoning
• Perspective
• Solve
• Need

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Teaching Changes

• Educational Needs
• Methods of Meeting Needs
• Participation in Evaluation
• Maybe this is a goal for learning?

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Exercise

• How would Andragogy influence the design of
  training?
• Lets pick a subject
• Take each claim and show how it applies

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Does it work?

• Self concept
• Experience
• Readiness to learn
• Orientation to learning
• Motivation to learn

• Independence - a goal
• Seasoning - not always
• Perspective - depends
• Solve - narrow view
• Need - mandated

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Larger Issues

• Dichotomous, rather than a continuum
• Learner Freedom - vs. Authority
• Learner Individuality - vs. Social context

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Self-Direction Preparation

• Write down some thing that you learned on your
  own recently. It should
• Involve a new skill/knowledge
• Have taken at least 7 hours
• Involved planning
• Been evaluated
• Examples
• Piano
• Karate

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Self-Direction Defined

• Plan
• Carry out
• Evaluate
• Done largely by learner

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Models to Understand

• Linear
• Interactive
• Instructional

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Readiness

• Learning Style
• Motivation
• Field-Independence
• Autonomy
• Context

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Self-Directed Learning

• How can this be facilitated?
• What is the role of autonomy?
• To what degree is it present at JMU?
• When is it appropriate?