“Why I feel I can be an autonomous learner”

Currently it is considered that education is not just about children and teenagers, the educational process is a process that acts on humans over a lifetime, because our nature allows us to continue learning irrespective of age

EDUCATION

PAIDAGOGIA PEDAGOGIA HEBEGOGIA ANDRAGOGI

AGERONTOGO

GIA

AGOGICAS SCIENCES

3 – 6YEARS OLD

BASICEDUCATION

SCHOOL EDUCATION

ADULTEDUCATION

OLDEREDUCATION

SUBJECT TO AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

A LONG-TERM

LEARNING

CONSTANTLY ATTEND AT

THEIR CLASS

FULFILL WITH

THEIR TASK

• Immediate application.

WHAT DOES THE ADULT SEEK IN THE LEARNING?

• Improve job skills.

• Be more competitive.

ADULT LEARNING PRINCIPLES  

ParticipationThe student adult…• Interact with

others • Take decisions • acts• executed

HorizontalityThe facilitator and the participant have the same conditions

FlexibilitySchedules for their learning according to their needs

AUTONOMOUS LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS BY STEPHEN DOWNES  

• Show responsibility for their own learning

• Show initiative• Are reflective and show

‘high’ levels of conjecture

• Can manage and regulate their own learning

• Are adept at taking /making decisions

• Have specific skills and strategies for managing their learning online

• Are critical and analytical thinkers

• Are good at filtering and selecting the information they need

• Can take constructive critique

• Can navigate the web

An adult responds better to motivating that in part have to do with the achievements to be obtained, the idea of forward preparing come up for many years and have to do with the improvement in any scope of our lives, whether economic or social status or at work, the adult in their autonomy is able to make decisions but often find a better guidance to take course and better than a constant preparation.

“ I feel that I can be an autonomous learner”

REFERENCES

• Assumption about adult learner• Boundaries of adult learning by Richard

Edwards, Ann hanson and Peter Raggatt• http://elearningindustry.com/the-adult-

learning-theory-andragogy-of-malcolm-knowles

• http://www.andragogia.net/