2. • Adult education, distinct from child
education, is a practice in which adults
engage in systematic and sustained self-
educating activities in order to gain new
forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or
values.
• The entire range of formal, non-formal and
informal learning activities undertaken
by adults and out of school youth, which
result in the acquisition of new knowledge,
skills and attitude.
Definition
3. Individual
satisfaction of
needs
For further
education
To enlarge the
cultural span of
the individual
For healthy
recreation &
relaxation
Political
consciousness &
social
participation
Economic
betterment &
self- sufficient
Social efficiency
& cooperation
Need for adult learning
5. Developing a
critical
understanding
Developing an
aptitude for gaining
new knowledge,
qualifications,
attitudes or forms of
behaviour
Promoting
increased
awareness of the
relationship
Creating
understanding of
respect
General aims of adult learning
6. To provide functional
literacy
To provide further
education
To provide in service, on
the job, vocational &
professional training
Functional aims of adult learning
9. • Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1913 – 1997) was
an American educator well known for the use of
the term Andragogy as synonymous to the adult
education.
Principles of adult learning
10. is the art and science of adult learning,
it is refers to any form of adult learning.
Andragogy in Greek means the man-
leading in comparison to pedagogy,
which in Greek means child-leading.
Andragogy
22. Needs assessment
Safety
Sound relationship
Sequence of content & reinforcement
Praxis
Respect for learners
Clear role & role development
Cognitive, affective & psychomotor aspect
Team work
Active engagement of the learner
The learner should be accountable
Vella’s principles of learning
27. To help in
educational
planning/future
planning of
training.
It encourages
trainee to
become aware
of his/her own
limits.
To identify
short comings
in trainee’s
performance.
To find out
trainees
individual
learning needs.
Purposes