TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 
Pedagogy 
Or 
Child learning
CONTENTS 
• Meaning of pedagogy 
• Characteristics of child learning 
• Assumptions of pedagogy 
• Pedagogy-why it matters? 
• Meaning of andragogy 
• Difference between pedagogy and andragogy
MEANING OF PEDAGOGY 
o Pedagogy is derived from the Greek word “paid” which means child 
and “agogos” which means leading. 
o The word “peda” refers to children. It has most often emphasized 
educating children and teenagers. 
o Thus, pedagogy has been defined as the art and science of teaching 
children. 
o Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher or trainer. 
o Pedagogy is the term traditionally used for instructional
methodology, strategies, techniques, and approaches that teachers 
trainers can use to facilitate learning. 
Teachers take all the decisions regarding objectives, methods, pace and 
place of learning. 
Pedagogy is also sometimes referred to as the correct use of teaching 
strategies.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILD LEARNERS 
1. More limited experience 
2. Learning is more often compulsory 
3. Learning is usually teacher-directed 
4. Learning typically limited to academics. 
5. Much learning has deferred application 
6. View teacher as having superior knowledge and authority.
7. More likely to expect success. 
8. Less likely to have set ideas, attitudes or behaviors; more 
adaptable. 
9. More accustomed to taking tests. 
10. Limited vocabulary which is increased through education. 
11. Physiological factors are less likely to influence learning.
ASSUMPTIONS OF PEDAGOGY 
• The teacher’s concept of the learner is that of a dependent 
personality. The only role for the learner is that of submissively 
carrying out the teacher’s directions. 
• The learner’s experience is of little worth as a resource for learning. 
• Learners become ready to learn what the teachers tell them they 
must learn if they want to pass and get promoted. Readiness to learn 
is largely a function of age. 
• Learners have a subject-centered orientation to learning and see 
learning as acquiring subject-matter content.
PEDAGOGY-WHY IT MATTERS? 
a) Needs Assessment - What learning is needed? 
 They change learner performance by figuring out what each learner 
needs and which strategies will work to unlock patterns that have not 
been working. 
 Good teachers/trainers are very good at diagnosis and the 
customization of instruction. 
 They keep checking for understanding and they keep searching for 
the intervention that will enable each learner to succeed.
 They do everything possible to give learners good reasons and they 
view each and every dropout as a personal failure. 
 They don't shrug off dropouts as a minor issue. . 
b) Professional Growth - How can I improve my 
teaching/training? 
 Effective teachers/trainers cannot afford to rest or coast for very long 
because the learners have a way of bringing a remarkable new set of 
challenges into the classroom each day.
 A teacher/trainer who stops adding to her or his repertoire of effective 
strategies is too much like a knife grown dull for lack of sharpening. 
c) Classroom Culture - How do I cultivate the class culture for learning? 
 While the importance of emotions and the social aspects of learning 
are rarely addressed by factory-style reformers, these aspects of 
classroom life are crucial 
 If a teacher /trainer does not create a culture that is safe, comfortable, 
encouraging and supportive, learning may not occur.
 The art of teaching/training includes the nurturing of group norms that 
allow learning to thrive 
 The science of teaching/training is less effective at reducing fears, 
freeing dreams and inspiring even disadvantaged students to reach 
for stars. 
d) Strategy - How do I teach to maximize results? 
 Effective teachers/trainers possess rich repertoires of instructional 
moves and techniques. 
 They devote time to matching strategy to situation.
 But they also understand the trial-and-error aspects of helping 
learners untangle patterns of failure and frustration. 
 Strong teachers/trainers make sure their efforts to match technique to 
learners are guided by intuition, empathy and some of the softer 
aspects of human knowing. 
e) Resource Management - How do I make do with what we 
have? 
 Good teachers/trainers learn to make good things happen for 
learners despite these shortages, distractions or threats.
f) Problem Solving - What could go wrong and how do I 
cope? 
 Life in classrooms is ripe with surprises, but not all of these surprises 
need to stall forward progress. 
 teachers/trainers try to anticipate what might go wrong and have 
backup plans ready just in case. If the computer network suddenly 
freezes and a lesson requiring Internet access is suddenly blocked, 
the teacher/trainer immediately asks learners to brainstorm questions 
to pursue once the network recovers. No problem.
MEANING OF ANDRAGOGY 
• Andragogy is the art and science of helping adults to learn. 
• Adult learning refers to the way adults acquire and use knowledge, 
skills and attitudes. 
• Andragogy can be defined as a set of assumptions designed to 
facilitate adult learning and program planning.
o Andragogy is based on four crucial assumptions about the characteristics of 
adult learners that are different from the assumptions about child learners 
 As persons mature, their self concept moves from being a dependent 
personality toward one of being a self-directing human being. 
 they accumulate a growing reservoir of experience that becomes an 
increasing resource for learning. 
 their readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly to the developmental 
tasks of their social roles 
 their time perspective changes from one of postponed application of 
knowledge to immediacy of application.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEDAGOGY AND ANDRAGOGY 
Basis of 
difference 
1. structure 
Pedagogy 
1. Based on aging 
process. Rigid 
format. 
Curriculum 
centered. 
Rules/ 
procedures 
bound. 
Andragogy 
1. Flexible, open, 
broad, 
responsive, 
interdisciplinary 
, 
developmental.
2. Atmosphere 
3. leadership 
2. Authority-oriented. 
Formal, low trust. 
Competitive, win, 
loose. 
3. Teacher-dominant. 
High task-low 
relationship. 
Controlling. Does 
not value 
experience. 
Assumes student 
immaturity. 
2. Relaxed, 
trusting, mutually 
respectful. 
Informal, warm, 
collaborative. 
Supportive, win-win. 
3. Innovative, 
creative, high 
task, high 
relationship. 
Interdependent, 
mature 
relationship. 
Mentoring.
4. Planning 
5. Motivation 
6. Communi 
cation 
4. Administration and 
teacher. 
Emphasizes 
rationale and legal 
mechanisms. 
Policies, plans and 
decisions are highly 
political. 
5. External rewards 
and punishments. 
6. One way 
downward. 
Transmittal 
4. Administration, 
faculty and 
students. Mutual 
assessment. 
Collaborative needs 
assessment. Mutual 
negotiation. 
Problem centered. 
5. Internal incentives 
(curiosity). Self-directed. 
Learning 
contracts. 
6. Two way mutually 
respectful. Feeling 
expressed,
7. evaluation 
Techniques. Feelings 
repressed 
7. Norm referenced 
grades. 
Subjective. 
Supportive. 
7. Criterion- based. 
Objective and 
subjective. 
Jointly chosen 
standards by 
students, peers, 
and teachers.
Pedagogy or child learning

Pedagogy or child learning

  • 1.
    TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Pedagogy Or Child learning
  • 2.
    CONTENTS • Meaningof pedagogy • Characteristics of child learning • Assumptions of pedagogy • Pedagogy-why it matters? • Meaning of andragogy • Difference between pedagogy and andragogy
  • 3.
    MEANING OF PEDAGOGY o Pedagogy is derived from the Greek word “paid” which means child and “agogos” which means leading. o The word “peda” refers to children. It has most often emphasized educating children and teenagers. o Thus, pedagogy has been defined as the art and science of teaching children. o Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher or trainer. o Pedagogy is the term traditionally used for instructional
  • 4.
    methodology, strategies, techniques,and approaches that teachers trainers can use to facilitate learning. Teachers take all the decisions regarding objectives, methods, pace and place of learning. Pedagogy is also sometimes referred to as the correct use of teaching strategies.
  • 5.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDLEARNERS 1. More limited experience 2. Learning is more often compulsory 3. Learning is usually teacher-directed 4. Learning typically limited to academics. 5. Much learning has deferred application 6. View teacher as having superior knowledge and authority.
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    7. More likelyto expect success. 8. Less likely to have set ideas, attitudes or behaviors; more adaptable. 9. More accustomed to taking tests. 10. Limited vocabulary which is increased through education. 11. Physiological factors are less likely to influence learning.
  • 7.
    ASSUMPTIONS OF PEDAGOGY • The teacher’s concept of the learner is that of a dependent personality. The only role for the learner is that of submissively carrying out the teacher’s directions. • The learner’s experience is of little worth as a resource for learning. • Learners become ready to learn what the teachers tell them they must learn if they want to pass and get promoted. Readiness to learn is largely a function of age. • Learners have a subject-centered orientation to learning and see learning as acquiring subject-matter content.
  • 8.
    PEDAGOGY-WHY IT MATTERS? a) Needs Assessment - What learning is needed?  They change learner performance by figuring out what each learner needs and which strategies will work to unlock patterns that have not been working.  Good teachers/trainers are very good at diagnosis and the customization of instruction.  They keep checking for understanding and they keep searching for the intervention that will enable each learner to succeed.
  • 9.
     They doeverything possible to give learners good reasons and they view each and every dropout as a personal failure.  They don't shrug off dropouts as a minor issue. . b) Professional Growth - How can I improve my teaching/training?  Effective teachers/trainers cannot afford to rest or coast for very long because the learners have a way of bringing a remarkable new set of challenges into the classroom each day.
  • 10.
     A teacher/trainerwho stops adding to her or his repertoire of effective strategies is too much like a knife grown dull for lack of sharpening. c) Classroom Culture - How do I cultivate the class culture for learning?  While the importance of emotions and the social aspects of learning are rarely addressed by factory-style reformers, these aspects of classroom life are crucial  If a teacher /trainer does not create a culture that is safe, comfortable, encouraging and supportive, learning may not occur.
  • 11.
     The artof teaching/training includes the nurturing of group norms that allow learning to thrive  The science of teaching/training is less effective at reducing fears, freeing dreams and inspiring even disadvantaged students to reach for stars. d) Strategy - How do I teach to maximize results?  Effective teachers/trainers possess rich repertoires of instructional moves and techniques.  They devote time to matching strategy to situation.
  • 12.
     But theyalso understand the trial-and-error aspects of helping learners untangle patterns of failure and frustration.  Strong teachers/trainers make sure their efforts to match technique to learners are guided by intuition, empathy and some of the softer aspects of human knowing. e) Resource Management - How do I make do with what we have?  Good teachers/trainers learn to make good things happen for learners despite these shortages, distractions or threats.
  • 13.
    f) Problem Solving- What could go wrong and how do I cope?  Life in classrooms is ripe with surprises, but not all of these surprises need to stall forward progress.  teachers/trainers try to anticipate what might go wrong and have backup plans ready just in case. If the computer network suddenly freezes and a lesson requiring Internet access is suddenly blocked, the teacher/trainer immediately asks learners to brainstorm questions to pursue once the network recovers. No problem.
  • 14.
    MEANING OF ANDRAGOGY • Andragogy is the art and science of helping adults to learn. • Adult learning refers to the way adults acquire and use knowledge, skills and attitudes. • Andragogy can be defined as a set of assumptions designed to facilitate adult learning and program planning.
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    o Andragogy isbased on four crucial assumptions about the characteristics of adult learners that are different from the assumptions about child learners  As persons mature, their self concept moves from being a dependent personality toward one of being a self-directing human being.  they accumulate a growing reservoir of experience that becomes an increasing resource for learning.  their readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly to the developmental tasks of their social roles  their time perspective changes from one of postponed application of knowledge to immediacy of application.
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    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEDAGOGYAND ANDRAGOGY Basis of difference 1. structure Pedagogy 1. Based on aging process. Rigid format. Curriculum centered. Rules/ procedures bound. Andragogy 1. Flexible, open, broad, responsive, interdisciplinary , developmental.
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    2. Atmosphere 3.leadership 2. Authority-oriented. Formal, low trust. Competitive, win, loose. 3. Teacher-dominant. High task-low relationship. Controlling. Does not value experience. Assumes student immaturity. 2. Relaxed, trusting, mutually respectful. Informal, warm, collaborative. Supportive, win-win. 3. Innovative, creative, high task, high relationship. Interdependent, mature relationship. Mentoring.
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    4. Planning 5.Motivation 6. Communi cation 4. Administration and teacher. Emphasizes rationale and legal mechanisms. Policies, plans and decisions are highly political. 5. External rewards and punishments. 6. One way downward. Transmittal 4. Administration, faculty and students. Mutual assessment. Collaborative needs assessment. Mutual negotiation. Problem centered. 5. Internal incentives (curiosity). Self-directed. Learning contracts. 6. Two way mutually respectful. Feeling expressed,
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    7. evaluation Techniques.Feelings repressed 7. Norm referenced grades. Subjective. Supportive. 7. Criterion- based. Objective and subjective. Jointly chosen standards by students, peers, and teachers.