[PDF][PDF] Andragogy and self-directed learning: Pillars of adult learning theory
SB Merriam - The New Update on Adult Learning …, 2001 - natashaportolio.wordpress.com
The central question of how adults learn has occupied the attention of scholars and
practitioners since the founding of adult education as a professional field of practice in the
1920s. Some eighty years later, we have no single answer, no one theory or model of adult
learning that explains all that we know about adult learners, the various contexts where
learning takes place, and the process of learning itself. What we do have is a mosaic of
theories, models, sets of principles, and explanations that, combined, compose the …
practitioners since the founding of adult education as a professional field of practice in the
1920s. Some eighty years later, we have no single answer, no one theory or model of adult
learning that explains all that we know about adult learners, the various contexts where
learning takes place, and the process of learning itself. What we do have is a mosaic of
theories, models, sets of principles, and explanations that, combined, compose the …