EDRD 3120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Andragogy, Individualism, Personal Development
30 Oct 2016
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Understanding and promoting transformative learning: a guide to theory and practice. Transformative learning: a process by which previously uncritically assimilated assumptions, beliefs, values, and perspectives are questioned and thereby become more open, permeable, and better validated. The process by which people examine problematic frames of reference to make them more inclusive, discriminating, open, reflective, and emotionally able to change. Can be by a single event, a disorienting dilemma, or gradually over time. Andragogy: the art and science of helping adults learn. Often voluntary (want to develop personally or as a response to a professional or practical need) hand-in-hand with self-directed. Often self-directed (cannot assume that all adults are self-directed) Should be practical or experiential in nature. Cognitive style: how people acquire, process, store, and use information. Convergers: prefer to arrive quickly at specific, concrete solutions. Assimilators: like to integrate ideas into models and theories. Divergers: enjoy generating ideas and working with others.
