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What is Adult Learning Theory

Dispositional Development and Assessment in Teacher Preparation Programs
Making full considerations of best practices based on how adults learn new content and application.
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Program Responsiveness: Increasing Professional Dispositions With Vulnerability in Graduate Teacher Education
Stefani M. Boutelier (Aquinas College, USA) and Michelle Anderson (Aquinas College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4089-6.ch001
Abstract
Serving as the centerpiece of teacher preparation, professional dispositions require modeling, support, and integration across a program. This chapter outlines how one pilot was designed to promote the dispositional development of graduate teacher candidates seeking initial teacher certification. Applying immediacy and adult learning theory as a foundation, the authors break down how these concepts are integrated throughout the program, highlighting the many facets responsiveness plays in allowing learners the opportunity to enhance dispositional development in addition to program improvement. Included in this discussion are the roles of teacher educators as learner and mentor while supporting vulnerability in teacher candidates. Voices of participants in the cohorts are included along with program design, structure, and changes incurred over the first three years. The chapter concludes with suggestions for further research regarding this pivotal time period in teacher preparation.
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Interactivity in Distance Education and Computer-Aided Learning, With Medical Education Examples
Pertaining to the art and science of adult learning. Also known as andragogy.
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Promoting Reflective Thinking in Adult Learners: The Online Case-Based Discussion
The study of how adults, individuals over the age of 25, learn. Its aim to distinguish adults preferred ways of, and experiences for, learning from young adults and adolescents.
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Supporting Adjunct Faculty Through Responsive Professional Development
A theory of learning that holds that instruction for adult learners should be differentiated from child learners. Adult learning theory suggests that adult education should emphasize learner autonomy, problem-solving, application, and transfer.
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Enhancing the Landscape of Early Learning Training Environments
Adult learning theory, also called andragogy, is the study of how adults learn and how it differs from how children learn.
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Leveraging Partnerships to Support Community-Based Learning in a College of Education
posits that adult learners are intrinsically motivated and ready to learn by using the knowledge and experiences gained during their lifetime to shape future learning.
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Beyond Onboarding: Building a Culture of Continuous Professional Development for Effective Online Instruction
Also known as “andragogy,” or the study of how adults learn, this is comprised of concepts and principles to guide the effective instruction of adults, as contrasted to theories and methods to support learning in children.
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Caregiver Teacher: Interpersonal Needs in the Online Classroom
A group of theories developed specifically around how adults learn.
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