| Course ID: | ALDR 7230. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Adult Education |
Course
Description: | Adult learning is designed to give you the opportunity to examine
your understanding of the learners with whom you interact. This
analysis is for you to identify your beliefs about adult learners
and to develop questions that will help you continually test your
understanding of adult learners and learning. |
| Oasis Title: | Adult Education |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Critically analyze and reflect upon the adult education
literature concerning adult learner characteristics and
participation, adult development, and adult learning.
2. Critically analyze and reflect upon your practice in working
with adults in educational settings.
3. Appraise research, theory, frameworks, beliefs, assumptions,
and questions that guide each of us in the practice of helping
adults learn.
4. Utilize adult learning and development theories to design,
create, and facilitate a teaching/learning situation.
5. Evaluate the role of experience in lifelong learning. |
| Topical Outline: | Course Introduction
Social Context and Learning Environments
Understanding the Who of Adult Education
Models of Adult Learning
Self Directed Learning
Transformational Learning
Experience and Learning
Required Face-to-Face Meeting
Emotions in Learning
Critical Theory, Post-Modern, Feminist Perspective
Traditional Learning Theories
Adult Development
Cognitive Development
Intelligence and Aging
Learning in the Workplace
Required Face-to-Face Meeting
Reflections in Adulthood |