Andragogy v. pedagogy, part 1
The andragogical model as conceived by Knowles is predicated on four basic assumptions about learners, all of which have some relationship to our notions about a learner's ability, need, and desire to take responsibility for learning:
- Their self-concept moves from dependency to independency or self-directedness.
- They accumulate a reservoir of experiences that can be used as a basis on which to build learning.
- Their readiness to learn becomes increasingly associated with the developmental tasks of social roles.
- Their time and curricular perspectives change from postponed to immediacy of application and from subject-centeredness to performance-centeredness.
