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Learning Theories
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This session will help you begin to gain an understanding of what adult educators mean by learning theories that are based on changes in consciousness including the leading theorists and proponents of these ideas.
These concepts and ideas are sometimes called radical adult education or education for social change.
Renee Griffith and Stephen Mountjoy have prepared materials to help us learn about these theories, concepts, ideas and their proponents.
Many adult learning theories try to explain learning as a result of:
A Definition
"Changes in consciousness" theories refer to the idea that learning for adults is a process of identifying one's presuppositions, values and beliefs, critically reflecting on them and then transforming them into a new view of life and action.
Distinctives of the Theory:
Assumptions of Learners:
Learning was so dangerous:
-- Margaret Drabble |