Adult education

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  • adult education
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  • Any instruction or training, informal or formal, which is geared to persons of mature age, regardless of previous education, and typically offered by university extension programs, employers, correspondence courses or community groups.
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    Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. It can mean any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling, encompassing basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner. and to ensure the fulfillment of an individual. In particular, adult education reflects a specific philosophy about learning and teaching based on the assumption that adults can and want to learn, that they are able and willing to take responsibility for the learning, and that the learning itself should respond to their needs. Driven by what one needs or wants to learn, the available opportunities, and the manner in which one learns, adult learning is affected by demographics, globalization and technology. The oldest man to enroll in primary school in Kenya is one Kimani Ng’ang’a Maruge who was an 84 year old from Kariobangi Nairobi. The learning happens in many ways and in many contexts just as all adults' lives differ.Adult learning can be in any of the three contexts, i.e.: * Formal – Structured learning that typically takes place in an education or training institution, usually with a set curriculum and carries credentials; * Non-formal – Learning that is organized by educational institutions but non credential. Non-formal learning opportunities may be provided in the workplace and through the activities of civil society organizations and groups; * Informal education – Learning that goes on all the time, resulting from daily life activities related to work, family, community or leisure (e.g. community baking class). The World Bank's 2019 World Development Report on The Changing Nature of Work argues that adult learning is an important channel to help readjust workers' skills to fit in the future of work and suggests ways to improve its effectiveness.

    アンドラゴギー（Andragogy）とは、もともとはドイツの教育者が1833年に使用した言葉であるが、アメリカ合衆国の成人教育の理論家（Malcolm S. Knowles、1913年4月24日-1997年11月27日）により、成人教育における主要な概念として発展されたものである。 ノウルズは、ギリシア語の「成人-教育」を意味する言葉から発想されたアンドラゴギー(Andragogy)を通常の教育学をいうペタゴギー（Pedagogy<、ギリシア語では「子供-教育」）から厳密に区別するべきだという見解を示していた。 ノウルズの理論は、四つの実にシンプルな要請で語ることが出来る。[1]and [2]: 1. * 成人は自分たちが学ぶことについてその計画と評価に直接関わる必要がある（自己概念と学習への動機付け）。 2. * （失敗も含めた）経験が学習活動の基盤を提供してくれる（経験）。 3. * 成人は、自分たちの職業や暮らしに直接重要と思われるようなテーマについて学ぶことに最も興味を示す（学習へのレディネス）。 4. * 成人の学習は、学習内容中心型ではなく、問題中心型である（学習への方向付け）。 ノウルズの著作、なかでも特に「成人教育の現代的実践―ベダゴジーからアンドラゴジーへ」(原著　1975年、鳳書房　2002年)は、これまでさまざまな議論の的になってきた。ある人たちは、彼の提案するやり方は誰にでも既に分かりきったことだといい、他の人たちは既存の児童中心的な理論からの単なる派生的、応用的なものでしかないという。またこの言葉は、自己監督的な教育と「教えられる」教育の間の違いに充分考慮を払うべきという人たちによっても使われてきた。しかしながら、社会が若い世代の変化に対応するようになるにつれて、教育方法の違いは、子供たちと成人とにおいて違いは徐々になくなってきている。自己管理、自己監督的な教育が初等教育の中でも、子供の学習への励ましとして使われるようになってきている。学習計画やe-ポートフォリオは、成人が自分たちの学習を推進していく上で重要なツールになってきている。

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    Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. It can mean any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling, encompassing basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner. and to ensure the fulfillment of an individual. In particular, adult education reflects a specific philosophy about learning and teaching based on the assumption that adults can and want to learn, that they are able and willing to take responsibility for the learning, and that the learning itself should respond to their needs. Driven by what one needs or wants to learn, the available opportunities, and the manner in which one learns, adult learning is affected by demographics, globalization and technology. The oldest man to enroll in primary school in Kenya is one Kimani Ng’ang’a Maruge who was an 84 year old from Kariobangi Nairobi. The learning happens in many ways and in many contexts just as all adults' lives differ.Adult learning can be in any of the three contexts, i.e.: * Formal – Structured learning that typically takes place in an education or training institution, usually with a set curriculum and carries credentials; * Non-formal – Learning that is organized by educational institutions but non credential. Non-formal learning opportunities may be provided in the workplace and through the activities of civil society organizations and groups; * Informal education – Learning that goes on all the time, resulting from daily life activities related to work, family, community or leisure (e.g. community baking class). The World Bank's 2019 World Development Report on The Changing Nature of Work argues that adult learning is an important channel to help readjust workers' skills to fit in the future of work and suggests ways to improve its effectiveness.

    成人教育（せいじんきょういく、adult education）は、成人の発達段階を考慮に入れた学習心理学の知見を多く取り入れた教育手法のことである。

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