In the Classroom with Stan Skrabut

ITC: 44 - Andragogy - Treating Learners as Adults


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For most of our academic lives, our education has been crafted under term pedagogy. Pedagogy is the art and science of teaching. However, if you break the term down you get the Greek word paidos which means "boy, child" and agogos "leader." For the great part of our academic career, we have received instruction design for teaching children. In college, we are primarily working with adults. Shouldn’t we design our instruction for adults?

In this episode, I am going to focus on andragogy and how it differs from pedagogy. You will also gain guidance for making adjustments to your classroom to make it more adult-friendly.

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Show notes: https://tubarksblog.com/itc44 
Music credit: https://www.purple-planet.com/ 
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