Objectives and competences

Understand limitations and cross-cutting issues of disciplines researching adult learning. Understand adults as learners. Getting to know learning styles of adults.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• Adult learning, pedagogy, andragogy. • Adults as learners. • Characteristics of adult learning. • Motivation. • Teachers in adult learning. • Learning styles. • Supervision in the process of adult learning. • Excursion.

Learning and teaching methods

2/3 of the subject is carried out in form of lecture where an active participation is expected from the students; 1/3 is delivered as a seminar where students present their assignment

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Of the discipline researching adult learning. Characteristics of adults as learners. Learning styles of adults.

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Knowledge of characteristics of adults as learners and its application in practice. Use of knowledge in various other contexts, ability for professional writing and argumentation and presentation to a wider public. Ability of using and selecting written and computerised materials.

Readings

• Galbraith, M. W. (2012). Adult learning methods: a guide for effective instruction. Krieger, Malabar. • Govekar Okoliš, M., Licˇen, N. (2008). Poglavja iz andragogike. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Oddelek za pedagogiko in andragogiko, Ljubljana. • Knowles, M. S., Holton, E., Swanson, R. (2012). The adult learner: the definitive classic in adult education and human resource development. Routledge, London. • Kovač, Jernej. Supervizija, stres in poklicna izgorelost šolskih svetovalnih delavcev, (Mednarodna knjižna zbirka Zora, 101). V Mariboru: Mednarodna založba Oddelka za slovanske jezike in književnosti, Filozofska fakulteta, 2013. 182 str., tabele. ISBN 978-961-6930-12-3. • Ličen, N. (2006). Uvod v izobraževanje odraslih. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Oddelek za pedagogiko in andragogiko, Ljubljana. • Marentič Požarnik, B. (2012). Psihologija učenja in pouka. DZS, Ljubljana. • Merriam, S.B. & Bierema, L. L. Adult learning: linking theory and practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. • Aktualni prispevki iz domačih in tujih strokovnih/znanstvenih revij.

Prerequisits