Holton's Theory Of Adult Education

Young adulthood can also be a threatening time because choices made at this time often have a lifelong impact on the individual. What learning tasks gave me the greatest difficulties? It’s easy for me to understand many issues which are related different periods of one’s life. However, I don’t understand the concept ageism, because it doesn’t show obviously in our society.

Because of this style of teaching, men begin to lose interest and motivation in school; then, his demotivation in school leads to an apathy in everything else as people begin to criticize the student’s behavior lowering the student’s self-worth. A man without any motivations will have a waste of a life even if the man had the intelligence or had the ability. Motivation and determination are the defining factors of a man. A man who lacks both fails to be a true

At least once in one’s life they will hear the phrase, “It is not what you know, but who you know,” and in many cases this true. Through an anthropologic sense, that phrase is an example of human capital and social capital. Human capital is what you know whereas social capital is who you know. In addition, when it comes to human capital, one is institutionalized in a certain way for a specific task/job, and this usually starts at a young age either consciously or nonconsciously. For example, being on time, from a young age, one it is taught to be on time.

The audience of Becoming a Learner is future or current college students. This is a wide range of people, but this story can be beneficial to all who will be in search of a job after college. By telling his audience how to become a learner before they graduate with a degree they will be able to apply his ideas and get the most out of their education. This medium is very important because it gives the audience purpose for reading the piece. If the audience was not college students or another type of learner, it would be too late for them to change the way they strive for their degree.

Upon reading Schindler’s article, “Draw from Juvenile Justice System’s Strengths for Better Approaches for Young Adults,” I was shocked to discover so many alarming statistics about the young adults in the U.S. criminal justice system. For instance, “[y]oung adults make up roughly 1 in 5 people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails. Half of them are people of color, and are victims of crime twice the rate of others” (Schindler, 2016). The large amount of youth present in the justice system struck me as a problem; therefore, effective solutions are needed to address this problem regarding juvenile justice. Schindler suggested that safer communities need to be created so that fewer people end up being imprisoned.

Furthermore, she argues how it is difficult to encounter careers that correlate with a degree. In the closing of her essay, she uses examples to prove that many people who possess careers due to their degree do not actually learn how to do their job from college but on the job. She ends the essay by implying that America should find better ways for students to mature and prepare for their

Houle (1989), emphasizes that every professional has a need to be able to carry out their duties according to the highest possible standards of character and competence and one way to meet this is to engage in a lifelong study and to achieve its greatest potential, continuing education must fulfill the promise to its name and be truly be continuing and not casual, sporadic or opportunistic. This fact means essentially that it must be self-directed and each professional must be the ultimate monitor of his or her own learning, controlling the stable or shifting design of its continuity. Houle further argues that continuing education must be based not only on content oriented goals of keeping up with the new development; it must also be designed to facilitate changes in life patterns or career lines. Accordingly, Fryer (1997) states that learning at the workplace will need to accommodate the needs and interests of a variety of stakeholders, including employees, employers, customers, government and providers.

The life span of an individual goes through developmental stages in life, from conception to death. The majority of the stages we pass are biological, socio-economical and psychological birth rights. This essay will focus on the two stages, drawn from the eight stages of Erikson Theory, namely: Trust vs Mistrust and Generativity vs Stagnation. The essay will further discuss authoritative parenting and attachment styles. The eight stages which a healthy person should undergo from infancy to late adulthood, are built on the success of mastering the previous stage.

Education can be explained as the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits, and is the most valuable resource that one could have in life as, firstly, education facilitates learning and critical thinking, secondly, it allows for dreams of the future in terms of success to become a reality and lastly, it prevents the children of today from risking their future due to the influence of environmental hazards (Brooks, 2006). After studying the points discussed, it can be said that education plays an important role in the development of each and every human being and is not on categorized under scholarly education but rather any experience that allows an individual to broaden his/her knowledge. Amy Gutmann, an American political theorist proposed a theory surrounded around the democratic state of education requiring parents and states - to surrender some educational authority to professional education staffs’, also indicating that the children of today do not just benefit from freedom of choice, or identification with and participation in the positive aspects of their family and political aspects of the society. Amy’s theory is based on the characterisation of the three models of educational control namely Locke’s Theory of Parental control,

The first of these categories relates to the goals of self-directed learning. Merriam (page 107) lists three goals but of concern to the HRD is the goal that seeks to foster the adult to be self-directed in their own learning. This suggests that adult learners are at different levels of self-directedness and that some may require support. Such support can come in many forms such as ‘helping learners do needs assessments, locating learning resources, choosing instructional methods, and evaluating strategies’ Merriam p107.

Educational philosophy and teaching styles are two aspects of adult learning that influence the teaching-learning transaction in colleges and universities. The educational philosophy can inform the educator with strategies and methods for implementing adult learning principles. Floyd (2010) described the importance of educators knowing their educational philosophy because self-examination and critical inspection of practices will create a consciousness of some unconscious beliefs that affect teaching practice.(1,2) The literature on educational philosophy explains, “When an adult educator engages in the practice of education, certain beliefs about life in general are applied to the practice” . Therefore, educators hold beliefs about how adults learn, how they should be taught, and what instructional practice should look like.

Final Reflective Paper The decision to return to school is a significant step for adult learners, particularly after a long absence from formal learning, and there are many factors in making that decision. Perhaps to develop or achieve professional goals, higher career status, professional security, or to personal goals, such as, seeking knowledge and new skills. As adult learners, they bring lived experiences and develop knowledge to the classroom, most are self-directed, goal oriented, therefore, have different ways in approaching learning and may require particular learning environments.

Declared in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948), education is recognized as a fundamental human right and a key component contributing to the development of societies. Yet there are many people on earth have not been able to get educated. In order to solve the problem, it is proposed that all education (including primary, secondary and higher education) should be free all over world and governments should be those funding the tuition fees. This paper critically hightlights the significances and also rebut the objection of free education. Before further analysis, the writer is going to point out some definitions and add facts and figures.

Reda (2015) states “If we want to see the world as a just and fair place where everyone is given equal opportunities, education is what we require. Education is a must if we want to do away with the existing differences between different social classes and genders. It opens a whole world of opportunities for the poor so that they may have an equal shot at well-paying jobs.” Creating education in a democratic state has been aimed by many states, theorists, philosophers and so on. Countries in this era have succeeded is aiming for a democratic education, some are getting there and other countries fail in creating a democratic education.

Wain (1987) identifies education in lifelong learning into following three kinds – formal education, informal learning and non-formal education. Among the components of formal education include hierarchical structure, an educational system that is chronologically graded as well as a variety of specialized institution as well as programs for professional and technical training. In the informal lifelong learning, the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes acquired by individuals are derived from his / her daily experiences, the resources from mass media, library, market place, work and play, family and neighbour, the environment as well as the educative influences. Lastly, in the non-formal education, it refers to the activity of an organization that is considered to be outside the conventional or recognized formal system. This is true to all organizations that either operate separately or as a necessary feature of a greater activity,