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ACTIVITY 1
1.1 Explain the individual and environmental factors that impact positively or negatively on learning.
The study of adult learning – ANDRAGOGY – originated in Europe in the 1950s and was then pioneered as a theory and model of adult learning from the 1970s by Malcolm knowles, an American practitioner and theorist of adult education. He defined androgogy as: „the art and science of helping adults learn“
Knowles identified six principles of adult learning, which are:
1.Adults are internally motivated and self-directed.
2. Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences.
3. Adults are goal oriented.
4. Adults are relevancy oriented.
5. Adults are practical.
6. Adults learners like to be respected.
With individualised learning the trainer needs to consider and cater for the needs of individual participants. Some of the key factors to consider are:
- Rates of learning and learning style
- Attitude
- Maturity
- Interest which effect the level of learning
- Motivation
- Learners can work at their own pace at the time most convenient to them
- Different learning styles can be accommodated
- Etc.
All this above mentioned factors can have positive or negative impact on learning. I have identified that people have different learning styles and it is very important to utilise this to gaing the most from each individual learner and to help make their learning as effective as possible. There is no one right combination of elements that will magically result in a positive climate for learning for every participant.
There is also four kinds of learning styles:
- Visual learning style has a preference for seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-chart, etc. These people will use phrases such as „show me“, „lets have a look at that“ and will be bes table to perform a new task after reading the instrucitons or watching someone else do it first. These are people who
1.1 Explain the individual and environmental factors that impact positively or negatively on learning.
The study of adult learning – ANDRAGOGY – originated in Europe in the 1950s and was then pioneered as a theory and model of adult learning from the 1970s by Malcolm knowles, an American practitioner and theorist of adult education. He defined androgogy as: „the art and science of helping adults learn“
Knowles identified six principles of adult learning, which are:
1.Adults are internally motivated and self-directed.
2. Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences.
3. Adults are goal oriented.
4. Adults are relevancy oriented.
5. Adults are practical.
6. Adults learners like to be respected.
With individualised learning the trainer needs to consider and cater for the needs of individual participants. Some of the key factors to consider are:
- Rates of learning and learning style
- Attitude
- Maturity
- Interest which effect the level of learning
- Motivation
- Learners can work at their own pace at the time most convenient to them
- Different learning styles can be accommodated
- Etc.
All this above mentioned factors can have positive or negative impact on learning. I have identified that people have different learning styles and it is very important to utilise this to gaing the most from each individual learner and to help make their learning as effective as possible. There is no one right combination of elements that will magically result in a positive climate for learning for every participant.
There is also four kinds of learning styles:
- Visual learning style has a preference for seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-chart, etc. These people will use phrases such as „show me“, „lets have a look at that“ and will be bes table to perform a new task after reading the instrucitons or watching someone else do it first. These are people who