Characteristics of adult learning Education of children is compulsory‚ formal and standardized. Adult learning is voluntary and intentional. The aim of adult education is the independent self-directed learner. Adults tend to resist a learning process which is incongruent with their self-concept as autonomous individuals and does not correspond to their needs and interests. Adult learning is learner-centered What children learn in school should be useful to them — but later in life. Child learning is subject-centered
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UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER LLQT PARTNERSHIP LIFELONG LEARNING QUALIFICATIONS FOR TEACHERS (LLQT) Diploma for Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (DTLLS) GENERAL TRAINEE & COURSE HANDBOOK INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING (ITT) DTLLS 2013-2014 The University of Worcester is committed to ensuring that disabled people‚ including those with specific learning difficulties and/or mental health difficulties are treated fairly. Reasonable
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Learning styles describe the way people process new incoming information. There are several schools of thought pertaining to learning styles. According to learning-styles-online.com‚ there are seven learning styles: visual‚ aural‚ verbal‚ physical‚ logical‚ social and solitary. While most people use a combination of learning styles‚ they generally have one or two styles that are dominant. By understanding his own unique combination of learning styles‚ a student will be better able to focus his studying
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* Groups 6: The SMARTER approach to workplace learning SOCIAL LEARNING HANDBOOK: CONTENTS PAGE Workplace Learning Stages 4 & 5 At the beginning of this Handbook we identified 3 stages of workplace learning. We have now seen how social media is being used for learning – both for formal training but also‚ and more significantly for underpinning informal‚ workflow learning. This had led to two further stages of workplace learning emerging (see Fig 11). But there is a clear difference between
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Upon completing the quiz‚ I found that my learning style results were quite surprising. Since I plan to have a long career as a businesswoman‚ I expected that my kinesthetic learning qualities would be low. Similarly‚ I expected my auditory learning results to be higher. This is because‚ as a future CPA and businesswoman‚ much of the information I will receive in my career is auditory and very little is kinesthetic. The other learning style results were middle of the road and expected. However‚ my
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CACHE Qualification Specification Optional Units CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (QCF) CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (QCF) CACHE © Copyright 2011 All rights reserved worldwide. Reproduction by approved CACHE centres is permissible for internal use under the following conditions: CACHE has provided this Qualification Specification (Optional Units) in Microsoft Word format to enable its Centres to use its content
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LEARNING THEORY by Bob Boakes Psychology and You‚ pp.59-63‚ Hawker Brownlow Education‚ Melbourne Australia Learning is the process by which we gain knowledge about the world. It is not just something we try to switch on occasionally when‚ for example‚ we have an exam to study for or want to try a new game. It is a process that starts before we are born and continues to the moment we die. The kind of concentrated‚ deliberate process that we usually refer to as ‘learning’ in a school context is only
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Social learning theory Social psychological theories of aggression Social learning theory Introduction During your study of psychology‚ you will have noticed that aspects of human behaviour such as aggression can be explained in more than one way‚ and that these ways often conflict. These different explanations are what provide psychology with its unique perspective on understanding human behaviour. As you have seen‚ aggression is a term that is not easy to define‚ and why the behaviour is
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Affirmative Action: Equal Opportunity and Diversity for Minorities The term "Affirmative Action" originated in the United States and first referenced when President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 on March 6‚ 1961 (Infoplease 2000-2007). The term was used in the Order to mandate federal employers to take affirmative action to ensure employment practices are free from racial discrimination against minority groups. Executive Order 10925 increased diversity between minorities and whites
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Learning Styles for Information Literacy 1. Introduction 2. Directed Readings on Learning Styles 3. Learning Styles Left and right brain VAK Kolb Learning Cycle Honey and Mumford styles 4 Adult Learning Styles and Techniques 5 Information Literacy and Learning Styles 6 Conclusions 1 Introduction This block provides a brief overview of learning styles for
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