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Introduction The principles of adult education are quite different from the ideas that are commonly used to teach children in schools (Wegener). The method of teaching a child‚ where all the relevant knowledge are simply spoon fed to him may not appeal to any adult patient’s learning‚ nor provide any effective results. Adults are thought to need special considerations that are different from that of children and teens when it comes to learning (Biech). Andragogy The concept of andragogy was
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Teenage Brain Development Not Considered in Court Teenagers accused of violent crimes should not be tried as adults in a court of the law. Teenagers brains are not fully developed‚ from the ages 13-18 a projected number of‚ “one percent of gray matter is lost every year in teenagers‚” and these are the teens being tried as adults in court (Spinks). A growth of gray matter is an important development stage in teens. The gray matter grows mostly when the brain is stimulated through accelerated learning
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those who contradict Knowles’s concept of pedagogy and andragogy are Houle‚ London‚ and Elias (Holmes & Abington-Cooper). According to Houle (Holmes & Abington-Cooper)‚ learning and education should be viewed as a single process in both children and adults. Others on the other hand suggest that pedagogy and andragogy are terms that have confused the process of learning‚ in which pedagogy should simply mean as a teacher-directed-learning while andragogy is a self-directed learning. Rachel (Holmes & Abington-Cooper)
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Young adults brains aren’t fully developed with the knowledge to make good choices. In the article titled “The Age of Responsibility” /by Alan Greenblatt‚ he writes about how the age of responsibility differs from group to group. Some want it lowered‚ some want it to stay the same‚ and some want it to be raised and he gives his own opinion as well. The age of adulthood should be 21‚ because there are some young adults that aren’t ready for activities that could injure them and or others‚ and there
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experience on adult relationships (8+16 marks) The quality and type of relationships differ between individuals:some are happy with long term-relationships‚ others prefer more temporary‚ less passionate relationships. Some individuals seem ’lucky in love’‚ while others seem to struggle to maintain a long term stable relationship. Bowlby (1951) believed that the type of quality of relationship that individuals have with their primary caregivers provides the foundation for adult relationships
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Malcolm Knowles. The judgements will be related to the experiences of students in higher education. The theory of adult learning is a “dynamic area of research and theory building.” (Merriam‚ 2008 p2). Malcolm Knowles explains that “andragogy assumes that the point at which an individual achieves a self concept of essential self-direction is the point at which he psychologically becomes adult.” (As cited by Atherton J. S‚ 2005 p1). Knowles (1970) sees andragogy as a contrast to pedagogy (the teaching
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specific. Each child’s physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ and intellectual and language development will be looked at through age stages. All of these categories are as important as each other and can each have a substantial impact on the child’s full adult potential. Physical development is the growth of movement skills in both fine and gross motor skills and development in hand to eye co-ordination. Each of these is inter-connected and therefore can all be of impact to one another. Social and emotional
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Tatiyana Williams Date: 11/15/12 Period: 1 Juvenile Justice Essay Should teenagers accused of violent crimes be tried and sentenced as adults? Why or Why not? Adolescence and the death penalty‚ two words more commonly seen together as of late. With growing number of young adult being tried and sentenced as adults for violent crimes the question rises why did they commit does age matter to the jury when they are put on trial? According to Paul Thompson‚ author of the article
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1. What do you think about self-directed learning in what and how we learn? The concept of Self-Directed learning (SDL) has captured the interest of adult educator who interested in learning in adulthood and processes of SDL continues growing as evidenced by the expanded number of thoughtful and insightful publications within the last few year (Caffarella‚ 2003; Abdullah‚ 2001). Hiemstra (1994). Many public educational institutions have used this concept to describe one of the primary
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