ICEBREAKER:

TONGUE TEST 1

PETER BOUGHT A BITTER BUTTER, IT WOULD

BE BETTER FOR PETER TO BUY A BETTER

BUTTER TO MAKE THE BITTER BUTTER BETTER

 TONGUE TEST 2

PETER BOUGHT A BUTTER, THE BUTTER PETER

BOUGHT WAS BITTER, SO PETER BOUGHT A

BETTER BUTTER TO MAKE THE BITTER

BUTTER BETTER
 ADULT LEARNING
PRINCIPLES:
IMPLICATIONS FOR
TRAINING PRACTICES

Bwemelo, G.
 Outcomes
• Use adult learning principles in designing
training programmes
• Use adult learning principles in choosing
and utilizing suitable techniques to
facilitate learning
The Role
of CBE
 TALK OF THE TOWN
LAUTECH Graduate Returns Certificate to
his College & Demands a Refund
 Our Role as
Educators

To facilitate learning
Though, this is easier said than
done
The objective of education is
learning, not teaching
 The UNESCO’s Four Pillars of
Learning

To Do

To Know To Be
To Live
Together
 Adult Learning
Adults are not just grown/oversized
children; adults learn differently from
children (Knowles, 1980)

There is a link between maturity and

learning (Rodgers, 1999)
 Theories of Adult Learning
Andragogy
The art and science of
facilitating adult
learning

Self-Directed Transformative
Learning Learning

Autonomous Learning
(“Guide on the side” instead of
Change for the better
“Sage on the Stage”)
 Moving From

Sage on the Stage Guide on the Side

 Rich
Need to Readiness
Experience
Know Why to Learn
to Share

Assumptions
Multiple about Adult Goal-
Roles Learners Oriented

Diverse Orientation Self-

Learning to Problem Directedne
Styles Solving ss
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
 Establish clear learning
outcomes
 Explain the practical
Adult learners application of knowledge
need to know why  Engage the learners to relate
they should learn the training content to real-life
something situations
 Provide learners with an
opportunity to apply the
knowledge to real-life
situation
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
 Actively involve them in the
Adult learners training process (i.e. create
have a diverse opportunities for them to
range of share their experiences)
experience  Create learning activities
derived from a that reinforce the use of
variety of life prior experience
situations
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
 Link training with the
potential benefits e.g.
promotion, professional
Adults are growth, power, esteem, etc.
motivated by a  Embrace positive
wide range of reinforcement
goals/factors
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
 Translate theory into
practice
 Use real-world case studies
Adult learners to facilitate learning
want to apply  Engage learners in problem-
learning in solving solving
problems
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
Learners have  Use multiple methods and
Different educational materials to
Preferred facilitate learning
Learning Styles

Visual (Show me),

Auditory (Tell me),
& Kinesthetic (Let
me try)
 Implications
Principle Suggests:
Adults have  Start and end class on time
several social  Communicate your absence
obligations and  Give a task to do when you are
not available
duties which
 Utilizee- learning platforms
affect the available (Moodle)
time and energy  Avoid prolonging the course
they can devote duration unnecessarily
and invest as
learners
RIP Sage on the Stage