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THEORIES OF TEACHING Chapter 5 CAE 213 INTRODUCTION TO ADULT EDUCATION
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THEORIES OF EDUCATION Theories of education answer a key question: How can an educator influence a person to learn? The logical detailed answer to this question is your education theory. It grows from your concept of learning.
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THEORIES OF EDUCATION How can an educator influence a person to learn? The chapter begins with Behavioralist theories, Cognitive theories, Motivational and Personality theories…
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Theories of Education There is an abundance of information in Ch 5 This abundance can cause us to read everything without understanding or applying anything Too much information !
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Theories of Education This PowerPoint presents theories that are good resources for beginning educators as they outline their own heuristic theory of education
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Group 1 What is the wisdom behind Hilgard’s 20 principles of teaching? (74-75) Did anyone find only 19? Which one or ones did you agree with the most?
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Group 2 What ideas from Guthrie and Skinner make the most sense to you? (76-77) Why? How could these ideas be incorporated into … Language learning Discipleship
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Group 3 Summarize Rogers’ view of the teacher/learner relationship.
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Group 4 Summarize Dewey’s contributions to understanding the learning process.
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THEORIES OF EDUCATION Carl Rogers The facilitator (educator): Has great influence in setting the mood & climate in the class. Helps to elicit and clarify the learner’s purpose and the group’s goals. Relies on each learner’s involvement in reaching goals as a key motivator.
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THEORIES OF EDUCATION Carl Rogers The facilitator: Sets the mood & climate in the class. Elicits and clarifies the learner’s goals. Relies on each learner motivation. Organizes a wide range of resources. Views herself or himself as a resource. Accepts cognitive content and emotions. Becomes a participant learner.
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THEORIES OF EDUCATION Carl Rogers The facilitator: Sets the mood & climate in the class. Elicits and clarifies the learner’s goals. Relies on each learner motivation. Organizes a wide range of resources. Views herself or himself as a resource. Accepts cognitive content and emotions. Becomes a participant learner. May express strong feeling and is attentive to the strong feelings expressed by learners. Grants freedom to learners to the extent of his or her own comfort level.
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Theories of Education – John Dewey – Highly influential in AE All genuine education begins and comes through experience. Democratic social arrangements promote a better quality of life. Growing intellectually and morally reflect the continuity of learning and life. Education involves interaction, it is basically a social process.
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Theories of Education Knowles – The role of the Teacher The teacher exposes students to new possibilities of self-fulfillment. The teacher helps each student clarify his or her own aspirations for improved behavior. The teacher helps each student diagnose the gap between his or her aspiration and present performance.
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Theories of Education Knowles – The role of the Teacher 4. The teacher helps the student identify life problems and the gaps in their personal equipment. The teacher provide the physical conditions that facilitate interaction. The teacher accepts each student as a person or worth and respects student ideas and feelings.
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Theories of Education Knowles – The role of the Teacher 7. The teacher seeks to build trust encouraging cooperation. 8. The teacher exposes his or her own feelings. 9. The teacher involves students in formulating learner objectives. 10. The teacher serves a resource for designing learning experiences.
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Theories of Education Knowles – The role of the Teacher Teachers help students organize themselves in the shared responsibility of mutual inquiry Teachers help students explore their own experiences as learning resources Teachers share their own resources at the level of student experience Teachers help students apply learning to their own experience
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Theories of Education Knowles – The role of the Teacher 15. Teachers involve students in forming mutually acceptable methods of measuring progress toward learning objectives 16. Teachers help students self-evaluate progress
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(Additional) Theories of Education Bruner’s expository and hypothetical modes of education Mezirow’s perspective transformation Brookfield’s critical reflection Parson’s system theory Static versus Innovative organizations (Learning organizations)
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