Pedagogy vs. Andragogy (Teaching Children vs. Teaching Adults) Pedagogy Andragogy The Learner’s The learner is dependent The learner is self-directed Self Concept upon the instructor for all The learner is responsible learning The for his/her own learning teacher/instructor assumes Self-evaluation is full responsibility for what is characteristic of this taught and how it is learned approach The teacher/instructor evaluates learning Role of the The learner brings a The learner comes to the Learner’s greater volume and quality activity with little experience Experience of experience that could be tapped as a Adults are a rich resource resource for learning The for one another Different experience of the instructor is experiences assure diversity most influential in groups of adults Experience becomes the source of self-identity Readiness to Students are told what they Any change is likely to Learn have to learn in order to trigger a readiness to learn advance to the next level of The need to know in order mastery to perform more effectively in some aspect of one’s life is important Ability to assess gaps between where one is now and where one wants and needs to be Orientation to Learning is a process of Learners want to perform a Learning/Time acquiring prescribed subject task, solve a problem, live in Center matter Content units are a more satisfying way Perspective sequenced according to the Learning must have logic of the subject matter relevance to real-life tasks Learning is organized around life/work situations rather than subject matter units Adapted from http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/abe/abestudent/andravsped.pdf The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 521: Supervisor Training Series: Module 3: The Middle/Work Phase of Supervision Handout #36, Page 1 of 1 .