Methodologies for Adult Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Discussion.

- Presentation and discussion of an individual work.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the history of adult education, from the evolution of institutions, organisations and needs and motives for people to engage in learning activities;

PROBLEMATIZING the construction of scientific thinking in the field of adult training, featuring the ideological and technological dimensions of different theoretical frameworks support different training activities;

Plan, develop and evaluate training activities that best fit to the changing needs of people and contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Adult education: historical references, conceptual, theoretical and predictive

Concepts and characteristics associated with adulthood

Needs and reasons for adults engage in training activities

The adult education in the framework of continuous education/lifelong learning; Influence of the latest speeches on education, work and citizenship

Specificity-purposes, policies, organization, methodologies and evaluation; Building a framework for critical analysis and the different theoretical currents of specific Education and training of Adults

The influence of American Pragmatism for a Progressive adult education:

The Cycle Andragógico

The need for A critical and emancipatory adult education

The theory of communicative action, requiring a new epistemological programme proposed by Jürgen Habermas

Transformativa learning of Jack Mezirow

Thought and praxis of Paulo Freire

Planning, development and evaluation of training activities for adults.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Luis Medeiros Alcoforado

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation and discussion of an individual work : 100.0%

Bibliography

Alcoforado, L. (2008). Competências, Cidadania e Profissionalidade: limites e desafios para a construção de um modelo português de educação e formação de adultos. Dissertação de Doutoramento. Universidade de Coimbra.

Carré, P. & Caspar, P. (2001). Tratado das Ciências e Técnicas da Formação. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.

Galbraith, M. W. (1998). Adult learning methods: a guide for effective instruction. Malabar : Krieger.

Maubant, P. (2004). Pédagogues et Pédagogies en Formation D’Adultes. Paris : PUF.

Pineda, P. (2002). Pedagogía Laboral. Barcelona: Ariel.