Adult_Learning_Theories

Adult Learning Theories Adult Learning Theories Using Theorist Knowles & Dewey John Dewey: The later works 1938—1939, Vol. 13 (pp. 1—62). Carbondale, IL: SIU Press. Over half a century ago, Dewey (1938) expressed the belief that all genuine education comes through experience (Dewey 1938). Since then, many educators have struggled with the complex implications of that simply stated notion. Recognizing its complexity, Dewey advised using those cases in which we find there is a real development of desirable [experiences] and to find out how this development took place (p. 4) and using this new understanding to guide our efforts at teaching and learning. The notion of inquiry appears in many places in Dewey's work, though he began to refer to it using that term only in his later writings. In Experience and Education (1939/1991), Dewey wrote, "the immediate and direct concern of an educator is … with the situations in which interaction takes place" (Dewey 1938) Dewey writes of a “new education,” wherein, rather than learning from “texts and teachers,” students learn from experience and there is “active participation by the students in the development of what is taught.” Dewey argues that this model breaks down the barrier between school and the rest adults, dewey, learn, need, learning, education, students, life, experience, adult, must, knowles, knowledge, experiences, 1938, using, skills, quality, orientation, new, lives, development, andragogy, way, theory, themselves, teachers, teacher, taught, stated, situations, several, self-concept, school, rich