THE

ADULT LEARNER
AND
PRINCIPLE OF
ADULT LEARNING
 THE ADULT LEARNER AND PRINCIPLES OF
ADULT LEARNING
1. Adult learner want to learn.

2. Adult learners will learn only when they feel a

need to learn.

3. It is important that teaching be done simply and

directly with the use of few, simple, familiar
words.
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PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING
4.They learn by doing.

5. Learning centers on realistic problems.

6. Experience affect learning.

7. An informal setting is conducive to learning.

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8. 8. A variety of teaching methods should be

used.

9. Learners want guidance, not grades.

10. The adult learners want to be treated

with respect and be given a chance to
prove their worth in making their own
decisions.
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11. The adult learner will easily learn

if he is ready to learn.

12. Learning is focused on the “doing

now” rather than on “storing up”
information for future use.
 Characteristics of Adult
Learning
1. Adult Learning are independent.

2. To compensate for fear, adult may pretend to know

something which they do not or work especially slowly and
accurately.

3. Adults usually have earned self-respect in their family and

community.

4. Sight and learning may not be as good as they once were.

Principles of Adult Learning and Conditions
Under Which They May Be Attained

1. Helping Relationship
a process which helps people to help themselves to
learn and solve problems themselves.

2. Learning
changing behavior in a positive direction; refers to
learning necessary for the solution of practical economics,
social, political and personal problems.
 Principles of Adult Learning and Conditions
Under Which They May Be Attained
3. Behavior
attitudes, ideas, values, skills, interests .

4. Positive Direction
direction which enhances the self, others and/ or the
community/word.

5. Goals of Learning
to enable individuals, groups of people and communities to
become more fully functioning.
Principle 1: Learning is an experience which
occurs inside the learner and is activated by
the learner.

Principle 2: Learning is the discovery of the

personal meaning relevance of ideas.

Principle 3: Learning results fro experience.

 Principles of Adult Learning and Conditions Under Which They May Be Attained

Principle 4: Learning is a cooperative and

collaborative process.

Principle 5: Learning is an evolutionary

process.

Principle 6: Learning is sometimes a painful

Principle 7: One of the richest resources for
learning is the learner himself.

Principle 8: The process of learning is emotional

as well as intellectual.

Principle 9: The process of problem solving and

learning are highly unique and individual.
Conditions Which Facilitate Learning
According to Gregorio, the following are:

Condition 1: Learning us facilitated in an atmosphere which

encourages people to be active.

Condition 2: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which promotes

and facilitates the individual discovery of the personal meaning of
ideas.

Condition 3: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which

emphasizes the uniquely personal and subjective nature of learning.
Conditions Which Facilitate Learning
Condition 4: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which
differentiate what is good and desirable.

Condition 5: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which consistently

recognizes people’s right to make mistakes.

Condition 6: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which tolerates

ambiguity.

Condition 7: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere in which evaluation

is a cooperative process with emphasize on self-evaluation.
 Conditions Which Facilitate Learning

Condition 8: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which encourages openness of

self rather than concealment of self.

Condition 9: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere in which people are encouraged

to trust in themselves as well as in external sources

Condition 10: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere in which people feel they are
respected.

Condition 11: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere in which people feel they are
accepted.

Condition 12: Learning is facilitated in an atmosphere which permits confrontation.