ADULT EDUCATION
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum Curriculum B - Giuridico-Sociale - IstituzionaleCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
The aims of the discipline are:
to acquire the specific language of the discipline;
to recognize some elements of diachronic development of adult education;
to identify today's epistemological references;
to identify the main research topics;
to identify contexts of action for adult education;
to recognize international guidelines for adult education.
Detailed Course Content
Elements of history of adult education in Europe
From the campains against illiteracy in Italy to the Centers for Lifelong Learning of Adults in Italy
Permanent education and Lifelong learning
Learning in adulthood. Some theories of learning in adulthood
Adult Learning in the workplace. Continuing education
Theories on adulthood
Learning in the city: the model of learning cities
Knowles and the andragogical model od adult learning
Textbook Information
Alberici, M., Imparare sempre nella società della conoscenza, Mondadori, Milano, 2002, pp. 1-160
M. Knowles, The Adult learner, Elsevier Inc., 2005