Course Outcomes
This course provides an initial orientation to the field of adult education and higher education. Participants will begin to think deeply about: issues related to how adults learn and how such learning may or may not be unique from how children and adolescents learn, considerations for professional workplace environments, assessment, management and policy in adult education. In the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the development of Adult Education as a discipline.
2. Discuss the importance of concepts of transformative learning, reflective practice, self-directed learning and andragogy to the current understanding of the characteristics of adult learners.
3. Describe an approach to teaching adults in an environment that is relevant to their personal context.
4. Articulate a personally relevant philosophy for working with adult learners.
This course provides an initial orientation to the field of adult education and higher education. Participants will begin to think deeply about: issues related to how adults learn and how such learning may or may not be unique from how children and adolescents learn, considerations for professional workplace environments, assessment, management and policy in adult education. In the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the development of Adult Education as a discipline.
2. Discuss the importance of concepts of transformative learning, reflective practice, self-directed learning and andragogy to the current understanding of the characteristics of adult learners.
3. Describe an approach to teaching adults in an environment that is relevant to their personal context.
4. Articulate a personally relevant philosophy for working with adult learners.
Instructor: Dr. Laura Pinto
laura [DOT] pinto [AT] uoit [DOT] ca
www.lpinto.net // www.laurapinto.weebly.com
Laura Pinto is an Assistant Professor at UOIT and the recipient of a 2009 Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal for her research. Her critically-oriented research focuses on democracy and social justice in both education policy and practice. Her empirical work has explored on policy production processes, with emphasis on privatization of policy functions, critical feminist analysis, critical thinking, and financial literacy education. The author/co-author of 11 books and several dozen articles, her publications appear in both scholarly and professional journals in an attempt to reach both scholars and practitioners. Her latest books are ‘From discipline to culturally responsive engagement’ (Corwin/SAGE, 2013) and ‘Curriculum reform in Ontario: common sense processes and democratic possibilities’ (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
laura [DOT] pinto [AT] uoit [DOT] ca
www.lpinto.net // www.laurapinto.weebly.com
Laura Pinto is an Assistant Professor at UOIT and the recipient of a 2009 Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal for her research. Her critically-oriented research focuses on democracy and social justice in both education policy and practice. Her empirical work has explored on policy production processes, with emphasis on privatization of policy functions, critical feminist analysis, critical thinking, and financial literacy education. The author/co-author of 11 books and several dozen articles, her publications appear in both scholarly and professional journals in an attempt to reach both scholars and practitioners. Her latest books are ‘From discipline to culturally responsive engagement’ (Corwin/SAGE, 2013) and ‘Curriculum reform in Ontario: common sense processes and democratic possibilities’ (University of Toronto Press, 2012).