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Adult education refers to a form of education different from ordinary full-time teaching. Adult education, regardless of age and sex, is mainly implemented by various adult schools.
Through this educational process, people who are willing to receive systematic education in society will increase their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical and professional qualities, or turn to a new direction, and their attitudes and behaviors will be changed in two aspects: the all-round development of people and the balanced and independent development of social economy and culture.
Adult education is relative to general education. As far as its educational level is concerned, there are: adult primary school, adult junior high school, adult senior high school, adult secondary school and adult junior college.
The definition of adult education
Understandably, all kinds of education provided for adults are adult education? [ 1]。 This definition is a general concept. Even this definition includes the difference and definition of teaching methods. Adult education is an extremely strict scientific concept, which has its own purpose, connotation, essential characteristics and laws. It is divided into two different educational categories and two educational systems different from general education.
The essence of adult education
The essential characteristics of adult education are determined by adults as the object of education. Adult education can be understood as the process of guiding education in an adult way. Adults are mature people and experienced people.
Characteristics of adult education
The characteristics of adult education are mainly academic upgrading, professional continuing education and continuing education after general education for on-the-job workers. In terms of age, most of the education at this stage has entered adulthood.
Connotation of adult education
From the perspective of pedagogy, when we say that a person enters adulthood, it means that his cognitive ability and learning ability have reached a mature level. For example, we can use experience to recognize things around us and guide the learning process. Knowles has compared adult students with children students and pointed out that there are great differences between them.
First, adults are self-learners. From the psychological point of view, adults refer to people who can independently guide and control their own behaviors and activities. Therefore, adults' self-study ability should be considered when formulating and implementing education plans.
Secondly, adult students are people with life experience and work experience, which enhances their cognitive ability. Experience is an important resource for adult learning.
Third, adults learn actively. Adults learn with motivation to solve problems in work and life. The purpose of learning is quite clear and the attitude of learning is quite positive. Its learning effect is obviously better than that of children.
Knowles put forward the adult teaching method, and pointed out that adult education has at least three meanings:
(1) is a learning process for adults.
(2) It is a series of activities organized by some institutions to achieve certain educational goals.
(3) It is the first field of social practice.