MHR1053: PHILOSOPHY OF ADULT LEARNING

MEMBERS:FARAH FADZLIA JALALUDIN MH101098MATAHATI MAHBOL MH101097NURUL HIDAYAH SALLEH MH101095

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ADULT LEARNING DEVELOPMENT IN LEARNING

AUSTRALIAvs

MALAYSIA

SCOPE

SCOPE

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITIONCOMPARISON AUSTRALIA &

MALAYSIA

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Finished schools at Year 12 or Vocational

Majority Australian

finished their formal learning

More than half than 25 – 64 years old not further

study

Malaysia becoming

develop country by 2020

Malaysia Issues: Neglected adult

learner

DEFINITION

Malcom KnowlesAdult L

earnerThe root of pedagogy as “paid”

(child) and “agogus” (leader

of), and combined

the two to mean the “ar

t and

science of

teaching children.

Levinson

(1986)Adult DevelopmentIt has

includes life course

and

life cycle, which provide an essential framework for the

field of adult development

COMPARISON

Rules & Regulation

Activities

Methods Provided by Government

Theories Adult Learning in Development

COUNTRY

VS

Non-Institutional

Institutional

RULES & REGULATIONAUSTRALIA

Standard academic rules when their

show their hand in theoretical terms when undertaking

and report research

Esthonomethodology as one of several useful ways of researching learning

Role:Colley, Hodkinson & Malcolm (2005)

“Changes to the funding regulations for education, and for adult education in particular have imposed increasing degrees of formality on areas of informal

learning”

MALAYSIA

ACTIVITIES

AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA

Supporting learning at workplace

Ensuring access

opportunities

Build relationship

gov, community

Build fully moral & ethical

society Have innovative &

looking forward

Caring culture

Economically just society

Matured, liberated &

tolerant society

Build fully moral & ethical

society

METHODMALAYSIA

Multimedia Super Corridor

(MSC)

AUSTRALIA

Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL)

THEORIESAustralia

Tough (1967, 1971)Learning is both intentional and unintentional

McGivney (1999)Group learning experiences in their own learning

Colley, Hodkinson & Malcolm (2002)Comprehensive analysis of the Anglophone literature.

Comparison between formal & Informal

CONCLUSION

AL is important in producing adult to move forward and capable to

build the better prospect towards nation. Early

stages of adulthood play role in determine the

future of nation

Malaysia

• Need to follow develop country to move forward in producing better adult learner

• Have a better plan in achieving 9 goals in Vision 2020

Australia• Take steps towards

recreating themselves as learning communities

• The opportunities that been given by government and communities towards adult need to be used as the benchmark towards other countries

While others re just

starting to

explore what the concept

may mean

for their region

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