Below is an excellent website that focuses on the differences between
Pedagogy and Andragogy. The first is "teacher" centered the latter is
"Student" centered - in short. I recommend you read the article on the
website.  Knowles is a good reference as well for andragogic learning
and the reasoning behind it. If you "google" Knowles, and Andragogy,
you'll probably pull up his research models.

http://agelesslearner.com/intros/andragogy.html 

Regards,

Katrina Hinson


>>> Woods <woodsnh at isp.com> 7/11/2006 2:26 pm >>>

OK. You got me. What is the difference between pedagogy and andragogy?
I 
was trained in K-12, but somehow ended up with a adults who are my 
students. I don't think I ever heard the term andragogy in my training,

nor in my practice.
Tom Woods
Community High School of Vermont

khinson71 at cox.net wrote:

Sometimes, the adult education instructor has no background and little
knowledge or understanding of the differences between pedagogy and
andragogy when it comes to the adult classroom; 


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