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Andragogy is the art and science of teaching adults while pedagogy is the art and
science of teaching children. Both ideas involve teaching people with various levels of
experience in life. Adults will often have working experience or at least more life
experience while children usually have very limited or no working experience. Because
teaching will naturally vary between adults and children. A couple major differences are
in the independences and self motivation of the adult learner while the child learner
generally needs more guidance, direction and external motivation (Bertonline & Sarapin,
2000).
Children and adults do not necessarily learn differently (Bertonline & Sarapin,
2000). Adults have more experience with learning and therefore may have learned more
strategies for learning. Children may need to learn strategies for learning but once having
learned those strategies may use them in the same ways as adults. Children will learn
many things in a natural effort to catch up to adults. They will often be learning the basics
of walking, drawing, reading, spelling, math, science and similar things for the first time.
Adults should have learned to walk, draw, read, spell, do math and science but may want
to learn these topics, or related topics, better and expand to a higher level of knowledge
and accomplishment. Walking may sound foolish or simple but walking might be
An example is writing. To begin with children will need to learn the basics of how
each letter is formed and then practice drawing them. Children should learn the basics of
how different parts of a sentence are put together to create meaning while conforming to
the basic rules of grammar. Adults will have a variety of experiences and abilities with
writing. Some adults have not learned to write as children and will need to repeat the
basic steps as a child would. Adults with experience in writing will move beyond the
basics of forming correct letters and basic grammar toward more complex forms of
grammar. Sentences will flow into paragraphs and paragraphs may become chapters or
sections of a document.
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