39. Desde el taller de enseñanza participativo

Los puntos claves:

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From The participatory learning course.


some key points:

There are things that we believe about adult education (or at least act like we believe) that are false.
-everyone wants to learn
-everyone learns the same way
-everyone learns at the same speed
-once learned, knowledge is forever
-memorized information can be called upon and used.
-everyone can integrate or apply knowledge once learned

The important part is to not only recognize that the above are false but to change our teaching to reflect that we know they are false.
Solutions?
-always be a (purposefully visible) example.  This way you continuously provide passive teaching. Those who don't want to learn will observe this passive education and perhaps will pick up more that they would be willing to incorporate with standard teaching.
-adults need relevance. Do not teach something that is not relevant to them. Thus you must start with things that either are already relevant or teach why something should be relevant.
-they also need: self directed learning (they will learn only if they want to learn something), practical (with examples of actionable steps), current, must solve a problem (meaning they must accept and acknowledge problems), self discovery (don't just tell them...but lead them to it at most, and must be action oriented.  Finally, they learn best when comfortable socially.