2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.02.079
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The Challenges of Adult Education in the Modern World

Abstract: In the modern world humans need to be able to deal with uncertainty and to give up what is not functional. Thus, informational learning, which is meant as the acquisition of new information by addition, hardly answers this challenge. The learners need to not only acquire new knowledge, but they also need to assess and change their assumptions regarding an issue at hand, at this point transformative learning occurs. One of the methods through which transformative learning could be unearthed is the contact with … Show more

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“…In particular, the analysis of the links between general educational pedagogical knowledge, self-actualization, professional burnout of teachers, and the level of their professional competency and professionalism has been carried out (Lauermann & König, 2016); the impact of the emotional strain and social support of the teachers on the development of the burnout syndrome of the qualified teachers in Italy and Switzerland has been investigated (Fiorilli et al, 2015); dependence of the effectiveness of co-education and the level of learning achievements on the personality type (Emerson, English, & McGoldrick, 2016), and on genetically determined character traits, not solely on the learners' intellect, has been grounded (Krapohl, 2014); the problems of adult education in the modern world, among them that of school teachers, have been analyzed (Kokkos, 2015;Németh, 2014); the role of social maturity (Nagra & Kaur, 2013) and that of integrating technologies into the practice of school mathematics (Monaghan, 2002;Tabach, 2012) in the development of school teachers' professionalism has been disclosed; the support of co-education through the development of pedagogical knowledge by means of technological support has been investigated (Alayyar, Fisser & Voogt, 2012); dependence of the quality of teaching and developing students on the teachers' professionalism has been proved (Kunter et al, 2013), etc.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, the analysis of the links between general educational pedagogical knowledge, self-actualization, professional burnout of teachers, and the level of their professional competency and professionalism has been carried out (Lauermann & König, 2016); the impact of the emotional strain and social support of the teachers on the development of the burnout syndrome of the qualified teachers in Italy and Switzerland has been investigated (Fiorilli et al, 2015); dependence of the effectiveness of co-education and the level of learning achievements on the personality type (Emerson, English, & McGoldrick, 2016), and on genetically determined character traits, not solely on the learners' intellect, has been grounded (Krapohl, 2014); the problems of adult education in the modern world, among them that of school teachers, have been analyzed (Kokkos, 2015;Németh, 2014); the role of social maturity (Nagra & Kaur, 2013) and that of integrating technologies into the practice of school mathematics (Monaghan, 2002;Tabach, 2012) in the development of school teachers' professionalism has been disclosed; the support of co-education through the development of pedagogical knowledge by means of technological support has been investigated (Alayyar, Fisser & Voogt, 2012); dependence of the quality of teaching and developing students on the teachers' professionalism has been proved (Kunter et al, 2013), etc.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…124). Οι άνθρωποι σήμερα χρειάζεται να λειτουργούν σε συνθήκες αβεβαιότητας, αφήνοντας πίσω τους ότι δεν λειτουργεί πλέον και αποκτώντας ένα λειτουργικό ρεπερτόριο συμπεριφορών (Kokkos, 2015). Έτσι, απώτερος σκοπός της διεργασίας του μαθήματος είναι να δημιουργεί κάθε φορά το κατάλληλο παιδαγωγικό πλαίσιο, ώστε οι συμμετέχοντες να αναπτύσσουν εκείνες τις προσωπικές και ομαδικές δεξιότητες που θα τους επιτρέπουν να ανταπεξέρχονται στις προκλήσεις και τις αντιξοότητες μιας σύγχρονης κοινωνικής πραγματικότητας συνεχών αλλαγών και αποσταθεροποίησης (Bauman, 2007· Brailas, Koskinas, et al, 2017).…”
Section: διεργασία ομάδας: κατανοώντας μέσα από το σχετίζεσθαιunclassified
“…Kokkos (Kokkos, 2015), M. Laal (Laal & Aliramaei, 2014), B. Nemetch (Nemetch, 2014), D. Pritchard (Pritchard, 2013) and others.…”
Section: Problem Statementmentioning
confidence: 99%