children's education and instruction is primarily based primarily on information transmission. The child is like an empty jar we have to fill. But in the adult's experience makes jar is not empty if not full enough so that learning does not need instruction but make connections between information that already has to find answers to what you need .. In some cases part of this response will be that more instruction in a specific issue or not has not dominant. But in this case education becomes self - directed is determined that the adult who wants to learn and how.
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The adult is self-directed learning.
The adult has a large container of information through the experience.
Learning is directed toward solving problems.
The motivation to learn is internal.
We are able to learn from every experience in our lives, but not all experience is learning. We need something done with the experience that becomes not only learning and memory of an event. What is needed is a process of reflection and critical reflection.
Reflection is to assess what has happened.
There are two levels of reflection:
- Simple: acknowledge that happened without thinking through the implications it may have for a
- Criticism: analyze what has happened and the implications it may have for you.
Critical reflection can lead to a recognition that generates actions that change our behavior.
This is usually called transformative learning.
really learn when we become aware of all the elements that affect our decisions, but many of our actions are the result of frameworks that are not themselves but learned from our parents or our social environment . Thomas