PARTICIPATE - Participatory Methods in Adult Education
Building a model for participatory design of learning outcomes
Emotions in learning
The way adults learn is different from children and there is a need to take that in consideration, to improve the process of teaching and learning in adult education. Malcom Knowles describe adult education as the art and science helping adults to learn. Adults learn better from experience, they favour a pragmatic approach and must be able to apply to solve specific problem, they are interested in learn things immediate relevant, they need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction.
Jonava Adult and Youth Education Centre, located in a small town in Lithuania, is implementing the project “Improving Adult Education” under Erasmus+ programme. The aim of the project is to strengthen staff competencies which could help to develop learners' social emotional skills, improve feedback and modernise the activities of the Centre. The project takes in consideration a lot the emotional intelligence, the importance between emotions and emotions of others (source: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/improving-adult-education).
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