The Learning Prescripts: Pedagogy, Heutagogy, Andragogy

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Nidhi
May 30, 2019   •  6 views

Education, a sense of discipline to draw out propulsion from inward to outward, needs a certain process and a pertinent stride to be in correct roadway. It takes a versed sightedness to bring yourself up to the level of a place which is actually worthy. Learning is the demonstration of thoroughness already in man which not merely gives us tidings but make our lives to develop from within. To instate the kind of learning which leads you to the cosmos of well illustrated and embellished experience the conception of pedagogy, heutagogy, and andragogy is exhorted.

The transformative education is presented by one of the very first learning prescripts known as Pedagogy.This is shaping up of activities, verdicts, and other teaching action plan which is adapted by the teachers includes understanding of students their exigency, background of students, and their individual interest. Whether it be an academic subject or any theoretical concept the student-teacher interactionand the learning environment and task all comprise of an approach towards the concept of pedagogy. Cognivitism, Contrustivism, and Behaviorismare the key points that are designed as a stimulus to induce learning under pedagogy.

The idea of Andragogy came into learning community in the 1970s when it was identified that there is a difference in the way adults learn. Being self-directed learners adults bring a great deal of experience into the classroom. Andragogy is proposed for adults who seek education and are ready to learn upto their satisfactory condition. As adults are internally agitated they want problem based learning which leads to a cooperative learning environment and involves them in setting a goal. Andragogy meets the objective by evaluating the virtue of learning and by designing successional learning experiences based on the interest of learners.

In this technological age digital literary is key to today's instructional and academic process which allows students to develop skill sets to find utilization of knowledge rather than creating instructions that is teacher-focused. This is Heutagogy, next step in educational theory with the advent of technological advancements. It works on learner directed questions with resilient and negotiated evaluation to make learning more proficient and deft. Educators are more attentive on learning process rather than content and learning occurs through self-chosen and self-directed action. Although heutagogy is just an emerging epistemology, but it is more transformative than pedagogy and andragogy.

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