Professional paper
The Development of Andragogy as a Scientific Discipline
Željka Maic
; Osnovna škola braće Radić, Pakrac, Hrvatska
Abstract
Andragogy is a fairly young science that has developed in terms of pedagogy. Although andragogy has a very long and rich practice as a theory, it systematically began to develop in the 19th century. The second half of the 20th century is considered to be the period of its most productive and most intense development, the period in which andragogy became a relatively independent scientific discipline. The name of Malcolm Knowles is mentioned who, in his article "Andragogy, not pedagogy" established the concept of adult education in English-speaking countries. The paper starts with data on the historical development of adult education through three main stages development-stage integral unity of adult education with pedagogy and sociology, which runs from 4th to 19th centuries, stage descriptive-deductive adult education from the second half of the 19th century to 30-ies of the 20th century, and phase of relative independence of adult education as a science that is going on between the two World Wars and the postwar period. It follows the historical development of adult education in Croatia since the beginning of the 20th century until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The paper ends with the prediction of the future of adult education.
Keywords
andragogy; lifetime education; stages of development; adult education; historical development
Hrčak ID:
195195
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2017.
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