Adult Learning Principles and Process This short paper is a
summary of some of the main points in the paper Adult Learning
Principles and Process-Back to Basics which is available on
request from firstname.lastname@example.org One of the
activities we all do in business is "training" others. It is my
contention that modern adult learning principles are not
practiced frequently or well in general "training" in industry
and in consequence the learning experience is not as successful
as it could be The teaching of adults (andragogy) has many
differences to the teaching of children and other young people
(pedagogy). Adults have considerable life experience to bring to
the training room and are more likely to question training input
that does not accord with their life experience. This brings
considerable challenges but also considerable satisfaction to
the facilitator. Critical reflection is an important element in
andragogy and this happens most naturally when the content of a
class invites involvement, when stu