Being a AE, it is important to go back to basic, as to reflect and ask ourselves what are the reasons for one to be interested in learning or intending to upgrade oneself in the first place.
I find it most interesting of what was taught today, the change of one's identity, the cause of preserving and protecting one's identity as we increase in new knowledge and understanding. Such defensiveness could it be due to one's status and professional image has also increased which resulted to such actions and thoughts? Such that the acquiring of knowledge also brings a person into new social relations with others.
How one's past experience during their early education may create a barrier to their perception and attitude towards Adult learning. Such that the fear of assessment and assignment makes learning a chore. Who we are now depends on what and how we learned in the past. As the saying goes, "we are what we eat".
The 3 Key Areas concerning our identity:-
1) to protect it
2) to preserve it
3) to project it
Collecting Data about Learner by using Andragogy and Pedagogy model. However one should note that these are just initial assumptions about the learners.
Andragogy Learners
Learners who falls within this are usually more self-directed and responsible, they have their set of past experiences, they tend to engage the community and try solve real-life problems, using aspect of problem solving approaches to handle training issues and their motivation are driven by internal factors.
Pedagogy Learners
They seems to be more dependent to the facilitators or trainers to direct their move, not many experience in the current field they are in, they tend to relay and respond better to societal expectations, knowledge are acquired first for a later use when unnecessary. There is no actual urgency or self objectives during the acquisition of knowledge. Lastly, their motivation is driven by external factors.
