Warsaw, Poland

Adult Education and Developmental Activities Design

Master's
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⇑Adult Education and Developmental Activities Design at UW

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: teacher training and education science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: en.uw.edu.pl

⇑Test: Is Adult Education and Developmental Activities Design the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You’re running a workshop for adults, and participants tell you they were always bored in lessons at school. How do you plan the session?

2. A company asks you to run training for its staff but doesn’t say exactly what they’re missing. Where do you start?

3. An older participant says there’s no point learning anything new at her age. How do you respond?

4. You’re designing a development programme with a team from different countries, and the discussions, reading and reports are all in English. How do you feel about that?

5. The training is over and the participants were happy. How do you check whether it actually made a difference?

6. Do you have any experience of running classes, training sessions, workshops or mentoring?

7. Your group has very different levels of knowledge and experience. What do you do?

8. Are you interested in how adults learn and what makes them want to change their habits?

9. You need to design a course for busy working people with little free time. What format do you choose?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Adult Education and Developmental Activities Design?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Adult
Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity. In human context, the term adult additionally has meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a "minor", a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible. The typical age of attaining adulthood is 18, although definition may vary by legal rights and country.
Adult Education
Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. It can mean any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling, encompassing basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner.
Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, coding, and graphic design) is also considered to use design thinking.
Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.
Education
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character, Chapter VI.
Design
Design is redesign.
Jan Michl (2002), in "On seeing design as redesign" (Scandinavian Journal of Design History 12, 2002: 7-23.)
Design
Disguise and complication are hindrances, both to good construction and good design, and as complication and disguise are expensive and wasteful... the interests of good art and true economy run on parallel lines.
Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
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