The Fundamental Principles of Adult Education and their Suggestions / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

1) In the field of adult education, there is a lateral relationship of “learning/teaching” between learners and teachers. And the both collaborate for the purpose of “the attainment of the most desirable learning activity” as the subject of learning and the subject responsible for the facilitation of learning.<BR>2) Adult learners have peculiar features in each of the following aspects;‘self-concept’, ‘learning experience’‘the readiness for learning’‘the orientation for learning’‘the motivation for learning’.<BR>3) Self-directed learning is based on the idea of andragogy (the art and science of helping adults learn), and the learners actively and mutually make up their learning plans and put them into practice themselves.<BR>4) Most of the lifelong learning activities in present Japan can be divided into three types (or stages)‘Teacher (and others)-directed learning’, ‘Self-directed learning’ and ‘Self-directed and Mutual transforming leaning’. And in each, the different roles of educators are reguired.<BR>5) The values of adult education such as ‘equality’‘sympathy’‘cooperation’‘mutuality’ and ‘educativeness’ should be consciously shared between learners and teachers in the professional field and in the process of professional training.