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Transitioning from Pedagogy to Andragogy

Writer's picture: Matt EichstaedtMatt Eichstaedt

I will be honest, before we started this unit, I had no idea what andragogy was. In all of my classes throughout undergrad we had only discussed pedagogy. Considering the fact that I was working with high schoolers it is understandable, but this really expanded my perception of learning. After going through the readings and videos, I thought back to a lot of experiences in college and realized that my professors were often using a mixture of these two styles of learning to prepare us. A great example of this is how my internship class was set up during my final year of undergrad. The setup of the classroom was a big circle and the main focus was for us to share what we had experienced in our internships and what we could learn from those experiences. This picture came to my head when I was watching the video on andragogy because it reminded me about the share of information in that setting. It is not just the teacher who is sharing information with the students, it is everyone collaborating together to learn something new. I also didn't realize that I was doing a mixture of this in my own classroom. I personally like to put a great deal of the learning on the shoulders of my students and then have them bring that information into class to discuss. My classroom style truly is a hybrid version of learning that is taking andragogy and combining it with pedagogy approaches. My hope would be that this better prepares my students for those experiences in college or wherever their life takes them. I think that this incorporation of andragogy into the classroom allows students to be more engaged in the classroom because the set up requires there to be a discourse rather than me just talking at them. The issue with it though is that this means I need to get them to buy in on this model. Based on my experiences in the classroom, the students who buy into this do extremely well and are typically the ones on a college track. The students who struggle are most likely not trying to engage or their attendance is so poor that they give up. Either way, I do believe going this route is a good way to support students as they move through the education system and become adults and prepare for their future.




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Netter, L. (2015, December 13). Andragogy [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbZM1kq6rQ

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