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“Do adults learn differently?” This has been a fundamental question that I have been asked time and time again. Much of what we know about learning and memory comes from research on students To generalize from these studies to someone mid-career… is that reasonable?

This week I’m exploring the difference between pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching to children) and andragogy (the method and practice of teaching to adults). In particular, I’m going to analyze Knowles’ well-known framework for adult education (4) and compare it to what we know from the cognitive science literature about how people learn.

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