Andragogy

The Andragogy

Andragogy (from the Greek andros, man, male, and gogos, guide or lead) is the science and art being part of the Anthropology and being immersed in lifelong learning is developed through a praxis based on the principles of participation and horizontal, which process, being driven by the synergistic characteristics of learning facilitator, allows to increase the thinking, self-management, quality of life and creativity of adult participant, in order to provide an opportunity to achieve its self-realization.

The Age

In ancient times the old teacher as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle did not believe in traditional education but used an excellent, although different methods to convey knowledge directly to adult. They thought that the real education as a process of transmitting knowledge and humanized the individual was made giving the student the freedom to choose, research and adapting knowledge. Jesus was one of the largest andragogical, that even when it states "Let the children come to me" which was a cry of love, preaching and teaching based on his word to adults that is, his disciple. Confucius, Lao Tzu, Aristotle and Plato in practical ways created the premises for adult education. Arises this way the idea they had of that learning is fundamentally a process of inquiry teaching through parables, using real life situations.

The fact Andragogic

The adult is a biological being developed in the physical, ecological and social in layers to act autonomously in a social group and ultimately decide their own destiny. In the pedagogical involving biological, historical, anthropological, psychological and social. Briefly discuss these factors:

From the psychological point of view was, the adult education as a subject acting in a particular social and physical environment, subjected to the action of various environmental factors. Your body has reached its anthropometric development, anatomy and physiology, with a particular morphology with physical force, with psychosomatic trait transferable and which together make up your individuality.

From the historical view point, anthropologists have followed a continuous process in time. As such this emaizado to the history of his education as an individual and as a species. Education as a human event is history, not only because each man is educated at a certain moment of historical time that in general which will be live (historical extrinsic) but because of their education including the development of their existence and their own Personal history (intrinsic historicity).

From the social point of view, the individual and society are indivisible units. Society exists for the sum of its components. Man's behavior is a response to stimuli from the physical others originate in the life of the individual's relationship with his fellow men that determines their social behavior.

From the point of view of man's productive capacity, the educational process includes ecology. All education involves cultural purposes, but understood in its broadest sense, the fact dinamesa Andragogic and conditions the ability to work as a dynamic activity that changes the very structure of society.

The process and function of the fact Andragogic

The fact Andragogic is real, objective and concrete because:

There are actually adult and Bio-Psychosocial and ergológico.

This reality (adult) is likely to educability throughout their lives.

Society exists for its own survival and development, to educate their members.

The fact Andragogic acquire practical dimension in the activities of adult education. The process of individual counseling, social and ergológica to achieve their self-determination skills. Unlike the process that takes place with children may be either bidirectional or Simplex. The educational event takes place in the first years of life and is characterized by the deliberate purpose of shaping the psychological structure of the child or adolescent with ideas or patterns of behavior that he made to your needs and will, to shape or structure of personality educator in his own likeness. In adults, this process is different because the maturation process itself allows you to accept or reject the ideas and experiences of the social group which has acquired the same rights and duties and where the adult has accumulated some experience rationally involved in decisions about their own fate and that of society. Stimulate motivation in humans is a function of adult education, is the mission of andragogical activity. The man to survive in this or any other planet in the outer extension, you must always add, not subtract, multiply or divide, but their cultural, scientific and technical.

The act Andragogic, or educational activity in adult life is different. The first term is not a measurement because it is not an adult generation that spreads to other patterns of life forms and systems. Second, there is no proper place an agent - master in the strict sense of the word in enforcing designee of a sector of adult society to another sector. Representative elements which we have referred in a society has developed the adult and they remain marginalized, culture (illiteracy) these representative elements can be acquired if the needs arise as a result of socio - economic groups people.

Prepared by: Erik de Jesus Garcia Martinez - Zone Los Tuxtlas.