What is Andragogy?

How do educators encourage, support, and teach parents to use techniques while reading with their child? Andragogy is a term used to describe how adults learn and is important to use and understand because adults learn differently, have different motivations, and have different levels of experience compared to children.

Strategies

Andragogy includes different strategies to use when teaching adults.
These include making sure the adult understands why the information is important to learn, allowing them a sense of responsibility for their own decisions and self-directed learning, and using their prior experiences and knowledge to aid in the education (Mews, 2020, p. 66).

Adults want to learn skills that are “oriented to the developmental tasks of his/her social roles.” This includes their roles as parents which therefore means they have parental motivation to help their children (Machynska & Boiko, 2020, p. 28).