Pedagogy and Andragogy
According to the American Heritage® Dictionary (2000), the word pedagogy is derived
from the Greek paidaggos which referred to "the slave who took children to and from school," and
the term is commonly understood to mean "the art or profession of teaching." Most schools of
education require the study of child development, training new teachers in methods and techniques
that account for children's stages of maturation.
To their detriment, most training courses for educators in higher education and corporate learning programs pay less attention to learners' needs, though the literature on adult education is quite rich. In 1833 the German educator Dr. Alexander Kapp coined the term "andragogik" or andragogy (Reischmann 2004, para. 1). The term was not widely used until it was resurrected, refined, and popularized in the 1970’s and 1980’s by Malcolm Knowles.
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