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Andragoški ogledi u doba pandemije: Alternacije i alternative u obrazovanju odraslih
Andragogical Essay in Time of Pandemia: Alternations and Alternatives in Adult Education

Author(s): Mirjana Mavrak
Subject(s): Education, Adult Education
Published by: JU ‘’Bosanski kulturni centar Kantona Sarajevo’’
Keywords: alternative education; alternations in education; distance learning; self-education;

Summary/Abstract: The focus of the paper is active coping with pandemic circumstances as crisis in comprehensive space of adult education. Crisis intervention in eduaction as combination of educological and psychological theroretical concepts is illustrated through changes in microandragogical activities at the university comparing the content and the process of online teaching during three semesters of electronic communication (lecturing, exercising, tutoring, exams). The emphasis is placed on the understanding of alternations and alternatives in adult education as concepts which adult education exerts should teach educators at all levels of education, and the conclusions are drawn based on the observation of adult educators in interaction with the overall social field: personal acceptance of change (I - adult educator), control over goals and learning outcomes (institution and partipants), leading stile in teaching out of the chief-model in coaching (obedience and responsibility in adult education), self-education as new-old skill in adult learning.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-52
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Croatian