Adult learners need different educational models

Increasing numbers of postgraduate entrants to medical school, greater movement between specialities, and an influx of qualified doctors from overseas means that there are increasing numbers of experienced learners in the workforce. Penny Newman and Ed Peile (p 200) explore the attributes of experienced adult learners and propose appropriate educational models. These, they say, are models that emphasise a facilitative approach, guided reflection, learning from experience, and an adult to adult relationship between learner and trainer. Paternalism in an adult educational relationship is rarely appropriate.


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Valuing learners' experience and supporting further growth: educational models to help experienced adult learners in medicine
Penny Newman and Ed Peile
BMJ 2002 325: 200-202. [Full Text] [PDF]

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