A Study on Andragogy & Heutagogy in Adult Education with Reference to Bloom’s Taxonomy

Abstract

The contemporary education portals have been witnessing the transformational change in terms of teaching-learning endeavours. It is also evident that as the learners climb the stairs of academic portals, the pedagogy is being gradually replaced by the andragogy that focuses more student-centric education rather than teacher-centric education. Besides, the Heutagogy is also gaining tremendous response from the professional learners’ community. As per the Heutagogy, the learners may pursue their education online without any constant instructions from the teacher, besides, it also focuses at connecting the learners across the geographical boundaries. Due to the factors like convenient learning and effective mode of knowledge transfer, the Heutagogy has been accepted by the renowned universities and they are offering many professional courses through online. The only purpose of these certificate is to build workplace skills among the professionals The study focuses on the importance Andragogy and Heutagogy in the contemporary academic portals with reference to the Bloom’s Taxonomy in which the stages of learning processes are widely discussed. Besides, the population of 180 students were taken as sampling in order to collect the data. The results of the survey reports also determine that the professionals aspire more of Andragogical/Heutagogical learning processes than the traditional mode of learning in a classroom set-up. Further, the paper also suggests some of the effective learner-centric tools under Heutagogy that can effectively build the required professional skills among the professionals. Indeed, the suggested tools help the learners for an independent study and they are also intended to enhance their cognitive abilities.