The comparison of Adult development between Australia vs Malaysia
1- Rules & Regulation
2- Activities
3- Method of government
4- Theories been used
This presentation were only based on our point of view.
4. COMPARISON
DEFINITION AUSTRALIA &
MALAYSIA
INTRODUCTION CONCLUSION
SCOPE
5. Malaysia Issues: Finished schools
Neglected adult at Year 12 or
learner Vocational
Malaysia Majority
becoming Australian
develop country finished their
by 2020 formal learning
More than half
than 25 – 64
years old not
further study
6. Malcom Knowles
Adult L earner
The root of pedagogy as “paid” (child)
and “agogus” (leader of), and
combined the two to mean the “art and
science of teaching children.
Levinson (1986)
Adult Development
It has includes life course and life cycle, which provide an
essential framework for the field of adult development
7.
8.
9. RULES & REGULATION
Standard academic rules when their
show their hand in theoretical terms
when undertaking and report
research Institutional
Esthonomethodology as one of several
useful ways of researching learning
Non-
Institutional
Role:
Colley, Hodkinson & Malcolm (2005)
“Changes to the funding regulations for
education, and for adult education in
particular have imposed increasing
degrees of formality on areas of
informal learning”
10. ACTIVITIES
AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA
Build fully
moral & ethical
society Have
Supporting innovative &
looking
learning at forward
workplace
Caring culture
Ensuring
access Economically
just society
opportunities
Build fully
Build moral & ethical
relationship society
gov,
community Matured,
liberated &
tolerant society
12. THEORIES
Australia Malaysia
Tough (1967, 1971) Malcolm Knowles (1990)
Learning is both intentional and unintentional 5 principles AL
McGivney (1999) Merriam (2001)
Group learning experiences in their own learning Focus on individual & ignore socio-historical context of AL
Billet (2001); Fenwick (2001)
Colley, Hodkinson & Malcolm (2002)
Workplace learning
Comprehensive analysis of the Anglophone literature.
Comparison between formal & Informal
Brown, Collins & Duguid (1989)
Higher priorities placed on AL context
Pillay & Elliot (2002)
Differentiating elements in context of AL
13. While
others
re just • Take steps towards recreating
themselves as learning communities
startin • The opportunities that been given
g to Australia by government and communities
towards adult need to be used as
explore the benchmark towards other
what countries
the
concept
may
mean Malaysia
for AL is important in
• Need to follow develop country to
their move forward in producing better producing adult to move
forward and capable to
region adult learner build the better prospect
• Have a better plan in achieving 9
goals in Vision 2020 towards nation. Early
stages of adulthood play
role in determine the
future of nation