BOSH

BASIC OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY & HEALTH COURSE
FUNDAMENTALS OF ADULT LEARNING
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At the end of the course the participants will be able to:
1. Define learning and discuss the principle of adult
learning.
2. Identify the characteristic of adult learner.
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LEARNING
 Refers to the acquisition of new knowledge and new
responses, resulting in a change in behavior.

EDUCATION
 Is the process of establishing habits of critical and
independent appraisal of information for the purpose of
intellectually developing the whole person.

TRAINING
 Is an approach to learning perform specific task or activites.
Trainers follow a well defined path leading to a destination,
while educators wander in the fields on either side of the
path.
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Principle of Adult Learning
LEARNING:
 the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by
studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing
something : the activity of someone who learns.
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Principle of Adult Learning

Recency
Appropriatness
Motivation
2-way communication
Feedback
Active Learning
Multi-sense learning
Exercise
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1. RECENCY
 Things are learn last are those that are best
remembered by the participants.
 This apply to two separate areas of learning.
1. It applies to the content at the end of the session.
2. It applies to the things that are freshest in the
participants
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2. APPROPRIATENESS
 All the training, information, training aids, case
studies and other materials must be appropriate to
the participants need.

3. MOTIVATION
 Shows us that the participants must want to learn,
must ready to learn and must have some reason to
learn.
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4. PRIMACY
 Things participants learn first are usually learnt
best, so the first impression or pieces of
information which participants get from the trainer
are really important.

5. FEEDBACK
 Inform us that both the facilitator and the
participants need information from each other.
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6. ACTIVE LEARNING
 Show us that participants learn more when they are
actively involved in the process. Remember the
saying “we learn by doing”.

7. EXERCISE
 OVERLEARNING or meaningful repetition. It tells
the thing best remember if they are repeated.
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8. MULTI-SENSE LEARNING
 Says that learning is far more effective if the
participants use more than of their five sense.
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
1. ARE
 Self directed
 Likely to be rigid in thinking
 Realistic and not easily fooled
 Impatient to achieve their own objectives
 Very different because of their different life
experience
 Anxious about failure
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
2. ARE NOT

 A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE

 Willing to participate if anxious or have a low self-

concept.
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
3. PHYSICALLY
 Need good lighting and few distractions
 Are likely to be tired after work
 Must cope with competing demands for their time
 Energy, hearing and visions are short term
 Memory deteriorate with age
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
4. NEED

 To feel success
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
5. EXPECT
 To be treated as mature people
 Value for money
 An enjoyable and satisfying environment
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
6. RESPOND
 To basic good manners and courtesy
 Positively to acknowledgement and praise from
peers and instructors.
 To having their knowledge, skills and experience
used by the trainer as a learning resource.
 To the rejection of their experience as a rejection of
them.
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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
7. RESENT

 Trainers talking down to them

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CHARACTERISTIC OF ADULT LEARNER
8. MOTIVATION
 Including needs are often concealed
 To attend a training is to achieved specific goals.
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LEARNING PRINCIPLES
 Deductive Method
 Inductive Method
THANK YOU VERY
MUCH!
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