Andragogy and Adult Education- Project and Change

Abstrakt

The development of andragogy as a science and the education of adults as a learning process should be considered as a whole and inseparable. Their interdependence would appear to be obvious, and in essence it is impossible to examine each of these subjects simultaneously. Above all, this results from the fact that andragogy (just like pedagogy) belongs to the applied sciences. This means a close connection between theory and the research results obtained, upon which the theory is constructed. And although every science strives to create a theory of the widest possible scope, in the case of applied sciences one cannot ignore the context in which specific laws, dependencies and connections can be discovered, and upon which a broadly based concept can be formulated. This of course may suggest a higher accuracy of qualitative research methods, which may form some kind of limitation. We should be aware that although qualitative research methods seem to be the most suitable in researching the problems of adult education, they should not be regarded as the only possibility, because this type of research problem determines the choice of method, and not the other way round.