adult learning
Grown-up schooling pursuit
Adult learning is education undertaken by people who have reached maturity, typically outside traditional schooling.
The term encompasses everything from professional development and job training to pursuing degrees later in life or acquiring new skills for personal enrichment.
Adult learners often balance education with work and family responsibilities: She returned to college at forty through an adult learning program.
- critical thinkingObjective evaluation of information
- universityHigher education institution
- autodidacticismPractice of self-instruction
- cognitive flexibilityCapacity to shift perspectives
- self-studyLearning independently, without guidance
developmental psychology · GED · metacognition · on-the-job training · community college · continuing education · certification · personal development · diploma · reskilling · skill gap · mentorship · apprenticeships · retraining · second career · lifelong · intellectual curiosity · online courses
- adult educationGED prep, night classes, evening classes, night school, community education
- educational researchcase study, survey, experiment, data analysis, quantitative research
- museum programseducational programs, family programs, youth programs, community programs, workshops
- vocational trainingapprenticeship, apprenticeships, trade school, trade schools, vocational school
- worker educationtrade schools, vocational training, apprenticeships, technical schools, technical education
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
adult learningchildhood education
Instruction for young learners
K-12 education · early childhood education · primary education · elementary education · secondary education
adult learningformal education
Systematic study in institutions
traditional schooling · compulsory schooling · pedagogy · classroom instruction · degree programs