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Alexander Kapp
In 1833, Alexander Kapp published Platon's Erziehungslehre, als Pädagogik für die Einzelnen und als Staatspädagogik. Minden und Leipzig. This was the first book to use the root work for Andragogy, Andragogik, and was published in Europe based on the works of Plato. This began the very first discussions on adult education as a field of study and as a specialty. -
Thorndike, Bregman, Tilton and Woodyards
Adult Education, written by Thorndike, Bregman, Tilton and Woodyards was the first book published based on research on adult education. This became a foundation for discussion and further study into adult education as a field. This research also removed a misconception that adults were incapable of learning. -
Maternal grandparents gruaduate from college
My maternal grandfather graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Civil Engineering. My maternal grandmother was the first woman in her family to get a college degree, when she graduated from St. Mary of the Woods Girls School, with a secretarial degree. -
Adult Education Association of the USA created
The Adult Education Association of the USA, now known as the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, was the first national organization where adult educators could gather and discuss principles, techniques and further the professionalization of adult education. -
Cyril Hoyle
In 1961, Cyril Houle published a book on Self Directed Learning. Self directed learning is another facet of adult education, in addition to Andragogy. It is based on the fact that adults learn as part of their everyday life, outside of the classroom without an instructor, is widespread, and is systematic. -
Lyndon Johnson and John F Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson and John F Kennedy were both influential in passing the Adult Education Act. The Adult Education Act was passed with the idea of helping people over the age of 18 whose ability to function in society was being impaired by their lack of knowledge of how to read, write or compute. This was the first time that the government formally acknowledged the importance of adult education on lifelong success for an adult. -
Malcom Knowles
When Malcolm Knowles published in 1968, he familiarized the UNited States with the term Andragogy. While the term Andragogy had been used in Europe for over a hundred years, in the United States, there had previously been no term to separate adult education from pedagogy, or the education of children. By introducing this term, Knowles created a specialty within the education field in the United States, and our understanding of adult education today is a direct result -
Both parents graduated from Indiana University.
My father was from a blue collar family, and he was the first person in his family to attend and graduate from college, and went on to become a teacher in an elementary school. My mother, while she was from a family of college graduates, actually moved away from the country in which she grew up, Peru, to go to Indiana University and study business. -
Beginning of my desire to enter the education field
On this date, I started class with my favorite teacher of my academic career. I remember thinking that I admired Miss Herald so much that I wanted to be a teacher as well. I would watch the way that she would interact with me and with the other children, and try to analyze how I could incorporate these methods into my own life. -
My first job as a trainer
While I had long forgotten my desire to be a teacher, I was encouraged through my friends to apply for a training position within the call center in which I was working. Before this, I had been pursuing business management as a career, but as soon as I stood in front of a class, I knew that adult education was the only field that I wanted to be in.