This research study was in the field of adult education,
focusing on the role of adult educators. Sixty four adult
educators in the Australian Capital Territory, from a wide
range of institutions took part in the study. The
educational orientation of the adult educators, on an
andragogical-pedagogical continuum, was measured by The
Educational Orientation Questionnaire, (Hadley, 1974). This
test was based on Knowles, theory of andragogy "the art and
science of helping adults learn" and its corollary,
pedagogy, "the art of teaching children" (Knowles, 1985).
The E.O.Q. tested adult educators' attitudes in six areas of
education to discover the extent to which educators were
more andragogical or pedagogical in their orientation. Four
personality dimensions of adult educators were measured by
The Personal Style Inventory (Champagne and Hogan, 1979) - a
test based on Jung's theory of psychological types. The
data was analysed and four null hypotheses were tested. Two
were rejected and two were accepted. The findings revealed
that there was a statistically significant correlation at
the .01 level of significance, showing a definite
relationship between two of the dimensions,
extraversion-introversion and sensing-intuition, and the
educational orientation of adult educators: extraversion
and intuition with a more andragogical orientation and
introversion and sensing with a more pedagogical
orientation. The interpretation of these findings raised
numerous questions and issues on the role of adult educators
as well as recommendations for further research on the
correlation of other variables with the educational
orientation of adult educators.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219430 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Hoogendoorn, Anne Roberta, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Anne Roberta Hoogendoorn |
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