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Curricular Approach to Contents of Adults’ Learning and Education

Table 1: Principles of Contents’ Design and Staggering in Adults’ Training and Education Curriculum (Țurcanu, 2021b)

Principles of Contents’ Design Principles of Contents’ Staggering
the principle of achieving, through the educational content, the expected outcomes, specific to adults’ learning and education;the principle of coherence and balance between the various components of educational content: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values;the principle of scientific content, made essential and relevant to the individual needs of adults in vocational and non-professional plane (of general culture);the principle of complexity and contextuality of educational content: correlated with the intended outcomes;the principle of correlating the projected knowledge and skills with the particularities of the adult teaching-learning-assessment process;the principle of knowledge’s validity for its usefulness in the general formation of adult’s personality and its professional development;the principle of transdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, intradisciplinarity in relation to the conceptual paradigm of adults’ learning and education;the principle of flexibility (the possibility of grouping and regrouping content units depending on specific contexts and diversified forms of education). the principle of staging according to the complexity of the content units (subject segmentation);the principle of delimitation (each of the parties must represent a unit);the principle of progressive and contextual/situational difficulty;the principle of linking new and old information with the dominance of information generated by the educational needs and opportunities of adults;the principle of coordination (establishing the link between knowledge, skills and types of activities, on the one hand, and between types of activities and society/labor market, on the other hand);the principle of accentuation (revealing the most significant part of the contents);the principle of didactic values (organizing the content according to the finalities, the teaching-learning methods, the didactic means, etc.);the principle of complexity and variability of adults’ learning/training activities.
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