Adult Education Teaching Strategies And Methods

You can understand the concept "adult education" better if you first understand the concept 'adult'
very clearly. We will therefore focus first on "adult". In simple terms, we can define "adult" as a person
who has attained physical, mental, emotional and social maturity or legal age for marriage, or for franchise
or voting right. But can we say for certain that every person who has attained physical maturity only, or
legal age of adulthood can be considered to be mature adult of that society or country? Or can we say at
what age a person will definitely becomean adult, in terms of maturity? The answer is 'No'. But at the
same time, as AdultEducation:The Basic mentioned above, we can be sure of one thing that we are all
adults with different Concept, Terms, Features and Objectives levels of maturity and belong to the most
significant and productive age group - physically, socially, mentally, economically, politically, morally
culturally, and so on. Nevertheless, we need to remember that maturity is an endless process and in
general it increases with one's age, experience and knowledge. In the context of adult education, the
concept 'adult' remained inadequately defined because of the multiplicity of criteria used in defining it.
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1995) defines adult as: