Education and Training of Adult Educators in Serbia

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Education and Training of Adult Educators in
Serbia

• Aleksandra Pejatovic, Ph.D.
• Faculty of Philosophy
• University of Belgrade
• Serbia Montenegro

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Content

• The education of future andragogues at the
  Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
• Project Teacher training and training of
  teachers

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The current curriculum of Andragogy course at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade

• General subjects Introduction to the theory of
  society, Foreign language (which can be English,
  German, French, Russian, Spanish and Italian)

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The current curriculum of Andragogy course at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade (II)

• Specialized subjects - General pedagogy, General
  psychology with the psychology of personality,
  Introduction to philosophy with basis of ethics,
  Statistics in andragogy, Social psychology,
  Psychology of adulthood and aging, Optional
  courses (Social pathology, Sociology of labor,
  Sociology of culture, Family sociology and Theory
  of knowledge)

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The current curriculum of Andragogy course at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade (III)

• Narrow specialization History of adult
  education, General andragogy, Psychology of adult
  learning, Research methods in adragogy,
  Andragogical didactics, Andragogy of labor,
  Comparative andragogy, Theory of organization in
  adult education, Social andragogy, Education
  planning and human resource development,
  Andragogy of leisure, Andragogy of mass
  communications, Methodic of basic adult education
  and Family andragogy.

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The system of studies of andragogy at the Faculty
of Philosophy, Belgrade

• A basic four year program of studies in andragogy
  (graduate in andragogy)
• Graduate specialized studies that last three
  semesters (andragogue specialized in certain
  area)
• Graduate masters studies (master of andragogy)
• Possibility of writing and acquiring a doctorate
  (Ph.D. in andragogy)
• Different types of continuing education of
  graduates in andragogy.

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Project Teacher training and training of
teachers

• The projects term of reference
• The target group of the project
• Three levels of work
• Seven basic program modules
• Fifteen multipliers
• Four groups with, on the average, 20 students per
  class, over a total of nine days of advanced
  training
• The training method
• The continuing development of the project

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Seven basic program modules

• Position and role of the teacher in adult
  education
• Visualization, presentation, moderation
• Active adult learning
• Interactive teaching in adult education
• Cognitive processes in teaching adults
• Management in education
• Evaluation in education