Imagine yourself the learner travelling along your learning continuum ...you might have taken a path like this...
Pedagogy: You started on the learning continuum in a learning style / environment / method suitable for those that do not have a lot of life / learning experience behind them. This is the pedagogy and often associated with the teaching of children. Here you, the student, depend on the teacher for what and how to learn. The learning advances in a linear fashion and is graded by the teacher. Your motivation to learn is the tension created between wanting good grades and the consequence of failure (Garnet, F 2013).
Doesn't sound like much fun! Luckily, folks like Parker Palmer tell us it is more than this and is about being, not doing. When done well it will include a paradoxical tension that requires the teacher to respond to you and the paradoxes you present with a heart (Palmer, J pp 76-88).
Mark K Smith puts it nice and simply: Pedagogy is the process of accompanying learners; caring for and about them; and bringing learning into life".
So, it seems pedagogy has heart to it which we must not forget.
Andragogy: Now, you the learner have advanced to the intermediate stage where you share the locus of control with the teacher. Now, you are self aware of your own thought process. Andragogy is often associated with the adult learner. The desire to learn driven by the need to complete a task or solve a problem. You draw from what you know and build on it as well as what you learn from others. All the while you are successfully learning to build your self-confidence and esteem. The role of the teacher is to be a facilitator who allows this learning to take place in an environment of openness and respect (http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/11/interesting-chart-outlining-differences.html).
Heutagogy: You, are now at a more advanced stage where the world is full of things to learn...for fun or other desired higher purpose. Look at you -- an independent self directed learner who manages your own learning. The teacher provides some resources and you the learner makes the decision on what path and what compromises are worth making for the sake of learning. You may decide to learn something new on a whim and not just because you need too. The teachers role is to help the learner develop their capabilities.
Just when you think you have arrived at the top of learner's mountain ... think again...I see Peeragogy, and Cybergogy a coming!
Peeragogy: for co-learning and/or co-creating, and Cybergogy: for encouraging learner engagement in online learning environments (Mauger, D, PIDP 3250 May 2015).
Good goggy!
References:
Palmer, P J, "'The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life", Chapter III, pp. 76-88, 1998, 2007, Jossey Bass, San Francisco.
Garner, F (2013) The Heutagogy Community of Practice, https://heutagogycop.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/the-pah-continuum-pedagogy-andragogy-heutagogy/
Smith, M. K. (2012). ‘What is pedagogy?’, the encyclopaedia of informal education. (http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-pedagogy/. Retrieved: June 30, 2015).
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/11/interesting-chart-outlining-differences.html
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