Lately, the importance of learning flow that has impact upon the positive experience of participating in lifetime education has stood in the center of interest. Furthermore, learning flow is considered practically important for the survival of lifetim...
Lately, the importance of learning flow that has impact upon the positive experience of participating in lifetime education has stood in the center of interest. Furthermore, learning flow is considered practically important for the survival of lifetime educational program, becoming an important concept by which learner-oriented lifetime education can be explained theoretically. The learning flow of adult learners is closely related to the teaching behaviors of a teacher who stands at the contact point with learners in the field of lifetime education.
Since studies on learning flow are more focused on school education or individual characteristics, it is hard to find a study on the effect of teaching behaviors on the learning flow of adult learners. Starting from the necessity, the present study is aimed to empirically analyze the impact of teaching behaviors on the learning flow of adult learners.
To achieve the research objective, this study sets the following research question: “How do the teaching behaviors perceived by adult learners have impact on their learning flow under the condition where the demographic characteristic of adult learner is controlled?
A survey was conducted with questionnaires that consist of a total of 57 questions to answer to the research question. A total of 400 adult learners attending an educational program provided in a lifetime educational center in S area, Taegu Metropolitan City were surveyed and 319 questionnaires were collected. The collected data was analyzed with PASW Statistics 22.0 Hangul Version for factor analysis, reliability test, descriptive statistic analysis, correlation analysis and hierarchical linear regression. And the following results were obtained.
First, expertise of a teacher, among the teaching behaviors perceived by adult learners, turned out to have effect on learning flow. Particularly, it was confirmed that exclusive knowledge in a related field and subject and is most important.
Second, bond, among the teaching behaviors perceived by adult learners, turned out to have effect on learning flow. Particularly, the bond between teacher and learner let adult learners connect their own experiences, ideas and opinions to learning experiences, which encourages them to participate in learning more actively.
Third, passion, among the teaching behaviors perceived by adult learners, turned out to have effect on learning flow. That is, it means passionate lecturing in class, such as teacher’s eye contact with learner and live tone of voice. It suggests that some of the teacher’s behaviors trigger learner to immerge himself in learning, which in turn enhances life quality through happy education of adult learners. These findings demonstrated that there should be studies to examine the connection between teaching behaviors and learner’s reactions.