The topic of andragogy is really a foreign subject to me before I started my research for this course. Malcolm Knowles developed a theory he called andragogy, which states that adult learners learn differently from younger learners. In 1959, Malcolm S. Knowles joined the staff of Boston University as an associate professor of adult education. He spent 14 years there, during which he produced his key texts: The Modern Practice of Adult Education (1970) and The Adult Learner (1973). These books were to solidify his position at the center of adult education discourse in the United States and popularize the notion of andragogy (see below). In 1974, he joined the faculty of North Carolina State University where he developed courses around the “androgogic model”. He also updated his key texts and published a new book on self-directed learning (1975) (Smith, 2002). For example, a young learner is more dependent on an adult educator for information about the structure of an assignment or task (CCU, 2011). ). Where an adult learner is generally more willing to challenge a topic based on their personal experience and beliefs on the topic. I find this enlightening about how I learn as I get older. This is very true in how I approach topics from my own personal experience and relate them to what I believe in first, instead of looking at the information in front of me. Learning as a school age student is done in such a way that they are there to continually learn in order to gain information for greater gain in a subject, whereas as adult learners , we are looking for an immediate answer to the question asked (CCU, 2011). Adults are much more goal-oriented in their approach to their education and also understand their...... middle of article...... Learners, Colorado ChristianUniversity, retrieved from: http://www. ccu.edu/blogs/cags/2011/10/how-adults-learn-compared-to-young-learners/.Rao, Hanmanth. (2009). Pedagogy - what does it mean, Teaching Expertise, retrieved from: http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/pedagogy-what-does-it-mean-2370 Smith, MK (2002) 'Malcolm Knowles, informal adult education, self-direction and andragogy', the encyclopedia of informal education, extracted from: www.infed.org/thinkers/et-knowl.htm.Hussin, Supyan. (2012). What is heutagogy?, blog by Supyan Hussin, taken from: http://supyanhussin.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/what-is-heutagogy/. fred3638. (2010). Heutagogy & The Craft of Teaching, The heutagogic archives, taken from: http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/heutagogy-the-craft-of-teaching/.