Lindeman s Philosophy of Andragogy

Abstract

The author commences by introducing Eduard Lindeman's life comparing it to Janez Evangelist Krek, a Slovenian adult educator, animator, politician and researcher. She deals with Lindeman 's life, discussing its influence on his views on adult education. She dwells upon some of Lindeman's recurrent topics like the use of the discussion method as the basic method in adult education, the need for any group in adult education to turn into a social group and above all the social dimension of Lindeman's education of adults. At this point she establishes a comparison with the Slovenian adult education movement of the elderly namely The Third Age University. She critically approaches Lindeman's belief that only method and not the content is important in adult education. At several points she compares Lindeman with modern social French thinkers.