Educational strategies of adults (a case study of part-time students at the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw)

Abstract

This article presents an empirical study focusing on the educational strategies, or learning methods, employed by part-time students. The study centres on two aspects of students’ educational strategies: learning within the context of life plans and the components of individual learning processes. These components include learning goals, preferred learning content, favoured learning methods, and encountered learning difficulties. The strategies employed by students are classified considering defensive (passive) and offensive strategies (active). The findings of the conducted study lead to the conclusion that 53.3% of the surveyed students tend to adopt defensive strategies, while 46.7% lean towards offensive strategies