Distinctive needs of the learner across generations

Running Head: LEARNING ACROSS GENERATIONS
LEARNING ACROSS GENERATIONS
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1LEARNING ACROSS GENERATIONS
Learning and development are depended on the age and intellect of a person. Henceforth,
it the curriculum are also set accordingly to age of the learner. In response to this, this essay is
going to discuss learning needs of the people across generations and figuring out their distinctive
needs that influence the desire to learn.
According to the research of Bang et al. (2016) it can be stated that generations are
always influenced by the cultural, economic and the technological influences and it is also the
cornerstone of their mind-set and beliefs. The demands and needs of the millennial who are born
between 1981 and 1996 are very much different than the requirements of the baby boomers who
born between 1946 and 1964 or the generation Z born after 2000. It can be argued that the
changing social changes and market demands infuse with the demands and requirements of the
people across generations so that the learning process is also shifted accordingly.
For instance, baby boomers were belonged to the post world war II period and witnessed
destruction and extinction of society and mankind. Therefore, the socio-political situation made
them strong and determined enough to bring a positive transformation across the world. In
response to this, the learning practice was also shaped in the form of task oriented and driven by
achievements (Li et al. 2017). Moreover, physical hardship was also considered to be a major
characteristics of the learning and development of the people that ushered a set of skills for
physical upliftment and skills.
The impact of the learning and development of the baby boomers had been transcended
into the learning demands of the generation X as well where the basic features of the people was
depended on self-reliance. From the research of Parsons et al. (2020) it can be derived that
generation X were very impatient and goal-centric but they wanted freedom to make their own