The Need for Transformational Learning is Long Overdue: (We need a “Greta Thunberg” for Education)
By Val Margarit Human beings have a fundamental need for autonomy, self-determination, and control over their environment (Deci & Ryan, 1995; Leotti, Iyengar & Ochsner (2010). As a teacher, school … Continue reading
Power (points) to the Students
By Dr Andy Collis (Snr Lecturer in Visual Communication: Avondale College of Higher Education, Hunter Valley, NSW.) Stewart Hase came to Avondale College to tell us about this thing called … Continue reading
Well-being: Complexity and Heutagogy as a Marriage In Heaven
Thanks to the creative genius and enthusiasm of Fred Garnett and Nigel Ecclesfield, the theme for World Heutagogy Day 2017 is health and well being. While they are likely, judging … Continue reading
Assumptions and Learning: Another Example of Heutagogy in Action
In early January I attended a fly fishing school in Tasmania, an island State off the bottom end of Australia. More specifically, the lessons were held at Bronte Lagoon in … Continue reading
The Manipulation of Information: What We Owe Our Students
There’s a lot to he learned that is useful from Trumpism and the recent hand wringing about the manipulation of public opinion through social media . It would be a … Continue reading
Flipped Resources
I just love those ‘Ah, Ah,’ moments that come right out of the blue and hit you straight between the cerebral lobes. It is, of course, exactly what we’ve been … Continue reading
Heutagogy and Creativity
A review of the research on the neuroscience of creativity makes it clear that it is early days in understanding the neural mechanisms involved. However, there are some indications that … Continue reading
Unfettered Access: Heutagogy and Blended Learning in the NSW Rural Fire Service
There is little doubt that competencies (aka as knowledge and skills) are essential for normal functioning. Yesterday, when a skin doctor removed a lesion from my leg with his scalpel, … Continue reading
Paul Williams Guest Blog: A Scaffolding for Heutagogy
The movement towards heutagogy faces overwhelming odds. Learning in primary and high school, learning in undergraduate and postgraduate and professional learning in the workplace have deeply entrenched practices, scaffolds and … Continue reading
Guest Post from Deborah Netolicky. Heutagogical and transformational: Journeys of discovery, discomfort and breakthrough
As a teacher, school leader, coach and researcher, I am constantly immersed in doing, facilitating, thinking deeply about, and interrogating understandings around learning. Heutagogy—the concept first termed by Stewart Hase … Continue reading
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