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Heutagogy: Reconceptualising

Learning for the 21st Century

Dr Stewart Hase

Doing heutagogy

http://heutagogycop.wordpress.com

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Say ‘Hello’, to the person next to you and discuss what is the

most burning question you have about learning.

Please write it down

Holy cows and hamburgers

What is heutagogy?

Self-determined learning

Learner defined learning

InfluencesMr Cook, my primary school teacher

Humanism

Constructivism

Neuroscience

Psychological experience

Complexity Theory

Capability

Think of something you learned that really

changed you or your life

Educational systems

Many of our educational systems and practices are based on models

of learning that were developed for mass education to fuel the

needs of the industrial revolution

School pokes your eyes out, university teaches you braille and

postgraduate education is speed reading in braille

Fred Emery, 1974

The function of education is…..’12 years of mandatory self-dehumanisation, self-debilitation, blood loss”

Kozol, 1975

The evidenceFocus develops specific regions of the brain

Brains are sensitive to the culture/environment

Gender differences

Memory is fragile unless strengthened

The 8 minute rule

System 1 vs System 2 thinking

The evidenceEffort develops our brains

Learning needs to be multi-sensory

We are naturally curious and explore

Emotions and learning are inextricably linked

We are motivated to resolve incongruity

Brain plasticity

The evidenceState dependent learning

The first 30 seconds

Repetition

Small chunks

Huge variability in people’s brains and what they focus on

Can take years to develop reliable memories

Educational systems

Pedagogy Heutagogy

A learning dilemma

Definitions of learning

1. knowledge gained by study; instruction or scholarship

2. the act of gaining knowledge

3. (Psychology) Psychol any relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a direct result of experience

Levels of learning

Knowledge and Skills

Deep Learning

Capable People

The Familiar

The UnfamiliarCapability

Competence

Learning

Learning Grid

Think of the best teacher you ever had or have seen. Someone who made a significant difference to you

What was it that made them a really brilliant

teacher ?

They wanted to know about your experiences

They built on those experiences and incorporated them

They let you explore and experiment

They let you find out

They were a learner too

They had respect for you

ConsequencesThe learning experience is dynamic

Expectancy

There is a difference between knowledge and skills (competencies) and real learning

The learner will become distracted by new questions

Teaching can become a block to learning

The teacher doesn’t know what is going on in the brain of the learner unless she/he checks

Doing self-determined

learning (heutagogy)Deep engagement

Expectations and agenda setting

Where is the learner now?

Involvement of the learner in design

Framing questions

Flexible curricula

Resource availability

Learner-generated contexts

Doing self-determined

learning (heutagogy)Negotiated assessment

Spontaneity in process and experience

Coaching models

Early engagement with content

The Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy (PAH) continuum

And Yes! This all applies to online

learning.

The learner experience

I learned how to ‘do’ school at a young age. Find out what the teacher wants, do it, and reap the reward of good grades. The same

formula worked in college. I spent time discovering how the instructor wants things completed, did it, and then earned the good

grades

The learner experience

For a while, I wished I had never had the chance to use heutagogy in an

online university environment at all, then I wouldn’t be missing it as much

as I was. Upon reflection, the opportunity to self-direct my learning

that summer, (in school, as I also usually do in life) was an incredible experience: one I wanted to repeat.

InnovationsNegotiated assessment

Learner generated contexts

Lifelong learning

Workplace learning

Reflective practice

Vocational education and training