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Heutagogy: Reconceptualising
Learning for the 21st Century
Dr Stewart Hase
Doing heutagogy
http://heutagogycop.wordpress.com
Search heutagogy
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