Matt’s Notes
Thanks one and all for joining on this hundred-and-third Ed non-Tech outing, wherein we’re all about self-study and/or autodidacticism and/or heutagogy! The self-teaching is rich here, even to the extent we’ve taught ourselves the format for this humble, meek podcasting endeavor, and also rich are the rabbit holes we travel down hereabouts. We’re glad to have you with us!
Public speaking can be taught; handsomeness not so much! #ednontech
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Doug’s Notes
Self study
AKA Autodidacticism, autodidactism, self-education, self-learning, self-teaching, or heutagogy
Inspiration for this episode:
Not sure why but in the historic articles I found, autodidacts were individuals identified as such. Unlike everyone who just learned in schools. Why is this occurring?
This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability.
Hase, S., & Kenyon, C. (2000). From andragogy to heutagogy. Ulti-BASE In-Site.
It merely proves how difficult it is to learn microscopy as an autodidact without the assistance of a reliable teacher.
You evidently did not learn to discriminate between different layers in one and the same corpuscle, as illustrated by your sketches. You draw everything—in and out of focus. You should draw only what is clear and sharp in one focus. Look at the Histology Atlas by E. Klein and Noble Smith, first volume (1879. Lippincott publishers).
Curtis, L. (1882). A Study of Blood. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner, 45(1), 65.
In a heutagogical approach to teaching and learning, learners are highly autonomous and self-determined and emphasis is placed on development of learner capacity and capability with the goal of producing learners who are well-prepared for the complexities of today’s workplace.
The approach has been proposed as a theory for applying to emerging technologies in distance education and for guiding distance education practice and the ways in which distance educators develop and deliver instruction using newer technologies such as social media.
Blaschke, L. M. (2012). Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined learning. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 13(1), 56-71.
In heutagogy, instructors serve as the compass for learners in their learning journey. Heutagogy is not a learning theory such as constructivism or behaviorism, but instead a learner-centered instructional strategy or approach.
Moore, R. L. (2020). Developing lifelong learning with heutagogy: contexts, critiques, and challenges. Distance Education, 41(3), 381-401.
In European culture at least, the figure of the autodidact is contradictory. Being self-taught has been regarded by the elite with a mixture of patronising indulgence, suspicion and admiration.
Whilst traditional models of credentialism, the authority of received knowledge, the authority of the role of the teacher and the ingrained processes of intergenerational transmission seem close to breaking and expose themselves as being profoundly inadequate and inequitable in an era of globalisation, fast capitalism and digital neo-corporatism, it may be that understanding the cultural history of particular modes of learning, such as the figure of the autodidact, will help us make sense of how we imagine the purposes and nature of education in the future.
Sefton-Green, J. (2019). Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: changing cultural narratives of education. Perspectiva, 37(1), 125-139.
Word of the Podcast
Heutagogy / autodidact
Question of the Podcast
It seems that whatever is old is new again. What other trends in education might be making a comeback?
Phrase of the Podcast
Where’s that third space?
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Something implied of coaching and mentorship
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It feels good if you put it into your regular routine
So you wanna see yourself become more realized?
Get yourself in focus, taking note this in your mind
Life you expected, uncorrected, to believe
Telegraphing arguments, messages received #ednontech
