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#TwistedTropes 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons Everything was awkward about the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow. As a young man, Maslow had very few friends, so he made books his companions, married one of his cousins by accident, and then spent the rest of his life trying to discover the meaning of life.

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#LearningIs social

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Humans are inherently social. Most of our learning is achieved within social contexts. Even when we are on our own, much of our learning through resources such as books and videos is mediated socially - there is another mind behind the resource. We want to be accepted by others. Yet it is essential if we wish to belong.

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Going the extra mile

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In this post, I''m revisiting a well known and heavily used motivational theory - Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. The theory Just about everyone working in education and training has heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs. Most versions of Maslow''s Hierarchy are represented as pyramids. Reference Maslow, A.

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The point of no return

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The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs Photo by Sid Mosdell on Flickr The point of no return by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Drive through learning

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Elements of his theory are present in Maslow''s more humanistic and learner-centred Hierarchy of Human Needs model. Although this is in itself a flawed and contetious model, Maslow''s hierarchy has been used to explain more compex motivational processes. Unported License. Unported License.

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#TwistedTropes 28. Jonah's necessary whale

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Photo by Andrew Bain on unsplash It wasn't long after the prophet Jonah was thrown overboard into stormy seas that he was swallowed by a great fish. It was the ancient equivalent to climate change warnings, but without the social media. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23.

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Going the extra mile

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Photo by Steve Wheeler This is number 26 in my series on learning theories. In this post, I'm revisiting a well known and heavily used motivational theory - Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs. The theory Just about everyone working in education and training has heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs.

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