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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. Unported License.

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Belonging, friendship and learning

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Image from Pixabay Flawed though it is, Maslow's theory of motivation highlights at least one important theme: We are social beings and we need to know that we belong. Management of behaviour, especially around the relationships children develop with each other, is a crucial aspect of professional practice for all educators.

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The point of no return

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The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Teachers should therefore develop schemes of work and lessons that have elements of doubt and ill-structured problems for students to solve. Unported License. Previous posts in this series are all linked below. Knowles Andragogy 24. Lave Situated Learning 25.

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Drive through learning

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The theory American psychologist Clark Hull is credited with developing the first theory of human motivation. Elements of his theory are present in Maslow''s more humanistic and learner-centred Hierarchy of Human Needs model. Unported License. And yet, there are areas of learning within which Hull''s theory could possibly apply.

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#TwistedTrope 23: Dale's crappy cone

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Next time: 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy Previous posts in the #TwistedTropes series 1. Montezuma's terrible revenge Hadrian's busted wall by Steve Wheeler was written in London, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Pavlov's drooling dog 2.

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#TwistedTropes 31. Custer's coal stand

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He also developed a brashness and confidence in his ability to wheel and deal. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Halley's boring comet Custer's coal stand by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Unported License.

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(re)Designing learning in a digital world

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I also challenged Maslow's hierarchy model of motivational needs, and Neil Fleming's VAK modality model of learning approaches. Even Vygotsky's ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) was placed under the microscope as we travelled through a landscape of emerging pedagogies that are aligned to supporting learners in a digital age.

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