The pyramid scheme that was Maslow

Source: Thompkins-Jones (24 July 2014) In 1943, a psychologist called Abraham Maslow presented a framework in a paper proposing that we ...

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Te Whare Tapa Whā & Maslow

Mason Durie's holistic wellness model (1985), Te Whare Tapa Whā, has been discussed before ( here ), but there is always more we can exp...

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So what is Maslow's hammer?

If you have not heard of "Maslow's hammer" before, you still may have heard the saying "it is tempting, if the only tool ...

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Evidenced-based teaching

Mary Parker Follett said, "Business [...] is pioneer work [... using] the organized relations of human beings, [and] seems to me to o...

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Theory X and Theory Y

Maslow's work on his Hierarchy of Needs was transferred from psychology to management, where "Douglas McGregor [..] encountered it ...

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Heutagogy: the art of self-directed learning

The Difference Between Pedagogy, Andragogy, And Heutagogy (Heick, 5 November 2015) What do you know about heutagogy? I hadn't even ...

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Leader frames of reference

A question on Quora caught my eye recently: "What is [a] symbolic culture?". It is a good question, and I wondered if the ques...

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The Myth of Digital Natives

Many of us drank the Kool-Aid on this one: the concept of digital natives. The idea behind the digital natives concept was that those bo...

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What is the 'right' theory?

While good research relies on us on finding an appropriate theory or an appropriate practice strategy for our situation, we can get a bit ...

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