Stewart Hase

Stewart Hase and Associates

Heutagogy or self-determined learning and learner agency.

The combined trends of learner-centred teaching and ubiquitous technology use in the classroom have given instructors a unique opportunity to support students in developing lifelong learning skills. Heutagogy (or self-determined learning) provides a promising framework for capitalizing on these developing trends, drawing on established learner-cent...

Founded in 2013, the Heutagogy Community of Practice aims to promote awareness of and to enact the learning principles that are its topical focus: heutagogy, or self-determined learning. Similar to Communities of Practice, heutagogy shares common theoretical underpinnings in the ideas of emergence, self-organizing systems, human agency, and constru...

It has been sixteen years since Chris Kenyon and I wrote the first paper on heutagogy or self-determined learning. It is an idea built on the shoulders of giants of educational theory and practice in constructivism, humanism, capability and the idea of human agency. Since then, there has been an increasing interest in the theory and practice of heu...

Heutagogy, a form of self-determined learning, is a holistic, learner-centered approach to learning and teaching, in formal and informal situations. The theory is grounded in humanistic and constructivist principles and brings together numerous threads of early learning theories into a composite picture of learning that is suitable for and much nee...

The normalization of deviance is a major organizational cultural issue that is modeled and enabled by poor leadership and filters down through the organization with disastrous consequences for safety and operations. Culture has been shown to create the circumstances that result in safety problems ranging from near misses to major catastrophe due to...

A variety of economic, social, political, and technological factors have come together to create a perfect storm of change in higher education: skyrocketing educational costs, the demand for skill- and competency based education, the rise of the knowledge economy. People are now lifelong learners, learning their profession throughout life, in chunk...

Heutagogy, a form of self-determined learning, is a holistic, learner-centered approach to learning and teaching, in formal and informal situations. The theory is grounded in humanistic and constructivist principles and brings together numerous threads of early learning theories into a composite picture of learning that is suitable for and much nee...

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This discussion paper concerns the critical role leadership plays on safety behaviour in the innately hazardous environment of oil and gas installations. It has been demonstrated on a number of occasions that safety culture is a major determinant of either positive or negative safety behaviour. In turn it is clear that managers at all levels on a r...

There is continued pressure for the application, and integration, of computer technologies into learning and teaching. For such innovations to be successfully implemented, students themselves must have the confidence, ability and willingness to engage with computer technology. In some disciplinary and professional contexts such as arts, humanities,...

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide some important lessons learned from the introduction of a new records management system in a tertiary educational institution and its relation to records management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of a case study using after action review. Findings – The key findings build on the extant...

This paper describes the application of learner-centred learning techniques in the conduct of short to medium term training programs in organisations. The approach is underpinned by action learning and heutagogy or self-determined learning. It involves the full engagement of participants in developing, delivering and ensuring the flexibility and re...

It is clear that e-learning offers tremendous opportunities in terms of access in a global environment as well as in terms of the economics of delivery for workplace learning and, indeed, other learning environments. However, those designing and delivering workplace e learning also have the potential to challenge existing dogmas about the curriculu...

This research aimed to understand the level and scope of practice of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand further using a capability framework. The original study, from which the present paper was developed, sought to identify competency standards for the extended role of the nurse practitioner in Australia and New Zealand. In doing...

Grounded theory is a systematic induction of theory from data. The goal is to develop theory from data collected in natural settings that relates to a particular situation. The insights that grounded theory reveals is the contextual explanations rather than descriptions of what is going on. The methodology provides a theoretical lens for both resea...

In a move consistent with co-generated learning, this article is co-written by teachers of action research and a former student. Before we present the content and structure of the actual course, we write about the vital issues in teaching action research. We then describe the course and finally hear a former student (himself now supervising doctora...

Purpose – This paper aims to study existing knowledge practices, the use of knowledge management (KM) as a strategic tool and the factors affecting the use of KM in the Malaysian aerospace industry. Design/methodology/approach – Senior personnel in the industry were interviewed using a grounded theory approach and convergent interviewing. Secondar...

In this paper, the authors describe their experience of establishing an action research/learning-based doctoral program in Singapore by an Australian university, which was designed to help managers get academic accreditation while solving workplace problems. The program was designed by four managers working in Singapore and their supervisors. These...

Like many organisational endeavours, the success of knowledge management praxis is subject to the vagaries of human nature. There are many reasons, most of which are underpinned by the need for power, why people might choose to hoard, distort and manipulate information. Recent studies undertaken by the authors have demonstrated the way in which kno...

The likely impact of Australia’s new research funding model – the Research Quality Framework – on knowledge production and transfer in the country’s New Generation Universities.

Notions  of  competency  have  dominated  the  computer  education  literature, and have underpinned Competency-Based Training (CBT) in information technology at all levels of education and training. The emergence of counter-narratives underpinned by the capability movement, have as yet had minimal impact on practice in computer education. New disc...

With remuneration packages deliberately focused around an economic-rationalist “brutality,” what discourse allows moments of regret and accommodates the inevitable need for personal accountability?

Careless conversations on the part of managers to each other and to other employees have an enormous human resource cost to organisations and, emotionally, to those involved.

These five papers present research on much neglected issues of organizational ignorance, incompetence and failure within Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer contexts

This paper specifically reports on a comprehensive evaluation of competency based assessment within the mining industry in Queensland, Australia. However, it also addresses a broader problem associated with competency-based assessment already identified in the literature. The qualitative component of the study involved 83 people, nineteen mine site...

This paper proposes a style of leadership that is appropriate to manage knowledge workers and the nature of the new psychological contract between them.

This paper discusses the changing psychological contract at work and its relationship to knowledge management praxis.

The present patenting of “life” and the rush to economically “harvest” people warrants the Knowledge Management discourse to broaden its focus and its time horizons.

One approach to ensuring project success in engineering is to focus on standards and their measurement (e.g., EIA/IS 632 published in 1994, EIA/IS 731Systems Engineering Capability Model in 1998). In fact there is an almost global fascination with measuring competence and Taylorising modes of production and workplaces. The problem with measuring st...

Complexity theory is essentially a formal attempt to question how coherent and purposive wholes emerge from the interactions of simple and sometimes non-purposive components. Explicit recognition of complexity can provide a fresh and enlightening perspective on action research. Through an expository discussion of the foundational postulates of comp...

This study identified the factors that are important in the effective implementation of online learning in the mining industry in Queensland, Australia. Two sources of data and a Grounded Theory approach were used to develop a theoretical model that would inform managers, trainers and educators considering online learning implementation. The first...

The purpose of this paper is to draw together the results of an ongoing research program into workplace learning and the some thinking about the development of human capability. We make the distinction between information, skills and learning. More than that, we suggest that it is the latter that makes the difference but it is often poorly harnesse...

The common rhetoric these days is about the need for organisations and individuals to be more flexible and adaptive to deal with a turbulent and fast changing global environment. Concepts such as learning organisations and the knowledge nation have become a normal part of the day-to-day lexicon when we talk about economic deliverance and social rec...

In something of a landmark for vocational education and training Knowles (1970) suggested an important change in the way in which educational experiences for adults should be designed. The approach, known as andragogy, contrasts quite sharply with pedagogy which is the teaching of children. This paper suggests there is a need to move from andragogy...

Breast cancer continues to be a major health concern among Australian women. Recently, free mammography screening has been offered as a joint State and Commonwealth initiative to enable early detection. This program has particular significance in rural areas where access to health-care facilities, particularly those of a specialist nature, is limit...

Breast cancer continues to be a major health concern among Australian women. Recently, free mammography screening has been offered as a joint State and Commonwealth initiative to enable early detection. This program has particular significance in rural areas where access to health-care facilities, particularly those of a specialist nature, is limit...

Previous research by the author and colleagues has shown a recognition by organisations that they need to pay more attention to developing employee capability in order to adapt to a rapidly changing and highly turbulent world. Specifically human resource development and training methods need to be designed so that they to build on competence and fi...

Farmers know a lot about the importance of harvesting the best possible crop and harvesting knowledge so that they can continue to produce. Over many generations farmers have learnt how to prepare the ground so that seeds literally jump up to greet the sun. They know about watering appropriately, whether crops are prone to be affected by the wind,...

One of the more interesting features of modern human resource development and management is that despite all the evidence that supports “person centred” approaches to these activities the most persistent model applied is based on control. One explanation for this is that the problem is not one of not knowing the theory or the facts since they are c...

The dark side of organisations is a phenomenon rarely dealt with in management training programs and spoken of only in whispers in corporate tea rooms. Conspiracies of silence, collusion, 'jobs for the boys', hidden agendas and collusion are just some of the issues that affect the quality of working life of individuals and the effectiveness of orga...

Australian public and private sector organisations are increasingly aware of the need to continually adapt in order to cope successfully with the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment that characterises the global economy. Hence there is a strong interest in what can be done to make organisations more flexible and responsive so that t...

The notion that organisations need to find new ways to manage in a global and turbulent environment is now a well worn concept in the 1990s. In particular the importance of developing and managing human resources along humanistic lines has been an important theme in the management literature. However, it is interesting how many of our human resourc...

Videomail involves lecturers providing feedback on learners' assignments by making a short videotape as an alternative to written comments alone. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of videomail with a small sample of lecturers and distance learners in university programmes. In addition the authors were interested in establishing...

An education model developed in response to various education needs identified by nurses is outlined. The modular format and its advantages are described and set in the context of changes in the educational environment.

Abstract One of the ‘isms’ that is rarely seen in discussions about the ontology underpinning

Careless conversations on the part of managers to each other and to other employees have an enormous human resource cost to organisations and, emotionally, to those involved.

This paper describes one of the case studies in a project that aimed to investigate and document the use of knowledge management tools and techniques using an action research approach in organizations from the public, private and community sectors. The case study involved a rehabilitation unit in the public hospital system.

There is a considerable body of evidence demonstrating that action research is an effective approach to creating change in organisations. What is less well described in a systematic way is the effect of the action research journey on the researcher. This paper is based on the experience of a number of doctoral students who were undertaking action r...

This paper is a narrative written from the perspective of a person with a severe mental illness. She describes four places of exile. The first of these is as a child and from those close to her. The second is exile in her mind where she is an exile from herself. The third is in a mental hospital as an exile from society in the seventies when this w...

This paper will describe some lessons learned by two supervisors from Australia and four doctoral candidates from Singapore. The candidates, who were senior managers in workplace organisations, successfully completed their doctoral programs and solved significant business problems facing their organisations, over a four-year period. Despite various...

Background to the study The role of the assessor is ‘to reliably determine the competencies or lack of competencies of an individual when assessed against a prescribed benchmark’. (Van Berkel, 1996, p. 8) Since the training and workplace reforms of the early 1980s the development and recognition of competency standards for work have been an integra...

With remuneration packages deliberately focused around an economic-rationalist “brutality,” what discourse allows moments of regret and accommodates the inevitable need for personal accountability?

How do you make a mature student into a competent research candidate in their own workplace? And how do you turn that competent research candidate into a PhD graduate who eventually adds new knowledge to research communities via a completed dissertation? This paper offers a useful model for conducting doctoral workplace research that is problem-foc...

Using the metaphor of a river to describe continuous and lifelong learning, this paper details an action research project aimed at developing effective learning environments in a large, distributed organisation. This project is based on the theoretical assumptions of heutagogy (as opposed to pedagogy and andragogy), which is the study of self-deter...