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Stephen Downes

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A 'leitmotif' is "a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation," and that works well for this "leitmotiv for education" described as "freedom as fundamental motivation for education by exploring the meaning of taking care of oneself, and the concept of finding inner and external liberation," or in other words, to lose one's fear, to master the complexities of political struggle, and to be able to add economic value to society.  What I ask is whether these are rewordings of, or fundamentally different from, other theories (Maslow's, say) of self-motivation. Food for thought.

 

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