The pedagogical approach that focuses on motivation, relationships and personal growth, influenced by Carl Rogers, mattering most when offering choice and using reflection journals, and requiring a safe classroom climate to work.
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How did humanism's approach to education emerge from a real debate with behaviourism?
At a famous 1962 University of Minnesota Duluth symposium, B.F. Skinner defended behaviourism's reinforcement-based account of behaviour while Carl Rogers argued the humanist case for free will and the learner's own internal, self-directed growth.
In June 1962, B.F. Skinner and Carl Rogers held what is considered one of the most influential psychological debates of the twentieth century, at the University of Minnesota Duluth, titled Education and the Control of Human Behavior. Skinner held that even complex human behaviour could be explained through reinforcement and punishment; Rogers, in contrast, placed emphasis on free will and on internal, cognitive aspects of the person, the same emphasis on relationships, motivation and self-directed growth that defines humanism as a pedagogical approach.
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Knowles' assumptions about self-directed, experience-driven adult learners draw on humanistic psychology.
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Knowles drew directly on humanistic psychology, especially self-direction and intrinsic motivation.
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Care theory's person-centered relational emphasis sits within the humanist line in education.
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A great deal of theoretical writing about adult education in the 1970s and 1980s drew on humanistic psychology, with the basic concern being for the human potential for growth.
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Learning can, thus, be seen as a form of self-actualization, it contributes to psychological health
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extensive use of a model of relationships derived from humanistic clinical psychology, and, in particular, the qualities of good facilitation argued for by Carl Rogers
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Natural caring, such as that of a mother for a child, according to Nel Noddings, comes before ethical caring and is preferable to it.
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focuses on motivation, relationships and personal growth
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In contrast, Rogers and his humanist approach to psychology placed emphasis on free will and thought as well as other cognitive, internal aspects of psychology.
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In the early 1970s, emotional literacy was noted as part of a project that advocated for humanistic education.
Invitational education (Wikipedia)
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A key feature is that a student's positive self-concept, leading to their productivity, be developed through the school environment.
Wikipedia: Social-emotional learning
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Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational method that claims to be able to foster social and emotional skills in school curricula.
Wikipedia: Overjustification effect
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The overjustification effect is a phenomenon in psychology in which providing expected external incentive, such as money or prizes, for an already intrinsically rewarding activity can reduce a person's intrinsic motivation to perform that activity.
Demotivation (Wikipedia)
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In the study of motivation, demotivation is the weakening or loss of an existing motivation to act as a result of specific negative influences.
Reading motivation (Wikipedia)
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Reading motivation is the motivational drive to read, an area of interest in the field of education.
Positive disintegration (Wikipedia)
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Unlike mainstream psychology, the theory views psychological tension and anxiety as necessary for personal growth.
Psychomotor education (Wikipedia)
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It is based on a holistic view of human beings that considers each individual as a unity of physical, emotional and cognitive actualities, which interact with each other and the surrounding social environment.
Lifewide learning (Wikipedia)
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By including LWL with a traditional classroom, students are better equipped to attain whole person development and to develop lifelong learning skills.
Free play (Wikipedia)
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Free play is crucial for child development, and promotes social skills, emotional health, resilience, cooperation, confidence, cognitive growth, and brain development.
Summerhill School (Wikipedia)
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founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill
Charlotte Mason - Wikipedia
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Mason promoted a humanistic and highly integrative model for education which emphasized cultivating a love of learning in children as well as spiritual and moral formation.
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Since the nineteen fifties, TCI has been developed in the United States by the psychoanalyst and psychologist Ruth Cohn, by the therapists Norman Liberman, Isaac Zieman and by other representatives of humanistic psychology.
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