Teta 1028 Task 1 Write an Overview of the Main Ideas of One Theory of Learning and of the Practical Implications of This Theory for Your Subject Specialism, in Terms of: Teaching Strategies, Resources, Assessment
At RAKtrain (Alternative Education Provider) we run personal development courses for learners mainly aged 14-16 years old and are all in danger of becoming NEET (not in employment or education). The theory of learning I use most is a humanist approach. This approach started in the mid 20th Century with different approaches to psychology: behaviourism, psychoanalysis, and humanism. Humanism examines the true potential of learners through creativity, free, will and their own potential. The following quote strikes at the heart of humanist theories;
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.”“We think of the mind as a storehouse to be filled when we should think of it as an instrument to be used.”
JW Gardener
An early founder of the humanist movement was Carl Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist. His belief was that we could all reach an ideal self, a real self, best illustrated in his own words:
“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one 's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.” (page 196 Rogers 1961)[15]
The major humanist protagonist however was Abraham Harold Maslow born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York and was the first of seven children born to his parents. He received his BA in 1930, his MA in 1931, and his PhD in 1934, all in psychology, all from the University of Wisconsin. A year after graduation, he returned to New York to work with E. L. Thorndike at Columbia, where Maslow became interested in research on human sexuality.
He began teaching full time at Brooklyn College. During this period of his life, he came into contact with the many European intellectuals that were immigrating to the US, and Brooklyn in particular, at that time -- people like
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.”“We think of the mind as a storehouse to be filled when we should think of it as an instrument to be used.”
JW Gardener
An early founder of the humanist movement was Carl Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist. His belief was that we could all reach an ideal self, a real self, best illustrated in his own words:
“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one 's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.” (page 196 Rogers 1961)[15]
The major humanist protagonist however was Abraham Harold Maslow born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York and was the first of seven children born to his parents. He received his BA in 1930, his MA in 1931, and his PhD in 1934, all in psychology, all from the University of Wisconsin. A year after graduation, he returned to New York to work with E. L. Thorndike at Columbia, where Maslow became interested in research on human sexuality.
He began teaching full time at Brooklyn College. During this period of his life, he came into contact with the many European intellectuals that were immigrating to the US, and Brooklyn in particular, at that time -- people like
References: • Gardener J W ; Self-Renewal: The Individual & the Innovative Society : Harper Collins 1964 • Kenrick T Douglas : Sex Murder and the Meaning of Life:2011 Basic Books • Mcnamara, Sylvia, Moreton, Gill, Changing Behaviour Second Edition: 2001 David Fulton • Petty, Geoff(2004) Teaching Today: a Practical Guide Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes • http://peterhbrown.wordpress.com accessed 22/5/12 • Priest, Simon, Gass, Michael Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming: 1997 Human Kinetics • Race, Phil, Smith ,Brenda and Brown, Sally(2005) 500 Tips on assessment(500 Tips)Abingdon: Routledge Falmer • Rogers, C. R. (1961). A therapist’s view of the good life: The fully functioning person. In On becoming a person (pp. 183–196). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. • Ward.L.F.(1883). Dynamic Sociaology. Reprint Services Corp.ISBN-10