Carl Roger was born in 1902, he was an influential humanist and psychotherapist. Rogers believed in ‘non-directive ‘and ‘client-centred’ approach. To become a fully functioning person which he also referred to as “the good life”, they must be able to know the causes of imbalances within their lives, knowing what to chance in order to regain their balance or self-actualization to become fully functioning (Rogers, 2004). Rogers work influenced many being well regarded with the different domains his theory consisted of. Rogers viewed the good life as a process, a direction but not the destination (Rogers, 1967). What does a humanistic classroom look like? Montessori and Reggio Emilia approach are examples of this. Firstly looking into Montessori, children are believed to have better performance with reading, maths and tests. This is an example of a humanistic approach within learning, giving children opportunity and choices rather than being curriculum focused but person centred. The classrooms consist of children of multiple ages, with educational materials which are set up along with work in long blocks which are chosen by the student. They seem to have positive interactions around the …show more content…
The teacher’s role within Reggio Emilia consists of working as a collaborator and facilitator in the process of learning. Reflection and documentation on the practice is needed along with the impact it has on the learning. Inclusive practice is maintained and embedded within Reggio Emilia approach of learning. Parents are viewed as valuable partners, rightful to contribution in the learning. The input from parents includes the participation on curriculum, planning and evaluation of the child and learning which is then used for decision making (Freeman, Swim & Vakil,
Psychiatrist, Robert Waldinger, in his inspiring talk, “What makes a good life?” declares the concept of the power of relations. Waldinger’s purpose, As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, is to pass three important lessons learned from the study to have a full-filling life with true happiness and satisfaction. He embraces an emotional, sage and motivational tone to appeal to all the audience at different ages. Waldinger begins to attract his audience by showing credibility at first as he shows a convincing survey, toward the end of his talk, he keeps the same tone employing his audience’s emotions to reach his point using plenty of surveys and research.
Rogers wrote 19 books and many articles outlining his humanistic theory. Among his best-known works are Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), and A Way of Being (1980) He continued to develop his theories In to the 50’s and was particularly concerned to validate his ideas through research, making a huge contribution to research in psychotherapy inspiring thousands of project in the 1960s, 70s and 80s to evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapy. His particular contributing to contemporary culture was to put the individual, their experience and self-healing potential at the heart of the change process. This was a serious challenge to mainstream psychology at the time which was bust trying to convince the world that psychologists were the ‘experts’ on human behaviour. With his emphasis on human potential, Carl Rogers had an enormous influence on both psychology and education. Beyond that, he is considered by many to be one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. More therapists cite Rogers as their primary influence than any other
The Humanistic approach is a psychological perspective which studies the whole person and each individual’s uniqueness (McLeod, 2007). Humanistic psychology began in the 1940s and 1950s by a group of prominent psychologists such as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Charlotte Buhler, who felt that behaviorism and psychoanalysis had many limitations and that a person’s behavior is connected to his inner feelings and self-image (Frye, 2015). They believed in the human capacity for choice and growth and that individuals have free will and make conscious choices (Frye, 2015). The humanistic approach emphasizes that behavior is influenced by a person’s environment and that social interactions greatly influence the development of a person (Frye, 2015).
Another perspective is the humanistic perspective. The humanistics perspective is an approach in psychology that studies the uniqueness of humans as individuals and emphasis on humans being good. It is an approach that study humans as a whole. Humanistic psychologists examine the behavior of humans through the eyes of both the observer and and the person. Humanistic psychology is based on the idea of free will. They believe that humans behave according to how they feel. Humanistic psychologists also believe that humans have the free will to change if they want to at anytime in their live. The humanistic perspective disagrees with both the psychodynamic and behavioral perspective, because they are both deterministic. Meaning that human choice has sufficient causes. Humanistic psychology became popular during the 1970s and the 1980s through psychologists such as Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Humanistic perspective makes it easier for humans to understand complex situations and help make decisions. It suggest that human behavior is based on natural causes. Humanists understand the wor...
In 1963, his book On Becoming a Person went a step further in the direction of a process concept of therapy, growth, and development. The fully functioning person with peaceful and dynamic trust in the organism became the highlight of the new Rogerian era. Encounter groups (Ewen, 1998; Hall et al., 1998; Rogers, 1970; Swenson, 1987) for persons in search of personal growth and a more fluid experience of life became the main attraction of the movement in the United States and
Rogers, C. R. (1961). A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. On Becoming a Person. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
All of these theories, I believe are imperfect. I will explain the differences between the Humanistic Perspective and the Sociocultural Perceptive and I will provide background information on the different theorist’s.
Community and parent support is considered a valuable and vital part of the Reggio Emilia system. The exchange of ideas between parents and teachers is essential and favours the development of a new way of educating. The approach encourages interaction and communic...
From its very beginnings, the Reggio approach places a high priority on children. After the devastation of World War II, the Italian government gave each town a subsidy to use in any way they saw fit to re-establish a sense of community that was taken away during the war. While many towns used the money to create communal public spaces, the town of Reggio Emilia decided to use the money to build a school for young children, ages birth through six, as an investment in the future of the entire community. Led by Loris Malaguzzi, known as the father of the Reggio Emilia approach, the school was developed with the mindset that children were active and capable contributors to society. The philosophy was shaped by a number of constructivist theories, including those of Vygotsky and Piaget. The idea of community collabora...
I would have to say that I identify with the Reggio Emilia approach. I like that the curriculum is unique and dynamic and it allows the children to explore using materials from the environment. The teacher’s role is to partner in the learning process. Observe, and document what the children are doing/ learning. I like this way of learning because it engages the student in the learning process. The children work in small organized groups that are mixed together not by their intelligence. I like that every student works and correlates together as a team. They children ask their own questions, generate and test their own hypothesis. This approach works because it gives each child in the group a chance to use their strengths to share their own
The job of the teacher is to make the student want to learn, not make the student learn. I agree that self-evaluation and self-satisfaction should weigh above grades. Grades should be a measure of more for the teacher, not the student. Humanistic philosophy can be effectively applied to literacy, mainly with its ideas of choice and desire. Students will be more inclined to write to their best ability and read at a high level if they are the ones choosing the topic to write on or the book to be read.
An effective teacher will take the time to establish the interests and backgrounds of each student and will value the diversity of student’s contributions which leads me to agree with Montessori’s philosophy of education. The view that “every child is to be respected as a person with individual needs and interests” (Gutek, 2001, P. 181) and that the role of teacher is to facilitate a program based on how children learn and what they need to know to in order to function
Similar and yet still different to that of constructivism theory is the humanist approach. Humanists take into effect the recognition of a learner’s abilities in areas such as individual development, creativity and liberty. According to Maslow, 1987, for a student to attain self-actualization, an acceptance of lower level of requirements (safety and convenience) is necessary. Therefore, educations foremost purpose is achieving the maximum development capacity of an individual. Although we can say this approach is being implemented in some way to the present education system and learning, it is not to an optimal effect. Many students drop out of high school before they reach their VCE year, as mentioned in Appendix A. This is due to the fact that many feel misunderstood and unsupported. Furthermore resulting in the misconception of thinking they are not ‘smart’ enough to aim for higher education. Rogers, 1982, supported the
...xplain freedom and personal growth of a human and called as the third force of psychology. Client centered therapy was proposed by Carl Roger. The major concept of Roger’s theory is “self”. Roger developed the concept of fully-functioning person and believed proper communication between the client and the therapist is the basement of the therapy. Abraham Maslow focused on positive side of human’s mental health and Used Hierarchy table to explain human needs, figure 2:
A lot of children have two main educators in their life; their parents and their teachers. Parents are their first educators, the majority of what a child learns in the first few years of their life is taught by their parents. It is only when the child starts to attend an early years setting that they start to learn from another educator. Both parents and teachers continue being a major influence on their children's learning all throughout school and for the rest of their lives. The parents and the child's school both have important roles to play in the child's education and should therefore work together as a team. Parents can get involved in many different ways such as; getting involved with the school itself by helping in the classroom or supervising lunch and break times, or for those parents who work in the day and cannot find the time to help at the school they can get involved by; reading to their child at home, assisting with homework and other learning activities, teaching them songs or nursery rhymes and letting them help with everyday tasks like cooking, baking and chores. This can be categorised as: Involvement of parents in the school life or involvement of parents in supporting the individual child at home.