The document discusses the humanistic approach to education. It focuses on educating the whole person by emphasizing artistic, physical, and cultural aspects of learning. It considers the need for self-reflection and self-actualization in learners. Key aspects include cooperative learning, independent learning, small group work, and social activities rather than competitive learning. The teacher acts as a facilitator who encourages reflection and participatory learning.

1. ‘the whole person’
prepared by:
Sermin Vardal Ocakli
Guler Duman

2. It is a non-technical approach.
It favors the artistic, physical, and cultural
aspects of subject matter.
It considers the need for self-reflectiveness
and self-actualization among learners.
It focuses on the sociopsychological
dynamics of classrooms and schools.

3. It is rooted in progressive philosophy and the child-
centered movement of the early 1900s.
It gained further impetus in the 1940s and 1950s with
the growth of child psychology and humanistic
psychology.
It became popular again in the 1970s as relevancy,
radical school reform, open education, and alternative
education became part of the reform movement in
education.

4. Parker, Dewey, Kilpatrick, and Washburne are the
representatives of Humanistic Approach.

5. Lessons are based on
- life experiences
- group games/group projects
- dramatizations
- field trips
- learning and interest centers
- homework and tutoring stations
These activities include creative problem solving and
active student participation.

6. In this approach, the following curriculum types are
also worthwhile:
- Informal curriculum
- Hidden curriculum

7. S/he is the facilitator.
S/he encourages self-reflection.
S/he does not dominate the class.
S/he promotes cooperative learning, independent
learning, small-group learning, and social
activities instead of competitive, large-group
learning.

8. S/he is an independent and cooperative learner.
S/he has considerable input in the curriculum and
shares responsibility with parents, teachers, and
curriculum specialists in planning classroom
instruction.
S/he is invited into curriculum meetings to express
their views on contents and experiences thanks to
bottom up curriculum committees.

9. Humanistic Approach advances strong arguments
that it is the total person- the cognitive, the
affective, and even the spiritual self- who is
involved in gaining knowledge and working
toward wisdom. The students’ self-concept and
self-esteem are essential factors in this process.

10.  Ornstein, A. C., & Hunkins, F. P. (1998). Curriculum:
Foundations, principles, and issues. Boston: Allyn and
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