Psychological influence on American humanist education
This paper is meant to outline the modalities in which psychology has influenced humanist education in the USA, starting with a historical background and presenting its major trends: positive psychology, transcendentalism, the trend based on new discoveries in genetics and neurology with special fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Transilvania University of Brasov Publishing House
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law |
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| Online Access: | http://but.unitbv.ro/BU2010/Series%20VII/BULETIN%20VII%20PDF/PSYCHOLOGY%20AND%20PEDAGOGY/107%20Radu.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper is meant to outline the modalities in which psychology has influenced humanist education in the USA, starting with a historical background and presenting its major trends: positive psychology, transcendentalism, the trend based on new discoveries in genetics and neurology with special focus on the third force psychology. It encourages self-actualization, enabling students to express themselves, to act, to experiment, to make mistakes, to discover and to self-discover. The major objectives of humanist education work together for free manifestation of human individuality and the elimination of any coercion and oppression which may suppress the individual. |
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| ISSN: | 2066-7701 2066-771X |