Humanistic learning theory focuses on students developing their full potential through a process of self-actualization. The teacher acts as a facilitator, prioritizing students' individual needs and motivating self-directed learning. Key principles include students learning through experience in a low-threat environment, and developing their understanding of themselves and their world. However, this approach relies heavily on student initiative and may be difficult to implement in practice.
Humanistic learning theory focuses on students developing their full potential through a process of self-actualization. The teacher acts as a facilitator, prioritizing students' individual needs and motivating self-directed learning. Key principles include students learning through experience in a low-threat environment, and developing their understanding of themselves and their world. However, this approach relies heavily on student initiative and may be difficult to implement in practice.
Humanistic learning theory focuses on students developing their full potential through a process of self-actualization. The teacher acts as a facilitator, prioritizing students' individual needs and motivating self-directed learning. Key principles include students learning through experience in a low-threat environment, and developing their understanding of themselves and their world. However, this approach relies heavily on student initiative and may be difficult to implement in practice.
Humanistic learning theory focuses on students developing their full potential through a process of self-actualization. The teacher acts as a facilitator, prioritizing students' individual needs and motivating self-directed learning. Key principles include students learning through experience in a low-threat environment, and developing their understanding of themselves and their world. However, this approach relies heavily on student initiative and may be difficult to implement in practice.
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TASK 7
Learning Theory
About
“Humanistic Learning Theory”
Lectures
Mursyid Ridha S.Ag., M.Pd
By:
Azahra Hardi Cusinia
19006069
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
FAKULTAS ILMU PENDIDIKAN
UNIVERSITAS NEGERI PADANG
2020 Humanistic Learning Theory
A. The Concept of Humanistic Learning Theory
The concept of Humanistic learning theory is the process of humanizing humans, where an individual is expected to be able to actualize himself meaning humans can explore their own abilities to be applied in the environment. The humanistic learning process focuses on the students themselves so that they focus on individual freedom. Humanistic theory emphasizes cognitive and affective influences processes. Cognitive is an aspect of mastery of knowledge while affective is an aspect of attitude that both need to be developed in building individuals. Learning is considered successful if the student understands his environment and himself. Another important thing in the learning process of Humanism must be the motivation given so that students can continue to undergo learning well. Motivation can come from within, namely from yourself, or from the teacher as a facilitator. B. Characteristics of Humanistic Theory (Suprayogi, 2005) 1. Concern with humans as individuals. 2. Concern about personal unanimity. 3. Concerned with the role of cognitive and affective. 4. Prioritizing the occurrence of self-actualization and self-concept. 5. Concerned with the subjective perceptual that each individual has. 6. Concerned about the ability to determine the form of one's own behavior. 7. Prioritizing insight (knowledge / understanding). C. Principles of Humanistic theory 1. Humans have a natural ability to learn. 2. Learning becomes significant if what is learned has relevance to their needs. 3. Learning that involves a change in perception about himself. 4. Learning tasks can be more accepted and assimilated if the threat from outside is getting smaller. 5. If the threat is low there is student experience in obtaining ways. 6. Meaningful learning is obtained if students do it. 7. Learning smoothly if students are involved in the learning process. 8. Learning that involves students as a whole can provide profound results. 9. Trust in students is grown by getting used to introspective. 10. Social learning is learning about the learning process. D. Implementation of Learning In humanistic theory, the teacher acts as a facilitator, so here the teacher has many tasks including: 1. give attention and motivation 2. helps to obtain and clarify individual goals in the class and also group goals that are general 3. Understanding student characteristics 4. organize and provide resources for learning 5. Can adjust themselves with their students 6. Blend in with students, communicate very well with students 7. Can understand themselves and of course in order to understand their students 8. In the application of the theory of humanistic learning processes take precedence over results, where the process of applying humanistic learning theories includes: a. Formulate clear learning goals b. Seek student active participation through learning contracts that are clear, honest and positive. c. Encourage students to develop their ability to learn on their own initiative d. Encourage students to be sensitive to critical thinking, to interpret the learning process independently E. Humanistic theory figures 1. Abraham Maslow Maslow's theory is based on the assumption that in individuals there are two things: a. positive effort to develop. b. the power to resist or reject that development. In connection with this opinion Maslow argues that there are 5 key levels of basic human needs. The five levels of basic needs is then used as a key understanding in studying human motivation. Because in fact this humanistic theory is very much needed motivation. The 5 levels include:
2. Carl Sam Rogers
Carl Sam Rogers stated there are 4 individual needs, namely: a. maintenance, b. self improvement, c. positive regard and d. Positive self-regard (positive self-regard). The most socially useful learning in the modern world is learning about the learning process, a continual openness to experience and its integration into oneself about the process of change. 3. Arthur Combs Arthur argues that learning occurs when it has meaning for the individual. Teachers cannot force material that is not liked or relevant to their lives. To understand human behavior, what is important is to understand how the world is seen from his perspective. This statement is one of the humanistic views about feelings, perceptions, beliefs, and inner behavior goals that make people different from others. to understand others, the most important thing is to see the world as he sees it, and to determine how people think, feel about him or his world. F. Strengths and weaknesses of Humanistic Theory 1. Strengths : a. Is the formation of personality, conscience, change of attitude, analysis of social phenomena. b. Students feel happy, take the initiative in learning. c. The teacher accepts students as they are, understands the way students think. d. Students have a lot of meaningful experience. e. Make students more creative and independent; help students understand learning material more easily. f. The indicator of the success of this application is students feel happy and excited. g. A change in mindset. h. Students are expected to be human beings who are free, brave, not bound by the opinions of others and manage their own personal responsibilities without reducing the rights of others or violating the rules, norms, discipline, or ethics that apply. i. Students are required to try to gradually be able to achieve self- actualization as well as possible. 2. Weaknesses : a. Are individual. b. The learning process will not succeed if there is no motivation and a supportive environment. c. Difficult to apply in a more practical context. d. Students have difficulty in getting to know themselves and the potential that exists in themselves. e. Students who do not want to understand their potential will be left behind in the learning process. f. Students are not active and lazy to learn will harm themselves in the learning process. g. The role of the teacher in the process of forming and maturing student personality is reduced. h. The success of the learning process is more determined by the students themselves.