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Basic Principles of Humanistic Education

The document outlines 5 basic principles of humanistic education: 1) Students should be able to choose what they want to learn and be motivated by subjects they need and want to know. 2) Education should foster students' desire to learn and teach them how to learn independently. 3) Grades are irrelevant and only self-evaluation is meaningful as grading encourages working for grades, not learning. 4) Both feelings and knowledge are important in learning. 5) Schools need to provide a non-threatening environment to make learning easier and more meaningful.

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Basic Principles of Humanistic Education

The document outlines 5 basic principles of humanistic education: 1) Students should be able to choose what they want to learn and be motivated by subjects they need and want to know. 2) Education should foster students' desire to learn and teach them how to learn independently. 3) Grades are irrelevant and only self-evaluation is meaningful as grading encourages working for grades, not learning. 4) Both feelings and knowledge are important in learning. 5) Schools need to provide a non-threatening environment to make learning easier and more meaningful.

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Basic principles of humanistic education:

• Students should be able to choose what they want to learn.


Humanistic teachers believe that students will be motivated to
learn a subject if it's something they need and want to know.

• The goal of education should be to foster students' desire to


learn and teach them how to learn. Students should be self-
motivated in their studies and desire to learn on their own.
• Humanistic educators believe that grades are irrelevant and that
only self evaluation is meaningful. Grading encourages students
to work for a grade and not for personal satisfaction. In addition,
humanistic educators are opposed to objective tests because
they test a student's ability to memorize and do not provide
sufficient educational feedback to the teacher and student.
• Humanistic educators believe that both feelings and
knowledge are important to the leaming process.
Unlike traditional educators, humanistic teachers do
not separate the cognitive and affective domains.
• Humanistic educators insist that schools need to
provide students with a nonthreatening
environment so that they will feel secure to learn.
Once students feel secure, learning becomes easier
and more meaningful.
SUMMARY
• The five basic principles of humanistic education can be
summarized as follows:
• Students' learning should be self-directed.
• Schools should produce students who want and know how to
learn.
• The only form of meaningful evaluation is self-evaluation.
• Feelings, as well as knowledge, are important in the learning
process.
• Students learn best in a nonthreatening environment.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a
motivational theory
• in psychology comprising a five-tier model of
human needs, often depicted as hierarchical
levels within a pyramid. ... From the bottom of
the hierarchy upwards, the needs are:
physiological, safety, love and belonging,
esteem, and self-actualization.

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