?Lay hold of my words with all your heart;
keep my commands and you will live?
(Pr 4:4)
?Humanistic learning theory is dead. It was dying in the 1990?s when I wrote the first edition [of Created to Learn, 1996], but one is hard-pressed to find any contemporary reference to the system in educational psychology textbooks. For years, in one edition of their popular text Psychology Applied to Teaching, Biehler and Snowman maintained a separate unit on Humanistic Learning, but even they have surrendered to the field. Their latest edition (2009) gives eight pages ?out of 619 to ?The Humanistic Approach to Teaching: Student-Centered Instruction.? I?ve found no other contemporary educational psychology textbook that addresses ?humanistic learning.?
Reasons why this occurred will be given a little later. But make no mistake: the tenets of humanistic learning have not disappeared. Rather they have been absorbed into the ever-growing (cognitive) Constructivist camps, especially Radical Constructivism, as well as broader-based, hybrid learning approaches, such as Cooperative Learning. Textbook designers have moved Humanistic learning theorists like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers into chapters on Motivation Theory.
The self-centeredness of humanistic learning has become the water through which our society swims. Entertainment has become our highest virtue. Elections and consumer choices are determined more by personal emotions than reason. Personal choices to gratify sexual desires increasingly replace God?s commands and Christian codes of conduct. These changes are found, not only among the secular society around us, not only among parishioners in the pews, but among Christian leaders, from presidents of evangelical institutions to pastors of prominent churches. Graduate students who cheered ?personal freedom,? and ?choice,? and ?revolt from the norm? in the 1970?s have filled the ranks of professors, curriculum writers, and journalists for years. Today, they populate the highest seats of power in education and government. ?Self? is the highest reality. ?Choice? is the greatest good.
It is for that reason I. . .
retained this chapter. The idealistic and Self-centered foundations, laid for ?future Man? in the 1960?s and 1970?s by those who defined society?s ills in terms of ?repressive forces? of government, traditional education, Church, and God, have crumbled. But you will see in this study how we came to where we are today. Humanistic learning theories have been discarded by educational thinkers as ineffective, but Humanism itself lives on in Postmodernism, radical libertarianism, and educational perspectives which continue to reflect the status quo of the 1960?s generation and their disciples.
I retained the chapter for one other reason. Much of the learning that goes on in local churches is humanistic in approach. One can attend Sunday School for a lifetime, but will never earn a certificate or degree. There are no examinations. No consequences for truancy. No payments for books or class hours. People gather freely and enthusiastically, learning together, ministering to each other, giving freely to support churches and their ministries, volunteering time and energy, growing as citizens of the Kingdom (or, as often as not, freely choosing not to).
Humanistic learning theory emphasized the values and attitudes of students rather than their behavior or thinking. Solomon wrote, ?Lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will live? (Pr 4:4). Jesus said, ?Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind? (Mat 22:37). The ?heart? is the seat of conviction, values, attitudes, and ideals. It is not enough to simply do the right things (duty, ritual), or think the right thoughts (orthodoxy, intellectualism). Scripture teaches us to be right, as people of God ? to integrate God?s truth into who we are. How do we establish values? How do we help learners change their attitudes toward spiritual truths? How do we help students develop Christian ideals? In [the next few posts], we present the arm of educational psychology that dealt with the affective, the emotional, and the personal aspects of education: humanistic learning theory. We do so because these insights help us in ways Humanists never dreamed.
[Introduction to Chapter 10, "Humanistic Learning," Created to Learn, 2nd, 2010]
Posts to come:
1- Historical Roots of Humanistic Learning Theory
2- Secular Humanism
3- Classical Humanism
4- Educational Humanism
5- The Personal Dimension of Christian Education
6- Leading Humanistic Theorists: Maslow, Rogers, Combs
7- Humanistic Theory in the 2000s
8- Christian Analysis of Humanistic Ideals
9- Secular Humanism in Practice : Summerhill
10- Humanistic Learning in the Church
Source: http://drrickyount.com/2011/10/humanistic-learning-theory-dead-or-alive/
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