3. TECHNIQUES
 round table,
 pairs check,
 inside-outside circle,
 paraphrase passport,
 think-pair-share,
 interview,
 talking chips.

4. It blends what students
 Think
 Feel
 Know
 Their ideas of self-actualization
 Self-esteem development

5.  Better they feel about themselves,
more likely they are to be high
achievers (Arthur Combs: 1959)
because they carry their selves-
concept with them to their class,
home and everywhere.
 It shifts the focus from teaching to
learning.

6. It emphasizes on…
 Inter personal relationship
with students, good
learning environment
(Moskowitz: 1978).

7. The teachers must be a facilitator
and they must…
 Discard their superiority and be genuine
and true in their efforts
 Genuinely trust, accept and prize the
students as a worthy individual
 Openly communicate with students and
vice versa
 Caring and sharing in the foreign
language classroom (Moscowitz: 1978).

8.  By ensuring that the students are
comfortable, confident and relaxed, the
affective filter is lowered, thus enhancing
learning.
 Students & teachers exist in a parents-
children relationship.
 Students say what they want to say
either in English or in L1

9. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning
 Student-centered learning
 Discovery learning
 Respect for students feelings and
aspirations
 Variety in teaching
 Active involvement
 Learner support
 Tasks designed for encouraging
students involvement

10. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
1.Place of the student in teaching1.Place of the student in teaching
learninglearning
Students play a central role in wholeStudents play a central role in whole
teaching-learning processteaching-learning process
Student-centered educationStudent-centered education
First teachers have to understand students’First teachers have to understand students’
needs, interests, abilities,needs, interests, abilities,
age level, attitude and aptitude.age level, attitude and aptitude.
Then they have to organize teachingThen they have to organize teaching
materials according to these needs.materials according to these needs.

11. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
2. Emphasis on Individuality
Every student has his own individuality.
Teachers should respect and develop this
individuality.
Teachers have to understand this
individuality
Then they have to organize teaching
according to it.

12. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
3.Undestanding the student
First teachers have to understand the
students and then teach them
Teachers have to know students’
interests, personalities, capabilities and
background knowledge.
Then they have to use teaching method
accordingly.
So before teaching, teachers have to
understand students thoroughly.

13. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
4. Method of teaching
Method of teaching should be based on
psychological principle.
Should not use teacher-centered / traditional
methods of teaching
Should emphasize on active learning
Should use learner-centered innovative
methods of teaching
Learner motivation, mental set up and
motivation should be considered

14. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
5.Discipline
Teachers should not force students to be
disciplined.
They should encourage students’
self- discipline
self-control

15. Educational Implications of Humanistic
Approach to Learning cont.
6. Place and role of the teacher
Teachers act as a guide, facilitator, friend
for the students
Teachers can be considered as the
milestone in the journey of the
development of the students
Teachers should not force his own
methods and views on the students

16. Educational Implications of
Humanistic Approach to Learning
cont.
7.A democratic process
Students should be taught in an
democratic environment.
It is such an environment in which
students and teachers participate
together and share their views and
opinions.

17. Humanistic Approach in Teacher
Education
Underhill (1999):
3 categories of teachers-
1. Lecturers
2. Teachers
3. Facilitators – humanistic in reality

18. Stevick (1990):
Humanistic Teacher- 5 qualities
1. Feelings
2. Social relations
3. Responsibility
4. Intellect
5. Self-actualization

19. Focus of Teacher Education:
 Present situation emphasizes on cognitive
learning
 A mixture of cognitive abilities and affective
factors in education
 To establish realistic boundaries with students
and to produce ‘educator’ of what they want to
be

20.  Fostering self-actualization
 Emphatic understanding
 Respect
 Genuineness
- To enable the student to actualize his/her
potentialities

21.  Ways of producing a humanistic teacher
 Developing teacher as a person
 Developing teacher as a teacher

22. The ultimate goal is to reduce
anxiety in learning, involving
learner’s personal concern and
promote learning from the
subjective point of view and
simultaneously developing
learner’s personality

23. Advantage
 Shifted the focus of behavior to the
individual / whole person rather than the
unconscious mind, genes, observable
behavior etc.
 Humanistic psychology satisfies most
people's idea of what being human
means because it values personal ideals
and self-fulfillment.

24. Advantage con.
 Qualitative data gives
genuine insight and more
holistic information into
behavior.

25. Limitations
 Ignores biology .
 Unscientific – subjective concepts. E.g.
cannot objectively measure self-
actualization.
 Humanism ignores the unconscious mind.

26. Limitation con.
 Behaviorism – human and animal
behavior can be compared.
 Qualitative data is difficult to compare.
 Their belief in free will is in opposition to
the deterministic laws of science

27. Thank you