1. Week 7, Ed Founds, Sec., 2012

2. A case study Maslow: Bio and context Hierarchy of needs, motivation theory Strengths and limitations Rogers: Bio Theories, therapy and education Strengths and limitations Humanist education: classroom implications Humanist education: strengths and limitations A job interview question Integrating the person and the content The teachers self in the classroom

3. Listen to Daynas story and think about the following question in relation to Maslows theory of needs and motivation: What would be the most helpful thing the school and the biology teacher could do for Dayna?

4. Bio and context: Russian Jew descent Tormenting relationship with parents Anti-Semitic environment Student of behaviourist psychology Influences of A. Adler, E. Fromm, R. Benedict, M. Wertheimer, etc Personality and motivation of healthy and successful individuals Humanistic psychology: third-force psychology Enduring influence in psychology, education, and business Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970) marginal man, the Outsider, the rejected person who has no home (Maslow, 1960, p. 13)

5. Limitations of needs at each level Self-actualisation at the summit of the hierarchy Being needs Deficit needs

6. Food, water, sleep, breathing, excretion, etc Physical homeostasis Maslows childhood experience

7. Physical protection from harm Financial security Adequate materials for survival Maslows experience

8. Love, affection, intimacy,and belongingness To receive as well as to give Maslows experience

9. Respected and valued by others Self-esteem Accurate regards of self Higher than love needs Maslows experience

10. Influences from mentors What a man can be, he must be. (Maslow, 1943, p.10)

11. Motivation of the psychologically healthy Rank order of relative saliency Deficiency (D) needs and being (B) needs Multiple motivations of behaviour

12. Recognises: higher needs than physiology as behavioural motivators affective and emotive aspects of learning Limitations: Linear sequence and mechanical structure of the hierarchy What do the homeless get out of being in a football team? Whats self-esteem to the seriously ill?

13. Brief bio Theories: Self-actualising tendency Alienating culture and society Therapy: Non-directive / client-centred Reflection and active listening Education: Interpersonal relationship as core business Positive self-concept as main goal Carl Rogers (1902-1987) When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Sources of quotes in callouts: Rogers, 1961

14. Understanding the affective and emotive needs of the learner Relationship, not curriculum Non-directive role of teacher Listening, not talking A Grammar classroom, from Sulpizio, 1495

15. Recognises: Learners as unique individuals Learners affective needs Limitations: Polarisation of person and content Neglect of teachers whole being in the classroom

16. You are at an interview for a job at a school with a large number of students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The principal asks, At our school, some of our students live in troubled and sometimes abusive family environments, some others are from refugee or new immigrant families with financial difficulties. Considering the problems these students experience in their lives, how will you engage them in their studies of English / maths / science / music / PE /...?

17. How to be yourself in the classroom Becoming oneself through becoming another Knowing how you communicate

18. Maslow, A. (1943) A theory of human motivation, Psychological Review, 50. Rogers, C. (1961) On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, Constable, London.