Abstract
This study attends the learning sciences to the work of Carl Rogers and his person-centered therapy and education. Building on claims that knowledge building communities are idea-centered, as well as recent research in this area that has looked at learning holistically, we examine the notion of a ‘humanistic knowledge building community’ as an integration of idea-centered classroom knowledge building communities with Rogerian person-centeredness. We investigated an innovative course for graduate students in an educational technologies program that both inspired and informed this conceptualization. Our grounded theoretical approach combined with a microanalysis of one student revealed five patterns that knowledge, experience, and self can co-develop in a humanistic knowledge building community.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 593-619 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Instructional Science |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Aug 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding Funding was provided by I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (Grand No. 1716/12).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature B.V.
Keywords
- Humanistic education
- Idea-centered
- Knowledge building communities
- Person-centered
- Sociocultural
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Developmental and Educational Psychology