Publisher's Synopsis
This work highlights the idea that teaching and learning is not a matter of possessing skills, nor of being possessed by skills. Instead, human effectiveness, including teaching effectiveness, is the potent use of the individual's own self in which one combines one's own knowledge and sensitivity with one's own unique ways of putting it into operation so as to be helpful to others. The authors show that learning and teaching others to be human is a new way of being oneself. Contents: Preface; THE QUEST FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; Six Evaluative Criteria, Erskine S. Dottin; BEING A SUBJECT AND NOT AN OBJECT; Labeling: A Frame of Reference for Constructing Meaning, Glorianne M. Leck; Teaching and Avoiding Labels and Categories, Michael Walden; ACQUIRING PERSONAL MEANING OF LIFE; Inside-Out Learning, Maria Elena Arguilles; Self-Directed Learning: The Intrinsic Quest, Lynne D. Miller; BEING WHAT ONE WANTS TO BE; Teacher as Decision Maker, Sharon Kossack; The Self-Directed Professional, Mohammed Farouk; PARTICIPATING FULLY IN DECISIONS THAT AFFECT ONE'S LIFE; The Relationship Between Freedom and Responsibility, Michael Walden; SHARING WITH OTHERS; Teaching as Sharing of Self, Rosa Pascual; Cooperative Learning, Maria Alvarez-Tsalikis; CARING FOR OTHERS; Teaching as Caring, Joyce C. Fine; Teaching/Learning as Human Community, Nina Zaragoza; Contributors.
