For a healthy society, Carl Rogers (1980) offers us a vision of the qualities that the person of tomorrow will possess:
Openness
Desire for authenticity
Skepticism regarding science and technology
Desire for wholeness
The wish for intimacy
Process-oriented
Caring
Sympathetic attitude toward nature
Anti-institutional
Authority lies within
Recognition of the unimportance of material things
A yearning for the Spiritual
He
argues that a person needs the ‘awareness of self [...]
I’ve been reading the works of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux recently, both of whom write powerfully about the importance of developing a critical consciousness while working to struggle against forms of oppression: economical, racial, cultural, gender, etc. It seems to me that much of what is written about bringing back a truly [...]
I find Sebastian’s recent post on webogs and self-directed learning to
be timely, as I am currently exploring the related concepts of autonomy
and ‘deep learning’ with the view that personal webpublishing
practices are well suited for encouraging meaningful learning
strategies, especially for those studying in
institutionalized settings. In response to a quote from Phillip Candy
(1991) on the value of [...]