Freedom To Learn: A View Of What Education Might Become
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What if the entire foundation of modern education has been built on the wrong principles? In Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become, the legendary humanistic psychologist Carl R. Rogers presents a radical and deeply humane reimagining of the educational process, arguing that true learning cannot be imposed from without but must be ignited from within. Drawing on his groundbreaking work in person-centred therapy, Rogers chronicles a vision of the classroom as a place of genuine freedom, where students are trusted as naturally curious, self-directing individuals capable of determining their own paths to knowledge. Rogers writes with the conviction and clarity of a man who has spent decades listening to human beings at their most vulnerable and most vital, and his prose carries that same warmth and precision into the realm of pedagogy. Freedom to Learn challenges educators, parents, and policymakers to confront the coercive assumptions embedded in traditional schooling and presents compelling real-world examples of what liberated, student-centred education looks like in practice. A foundational text in both humanistic psychology and progressive education theory, this work remains as urgent and provocative today as when it was first published — leaving one to wonder just how different our schools, and our society, might look if we dared to take freedom seriously.
Author: Carl R. Rogers
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company
Genre: Education theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What if the entire foundation of modern education has been built on the wrong principles? In Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become, the legendary humanistic psychologist Carl R. Rogers presents a radical and deeply humane reimagining of the educational process, arguing that true learning cannot be imposed from without but must be ignited from within. Drawing on his groundbreaking work in person-centred therapy, Rogers chronicles a vision of the classroom as a place of genuine freedom, where students are trusted as naturally curious, self-directing individuals capable of determining their own paths to knowledge. Rogers writes with the conviction and clarity of a man who has spent decades listening to human beings at their most vulnerable and most vital, and his prose carries that same warmth and precision into the realm of pedagogy. Freedom to Learn challenges educators, parents, and policymakers to confront the coercive assumptions embedded in traditional schooling and presents compelling real-world examples of what liberated, student-centred education looks like in practice. A foundational text in both humanistic psychology and progressive education theory, this work remains as urgent and provocative today as when it was first published — leaving one to wonder just how different our schools, and our society, might look if we dared to take freedom seriously.