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The place of confluent education in the human potential movement : a historical perspective / Stewart B. Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Stewart Bennett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Humanistic.
- Gestalt psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : University Press of America, [1998]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The UCSB Confluent Education Program: Its Essence and Demise 1
- Historical Perspective 1
- Political Perspective 5
- Summary of Prior Empirical Data 8
- New "Orientation to Learning" Data 10
- Personality Patterns and Learning Styles 19
- The Paradigmatic Basis of Confluent Education 22
- The Confluent Subcultural Context and Its Interpretation 24
- Chapter 2 The Origins of Confluent Education 29
- From Aristotle to Confluent Education 30
- The Early Roots of Humanistic Philosophy and Education 34
- The Uncertain Connection Between the Traditional Humanities and Modern Humanistic Education 36
- Progressive Education 39
- Summerhill 41
- The Danish Folk High School 42
- British Infant and Junior Schools 43
- Modern Humanistic Education 44
- The American Psychology of Personality, Gestalt Therapy, and the Group Dynamics Movement 51
- Humanistic Psychology 55
- The Human Potential Movement (1962-1990) 57
- Chapter 3 A Critique of Confluent Education 63
- Interviews of Senior Faculty and Administrators 66
- The Best-Worst Study 69
- The Strengths and Hang-Ups Study 73
- Data from Beyond UCSB 75
- Summary of the OTL Study with Local High School Teachers 81
- In-House Critiques from Books on Confluent Education 83
- Brief Analysis of the "I in Science" by Judith R. Brown (1996) 86
- The Original Humanistic Paradigm and Confluent Education 87
- The Separation of Confluent Education from its Original Humanistic Base 87
- Problems with the Gestalt Emphasis in Confluent Education 88
- The Distinction Between Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Psychology 89
- Criteria for a Definition of Confluent Education 90
- Inherent Conceptual Problems in Confluent Education 91
- The Objects of Criticism by Confluent Educators: The List of "Devils" 92
- Coercive Framing 92
- Lack of a Confluent Gestalt 96
- The Assimilation Process 100
- Conclusion: An Interpretation 103
- Chapter 4 The Legacy of Confluent Education 107
- Institutional Legacy 108
- The Santa Barbara Middle School 108
- The Pacifica Graduate Institute 113
- The Concord Institute 122
- The Meta-senter for Confluent Education, Gestalt Therapy, and Psychosynthesis 129
- Summary and Conclusions of the Institutional Legacy 132
- Professional Legacy 136
- The New Generation 136
- The Current Confluent Education Professional Group 137
- Professional Legacy in the Local Schools 139
- Local "Confluent" School Teachers and Administrators 140
- Summary of Professional Legacy in the Local (Public) Schools 149
- Cultural Legacy 150
- The UCSB Archives of Humanistic Psychology 151
- The Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Archives at Pacifica 152
- Joyce Oldham Appleby 153
- Conclusions on Cultural Legacy 153
- The Legacy of Confluent Education: Conclusions to Chapter 4 154
- Chapter 5 Summary and Interpretation 157
- Lessons to be Learned 160
- The Place of Confluent Education in the Human Potential Movement 161
- The Humanist Impulse 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-178) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0761811869
- OCLC:
- 39195380
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