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Bringing out the best in human effectiveness : lessons for educators from an Upward Bound Project / Erskine S. Dottin, Daris L. Steen, Denise Samuel.
Van Pelt Library LC4093.P46 D68 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dottin, Erskine S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of West Florida. Upward Bound Project.
- University of West Florida.
- Children with social disabilities--Education (Secondary)--Florida--Pensacola.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Children with social disabilities--Education (Secondary).
- Minorities--Education (Secondary).
- Florida--Pensacola.
- Minorities--Education (Secondary)--Florida--Pensacola.
- Minorities.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 80 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas : University Press of America, [2004]
- Summary:
- Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness will greatly interest anyone aspiring to improve the human condition. This book focuses on an Upward Bound program conducted at the University of West Florida between 1979 and 1983. This is the long untold story of participant observers and the lessons they learned about the kind of teaching and learning that changes lives.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Human Phenomena 1
- The Individual and the World 2
- The Individual as Social Being 4
- Chapter 2 The Contextual Setting 7
- Past Context of Experience 7
- Program Vision 8
- Means-Ends Connections 9
- Chapter 3 Reconstructing the Experience within Humanistic Educational Contexts 13
- Program Realities/Obstacles: The Upward Bound Project Phenomenon 13
- Program Realities: Wheels in the Head 18
- Program Learning: Being a Subject and Not an Object 19
- Program Learning: Acquiring Personal Meaning of Life 26
- Program Learning: Being What I Want to Be 36
- Program Learning: Participating in Decisions that Affect Life 39
- Program Learning: Sharing with Others 42
- Program Learning: Caring for Others 47
- Chapter 4 Reflecting on the Experience: Lessons for Educators and Other Helping Professionals 51
- Drawing Valid Inferences from a Case Study 51
- Lessons for Educators 52
- Present Day Connections 67.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-73).
- ISBN:
- 0761828524
- OCLC:
- 56131676
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