Publication Date
1999
First Advisor
Paul LeVasseur
Abstract
The intentions of this study was to arrive at a better understanding of how teachers define humanistic education, and how this understanding informs and influences their approaches to language teaching. The first section of this paper overviews the thoughts of three prominent humanistic educators. This is meant to serve as a grounding for the second part of the paper which reports and analyses the results of a study of eleven practicing EFL and ESL teachers. The teachers responded to a questionnaire and submitted to an interview regarding how they viewed humanistic education and how those views translated into teaching practices.
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Recommended Citation
Emigh, Robert G., "Defining Humanistic Philosophy, Pedagogy and Teaching Practices in Relation to English Language Teaching" (1999). MA TESOL Collection. 471.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/471
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons