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American culture...
Behavioural paradigm
Biology of learning
'brain-antagonistic teaching'...
'brain-compatible teaching'...
Conscience
conscience and personality integration...
creative intelligence or intuition......
Educational crisis
Education
educational theory (behavioural paradigm)
educational theory (holistic paradigm)
Biology of ethics...
socio-cognitive stages of moral development
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experiential learning
Facilitation of learning
teaching as facilitation of learning...
failure in moral development and 'evil'...
feminist pedagogy as libratory pedagogy...
Freedom
Growth
mature growth as self-actualisation
Holistic paradigm ...
systems theory.. .....
planet earth as a natural system...
holistic education as critical practice
Comenius...
progressive education movement
Human evolution
Human nature
human nature as 'nature of the human personality': a biosocial perspective…
human nature as perceived in the American Constitution...
human nature defined by motives for human behaviour i.e. 'human needs'...
human organism as social organism: survival depends on human values ...
human organism and organismic valuing process or 'operative values'...
spiritual needs or motivations, the 'metaneeds'...
'creative intelligence' or 'intuition'...
'being-values' as 'spiritual values': 'higher psychological needs' or 'metaneeds'
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Intelligence
intuition as 'creative intelligence'...
'social intelligence' (morality)...
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knowledge… 'modes of knowing'...
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language and conventional meanings...
learner evaluation in traditional paradigm: punishment/reward system of 'grades'...
learner evaluation in holistic paradigm: self correction and 'self-evaluation'...
Learning theory
learning theory in the traditional or 'behavioural' paradigm ...
learning as 'conditioning' in traditional paradigm... ‘schooling’
learning theory in the holistic paradigm...
'constructivist model' of Jean Piaget...
'biological model' of Ovide Decroly...
learning as 'experiential learning' (holistic learning)
biological basis of learning...
learning as a function of synapse modification or 'neuroplasticity'...
'lesson planning' in holistic paradigm...
libratory education... 'libratory pedagogy'...
love as uncondtional love or 'universal love'...
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'map learning'...
maturity as mature development or 'self-actualisation'...
Montessori principles for complete personality development or 'normalisation'...
'marketing character orientation' of capitalist culture...
'mechanical universe' and Newton...
'memory' as retention of learning...
'metaneeds' as spiritual needs...
'modes of knowing' - 'intimate knowledge' and 'symbolic knowledge'...
MORALITY
morality in traditional paradigm i.e. 'moralism'.....
morality in holistic paradigm i.e. moral rationality or 'moral intelligence’...
morality as result of moral development: development of moral rationality or 'ethical reasoning'...
MORAL EDUCATION
moral education in traditional paradigm...
moral education in holistic paradigm as 'facilitation of moral development'...
MOTIVATION There are two types of motivation: First, 'normal' motivation by growth needs or 'metaneeds' i.e. growth motivation or 'metamotivation'. Second, 'abnormal' motivation by deficiency of growth needs i.e. 'deficiency motivation' or 'deficit motivation'.
motivation for human behaviour: its source in human motives or 'needs'...
'metamotivation' as motivation by growth needs or 'metaneeds'
‘deficit motivation' as motivation by deficiency of needs for self-esteem
motivation for extrinsic goals or 'extrinsic motivation'...
problem of motivation as key to 'educational crisis'...
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Neuroscience ('neural science')
brain as maker of meaning or ‘organ of learning’...
architecture of the nervous system - neuron, nerve impulse, synapse, ...
binding of neurotransmitter molecules in synaptic function. .
founder of neuroscience Ramon Y Cajal ...
cerebral hemispheres as basis for holistic brain functioning
neuroplasticity as the biological basis of learning....
prefontal lobes of the brain, their function in motivation...
synapse...
synapse structure and function as the biological basis for learning...
synapse modification as the biological basis for the learning process…
'nerve impulse' as electrochemical signal in neurons...
'information flow' in the brain: role of the synapse...
neurotransmitters - their role in functioning of the synapse...
transmission of nerve impulses and its role in learning
search for the 'memory trace' or ‘engram’...
'subconscious'... its role in interpretation of environmental stimuli...
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'operative' values as values of the organism or ‘organismic’ values...
optimal learning or ‘optimalearning’…
orthodox science or ‘scientism’... .
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planet earth as a natural system...
paradigm... paradigm crisis in education... paradigm shift...
personality development as moral development...
Piaget....
problem of motivation in educational crisis...
'problem of ethics'...
PSYCHOLOGY
Behavioural psychology
behavioural psychology- founder John Watson...
behavioural science or 'behaviourism'....
Freud and discovery of the 'unconscious'....
'subconscious'... its role in interpretation of environmental stimuli...
study of psychology in holistic paradigm...
psychology as function of culture...
'psychosis' as spiritual crisis...
learning as a function of synapse modification or 'neuroplasticity'...
'subconscious'... its role in interpretation of environmental stimuli...
'neurosis'as neurotic or immature growth: failure in moral development
'evil' as problem of human wickedness resulting from
psychobiology as 'biology of learning'
psychological value of work in moral development...
'memory' as retention of learning...
'metaneeds' as spiritual needs...
'modes of knowing' - 'intimate knowledge' and 'symbolic knowledge'...
'socio-cognitive stages' of moral development and theory of Kohlberg...
universal love as 'unconditional love or 'productive love'...
Transpersonal psychology
transpersonal psychotherapy..
'wellness' as holistic health...
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questioning of traditional paradigm of education...
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rational ethics as natural ethics…
responsible education as education for freedom to work...
reductionist science or 'reductionism' - its effect on educational theory...
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Science
definition of ‘science’:‘science’ as common sense inquiry
‘science’ as orthodox science or ‘scientism’ ..
science as 'history of science'..
science as orthodox science or 'scientism'...
science as philosophy: Socrates...
science as search for reality or 'truth'...
scientists:
Rene Descartes and the Cartesian dogma...
Heisenberg...
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1995) and 'scientific paradigms'..
John Watson and behavioural science or 'behaviourism'
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scientific pedagogy-'libratory pedagogy'- of the holistic teaching paradigm
'socio-cognitive stages' of moral development and theory of Kohlberg...
'social intelligence' as morality...
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Traditional paradigm
American Constitution and dichotomous perception of human nature