which the activities of one are enhanced and constrained by the needs and interests of others. Maintaining an exclusive focus on the individual misses something both important and unique about the educational enterprise where in learning together children also learn how to learn together. This kind of activity requires a more social and a more interactive model of learning than the one that Rogers provides us with.
Notes
1 Rogers, Freedom to Learn for the 80's, Columbus, OH: Charles Merrill, p.26, 1983.
2 Rogers, On Becoming A Person, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, pp.5-6, 1961.
3 Brian Thorne, Carl Rogers, London: Sage Publications, 1992.
4 Warren A. Nord, Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, pp.336-41, 1995.
5 E.D. Hirsch, Jr, The Schools We Need: Why We Don't Have Them, New York: Doubleday, pp.100-4, 1996.
6 Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Beseiged, New York: Basic Books, 1977.
See also
In Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: Dewey
Rogers' major writings
Counseling and Psychotherapy, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications, and Theory, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
On Becoming A Person, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Freedom To Learn: A view Of What Education Might Become, Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1969.
Carl Rogers On Encounter Groups, New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Further reading
h
Hersher, Leonard, Four Psychotherapies, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
z
Zimring, F. and Raskin, N., in History of Psychotherapy: A Century of Change, Donald Freedheim (ed.), Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1992.
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Book title: Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day.
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Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: 53.
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