CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The humanistic approach emphasizes the personal worth of the individual, the centrality of human values, and the creative, active nature of human beings. The approach is optimistic and focuses on the noble human capacity to overcome hardship, pain and despair.

Detailed explanation-2: -The self is the humanistic term for who we really are as a person. The self is our inner personality, and can be likened to the soul, or Freud’s psyche. The self is influenced by the experiences a person has in their life, and out interpretations of those experiences.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rogers further divided the self into two categories: the ideal self and the real self. The ideal self is the person that you would like to be; the real self is the person you actually are. Rogers focused on the idea that we need to achieve consistency between these two selves.

Detailed explanation-4: -The key principles of humanistic psychology include human capacity for self-actualization, self-direction, and choice. Carl Rogers identified five principles of a fully functioning person as open, present, trusting, creative, and fulfilled.

Detailed explanation-5: -humanistic psychology, a movement in psychology supporting the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated as such by psychologists and psychiatrists. The movement grew in opposition to the two mainstream 20th-century trends in psychology, behaviourism and psychoanalysis.