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    EDUC. 48Q-4
    EXPERIMENTAL COURSE: SELF-EDUCATION - THEORY, PRACTICE AND PROGRAMS
    SUMMER SESSION 1981 ?
    INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Maurice Gibbons
    Monday
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    Wednesday, 12:30 - 4:20
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    LOCATION: Campus
    In self-education individuals select , plan and manage their own
    learning and development. In this course students study the nature
    of self-education, the principles of practice in educati9 oneself,
    appropriate instruction for teaching others to be effectively self-
    educating, and the process of developing programs, materials and
    resource networks for self-education. Class sessions are divided
    between presentations in these topics and practical application in
    workshop and field activities. This course is of particular interest
    to teachers in all forms of education who wish to emphasize self-
    directed learning in programs they design for themselves or their
    students.
    Working individually and in colleagial teams,students will
    conduct four projects of their own design to achieve objectives
    relating to the theory of self education, and competencies in its
    practice. Walkabout, Challenge Education and The Self-Directing
    Professional workshop are included in this course.
    Required Texts
    Malcolm S. Knowles, Self-Directed Learning.
    Maurice Gibbons (ed.) Readings in Self-Education
    (mimeographed selections from the attached biblography).
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    COURSE CONTENT
    I The Nature of Self-Education
    1.
    Definitions of the term: Learning or education? Of the self
    or by the self?
    2.
    Basic concepts: self-direction, self-discipline, self-motivation,
    self-development.
    3.
    Comparison with Prescribed Education and Spontanious Learning.
    II Perspectives on Self-Directed Achievement
    1.
    Awareness, Concentration and Control (Eastern Philosophies
    and the Will).
    2.
    Actualizing One's Potential
    (The Human Potential Movement).
    3.
    Managing One's Environment
    (Behavioral Self-Control).
    4.
    Highroad to Success and Happiness
    (Self-help: Pure and Positive Thinking).
    III Perspectives of Influencing the Patterns of Personal Development
    1. Psychosocial Perspectives
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    (Erikson, Levinson).
    2.
    Psychological Perspectives (Gilmore, Frankl).
    3.
    Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Homey, Schiffman).
    4.
    Philosophical Perspectives (Polanyi, May).
    5.
    Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Becker, Pearce).
    IV The Self-Education Process
    1.
    Self-Education as a Life-long Process (Gross).
    2.
    The Self-educating Person: Studies of Lives (Goertzels)
    and Common Practices (Tough).
    3.
    Patterns, Transitions, Crises and Resolutions.
    4.
    Traits, Skills and Conditions for Productive Self-
    Education.
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    V Education for Self-Education
    1.
    The Contradiction: Teaching for Self-Teaching.
    2.
    Creating the Conditions, Teaching the Skills, Cultivating
    the Traits
    3.. Teacher as model, mentor,guide, counsellor and broker.
    4.
    Developing programs and organizing resources.
    VI Programs for Self-Education
    1.
    Analyzing the programs systematically.
    2.
    Independent study, individualized and personalized instruction.
    3.
    Open, cooperative and community education.
    4.
    Enrichment programs for the special student.
    5.
    Walkabout, Challenge, Self-education.
    VII Toward a Theory of Self-Education
    1.
    Educating one's self.
    2.
    Education for self-education.
    3.
    The future: social, technological and education change.
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    SELF-EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
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    Bandura, Albert. Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral
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    Becker, E. The birth and death of meaning: An interdisciplinary perspective
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    Bradford, L.P., Gibb, J.R., & Benne, K.D. T-group theory and laboratory
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    Brown, G.I. Human teaching for human learning. New York: Viking Press,
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    Collins, O.F., & Moore, D.C. The organization makers: A behavioral study
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    Combs, A.W. and Snygg, D. Individual behavior: A perceptual approach to
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    Csikszentinihalyi, M., & Beattie, O.V. Life themes: A theoretical and
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    Erikson, E.H. Childhood and society. New York: W. W. Norton (2nd Ed.),
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    Faure, E., et al. Learning to be: The world of education today and
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    Franki, V. The will to meaning. New York: New American Library, 1969.
    Gardner, John W. Self-renewal: The individual and the innovative society.
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    Gibbons, Maurice, Norman, Peter, and Phillips, Gary. The self-directing
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    Levinson, D.J. The seasons of a man's life. New York: Knopf, 1978.
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