Presentation about Carl Rogers, I put the notes I had on the ppoint before the slide it goes with. definitions quotes from http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyhumanists2.html

1. -”Mr” Rogers

2. Once you label me, you negate me
-Kierkegaard

4. Existentialism=humanism
Essentials of existance

5. 1. Of existence
2. Relating to existence
3. Or affirming existence

7. Entire Theory is based on a single “force of
life”
That at the everything runs off this…
All creatures strive for this (Used Mushrooms
as an example)

8. the tendency within all living beings to move
toward completion or fulfillment of their
potential

9. Not just basics like food or water, we have
potential for more so we strive for that

11. Organisms know whats good for them,
evolution has given us the tools to know whats
good for us, it has given us taste. (rotten food
doesn’t taste good) we have a positive regard
for these things, if left to our own we would
gravitate towards them.
We have Postitve Regard for these things.
Among this we have that for are love,
affection, etc.. We cannot thrive without these
things

13. Through getting the things we have positive
regard for we gain positive self regard
(Self Esteem)
Without this we feel small and helpless and
cannot thrive

14. Positive Self
Regard

15. What happened? Why do we live like we do
now?
Basically we are social creatures, when a bunch
of get together we have a society.
After a while the society forms its own
cultures, which is what guides norms.

17. Growing up we get rewards for doing good
behaviors when we show we are “worthy” we
get something good.
We get sweets after eating veggies, A’s after
we study, etc…
Our Positive regards like love affection, etc..
become conditionitional, we have to do
something to prove our worth to get them
Since we need positive regard these conditions
of worth are very powerful.

19. So powerful that we begin to try to do what
society tells us and not what we want to do.
Over time we
Begin to like ourselves only if we meet up to
others standards.

22. What happens is when we find ourselves
where the two us’s don’t match up we start to
build defenses.
(An example would be if you aren’t good at
tests but think that not getting A’s means you
aren’t a good student)

24. Denial-Block out the situation all together.
(never check the grade test)
(An example would be if you aren’t good at
tests but think that not getting A’s means you
aren’t a good student)

26. Perceptual Distortion-change the way you see
the event so its not threatening (i.e that test
wasn’t important anyways)
(An example would be if you aren’t good at
tests but think that not getting A’s means you
aren’t a good student)

28. Cycle continues

29. Threat situation
worse
Incongruity gets
Use Defense
larger
Gap between real
and false “ideal” grows

31. Openness to experience. This is the opposite
of defensiveness. It is the accurate perception
of one's experiences in the world, including
one's feelings. It also means being able to
accept reality, again including one's
feelings. Feelings are such an important part
of openness because they convey organismic
valuing. If you cannot be open to your
feelings, you cannot be open to
acualization. The hard part, of course, is
distinguishing real feelings from the anxieties
brought on by conditions of worth.

33. . Existential living. This is living in the here-
and-now. Rogers, as a part of getting in touch
with reality, insists that we not live in the past
or the future -- the one is gone, and the other
isn't anything at all, yet! The present is the
only reality we have. Mind you, that doesn't
mean we shouldn't remember and learn from
our past. Neither does it mean we shouldn't
plan or even day-dream about the future. Just
recognize these things for what they
are: memories and dreams, which we are
experiencing here in the present.

35. Organismic trusting. We should allow
ourselves to be guided by the organismic
valuing process. We should trust ourselves, do
what feels right, what comes natural.
trust your real self, and you can only know
what your real self has to say if you are open
to experience and living existentially! In other
words, organismic trusting assumes you are in
contact with the acutalizing tendency.

37. Creativity. If you feel free and responsible,
you will act accordingly, and participate in the
world. A fully-functioning person, in touch
with acualization, will feel obliged by their
nature to contribute to the actualization of
others, even life itself. This can be through
creativity in the arts or sciences, through social
concern and parental love, or simply by doing
one's best at one's job. Creativity as Rogers
uses it is very close to Erikson's generativity.

39. 4. Experiential freedom. Rogers felt that it
was irrelevant whether or not people really
had free will. We feel very much as if we
do. This is not to say, of course, that we are
free to do anything at all: We are surrounded
by a deterministic universe, so that, flap my
arms as much as I like, I will not fly like
Superman. It means that we feel free when
choices are available to us. Rogers says that
the fully-functioning person acknowledges that
feeling of freedom, and takes responsibility for
his choices.

41. Whats this mean for us?
How can we make this real?
Schools are the problem in a way, schools are a
way to transmit societies norms but the fact
that society has norm people feel like they
must follow is why people experience neurosis
and problems.

43. We need to be student focused instead of
teacher/standards focused.

45. We need to give students the most control
over there education as possible.

48. Presentations
Debates
Portfolios
Computers
journals
“Buzz” groups
Choice
Problems based learning

50. Let them help the assessment proccess. Let
them help deicde how they should be
measured.
They know their learning style more than you