Process in humanistic education

We still seem to be unclear about what humanistic education offers. Perhaps we have tended to evaluate the versions of humanistic education that have reached ELT through the filter of our existing attitudes and values. Perhaps also we are unclear because we have focused on the more observable classroom techniques, rather than on the special attention paid by humanistic education to the personal and interpersonal processes that support those techniques. This article outlines what as teacher, trainer, student, colleague, parent, and observer I believe are some of the themes of humanistic psychology. It highlights some of the processes, values, and attitudes that underpin humanistic education and which are drawn from humanistic psychology.