Humanistic physical education curriculum in the secondary school

Abstract

Humanism, loosely translated means a concern for man above all else behaviourally, and a concern for man's social and emotional well-being. Humanistic psychology, clarified this concept with the following five major tenets: (1) man's major goal in life, is to actualize his own potentialities, to become all that he can become and to attain the status of the fully functioning inom person. (2) Each individual has unique potentialities which means that no two people are the same in needs, abilities and interests. As such, there is no justifica- tion for moulding students into some predetermined shape. Talamob svitosto adi (3) Invididuals must develop a selective detachment from their culture in order to avoid minoring the values of society and thereby inhibiting 22500 individual development. jon (4) How a person feels is more important than what he knows, in fact, how he qun feels about himself and about what he is supposed to be learning will determine whether he will learn anything. (5) No one is better able, at least potentially, than the person himself to determine how he best learns and what is most meaningful for him to learn.