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Is Group Therapy Democratic? Enduring Consequences of Outward Bound's Alignment with the Human Potential Movement. A Response to "How to Be Nice and Get What You Want: Structural Referents of "Self" and "Other" in Experiential Education as (Un)Democratic Practice."
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Seaman, Jayson – Democracy & Education, 2016
Franklin Vernon provided an example of how programs viewing themselves as "cultural islands" are in fact embedded within historical capitalist relations, through the discourses of "self" that they promote. In this response, I expand on Vernon's argument to situate the quasi-therapeutic practices he identified in the history of…
Descriptors: Group Therapy, Democracy, Outdoor Education, Self Actualization
A Multicultural Personal Growth Group as a Pedagogical Strategy with Graduate Counseling Students
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Johnson, Jennifer M.; Lambie, Glenn W. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The present study investigated a six-week multicultural personal growth group as a pedagogical strategy to support first-year graduate counseling students' (N = 20) levels of ethnic identity development (Phinney & Ong, 2007) and social-cognitive maturity (Hy & Loevinger, 1996). Students' levels of ethnic identity and social-cognitive development…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Cognitive Development, Group Experience, Counselor Training