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Jennifer Imazeki – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Effective communication is at the heart of good teaching, and one of the central tenets of effective communication is to know your audience. What often gets less attention is the need for good teachers to know "themselves" and consider how they are the same, or different from, their students. To build supportive relationships with…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teachers, Self Actualization, Individual Development
Sternberg, Robert J.; Chowkase, Aakash; Desmet, Ophélie; Karami, Sareh; Landy, Jenna; Lu, Jialin – Education Sciences, 2021
This article discusses kinds of transformational giftedness, or giftedness that makes a positive, meaningful, and possibly enduring difference to the world. We extend previous work by suggesting that there are two kinds of transformation that matter: self-transformation and other-transformation. Combining these two kinds of transformation yields a…
Descriptors: Gifted, Transformational Leadership, Definitions, Identification
Cheng, Chung-ying – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
In this article, I present a model of four dimensions for the idea of learning in the classical Confucian perspective. This model is intended to capture the most essential four aspects of learning which explain why self-cultivation of a human person toward an end of self-fulfillment and social transformation of humanity is possible. I shall also…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Models, Individual Development
Hwang, Keumjoong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
This article discusses the distinctive educational modes of thinking in Neo-Confucianism, with an interest of extracting Confucian reflective views for modern education of traditionally Confucian East Asia. Neo-Confucian typical modes of thinking on education are characterized as "heart-mind centered" and "learning as…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Individual Development, Self Actualization
Semetsky, Inna; Delpech-Ramey, Joshua A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2012
This paper addresses the unconscious dimension as articulated in Carl Jung's depth psychology and in Gilles Deleuze's philosophy. Jung's theory of the archetypes and Deleuze's pedagogy of the concept are two complementary resources that posit individuation as the goal of human development and self-education in practice. The paper asserts that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Processes, Psychology, Individual Development
Vicars, Dennis – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
All organizations are different in nature, culture, programs, and services. However, every truly successful enterprise ("successful" meaning their mission statement and strategic goals are followed and achieved) that the author has encountered: (1) Employs strategic leadership; (2) Is organized in a way to promote maximum individual staff…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Position Papers, Interviews, Educational Improvement
Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
This article describes three distinct yet interrelated elements of self-authorship: trusting the internal voice, building an internal foundation, and securing internal commitments. These elements, which emerged from longitudinal interviews with adults in their 30s, offer insights into the complexity and cyclical nature of self-authorship as well…
Descriptors: Guidance, College Students, Interviews, Adults
Fletcher, Sarah – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This chapter explores how incorporating the possible selves construct within a supportive and challenging mentoring relationship can assist in personal and professional growth. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Mentors, Professional Development
Roeper, Annemarie – Great Potential Press, Inc., 2007
In this book, the author describes the complexity of the Self as the source of all human behavior. She will try to outline the structure of the Self, its normal growth and development, and the role of interaction with other living things in this process. Ms. Roeper sees the Self as a unit within us, which includes input from the brain and all…
Descriptors: Gifted, Individual Development, Children, Self Actualization
Murphy, Christina – New Directions for Higher Education, 2003
Recent studies of academic leadership confirm what many academic leaders know from personal experience: academic leadership is a complex and demanding role with significant stress and high burnout and turnover rates (Brown, 2002; Brown and Moshavi, 2002). In the light of these issues, an exploration of the nature of academic leadership and its…
Descriptors: Leadership, Rewards, Individual Development, Self Actualization
Osuji, Sydney Nwanakponna – Online Submission, 2006
Education is very necessary for man in order to articulate himself and achieve fullness. But the formal system, which is elitist, discriminatory and instalmental, cannot alone provide all education one needs for self-fulfillment. The terminologies, such as, continuing education, recurrent education, education permanente and life-long education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Andragogy, Lifelong Learning

Nicholson, James A. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1986
Describes an outdoor adventure program that uses high-risk activities to promote personal potential among well-adjusted participants. (Author)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Case Studies, Counselor Role, Individual Development

Geist, Sam – Performance Improvement, 2003
Focuses on how to become the kind of leader you would want to work for. Concentrates on knowing yourself, including better understanding human behavior; knowing your people, including training opportunities and staff rewards; knowing your skills, including time management; knowing how to communicate; and knowing how to move forward, including…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Individual Development, Leadership, Leadership Qualities

Goldman, Connie – Generations, 1991
A radio journalist uses examples from her "Late Bloomers" program as illustrations of creativity, self-esteem, and self-fulfillment in later life. (SK)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Creativity, Individual Development, Lifelong Learning
Boland, Clay A., Jr. – 1978
Homer's Odyssey can serve as a good source of working definitions of humanism, humanist, humanities, and their relation to humanistic education, a concept which has been adulterated by some, misplaced by others, and diluted by many. Humanism is defined as an attitude that man is independent of any devine realm and therefore responsible for himself…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Humanism, Humanistic Education, Humanities Instruction