The Teaching of Personality Development

Adelson,Joseph

Topics

AdministrationViolenceSupervisionLeadership

Adult EducationCorp. Training and Continuing Ed.LiteracyTransformative Learning

Assessment & EvaluationProgram EvaluationAlternative AssessmentGradingStandardized Testing

Social ContextHistory of SchoolingPhilosophyUrban EducationEconomics and School-to-workRural EducationSociology of EducationWar and EducationPost-Industrial Education

CounselingSecondary SchoolsCollege Advising

CurriculumControlArtsSocial StudiesHealth and NutritionLanguage ArtsMathematicsPeace StudiesScience

DiversityRace and EthnicityAt-Risk StudentsSpecial NeedsGender and Sexuality

Early Childhood EducationPre-School and Child CareEarly Childhood Development

Higher EducationAdmissions and TuitionFacultyPolicyStudent and Community Life

International EducationComparative EducationEducational Development

LearningCognitionParental InfluenceEducational Psychology

PolicyReformCharters & VouchersHigh-Stakes TestingStandardsAthletes and AcademicsDropoutsIndependent SchoolsPhilanthropyPoliticsReligionTracking

Research MethodsQualitative MethodsSurvey ResearchExperimental ResearchLibrariesWriting for Publication

Teacher EducationProfessional DevelopmentSchools of EducationStudent Teaching

TeachingTeaching ProfessionSupply and DemandWorking Conditions

TechnologyTechnology in the ClassroomDistance LearningTechnology EducationPublishing and CommunicationOnline Publishing

IntersectionsPolicy and Teaching Practice

Discussion
My Experience Technology - Good for Students AND Teachers Fiddling with Indicators while using Toxic Tests Ode to Dewey Clearly Articulated Proposal--Thank You!
more >>

Announcements

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: CREDENTIAL INNOVATIONS FOR INCLUSIVE PATHWAYS TO PROFESSIONS

Call for Proposals

IJEP- CALL FOR PAPERS. RESPONDING TO NEOLIBERALISM THROUGH PRAXIS AND REFLECTIONS IN THE MIDDLE OF CRISIS WHERE THE RESISTANCE AND NEW LIVES EMERGE

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East

make a post | more >>

The Teaching of Personality Development

reviewed by Joseph Adelson - 1964

Title: The Teaching of Personality Development
Author(s): P. Halmos
Publisher: John Wiley, New York
ISBN: , Pages: , Year:
Search for book at Amazon.com

These four monographs can be said to address themselves to a single and exigent issue in higher education: How shall those of us working in the social sciences communicate what we know (and suppose) about human behavior to teachers, social workers, and others whose practices might thereby be enhanced? As one may imagine, the specific issues raised by this question are not primarily those of teaching technique in the narrow sense; the besetting problems are more often psychological, philosophical, and indeed moral. In teaching the behavioral sciences, we encounter resistances in the student; his defenses may interfere with learning so that he may ward off, distort, or intellectualize what he is taught. Furthermore—and the point is made vigorously in several of die contributions—the perspectives we offer are as much ethical as empirical. We ask the student to abandon at least some of the tacit moral assumptions he has brought to... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 65 Number 7, 1964, p. 645-645
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 2753, Date Accessed: 3/1/2021 3:03:27 PM

Purchase Reprint Rights for this article or review

Article Tools
Full Text in PDF Format Email this article Print this article Post a Comment

There are no related articles to display

Related Discussion

Post a Comment \| Read All

About the Author
Joseph Adelson

Member Center
	Welcome! Sign-in Submit My Work TCR @ Your Library Book Reviews @ Your Library

In Print

This Month's Issue
Back Issues: