Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness

Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness will greatly interest anyone aspiring to improve the human condition. This book focuses on an Upward Bound program conducted at the University of West Florida between 1979 and 1983. This is the long untold story of participant observers and the lessons they learned about the kind of teaching and learning that changes lives.

Erskine S. Dottin is Professor of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at Florida International University. Dottin holds a Ph.D. in Education (Leadership) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Daris L. Steen is a Finance Manager in Miami-Dade County, Florida and State Legislative Coordinator of the Non-Commission Officer Association, Washington, D.C. Denise Samuel works at International Paper, Pensacola, Florida

Dedication

iii

Contents

v

Foreword

vii

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

xv

Chapter 1 Human Phenomena

1

(6)

Understanding Human Phenomena

1

(1)

The Individual and the World

2

(2)

The Individual as Social Being

4

(3)

Chapter 2 The Contextual Setting

7

(6)

Past Context of Experience

7

(1)

Program Vision

8

(1)

Means-Ends Connections

9

(4)

Chapter 3 Reconstructing the Experience within Humanistic Educational Contexts

13

(38)

Program Realities/Obstacles: The Upward Bound Project Phenomenon

13

(5)

Program Realities: Wheels in the Head

18

(1)

Program Learning: Being a Subject and Not an Object

19

(7)

Program Learning: Acquiring Personal Meaning of Life

26

(10)

Program Learning: Being What I Want to Be

36

(3)

Program Learning: Participating in Decisions that Affect Life

39

(3)

Program Learning: Sharing with Others

42

(5)

Program Learning: Caring for Others

47

(4)

Chapter 4 Reflecting on the Experience: Lessons for Educators and Other Helping Professionals

51

(18)

Drawing Valid Inferences from a Case Study

51

(1)

Lessons for Educators

52

(15)

Present Day Connections

67

(2)

Bibliography

69

(6)

Authors' Biographical Sketches

75

(4)

Contributors

79

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Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness Lessons for Educators From an Upward Bound Project

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