What is Humanism? What is Humanism in Language Teaching
Module 1: Teaching the whole person: Humanistic teaching
Mercedes Perez Berbain has an M.A. in Education from the Oxford Brookes University, UK and is currently Senior Lecturer at J.V. González College of Education, Argentina. She is an author of teaching materials for leading publishers worldwide and is the Co-editor of International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT. Mercedes is also a faculty member at Pilgrims Teacher Training, Oxfordshire, UK and a reviewer at highly esteemed educational journals.
Hania Kryszewska is a senior lecturer at the University of Gdansk, Poland. She has been a teacher trainer for the last 33 years and regularly trains at Teacher Training Summer Schools organised by Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford and Oxford Teacher’s Academy. Hania is also the Editor-in-Chief of Humanising Language Teaching website magazine.
Meet your instructor: Hania Kryszewska
Meet your instructor: Mercedes Perez Berbain
Introduction to the course
Introduction to the module
Journal entry
Expert video
Question 1
Question 2
Answer
Earl Stevick’s impact
Question 3
Extracts from the interview
Journal entry
Question 1
Expert video: Interview
Transcript of the interview
Journal entry
Question 2
Journal entry
Reading task
Suggestions from a humanistic teacher
What?
So what?
What next?