Selected Learning Theory and Curricula

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This paper describes how a selected learning theory impacts curriculum design. Included is a discussion of the learning theory "Humanistic:
A. Combs and D. Snygg" and how it impacts curriculum design and the use of this theory in 21st century schools.

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"The theory of Combs and Snygg did not have the impact in general that other theorists did but their theory was noticed by a group of humanists. Snygg and Comb's understanding of motivation was stated as: "The basic need of everyone is to preserve and enhance the phenomenal self, and the characteristics of all parts of the field are governed by this need." The individual's view of self is that which is called the phenomenal self. This view is developed over the course of a lifetime and is based on cultural and personal experiential factors."

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