The Freedom Writers Method and its Contamination Theory: Carl Rogers’ Experience : Il metodo freedom writers e le sue contaminazioni teoriche: l’esperienza di Carl Rogers

Giuseppe Cursio

doi:10.21852/sem.2017.2.07

Published: 2022-11-24

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2017)

The Freedom Writers Method and its Contamination Theory: Carl Rogers’ Experience

Il metodo freedom writers e le sue contaminazioni teoriche: l’esperienza di Carl Rogers

Giuseppe Cursio

Seminare. Learned Investigations

Section: Socio-pedagogical sciences

https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.2.07

Abstract

This article presents the theoretical hypotheses and foundations of the Freedom Writers method. The experience of the Freedom Writers seems to bear strong similarity to the experience of Carl Rogers. The article presents, in particular, the dimension of the “freedom to learn” in the Freedom Writers method and in the thought of Carl Rogers.

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freedom, learning, change, method

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Cursio , G. (2022). The Freedom Writers Method and its Contamination Theory: Carl Rogers’ Experience : Il metodo freedom writers e le sue contaminazioni teoriche: l’esperienza di Carl Rogers . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 38(2), 83–97. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.2.07

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