GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS AND TERMS – relevant to Human-centred studies in general and the SunWALK model in particular
The left-hand link is to a good definition such as WikiPedia, or places such as the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Where appropriate in the rest of the entry I will put a note about the emphasis, or special interest, the term has within my work and SunWALK model of Human-centred studies. Ver 1 28th Aug 2009
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Aesthetic/s (see also Creative) Beauty embodied
Abilities
Action (see also Behaviour)
Affect/ive see feeling
Attitude/s
Adulthood
Alienation sense of estrangement
Aims & Objectives & Goals
Authenticity speaking with the true voice of integrity
Autobiography see story
Autonomy able to act freely without unwarranted interference
Awareness
Beauty – see the Creative) the experience of identifying with en-formed perfection
Behaviour see Action
Being – isness
Being & becoming
Belief/s subscription to a construct on the grounds that it is true
Brain – ‘left brain’ & ‘right brain’
Certainty a high degree of probability e.g. about the truth of a situation
Change
Childhood
Cooperative learning – see community
Commitment
Communication
Community a group of safety and stimulation in which the needs of all members are the focus of all
Compassion and empathy
Concept a consistent idea representing ……
Conceptual development
Conformity
Connectedness see holism
Conscience
Consciousness & c. raising/expanding
Consultation – group process
Contemplation
Control
Creative thinking
Creative /ity
Crisis
Critical thinking
Criticality
Culture
Curriculum
Decision-making
Democracy and democratic process
Detachment
Development
Dialectical = problematization + dialogue
Discipline
Discovery
Discrimination
Doing
Dualism
Discovery (inc. curiosity)
Ecology see environment
Education
Educational environment
Emotion/s see affect
Empathy see compassion
Energy see spirit & chi
Engagement – see modes
Environment/ecology/inner being
Essence
Ethics – see moral/ity education
Ethos/Atmosphere
Existence
Existential/ism
Experience
Experimentation
Faith
Falsity
Feelings see affect
Free will- see will
Freedom
Global development
Goodness – see caring
Group process-PFC/Consultation
Team work/co-operation
Growth see development
Habit
Harmony – h. in diversity
Having c.f. being/doing/becoming
Holism/whole/Holistic Ed
Human being – h. nature/spirit
Humankind – humanity
Human Rights
Ideals
Imagination
Independence see autonomy
Individual/ity c.f. individualism
Indoctrination
Indwelling/intuition/inner being
Information – i. and knowledge
Initiation – education as
Inner being/spiritual/insight – see
Interiority
Insight see intuition &
Interiority – consciousness, heart-mind (xin)
Intuition (psychology)– insight/inner development
Intuition (philosophy)
Instinct
Intelligence
Judgement
Justice
Justification – see knowledge
‘Know that’ – see Knowledge
Knowledge I WE IT voices
Language
Learning & Teaching
Life-force/energy/spirit/chi/inochi
Literature
Love – affect/spirit – see caring
Management
Materialism
Mechanistic models
Meaning & Meaning making
Meditation c.f. contemplation
Memory
Men/gender – see left brain/right brain
Metaphor
Methods in learning
Mind
Modes of experience & engagement
Moral development & sensibility
Moral sensibility
Mystery (in human nature)
/potential/subconscious/unknown
Mythos – doesn’t exist on WikiPedia!
Mythos I and II (Joseph Campbell)
Narrative see story
Nature
Needs
Negotiated learning – see democratic
process
Non-reflective learning
Norm/s
Openness
Paradigm
Paradox
Participation
Perception – /attention/forms/field
Personhood – see also authenticity/autonomy – see human being
Personal history see also story autobiography
Physical self
Planning
Politics
Positivism
Power & empowerment
Principles
Problem-solving v posing
Qualitative the
Qualities, spiritual e.g. empathy
Questioning
Rationality/reason/able/ness
Reductionism
Reflection – reasoning/meditation
Reflective learning
Rejection
Relationships
Relativity
Science – see also objective knowing
Self – with a capital ‘S’ often means God within, that Whole of which we are an emanation
Self-image
Sensitivity
Service to others
Spiritualisation (?) see energy
Spiritual qualities (e.g. empathy)
State
Story & Autobiography
Subjectivity
Tacit knowledge – see knowledge
Teacher Education
Teaching & Learning
Teacher thinking
Teacher thinking about the child’s
spirituality/holistic development
Thinking /caring /creative /criticality
see mind
Time
Tradition
Training (v. education)
Transformation
beauty &
good ness
Understanding
Validity
Vision
Volition – see will
Wholeness – see holistic
Will
Women’s studies /gender – see left & r. brain
Work – re identity & purpose
