Alfie Kohn	Abraham Maslow	Johnson brothers	Rudolph Steiner
Maria Montessori	Carl Rogers	John Dewey	Jean Piaget

Part One: Directions:

Each of these people wrote about the way human beings and community ought to come together. We study them in courses but often have difficulty applying their ideas to the classroom and to our interactions. Using a search engine, locate something from each and then write a 200-300 word essay on what you could implement from their ideas.

Part Two:

Write a personal power history, in narrative fashion, including appropriate pieces of the following items. This will vary in length, but will show you have internalized the reading and applied it to your own life.

• Look for clues about how you are autonomous and heteronomous
• Can you identify points from the readings with respect to yourself?
• Were you different at home than at school?
• Were you different with one parent rather than the other?
• Did you set up a different form of power relationship with a significant other, with children, students, siblings?
• Look for ways you balance life and address them as part of the power and control issues.
• Finally, look for one way you would celebrate your methods for coping and make a goal for one way you want to cope differently

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