How would a person-centred (or humanistic) course tutor behave in a class, and how might this differ from one coming from a ‘purchase of expertise’ or ‘traditional academic’ model? A person-centred, or humanistic, course tutor behaves in ways shaped by trust in the learner’s capacity to grow, reflect, and find meaning. This stance draws most…

As professionals get older, they often seem to encounter younger individuals who come across something for the first time and assume that it is either new or that they have invented something that nobody has heard of before. In effect, those younger people are simply ignorant of the history of their subject and naïve to…