The emergence of humanistic learning theory can not be separated from the movement of humanistic education that focuses on affective outcomes, learning about how to learn and learning to enhance creativity and human potential.
This humanistic approach emerged as a form of disapproval on two previous views, the views of psychoanalysis and behavioristik in explaining human behavior. Disagreement is based on the assumption that the views of psychoanalysis too pessimistic outlook bleak and despair while behavioristik considered too rigid (mechanistic), passive, static and tractable in describing human.
II. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING BY humanistic theories
According to the theory of humanistic study should be initiated and directed for the benefit humanize humans. Humanistic learning theory and more abstract nature study of philosophy. This theory is more talk about concepts. In humanistic learning theory, learning is a process that begins and is intended for the benefit of humanizing mankind. Humanize humans, ie, to achieve self-actualization, self-understanding and self-realization of people learn optimally. Dal this, then this humanistic theory is eclectic (harness / summarizes all any theory in order to humanize humans).
One of the important ideas in the theory of humanistic learning is that students should have the ability to direct their own learning behavior (self-regulated learning), what will be learned and to what extent, when and how they will learn. Students studying directing at the same time motivating yourself to learn rather than just being passive recipients in the learning process. Students also learn to assess the usefulness of studying it for himself.
Flow humanistic view of learning as a process that occurs in an individual that involve all or part of an existing domain that includes the domain of cognitive, affective and psychomotor. In other words, humanistic approach emphasizes the importance of emotions or feelings, open