Abraham Maslow

Background Information Born on April 1 1908 in Brooklyn, NY

1st of 7 children in his family

Parents were Jewish Immigrants

Maslow loved learning at a young

age

EducationStudied at University of Wisconsin

Colombia University

Brooklyn College

Areas of Study:Behaviorism, Psychology, Humanistic Psychology,

Freudian theory, and sexuality behavior

Historical Context

“As I watched, the tears ran down my face. I felt we didn’t understand-not Hitler, nor the Germans, nor Stalin, nor the Communists. We didn’t understand any of them. I felt that if we could understand, then we could make progress…”

-Abraham Maslow 1968

World War II

THEORIESSELF-ACTUALIZATION

(FULL POTENTIAL)

MOTIVATIONGROWTH

HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

SELF-ACTUALIZATION

(FULL POTENTIAL)

BELONONGING AND LOVE NEEDS

Giving and receiving love and affection

$ PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS $

Food, air, water

★ ESTEMEM NEEDS ★ Confidence, worthiness

✓ SAFTEY NEEDS ✓

Security

Main ingredients to the hierarchy of needs

Self Actualizatio

n

Esteem Needs

Belongingness and Love Needs

Safety Needs

Physiological Needs

Prerequisites to Hierarchy

Causing no harm to others

Freedom of

expression

FairnessJustice

Freedom to speak

How does this theory translate to the classroom

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Drive to learn is intrinsicGoal of learning is to bring about Self-Actualization

Resources Maslow, A. ‘Motivation and Personality.’ 1970. Maslow, A. ‘Toward a Psychology of Being.’ 1968 http://www.education.com/reference/article/work-Abraham-Maslow/

http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/humanist/maslow.html