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humanism  

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  • Humanism refers both to a mindset and to a movement with invaluable significance to Western culture. The term was created as the Latin translation, humanitas, of the Greek core concept for lifelong learning, paideia, probably by Cicero. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research; Humanism]

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