Malcom Knowles "The “why” of self-directed learning is survival—your own survival as an individual,and also the survival of the human race. Clearly, we are not talking here about something that would be nice or desirable….We are talking about a basic human competence—the ability to learn on one’s own—that has suddenly become a prerequisite for living in this new world."– Malcom Knowles, 1975" Another way of saying this is found in the same article, "the successful self-directed learner simply likes to
Describe the essential aspects of a self-directed, intrinsically motivated, active learner? The essential aspects of a self-directed learner as follow: ● The self-directed learner takes ownership of the learning process by setting personal educational goals, and monitoring his/her own progress. They put a plan for their educational objectives and always check their progress with the plan. ● The self-directed learner is self-motivated to learn and understand; not only driven by grades or external
and have the power of self-direction (Kafipour and Naveh, 2011). Self-direction is an important characteristic among the other language learning strategies. Self-directed learners make conscious choices for finding solutions to problems and organizing knowledge and building skills. Kafipour and Naveh state that it is crucial for students to recognize the meanings of the novel words in a reading text in order to comprehend it. Learners’ familiarity with the vocabulary learning strategies facilitates
Abstract The teaching and learning of language has gained a dynamic impetus, across decades. Considering the trends of English Language Teaching, we can rightly assert that one method paved the way for the following one. Similarly, the transition from Grammar Translation Method to Communicative Language Teaching marked a paradigm shift between the role of the teacher and the students. The role of the teacher has
independent thoughts (Nicholson, 1999). Per se, it also strengthens Dewey’s notion of ‘directed living’ that students should draw from real life situations and engage in creativity and collaboration. This approach is more learner centered where learner autonomy is developed. Duerr (2008) explains that ‘’ students can become independent, confident individuals who ‘learn how to learn’ and develop lifelong learning skills”. Taylor (2008), declares that such an approach would broaden students’ knowledge
scheduling activities during the day and week. For the prioritizing, I also prioritize the activities on a table of importance and urgency. As a result of Time Management strategies, I feel I am more organized, and I am able to achieve more effort in less amount of time. By attempting to be organized, I decreased the time needed to look for documents, files, folders, etc. Also, I think that I am self-controlled and more responsible. All of this has led to decreasing the stress in my life, which is important
of Australian Indigenous cultures across all aspects of learning including literacy, numeracy, science, and the arts. He explained that the curriculum content should “value the Aboriginal students’ diverse cultural and linguistic heritages; provide real-life classroom contexts, and be open to and encourage modifications of content and pedagogy to reflect their interests and learning needs” (Philip,
Independent Learning is essential aspect which enables people to discover new ideas, knowledge and helps to boost a person’s imagination and creativity. As individuals can learn without the same level of support from teacher that usually get in school. The independent learning helps in self discovery Independent learning helps in self discovery. Self discovery is essential in student life particularly while pursuing higher education as it organized the students learning. It even helps students to
In his masterly article on flexible learning, Hart while quoting (Nunan, 1996), stated that origins of flexible learning is quite interesting that, “…there are progressive interpretations of flexible learning which are structured around competing social and humanist values, which have educational expression through concepts such as constructivism, open education, student centered learning, life-long learning, deep learning, and accessible learning structures” (Nunan, 1996, as cited in Hart, 2000)
1. Describe the essential aspects of a self-directed, intrinsically motivated, active learner? The active learners are mostly the motivated one and they are staunch supporter of learning new things. This means they do like the culture of change and want others to follow them in this regard. This is one of the aspects of the active learner. There are various other aspects of these people. For instance, they believe to pursue their goal by themselves. They try to deal with the complexities by themselves