Autonomous Learning: Principles and Strategies of Learning and Teaching

Author: Cheng Weiguo
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Self-directed learning is the foundation of lifelong learning and lifelong development for individuals and is an emphasized learning method in curriculum reform. Cultivating students' self-directed learning ability has become an important goal of education worldwide. This book is the first domestic monograph to systematically study self-directed learning, summarizing the author's many years of research achievements in this field. It systematically introduces the relevant theories of self-directed learning for the first time in China. It comprehensively analyzes the history and current state of self-directed learning research both domestically and internationally for the first time. It comprehensively discusses educational issues related to students' self-directed learning for the first time. The book is divided into three main parts: Introduction to Self-Directed Learning, Psychological Foundations of Self-Directed Learning, and Teaching Guidance and Evaluation of Self-Directed Learning. It strives to establish the teaching guidance of self-directed learning on a scientific foundation of learning psychology, interprets the essence, strategies, and guidance methods of self-directed learning through examples, and aims to provide specific, actionable techniques for the educational practice of self-directed learning. The publication of this book will greatly promote the theoretical and applied research of self-directed learning in China.