Learning for Life: Creating Classrooms for Self-Directed Learning / Edition 1

by Ronald J. Areglado, R . C. Bradley, Pamela S. Lane

Overview

Help your teachers and your students face the biggest challenge education offers: the fundamental, necessary change from total reliance on a teacher to self-directed, self-motivated lifelong learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803963863
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/20/1996
Series:	Learner Controlled Instruction Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

What Is Self-Directed Learning?
Self-Directing versus Traditional Schools
What's the Difference?
Looking at Self-Directed Learners
Changing Student Perceptions
Looking at a Self-Directed Learning Classroom
Self-Directed Learning in the Classroom
The Teacher's Territory
Self-Directed Learning outside the Classroom
The Principal's Territory
Becoming a Self-Directing School

Editorial Reviews

For teachers, principals, parents, and others involved in children's learning, provides practical guidance and encouragement for changing from a system where students rely totally on the classroom teacher to one which fosters self-directed, self-motivated learning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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