Autonomous learning

Autonomous learning is a school of education which sees learners as individuals who can and should be autonomous i.e. be responsible for their own learning climate.

Autonomous education helps students develop their self-consciousness, vision, practicality and freedom of discussion. These attributes serve to aid the student in his/her independent learning.

Autonomous learning is very popular with those that home educate their children. The child usually gets to decide what projects they wish to tackle or what interests to pursue. example: a child that loves music will choose to learn or play a musical instrument. In home education this can be instead of or in addition to regular subjects like doing math or English. At University/College Students are expected to learn independently without constant support from lectures and tutors this is known as autonomous learning. (Source:Book name,Student skills guide,2nd edition ,pg 206)

According to Home Education UK the autonomous education philosophy emerged from the epistemology of Karl Popper in The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, which is developed in the Karl_Popper_debate#Karl_Popper_debate Karl Popper Debates, which seek to rebut the neo-Marxist social philosophy of convergence proposed the Frankfurt School (e.g. Theodor W. Adorno Jürgen Habermas Max Horkheimer). This proposed a common paradigm of mind, suggesting that people within a group would tend to share the same assumptions and be preoccupied with similar problems.

In contrast, Popper attempted to repudiate the classical observation, induction and falsification scientific method instead proposing critical rationalism, liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe to be the fundamentals of an"open society"

References

Holt, John (1991) Learning all the time: How small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world, without being taught, Ticknall and Liss: Education Now Publishing Cooperative and Lighthouse books. ISBN 1871526043

See also

• E-learning

External links

• Independent Learning - Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University
• Education Otherwise - One of the largest home education organization in Britain
• School - Home E-learning