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Lewis, Tim – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This paper explores what it means to be an autonomous learner in an online social context. Using distinctions originally drawn by Jürgen Habermas, it argues that classic accounts of learner autonomy as teleological action are inadequate to explain learner activity in group settings. It points out that learners in such settings display attitudes…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Electronic Learning, Social Theories
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Manathunga, Catherine; Goozee, Justine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
Postgraduate supervision, until recently, was regarded as an extension of research rather than as a form of teaching. Research students were assumed to be "always/already" autonomous scholars at the beginning of their candidature. So too, postgraduate supervisors were assumed to be "always/already" effective at supervising once they had endured…
Descriptors: Program Development, Graduate Study, Independent Study, Research Skills
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Dreyer, Lois G.; Flugman, Bert; Gross, Alan – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
The Reading Rescue tutoring intervention model was investigated with 64 low-socioeconomic status, language-minority first graders with reading difficulties. School staff provided tutoring in phonological awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Tutored students made significantly greater gains reading words…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Consultants