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Autonomy-supportive teaching: Its malleability, benefits, and potential to improve educational practice

, 2021
Autonomy-supportive teaching is the adoption of a student-focused attitude and an understanding interpersonal tone that enables the skillful enactment of seven autonomy-satisfying instructional behaviors to serve two purposes—support intrinsic motivation
J. Reeve, S. Cheon
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The support of autonomy and the control of behavior.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1987
In this article we suggest that events and contexts relevant to the initiation and regulation of intentional behavior can function either to support autonomy (i.e., to promote choice) or to control behavior (i.e., to pressure one toward specific outcomes)
E. Deci, Richard M. Ryan
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Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation

, 1995
From the Publisher: In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and ...
P. Evans
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Autonomy and metrics of autonomy

Annual Reviews in Control, 2020
Abstract The quest for autonomy has been a pervasive theme in human culture through-out history. In this paper a general definition of autonomous systems is presented and discussed that leads naturally to the establishment of metrics to measure the level of autonomy of a system.
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Teaching and Researching: Autonomy in Language Learning

, 2001
SECTION 1: WHAT IS AUTONOMY 1. The History of Autonomy in Language Learning 2. Autonomy Beyond the Field of Language Education 3. Defining and Describing Autonomy 4.Control as a Natural Attribute of Learning 5. Levels of Control 6.
P. Benson
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Autonomy, and Then

Philosophical Explorations, 2002
Abstract Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others
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The Value of Autonomy and Autonomy of the Will

Ethics, 2006
It is a commonplace that ‘autonomy’ has several different senses in contemporary moral and political discussion. The term’s original meaning was political: a right assumed by states to administer their own affairs. It was not until the nineteenth century that ‘autonomy’ came (in English) to refer also to the conduct of individuals, and even then there ...
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Principles of Biological Autonomy

A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.
F. Varela
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Learner Autonomy

Self-Directed Learning Strategies in Adult Educational Contexts, 2019
This chapter explores teachers' perceptions of learners' readiness to adopt autonomous roles and to develop their critical and analytical thinking. The chapter reports on an ethnographic study investigating teachers' views on whether the notions of ...
A. Elmahjoub, T. Lamb
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