Unleashing the Power of Self-Directed Learning: Criteria for Structuring Self-Directed Learning within the Learning Environments of Higher Education Institutions
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Abstract
Abstract Self-directed learning (SDL) has been recognised as an imperative skill for students. To meet the demands in today's educational atmosphere, SDL is indispensable. Numerous higher education institutions (HEIs) have made SDL a part of the curriculum. The main persistence of education for students must be to cultivate the skills of inquiry, and more decisively, to continue obtaining new knowledge effortlessly and skilfully for the rest of their lives. It is no longer practical to outline the persistence of education as conveying what is known; thus, it is imperative for students to continuously scale new heights of knowledge effortlessly and competently. Continuous SDL has been acknowledged as a vital ability for students. This theoretical article deals specifically with criteria on how SDL can be structured within the learning environments of HEIs in order to cultivate and empower students as continuous self-directed students.
期刊介绍:
Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.