How to Create Autonomous Learners

To achieve their full potential, it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners, yet this skill often does not come naturally. This book is a practical teaching and planning guide to the theory, practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills.

Taryn Moir is a Practitioner Senior Educational Psychologist practicing within a local authority and responsible for project work, policy development and in-service training for a large number of primary and secondary schools. She was a lecturer on the Educational Psychology course at the University of Strathclyde and is now an assessor and supervisor for the Level 2 Qualification of Educational Psychology Scotland. Taryn is also Review Editor for two international journals: Frontiers in Education, Special Educational Needs section and Cogent Education.