An individual strategy

For me, self-direction is about the learner determining his or her objectives, taking stock of the resources at his or her disposal to achieve them, the methods that suit him or her and not the person next to him or her, and implementing evaluation systems to know where he or she stands in the learning process.

The benefits of self-directed learning

In fact, we realise that when we’re faced with groups of 25 or 30 students and we’re willing to make the effort to ask ourselves what each of them might want to learn for what purpose, well, we think that there’s an accumulation of extremely varied and diverse demands and situations, and so on and so forth, so we don’t ask ourselves the question, we decide what they need to learn, and then we go from there.

On the other hand, with self-directed work, we really start from each individual’s situation and we see the complexity of each person’s situation.