The document discusses autonomous learners and their key characteristics. Autonomous learners are described as individuals who can solve problems and develop new ideas with minimal external guidance through divergent and convergent thinking. They are independent, critical, reflective lifelong learners who take responsibility for their own learning by evaluating knowledge, making judgments, and identifying information. Autonomous learners are also adaptive, analytical thinkers who can effectively apply skills to new situations. Heutagogy is defined as a form of self-determined learning rooted in andragogy that emphasizes engagement and self-directed learning.

1. A. Selene Martínez Hernández.

2. Betts and Knapp, (1981)
Autonomous Learner is
“one who solves problems or develops
new ideas through a combination of
divergent and convergent thinking and
functions with minimal external
guidance in selected areas of
endeavour.”

3. Selman (2001) says that “ideal adult
learners are described in the adult
education literature as autonomous
individuals·”

4. Autonomous Learners.
Independent
Critical
Reflective
Can develop
critical thinking,
self-awareness
and analytical
skills.
Can evaluate ,
estimate or make
judgements about
knowledge.
Can identify by
himself
information and
distinguish the
different uses it
has.

5. Show
Responsibility for
their own
learning.
Have
Initiative
Are able to
monitor and
evaluate their
own learning.
Autonomous
Learners.
Are critical
and analytical
thinkers.
Adapt when
taking / making
decisions.
Are life-long
learners

6. Life-long Learners
The World Bank, (2003); Kuit & Fell, (2010)
“How learners have the capability to effectively and
creatively apply skills and competencies to new
situations in an ever-changing, complex world”
Blaschke (2012)
“Heutagogy is a form of self-determined learning
with practices and principles rooted in Andragogy.”

7. Heutagogy
Life long learning
Andragogy
Self-determined learning
Engagement
Self- directed learning

8. Pyramid in the Progression from Pedagogy to Andragogy
then Heutagogy, based on Canning, (2010)
The Autonomous Learner
determine what will be
learned and how it will be
learned.
Key of knowledge
Characterized by learner control
and self-responsibility in learning

9. CONCLUSION
I think that I go through this process and I
consider myself as an autonomous learner
because I have some of these
characteristics of autonomus learning.

10. References:
Betts & Knapp (1981) The Autonomous Learner Model: A secondary
Model. In Secondary programs for the gifted and talented. Los Angeles
CA: national State-Leadership Training Institute for the Gifted and
Talented.
Blaschke, (2012).Heutagogy and Lifelong Learning: A review of
Heutagogical Practice and Self-Determined Learning
The World Bank. (2003). Lifelong learning in the global knowledge
economy: Challenges for developing countries. Washington, D.C.: The
World Bank. Retrieved from
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLL/Resources/LifelongLearning-in-the-Global-Knowledge-