HSE Publishing House

A few decades ago, students’ autonomy developed naturally in everyday affairs, such as going for independent walks or carrying out familiar assignments. The school could rely on this “natural” autonomy, without specifically focusing on its development. As the usual practices of developing autonomy are reduced, it is important to study modern conditions of growing up and specifically about family and educational factors supporting autonomy. The authors investigate the development of child’s autonomy in the family, at school, in urban areas, and in accessible media relying on the theoretical frameworks of the leading psychologists such as Bronfenbrenner and Ryan and Deci. The book presents a large-scale panorama of the autonomy development practices among modern schoolchildren including conditions of self-regulated learning and schoolchildren’s own ideas about autonomy.
The publication is intended for a wide range of readers, analysts, and researchers in the field of education and child psychology, teachers and parents.