0 the right of an organization, country, or region to be independent and govern itself:
The universities want to preserve their autonomy from central government.
1 the right of a group of people to govern itself or to organize its own activities:
The new autonomies for our best schools will support innovation and provide an incentive for other schools to improve their performance.
We are at the moment in many directions swaying, or being swayed, back in the direction of all sorts of local and separate autonomies.
The neo-baroque architectural autonomy and symbolism of theatres reflected the autonomy and hegemony of the big world.
In short, as well as professional autonomy, all semblance of altruism and disinterested service would be lost.
He was, however, bothered by the potential loss of moral autonomy once they did so.
The results of this study provide some empirical support for the hypothesised links between selfdetermination theory, self-regulated learning, learner autonomy, and metacognition.
The article begins with a summary of the origin and development of autonomy as a political and pedagogical concept.
Supporting learner autonomy in a distance learning context.
