1. Learning must be active, they say. The children must become what they are: Agents of their destiny. They are neither vassals to be ordered around, nor vessels that must wait to be filled. They are agents able to choose …


Tweetable abstract: In its current form, the promotion of freedom in education is, at the same time, the promotion of its opposite. Online pedagogic advice about promoting learner autonomy tends to be guided by a rather dubious contrast between a …