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  Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Rosemary Chapman: "Autodidacticism & the Desire for Culture"
The phenomenon of autodidacticism in 1930s texts cannot be seen independently of the class basis both of the provision of education and of subsequent access to culture.
Autodidacticism is in itself neither a reaffirmation of that cultural dominance, nor a challenge to it, but it can become either.
Autodidacticism is a positive cultural strategy as it can take place out of the cultural mainstream.
www.autodidactproject.org /other/chapman.html   (8889 words)

  
  Autodidacticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indeed, the term 'self-taught' is something of a journalistic trope these days, and is all too often used to signify 'non-traditionally educated', which is not the same thing at all.
Inquiry into autodidacticism has implications in learning theory and educational theory, educational research, educational philosophy and educational psychology.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for autodidacticism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autodidact   (967 words)

  
 Autodidacticism - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Many (according to their plan for learning) avail themselves of instruction from family members, friends, or other associates.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for the methodology.
Autodidacticism and criminality in Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Nausee" and Edith Thomas's "L'Homme Criminel".
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /autodidact.htm   (864 words)

  
 Autodidacticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She finds that Cervantes wholeheartedly depended on the autodidacticism of a bookish character searching for a new direction for what the author believed was the prototypical historia maravillosa...
In a collection of Addison's essays on the desk beside me as I write there are many examples of this studious autodidacticism.
O'Donnell's performance a doughty little curmudgeon whose autodidacticism and self-belief carry echoes of Wesker himself.
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 Autodidacticism - The Chapterhouse Codex
Indeed, the term 'self-taught' is something of a journalistic trope these days, and is all too often used to signify 'non-traditionally educated', which is not the same thing at all.
Inquiry into autodidacticism has implications in learning theory and educational theory, educational research, educational philosophy and educational psychology.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for the methodology.
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Autodidacticism, it must be stressed, is a highly unusual pedagogic phenomenon whereby a subject will develop a skill without external stimulae.
Consequently, learning physics from books borrowed from the library cannot be considered autodidactism, but rather an alternative, and often less common, means of approaching the core material.
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 Education Resources » Autodidacticism
Inquiry into autodidacticism has implications for learning theory, educational research, educational philosophy, and educational psychology.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for autodidacticism.
Following completion of his masters degree, Campbell decided not to go forward with his plans to earn a doctorate, and he went into the woods in upstate New York, reading deeply for five years.
www.thecatalyst.org /resource/2006/04/21/Autodidacticism   (1097 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Autodidacticism
An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person — typically someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education and a high degree of self-motivation.
Indeed, the term 'self-taught' is something of a journalistic trope these days, and is all too often used to signify 'non-traditionally educated', which is entirely different.
After his initial education, mythologist Joseph Campbell exemplified the autodidactic method.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Autodidacticism   (666 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Autodidacticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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In education and psychology, learning theories help us understand the process of learning.
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 Autodidacticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
College Discussion Forums: College Search and Selection: February 2004 Archive: Autodidacticism
Why should I go to college if I know I could learn just as much (if not more) from reading textbooks, etc on my own?
As to autodidacticism, I've tried teaching my cars stuff many times but they never learn.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/4/49508.html   (635 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: POOR PEOPLE
But a person may go to college and still be called an autodidact.
For autodidacticism refers more to a person's way of thinking than to his academic credentials.
We wanted to give some idea of the state of affairs prevailing in the city, especially as they affected the poor in the 1880s.
www.nybooks.com /articles/11308   (1532 words)

  
 IEEE-USA: Building Careers & Shaping Public Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Based in Dallas, the independent filmmaker completed a B.S. in mathematics and computer science at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and worked three years as a consultant in software engineering before teaching himself filmmaking.
A.O. Scott, the chief film critic for The New York Times, hailed Primer as "a triumph of autodidacticism," and considers Carruth the most likely new indie filmmaker to succeed in Hollywood.
Earlier in the year, IEEE-USA sponsored several invitation-only advance screenings of the movie in Washington for engineering students and volunteer leaders.
www.ieeeusa.org /communications/notable/Primer-11-24-04.asp   (203 words)

  
 Freedom - KnowledgeIsFun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Being not in any relationship (be it a romantic relationship or a cooperative, for example), free to do what one wants, including starting a new relationship or having relationship tests (like one-night-stands, casual physical intimacy, etc).
Freedom of education closely resembles autodidacticism, which views modern schooling as a dismal system of captivity.
Students have traditionally seen gaps in the school year as freedom from their oppression.
www.knowledgeisfun.com /F/Fr/Freedom.php   (750 words)

  
 iconolith » Blog Archive » Word of the Moment: Autodidacticism
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And related are the polymaths, but for some reason no one ever uses the word ‘polydidact’
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 Patrick Finn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Often a very complex representation of the way in which humans encounter and deal with suffering
His autodidacticism shows in a rough, but honest style
Wide ranging diction - colloquial to antique - leads to a feeling of spontaneity
web.uvic.ca /~pjfinn/ENGL200/Notes/Hardy.htm   (242 words)

  
 Autodidacticism - ArticleWorld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Autodidacticism is the self-education of a person who is highly motivated to excel in education and often has a passion for the subject he or she is pursuing.
An autodidact can become motivated to self-learn at any time and has often been taught through conventional means before moving on to self-education.
This page was last modified 17:51, 7 February 2006.
www.articleworld.org /index.php/Autodidacticism   (174 words)

  
 Mental multivitamin: It's an addiction.
Who knew there were so many, many chocoholics?
(A rather lengthy aside: If you clicked that last link and liked it, visit their homepage, "The Why Files." Bookmark the site for "the science behind the news." It's got autodidacticism written all over it.
And speaking of autodidacticism, if you haven't been with M-mv since its first entries, you may have missed this article, which we linked on our second day.
mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com /2004/04/its-addiction.html   (264 words)

  
 Sandhill Trek: Autodidacticism, or Quacking like a Duck
Sandhill Trek: Autodidacticism, or Quacking like a Duck
The sad news is that my memory is shot and my rationality ain't that grand and I use cheap shot ad hominem debating tactics so all this autodidacticism goes for naught...
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 StepAside: university life Archives
And with regard to the field of composition and rhetoric, I am.
Early into my autodidacticism, though, I realized that I was living very close to a terrific writing program.
In the early days of that realization, my impression of the SU Writing Program was mainly defined by the work Louise Phelps was doing there, crafting a program that seriously drew on the expertise of part-time composition workers and that pioneered new ways to reward those workers.
wrt-howard.syr.edu /stepaside/archives/professorially_speaking/university_life   (2051 words)

  
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My favorite experience is a dark, foggy, rainy night with a slight chill in the air.
I'm bipolar and a sometimes college student who's also into autodidacticism.
If you're not interested, then you can move on to someone else with my good wishes.
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 David Irving: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a self-taught (self-taught: autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning....
Author of controversial works such as Hitler’s War and The Destruction of Dresden, Irving is also one of the most accomplished and successful proponents of Holocaust denial (Holocaust denial: holocaust denial refers to the claims of a minority group of amateur and academic historians...
Complete text of Professor Evans' lengthy report on Irving's work in a number of areas.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/david_irving   (3837 words)

  
 LookSmart's Furl - View Item - XML.com: The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it [Oct. 02, 1997]
Rated 3 in General by amathes on Jul 2, 2004 at 19:37:02 GMT.
Every so often, dredging through the muck and mire of hopeless self-promotion and autodidacticism saturating the World Wide Web, one encounters an exotic specimen: the Web Head who truly merits it.
David Siegel is not merely a self-proclaimed "HTML Terrorist," he has been so anointed by knowledgeable and right-thinking SGML/XML purists everywhere.
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 The CHUD.COM Message Boards - America: Land of the Religious Illiterate
I think this guy is dead-on balls accurate.
I have never seen a "survey of world religions" class offered anywhere I've gone to school, and have been pretty much forced to autodidacticism to try and figure 'em out.
With the incredible influence religion has one every facet of our lives (regardless of geography), it's a mystery to me why we don't know more about it.
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 Cobb: Shelf #2
I attend them with a passion which isn't quite matched with my ability and willingness to talk about them at length.
Perhaps this is the greatest problem with autodidacticism.
Books end up like musical recordings, enjoyed in solitude.
www.mdcbowen.org /cobb/archives/001148.html   (722 words)

  
 Self-educated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Letter 2.1, where he laments his neglect of systematic preparation in his youth.
It will remain to be seen in the course of the novel whether Victor Frankenstein's more formal education served him better than did Walton's autodidacticism.
The question of self-education would have resonated strongly in the Shelley household.
www.english.upenn.edu /~jlynch/Frank/V1notes/selfedu.html   (170 words)

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