A teacher's reflections on autonomy

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Is it part of a university teacher's job to promote the autonomy of his students? This question arose for the author as a result of a conversation with a colleague from the psychology department and was focused by his reading of Graham Little's Faces on the Campus. An older conception of the teacher's job is first explored, then confronted by claims that autonomy is an appropriate ideal. It is suggested that several tensions pervade discussion of autonomy as an educational goal, but that Little's notion provides a worthy ideal that can also be used as a guide to teaching practice.

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