Learning from Elders about Autonomy, Meaningfulness, and Relationships

Learning from our elders.

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

All you ever wanted to know about meaningfulness

The author, Louis E. Narens, is a mathematical psychologist who is currently a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he had been since 1979. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Narens’ publications range over several important areas of research in the behavioral and social sciences, especially the theory of measur...

Realizing autonomy in responsive relationships

The goal of this article is to augment the ethical discussion among nurses with the findings from empirical research on autonomy of older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. There are many factors influencing autonomy. These include: health conditions, treatment, knowledge, experience and skills, personal approach as well as familial patterns, type of relationship, life history and social con...

Learning from Demonstration for Goal-Driven Autonomy

Goal-driven autonomy (GDA) is a conceptual model for creating an autonomous agent that monitors a set of expectations during plan execution, detects when discrepancies occur, builds explanations for the cause of failures, and formulates new goals to pursue when planning failures arise. While this framework enables the development of agents that can operate in complex and dynamic environments, i...