sense of autonomy | The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers

The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers

sense of autonomy

value: many people in Australia think it is good if people can think like this (see more)

When someone is doing something, it is good if this person can think about it like this: I’m doing this because I want to do it.

Note

This particular entry refers to the importance of feeling that you have autonomy, even when in reality that may not be the case.

personal autonomy against preventing someone from doing something that they want to do against taking over what someone else is doing freedom to not do things freedom why don’t you do X?using 'helpful suggestions' to avoid a directive formulating requests as suggestions formulating requests as questions

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