Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

Instruments for influencing the development of self-education 
 
Self-education may be developed via direct and indirect educational effect, 
but the indirect methodology is more effective in the long run. The indirect 
method uses so-called facilitation principle and aims from the beginning at 
the development of abilities and skills for self-education (see above). In 
facilitation, used primarily in the humanistic, personality-focused approach, 
the educators are not fulfilling the goals on behalf of the educated person, 
but provide help to him/her to achieve the set goals. Independence in the 

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education process is adequate to the age and personality of the person that 
it being educated. The change of the educational work in this spirit 
influences the process of the planning, implementation and evaluation of the 
educational process.
High confidence from the educator in the person that is being educated is 
required. The educated person needs to have a high level of internal 
motivation for self-improvement and self-development. (For more details 
see Pintes In Duchovičová et al., 2012; Rogers, 2014) 
Self-education methods are methods that may be used by individuals to 
purposefully and systematically influence themselves so that they achieve 
the goals set at the beginning of the self-education process.
An overview of methods for self-examination and self-knowledge is 
described in subchapter 6.2. 
The following are the basic self-education methods:
self-conviction – the ability to prove the correctness or incorrectness of 
certain behaviour and actions; the most important method;
self-training – repetition of activities by an individual to create proper 
habits in behaviour, strengthening of will etc.; requires high level of self-
control;