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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-directed
adjective
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▪ Cheap labor power is not useful unless these workers can be made to give up their notions of self-directed work.
▪ Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov's motive for murder.
▪ Finally, she lists the intellectual pursuit model, which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity.
▪ In the self-directed format, the client works with minimal therapist consultation, using a self-help manual.
▪ The development of self-presentation, self-advocacy and of self-directed learning should all be central features of this phase of education.
▪ The guilt, anxiety, fear or anger still stem from within but are not, at least consciously, self-directed.
▪ There are, however, cases of apparently self-directed learning that may admit of another explanation.
▪ This gives learners guidance in their self-directed learning, and encourages a problem-solving approach to care.
Wiktionary
self-directed

a. Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint

WordNet
self-directed

adj. of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment [syn: autonomous, self-reliant]

Usage examples of "self-directed".

Therapy now becomes a very different process, more nondirective, because the student is responsible, introspective, self-directed, far more emotional and alive but ready to face life as an independent individual, even if scared.

Because you know your situation best, your own self-directed transcripts will help you resolve it the best way possible.

She could have been one of my good-looking, leggy graduate students from a tobacco farm in the Carolinas, or just as easily, a self-directed thirty-three-year-old assistant professor at the University of Georgia.

The strong drip coffee only made her mood the fouler, a thought that stopped her in her tracks and forced a self-directed smile she never bothered displaying for any of the security personnel who checked her pass every morning at the west ground-level entrance.

There was Dez’s self-directed anger, Neane and then Pri’ak’s quiet prayers to different deities, Feg and Triv’s uncomfortable formality.