The article of Dr Lalit Kishore on self-study was published in the periodical Educational Review, 91(37):37, in which he describes the self-study skill in a set of read-to-learn skills from book resources both the prescribed ones and those available in the school library.
If implemented as scheme with planning, orientation of students, giving regular assignments and corrective feedback, senior students can learn much of course independent of the teacher. He did a lesson study based on read-to-learn skills by using the prescribed textbook in physics to get a feel of what does it entail, he holds.
The lesson study was done for learning episode to demonstrate the shortage of teacher can work as an opportunity to lead senior students towards self-learning and peer-group learning.
However, to systematize the scheme across the school for various subject requires the approvals, teacher preparation and periodic mid-course correction reviews, which are hard to come.
On revisiting my work, I wrote the following acrostic on STUDY, which was the keyword of the paper.
STUDY ACROSTIC
S: Strategy for acquisition of knowledge by interacting, reading, investigation, or reflection
T: Teaching oneself through detailing by spending time on information processing and access to resources
U: Undertaking an intensive and comprehensive knowledge about a topic or subject
D: Devoting time and effort for gaining knowledge of an academic subject from book and non-book resources
Y: Yearning and action of applying one's mind and cognitive skills so as to acquire knowledge or understanding of an academic subject
~Dr Lalit Kishore
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