Self- Activity

Self - activity is "learning by doing"
It implies that learning can only happen through the individual's activity or his/her doing.

Importance of self-activity in learning

• Pupils will only learn to think reflectively by going through experience of reasoning.

• The classroom teacher should make his thinking situation in school approximate as nearly as possible the situation of everyday life.

Importance of self -activity in acquiring specific motor activities.

• Verbal direction , demonstrations , a various kind of illustrations of help in guiding the trial - and -error of the learning process but actual doing and repetition.

• The principles of self- activity also emphasize the need of having the learning situations approximately as nearly as possible the situation on which the motor ability