TITLE Self-Directed Learning in the Process of Work: Conceptual

With reference to the literature on adult self-directed learning, a model termed the "Two-Shell Model of Motivated Self-Directed Learning " was formulated that differentiates sociohistorical environmero-AT conditions, internal conditions, and activities related to four concept (interest, learning strategies, control, and evaluation). The following hypothesis guided the study: interest in self-directed learning, selection of learning strategies, control of the application of those strategies, and evaluation of the results of self-directed learning are related to individual experience of autonomy, competence, and social integration. The hypothesis was tested through a survey of 194 employees of a German medical insurance company and 67 employees in the fish processing industry. It was concluded after an analysis of the responses that self-directed learning may be viewed as a dynamic interplay between interests, motivations, strategies, control, and evaluation and that self-directed learning is related to environmenta