SELF-REGULATED LEARNING AS A RESOURCE AND A GOAL OF EDUCATION

Nowadays, at the beginning of the XXI century, the main needs to be fulfilled by an educational system and the laws that support it, and which the LOE expects to meet, are basically two. On the one hand, the first need is to provide with a high quality education to all the educational system levels; which means the need to assume an important challenge: to achieve academic success for young people; this idea basically means to improve the educational level of all students, and to obtain the highest development of all their abilities. On the other hand, nowadays, more than ever, education must prepare appropriately people both to live in the new society of knowledge and to face the challenges derived from it. In this article, we tackle this main topic to all the educational levels; we essentially analyze what to be prepared for a self-governing learning means, and how to promote these competences in the classroom.