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structural and fundamental part of the way we educate all students,
especially those with visual impairments.
But just how much choice is appropriate? For Wehmeyer
(1998), "Self-determination should not be equated with absolute
dominion, nor is promoting self-determination equivalent to allowing
chaos." Obviously a balanced approach is important. It seems that
perhaps a more useful question then, is: What kinds
of choices
should students be making? Should they get to choose what kind of
party to have at the end of a successful unit, (pool or pizza!?) or
should we let them have a real say in the kinds of reading, learning,
thinking and producing they will undertake in said unit? And if we
allow students to determine for themselves what they want to learn
and how they want to create meaning from it, what if we don't like
the outcome?
These questions have gnawed
at educators for centuries as
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