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Article: Promoting Causal Agency: The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Seymour Sarason (1990) suggested that an essential purpose of the educational process is to "produce responsible, self-sufficient citizens who possess the self-esteem, initiative, skills and wisdom to continue individual growth and pursue knowledge" (p. 163). In many ways, this vision of education articulates the intent of initiatives to promote the self-determination of children and youth with disabilities. There is an emerging core of materials and methods to enable teachers to promote student self-determination (see Agran, 1997; Field, Martin, Miller, Ward, & Wehmeyer, 1998; Wehmeyer, Agran, & Hughes, 1998) and evidence that self-determination is important for students ...