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Possibilities and Challenges for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
Possibilities and Challenges for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments

Author(s): Claudia Borca
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Preschool education, School education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Editura Universității de Vest
Keywords: teachingstudents with visual impairments; metacognition; metacognitive strategies; reading process;

Summary/Abstract: The current pedagogy is based on effective learning achieved in the education bidirectional relationship; the student becomes an active part of their training, engaging in a systematic and organized effort of learning.The study of school population with disabilities cannot be achieved outside the new trends transforming the educational process concerns in this area focuses on the most appropriate ways of recovery / rehabilitation/reduction of the gap between actual and potential manifest.It has conducted a study on a group of 55 children with vision impairment. We proposed to investigate whether there are differences in metacognitive reading achievement for students with low vision and students with blindness. It has applied an Inventory of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (MARSI). We conducted a comparative analysis based on metacognitive reading achievement: Global Reading Strategies, Strategies for Problem Solving, and Strategies for Reading Support.The results of this research revealed that students with blindness not more frequently used metacognitive reading strategies.

  • Issue Year: 31/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 113-122
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English