Ms. peterson believes that teachers should promote individual learning and should teach the whole child. she also believes that knowledge leads to self-discovery and that instruction should include alternatives and choices, and should require decision making on the part of the student, not the teacher. ms. peterson is most likely a(n)

   Existentialist

Explanation:  Existentialism is the philosophical direction according to which  one must work to built complete personalities, individual personalities, that is, individualism is the point, which means that everyone is responsible for themselves in the pursuit of personal happiness and their own personal  development, doing so by their own and no one else's will or decision. Such a philosophy, like Ms Peterson's, encourages the freedom of choice for students, that is, for individual personalities, encourages their will to make decisions, not the teacher, because tomorrow, instead of the teacher, someone else will make decisions about them, if, individual personalities, today they don't learn to do it themselves. So, existentialism is a philosophy that encourages individual freedom and thus prepares students to exist as they choose because they are entitled to it.

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