LT2035 Special Education - Youth and Adults

Admitted to the programme for Engineering and Teaching Passed on the courses UCK210; UCK310; UMK211; UMK310 or the equivalent.

The course takes its starting point in the interdisciplinary nature of special needs education. The course addresses how the view on special education questions varies based on different scientific starting points and at different historical periods. The importance of individual, social and organisational factors for the pupil's learning and socialisation is emphasised.

The focus is the responsibility of the school to give all pupils conditions for learning independent of physical disability, ethnicity, gender and social class. The course also treats how the organisation of teaching can have consequences for processes of social inclusion and exclusion

The course covers different possibilities to work preventively and to identify barriers for development and learning on societal and school level, as well as at individual level, in collaboration with others, and ways to remove these barriers. Furthermore, different forms of special education efforts and supportive services are highlighted, in and outside the school.

To meet the student's need for knowledge of special education application in relevant subjects, the course is directed towards the main field of the education.

The placement of the course, 1 credit, gives the future teacher knowledge of special education activities in relevant field of education.

After passing the course, the participant should be able to:

- problematise how pupils' rights to participation and learning are met in school, in reference to national and international policy documents

- describe how views on developmental and learning problems, based on individual, social and organisational factors, can be important for pupil learning and socialisation

- describe and discuss special education questions in both historical and present-day perspectives, and based on different theoretical starting points.