Special Needs Education: Research and Practice
15.0 ECTS creditsThe course comprises the following components:
- central concepts, definitions and perspectives in the special education field
- the emergence of special needs education as a research and practical field from historical, national and international perspectives
- children's and pupils' varying needs in relation to special support
- different ways to describe and define disabilities, including neuropsychiatric disorders
- national and international curricula
- the special needs teacher's and the special needs coordinator's areas of expertise
- research and theory of the professional roles of the special needs teacher and the special needs coordinator.
- central concepts, definitions and perspectives in the special education field
- the emergence of special needs education as a research and practical field from historical, national and international perspectives
- children's and pupils' varying needs in relation to special support
- different ways to describe and define disabilities, including neuropsychiatric disorders
- national and international curricula
- the special needs teacher's and the special needs coordinator's areas of expertise
- research and theory of the professional roles of the special needs teacher and the special needs coordinator.
Progressive specialisation:
A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements:
Admission to special needs teacher/special needs education programme
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Programme in Special Needs Training: Intellectual disability (studied during year 1)
- Programme in Special Needs Training: Mental and Intellectual Challenges (studied during year 1)