Teaching code

4S008134

Teacher

Fabio Corsi

Coordinator

Fabio Corsi

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding 1. Knowledge and understanding the field of study of special pedagogy, its specific language, the fundamental theoretical and methodological references and the major international documents on the subject of disability. 2. Knowledge of the characteristics of special educational action and how to design a special educational intervention, knowing how to distinguish between different types of disabilities, different forms of special educational need in childhood. 3. Knowledge the scientific paradigms of reference of the pedagogical-special research, linked to educational work in the first years of life. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. Knowing how to act in accordance with the professional profile of the educator in childhood contexts that provide educational services to people with disabilities. 2. Be able to find relevant and effective sources with respect to the educational problems of people with disabilities and know how to design educational interventions suitable to respond to their special educational needs. 3. Knowing how to implement the educational approach, appropriate and functional to the different types of childhood disabilities.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The course does not include any particular prerequisites, however it would be preferable to have attended the lessons of the first and second year

Program

Children are a natural-inclusion source, if they have right rules to well-lead social relationships: kindergarten is the first education agency that answer to it. Diversity, or social, cultural, enviromental distinctions and functioning are often concepts they learn in life environment: so it’s necessary that adults who lead kinder education can reflect about many prejudices in handicap, to stop them before those prejudices pass to the children. These lessons want to reftect on prejudices about children with special needs, an exercise that adult mast make, first of all. Following, three specific subjects necessary for inclusion of special-needs children:
1) Bio-psyco-social conception of special-needs persons, by ICF knowledge as a personal prospective and scholastic tools;
2) Sensory perceptions in autism: lo lead children through particularities of their “strange” friends;
3) Maths in first childhood, as tools and paths of human development, world language and comprehension

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lesson and group activities

Learning assessment procedures

oral interview

Evaluation criteria

Candidates must be able to present the concepts developed during the course with a critical spirit and ability to connect

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

7.5 points for each of the 4 texts

Exam language

italiano e/o inglese