RSNE4002 – Learners with diverse needs and backgrounds

The course offers teaching on learners’ diverse needs and backgrounds, and their relation to environmental factors in inclusive and special needs education.

This course is jointly taught with RSNE3002.

Knowledge:

After completing the course, you should have obtained knowledge about:

• different types of learners with diverse support needs in inclusive and special education as well as wider societal contexts. Included topics are:

  • challenging behaviors
  • cognition, speech and language
  • reading and numeracy
  • sensory impairments (vision and hearing)
  • motor impairments and specific health conditions
  • psychosocial difficulties
  • substantial functional limitations (e.g., intellectual or developmental disabilities)
• learners’ diverse needs and backgrounds and their relation to environmental factors in incusive and special education
• inclusive and special needs education research related to predicting, planning, implementing and evaluating support for learners with varied support needs

Skills:

After completing the course, you will:

• have acquired skills in predicting, planning, implementing, and evaluating education for learners with diverse needs and backgrounds
• be able to reflect upon own actions and thinking in potential pedagogical practices

General competence:

After having completed the course, you will:

• have knowledge about the principles of inclusive and special needs education
• be able to plan and support learners with diverse needs and backgrounds
• be a reflexive pedagogical practictioner

• Lectures
• Student group work

Compulsory activities:

• Group work presentation
• Written group assignment

The compulsory components must be completed and approved in order to sit the exam and are valid for three years.

Refer to the guidelines for attendance and extended deadlines for compulsory activities.