SPECIAL PEDAGOGY AND DIDACTICS OF INCLUSION

The course of "Special Education and Inclusive Didactics" is part of the teachings for the acquisition of 24 CFU university credits in the "anthropo-psycho-pedagogical disciplines and teaching methodologies and technologies.
Special Education doesn’t only concern students with disabilities (L.104/92) today, but it is addressed to all students in a disadvantaged situation or to those who need “special attention” for a variety of reasons, such as social and cultural disadvantage, specific learning disorders and/or specific developmental disorders, difficulties deriving from lack of knowledge of Italian language and culture deriving from the belonging to different cultures. This area of scholastic disadvantage, which includes different problems, is indicated as the area of "Special Educational Needs" (SEN). Three great macro-categories are included in SEN: the category of disability, that of specific developmental disorders and that of socio-economic, linguistic and cultural disadvantage.
The course aims at responding to the main difficulties of functioning that today you commonly find in the classroom. Therefore, the course aims at exploring the main pedagogical bases and the inclusive teaching methods.

At the end of the training path, each student will have acquired the basic knowledge relating to the course's topics, useful for defining the personal profile of "inclusive teacher". This knowledge could be experimented and adopted as a "forma mentis" in daily teaching practice.

No specific requirements are needed.

 Special Education subjects and authors
 Concept of otherness, difference, diversity, special normality
 Deficit, handicap, disabled person, student with disability
 Stages of Special Education: insertion, integration, inclusion
 Medical paradigm, social paradigm, capability approach
 The ICF functioning paradigm: barriers / facilitators, skills / performance, functioning
 Main regulations on Italian school inclusion
 Characteristics of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
 Concept of personalization, individualization, personalized teaching, individualized teaching
 Definition of certification, diagnosis, relationship
 Think of me as an adult: from the IEP to the Life Project
 Main inclusive teaching methods
 Active techniques
 Fundamentals of Didactic Disabilities
 Fundamentals of Didactics for Specific Learning Disorders
 Teaching for other Special Educational Needs: FIL, ADHD, DOP, the linguistic disadvantage
 The documentation for inclusion: DF, PDF, PEI and PdP
 BES not certified
 Characteristics of inclusive programming
 Characteristics of the inclusive evaluation
 The role of the support teacher and the relationship with the curricular: co-planning, co-evaluation and co-teaching
 Characteristics of inclusive learning environments
 Examples of inclusive learning environments
 Universal Design For Learning UDL

• Tessaro Fiorino (2015). Disabilità e talento 10 storie di scuola. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali . Venezia, 2015
• Lucio Cottini (2018). Didattica speciale e inclusione scolastica. Carocci, Roma

Learning will be verified online through the outcome of some multiple choice items and the production of a final paper about the topics analyzed in the course.

The lessons on site alternate frontal explanations with explanatory videos.

The online didactic activities foresee the individual study of the material (handouts-slides and attachments) and the self-learning verification on Moodle (quiz with multiple choice items, final paper).

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development