RSNE4002 ¨C Learners with diverse needs and backgrounds

Course content

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

Learning outcome

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

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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??

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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

Admission to the course

Admission to the Master¡¯s programme in Special Needs Education or Master in Research in Special Needs Education. This course is also open for international exchange students at Master's level with a relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with SNE4200 ¨C Education for Learners with Special Needs.

Teaching

• Lectures

• Student group work

Compulsory activities:

• Group work presentation

• Written group assignment

The compulsory component must be completed and approved before you are allowed to take the exam.

Examination

Individual written term paper (3 days home assignment).

Examination support material

All examination support material is allowed.

Language of examination

You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Grading scale

Pass/fail. Read more about?the grading system.

Resit an examination

Re-sit exam:

Students who do not pass an exam may have a second attempt as soon as it is possible to arrange. This is called a re-sit examination. The re-sit examination is held within 3 months of the original examination.

Students who have passed their exam, but who wish to improve their grade may not participate in a re-sit examination. You may take an exam to improve your grades the next time the course has an ordinary exam, as long as you have not already used all three attempts.

The Department of Special Needs Education will provide information and guidelines about the re-sit examination.

More about examinations at UiO

• Use of sources and citations
• Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
• Withdrawal from an exam
• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Explanation of grades and appeals
• Resitting an exam
• Cheating/attempted cheating

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.