SPECIAL PEDAGOGICS AND TEACHING METHODS
cod. 19777

Academic year 2016/17
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Dimitris ARGIROPOULOS
Academic discipline
Didattica e pedagogia speciale (M-PED/03)
Field
Scienze umane e psicopedagogiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Learning objectives

Training objectives:
1. Know the theoretical, cultural and methodological premises of Special Education of the italian model to disability.
2. Know the dimensions of integration (limits and potentialities) and the inclusive, social and institutional prospects of a person with disabilities.
3. Know the distinctions of the concepts and terms of deficit and disability, the logic of good practices, social and institutional networks and methodological references to set communications, interventions and projects.
4. Know the main classification systems promoted by WHO for the construction of the helping relationships and of the educational and social interventions, relating to the person with disability and his belonging context.
5. Know and enable collaborative mode
-Interdisciplinary cooperation and inter institutional to handle special needs.
6. Know the operational tools of intervention.
7. Know how to take action in search of interdisciplinary material relevant to the situations to be considered and addressed.
8. Give importance to the functional documentation to the treated cases and connected to the understanding of cultural contexts and belonging as well as institutional contexts of the person with disabilities.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Contents:
1.Epistemology of Special Education.
2. Concepts and terms of reference: Deficit, Disability, Illness. The prospect of integration and inclusion.
3. Legislation:
Law 104 of 1992.
Law 68 of 1999.
Law 170/2010
Brief reference to the Special Educational Needs (BES) regulation.
4. Doing education and community. The person with disabilities, the importance of autonomy and support.
5. The disability and the parents Pedagogy methodology. The educational intervention with families. The life contexts of the person with disabilities and the relational network.
6.The indicators for disability reduction and the social inclusion perspective.

Full programme

Special Education.
Academic year 2016-17
Dimitris Argiropoulos

Contents:
1.Epistemology of Special Education.
2. Concepts and terms of reference: Deficit, Disability, Illness. The prospect of integration and inclusion.
3. Legislation:
Law 104 of 1992.
Law 68 of 1999.
Law 170/2010
Brief reference to the Special Educational Needs (BES) regulation.
4. Doing education and community. The person with disabilities, the importance of autonomy and support.
5. The disability and the parents Pedagogy methodology. The educational intervention with families. The life contexts of the person with disabilities and the relational network.
6.The indicators for disability reduction and the social inclusion perspective.

Bibliography
Lorenza Garrino (a cura di) Strumenti per una medicina del nostro tempo. Medicina narrativa, metodologia Pedagogia dei Genitori e International Classification of Functioning. Firenze University Press, FI 2015
Andrea Canevaro, La riduzione dell'handicap, Medicina nei secoli, arte e scienza, 18/2 (2006) Journal of history of Medicine.

Training objectives:
1. Know the theoretical, cultural and methodological premises of Special Education of the italian model to disability.
2. Know the dimensions of integration (limits and potentialities) and the inclusive, social and institutional prospects of a person with disabilities.
3. Know the distinctions of the concepts and terms of deficit and disability, the logic of good practices, social and institutional networks and methodological references to set communications, interventions and projects.
4. Know the main classification systems promoted by WHO for the construction of the helping relationships and of the educational and social interventions, relating to the person with disability and his belonging context.
5. Know and enable collaborative mode
-Interdisciplinary cooperation and inter institutional to handle special needs.
6. Know the operational tools of intervention.
7. Know how to take action in search of interdisciplinary material relevant to the situations to be considered and addressed.
8. Give importance to the functional documentation to the treated cases and connected to the understanding of cultural contexts and belonging as well as institutional contexts of the person with disabilities.

Teaching methods:
Frontal lessons, case analysis, short videos related to the practice of Special Education.
Assessment methods:
Written exam consisting in:
1. The production of a written report relating to one of the Special Education topics presented, freely chosen by the students, deepening its aspects, importance and dimensions.
2. Administration of a questionnaire with multiple choice questions and open-ended questions, related to the issues of Special Education.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Lorenza Garrino (a cura di) Strumenti per una medicina del nostro tempo. Medicina narrativa, metodologia Pedagogia dei Genitori e International Classification of Functioning. Firenze University Press, FI 2015

Emanuela Cocever, Grazia Colombo, Letizia Bianchi
Il lavoro di cura
Come si impara, come si insegna. Carocci editore
EDIZIONE: 2004
RISTAMPA: 2011

Andrea Canevaro, La riduzione dell'handicap, Medicina nei secoli, arte e scienza, 18/2 (2006) Journal of history of Medicine.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods:
Frontal lessons, case analysis, short videos related to the practice of Special Education.

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment methods:
Written exam consisting in:
1. The production of a written report relating to one of the Special Education topics presented, freely chosen by the students, deepening its aspects, importance and dimensions.
2. Administration of a questionnaire with multiple choice questions and open-ended questions, related to the issues of Special Education.

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

E. segreteria.medicina@unipr.it
T. +39 0521 033700

Quality assurance office

Education manager:
Sandra Cavalca

T. +39 0521 034908
E. office didattica.dimec@unipr.it
E. manager sandra.cavalca@unipr.it

President of the degree course

Prof. Giuseppe Pedrazzi
E. giuseppe.pedrazzi@unipr.it

Director of Professionalising Teaching Activities (DADP)

Dott.ssa Emma Galante
E. emma.galante@unipr.it

Faculty advisor / Career guidance delegate

Dott.ssa Emma Galante
E. emma.galante@unipr.it
 

Tutor Professors

Dott. Luigi Baldini
E. lbaldini@ao.pr.it

Dott. Giuseppe Marletta
E. gmarletta@ao.pr.it

Erasmus delegates

Dott. Giuseppe Marletta
E. gmarletta@ao.pr.it

Dott. Luigi Baldini
E. lbaldini@ao.pr.it

Dott.ssa Emma Galante
E. emma.galante@unipr.it

 

Quality assurance manager

Dott.ssa Elisa Vetti
E. elisa.vetti@unipr.it 

Internships delegates

Dott.ssa Emma Galante
E. emma.galante@unipr.it
Dott. Giuseppe Marletta
E. gmarletta@ao.pr.it