INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Course Information
TitleΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΙΔΙΚΗ ΑΓΩΓΗ / INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
CodeΑ.1.502
FacultyEducation
SchoolEarly Childhood Education
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorIoanna Dimitriadou
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID80000120
Class Information
Academic Year2024 – 2025
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Class ID
600257575
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
Course Type 2011-2015
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
This course is designed to enable students to: • acquire basic knowledge concerning the various interpretations of disability, special education and Early Intervention. • detect and differentiate between the crucial issued of “normalization” approach and “social construction of disability” approach • detect crucial educational issues of special education and understand how they relate to current problems of general education • comprehend the importance special education has for the pedagogical training of general classroom teachers • experientially analyze and contemplate on the all the above issues through field work assignments
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course is designed to provide students with an overview of the field of special education on the following topics: • development of special education through the years • sociological approaches to the interpretation of disability • symbolic interaction approach to social construction of disability • Vygotsky’s contribution to the shaping of current trends in special education • development of special education in Greece • from institutionalized education to the inclusive school: social demands and pedagogical contradictions and inconsistencies • early intervention and the role of preschool education Students are also offered the opportunity to participate in an initial field activity in special education. In groups, students have to study a certain institution that implements educational programs for disabled children. The institutions under study cover the whole spectrum of deficits and disabilities that provide educational services for disabled children in the vicinity of the city of Thessaloniki. Students either participate themselves in the programs they have to study or do it by interviewing the people in charge with the use of Mitchell’s assessment scale, after prior training.
Keywords
special education, integration, inclusion, intellectual disability, social construction of disability
Educational Material Types
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39✓
Laboratory Work30✓
Reading Assigment20✓
Tutorial14✓
Internship30✓
Written assigments15✓
Exams2✓
Total150
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΜΕ ΕΙΔΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΑΓΚΕΣ, Dr. WILLIAM LEE HEWARD ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ: ΔΑΒΑΖΟΓΛΟΥ ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ, ΚΟΚΚΙΝΟΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ, Εκδόσεις: Μοτίβο Εκδοτική ΑΕ, 2011 Εισαγωγή στην ειδική αγωγή και εκπαίδευση, Smith Deutsch Deborah,Tyler Chowdhuri Naomi, Αντωνίου Στ. (επιμ). Εκδόσεις: Δαρδανός, 2019
Additional bibliography for study
R. Bogdan: «Εφαρμογές της θεωρίας της συμβολικής αλληλεπίδρασης στην ειδική εκπαίδευση».
Last Update
29-06-2022