RSNE4100 ¨C Cultural-historical and decolonial approaches to learning, development, and inclusion

Course content

The course will provide a solid ground for analyzing and understanding the processes of inclusion and inclusive teaching/learning. The course will include interdisciplinary knowledge from cultural-historical psychology, dialogical pedagogy, developmental sciences, philosophy, and sociology. Students will also learn how to write a scientific essay.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:? ?

After completing the course, the student should have obtained knowledge?

• about advanced concepts from developmental sciences and decolonizing theory?

• about cultural-historical approaches to human development processes, teaching/learning processes, education for all, special needs education and multicultural contexts?

• about the main theories considering the ecology of teaching/learning and how human development is based on a complex set of relationships between bio-socio-historical aspects of ecological contexts, values, practices?

• and understanding of developmental processes and teaching/learning in socio-cultural and cultural-historic perspectives??

• of developmental sciences and cultural psychology, key concepts and methods?

• of person/context historical development as unit of analysis for special needs education???

• about decolonizing and queer studies?

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Skills:? ?

After completing the course, the student should be able to?

• read scientific texts and engage with sources from different historical periods to elaborate original and critical understanding?

• use critical and independent thinking in approaching theories and research questions?

• analyze the ecological diversity of individual learners in group,- class- and local context? ?

• apply "person-in-context" as the unit of analysis??

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General competence:??

After completing the course, the student should have obtained?

• competence related to supporting each individual child/pupil/citizen as an active learner to develop his/her full potential

• competence in understanding and supporting key actors for care, communication and mediation of individual learning processes related to group settings (caregivers, teachers, special needs educators, etc) in developing sustainable interventions

• competence in critically analyzing inclusive practices and their institutional frameworks?

• competence in understanding multicultural processes and to promote social justice in teaching/learning???

Admission to the course

Admission to the Master in Research in Special Needs Education or the Master¡¯s programme in Special Needs Education. Eligible exchange students at Master's level, as well as other Master students at UiO, can be admitted if there are available places.

Recommended previous knowledge

Basic knowledge of developmental and educational psychology is recommended.

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with SNE4130 ¨C Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning and Development.

Teaching

The teaching is comprised of hybrid teaching, flipped classroom and smaller group works.

Obligatory activities:

Attendence on lectures and seminar are obligatory.?

Examination

5 days home exam.?

Language of examination

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

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a 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.