Inclusive Education and Pedagogical Differentiation

Code: PED13985M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Inclusive Education is nowadays a fundamental component of teacher education. Speak of inclusion and pedagogical differentiation is talk about participation and human rights. But it's also to talk of a SCHOOL able to create the best learning conditions for ALL.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

1) Understand inclusive education from the human rights perspective, equity and response to diversity.
2) To know ethical, historical and sociological reasons for inclusive education
3) To know, analyse and use, national and international references of inclusive education
4) Understand the meaning of pedagogical differentiation as a challenge to contemporary school in order to meet the ultimate objective of a School for all.
5) To know conceptions and practices of pedagogical differentiation in childhood education and in the 1st cycle of basic and to know how to adapt them to the needs of educational contexts.
6) To be able to identify barriers to participation and promote changes for inclusion through the mobilization of resources from educational and community contexts
7) To be able to argue and reflect on inclusive education in professional settings

1. Foundations and principles of inclusive education
1.1. From segregation to the inclusion process
1.2. From special education to inclusive education
1.3. Diversity; Equity; Participation and human rights

2. Theoretical and legal frameworks for inclusive education
2.1. International guidelines
2.2. The Portuguese legal framework
2.3. Evidence of inclusive education

3. Pedagogical differentiation
3.1. Theoretical concepts and foundations
3.2. Pedagogical differentiation practices
3.3. Teaching-learning strategies focused on skills heterogeneity using cooperative work, group dynamics, peer work, mentoring and work project
3.4. The flexible management of the curriculum: Planning and participated evaluation.
3.5. The flexible organization of the educational environment

4. Barriers and resources for learning and inclusion

Teaching Methods

The methodologies privilege the reflexion through debate, based assessment and dialogue, simultaneously contributing to the mobilization, connection, and consolidation of knowledge. There will be moments of clarification by the teacher, synthesis and/or introduction of contents. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the planning and self and hetero-evaluation of learnings through assisted negotiation. For that, learning regulation tools such as Individual Work Plan, dialogical feedback and Project Planning, will be made available. A plataforma Moodle será um recurso a utilizar, assim como outras ferramentas digitais potenciadoras de processo colaborativos entre estudantes e docente.

Assessment

O regime de avaliação contínua contempla o processo de construção de um portfólio reflexivo e o seu conteúdo, a negociar com os estudantes, (60%) e a comunicação à turma de um dos produtos do portfólio, realizado em grupo (40%).
O regime de avaliação final contempla a entrega de um portfólio reflexivo, cujo conteúdo incide em todos os conteúdos do programa a UC (100%).
Durante todo o processo de produção dos alunos será fornecido feedback formativo de modo a que cada estudante alcance o máximo das suas potencialidades.