SPED1000 – Special Needs Education: Disability, Normality and Deviance

Course description

• Course content
• Learning outcome
• Admission
• Prerequisites

• Overlapping courses
• Teaching
• Examination

Course content

The course takes up the subject of special needs education with central concepts, forms of understanding and dilemmas from a social, historical and critical perspective. The course covers the following topics:
This course takes up the subject of special needs education with central concepts, forms of understanding and dilemmas from a social, historical and critical perspective. The course covers the following topics:

• Normality and deviance
• Disability and obstacles
• Inclusion and diversity
• Discrimination and exclusion
• Deviance and disability – and learning and development
• The inclusive society: unity and diversity
• Special needs education and ethics, politics and society

Learning outcome

This course will provide insight concerning the social foundations of special needs education, including deviance and disability as social phenomena. Through problems based on concepts, attitudes and everyday experiences, the course contributes to critical insight and independent reflection aimed at an inclusive and diverse society.

Admission

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with SPED1001 – Spesialpedagogikk: funksjonshemning og lærevansker (discontinued)
• 10 credits overlap with SPED1002 – Spesialpedagogikk: funksjonshemning, normalitet og avvik (discontinued)

Teaching

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Examination

Obligatory components:
An individual written reflection assignment and an oral group assignment or individual written theoretical assignment to be approved by the seminar leader. These assignments must be approved before the student can sit the take-home exam.

For students who are enrolled in the programme for Special Needs Education who are simultaneously taking course SPED2010 – Didaktikk og spesialpedagogisk virksomhet del 1 (discontinued), participation and presentation in PBL groups counts as delivery of the individual theoretical assignment.

Language of examination

You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English. If you would prefer to have the exam text in English, you may apply to the course administrators.

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.

Explanations and appeals

• Explanation of grades and appeals

Resit an examination

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Resitting an examination

Special examination arrangements

Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.