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Special Pedagogy A - L

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: VALENTINA PERCIAVALLE

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course intends to offer a systematic framework of special pedagogy, as an inescapable body of knowledge for reflection on the education and training of people with special educational needs. It also aims to provide students with the teaching tools to plan educational interventions through sport, aimed at including people with special educational needs, with particular regard to people with disabilities. Students will also acquire the cognitive tools useful for reflecting on how to teach motor education in primary school.


Examples of questions:

1) The origins of special education

2) The BES

3) Cooperative learning

4) The role of the family in disability

5) Planning, teaching and evaluating physical education in primary school


Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of Anatomy, general and sport psychology, movement theory and methodology.

Basic knowledge of the office package (Word and Power point) for the realization of the didactic works foreseen during the exercise moments (Laboratories).

Detailed Course Content

pistemological foundations of special education

Special pedagogy, SEN and disability

Disability and educational sciences: the role of special education

Disability and school inclusion: cooperative and metacognitive approach

Disability, educational technologies and learning

Disability and life plan: school and out of school

Pedagogy and didactics of corporeity

Motor activity between specificity and transversality, between formal and informal constructs

Skills of the motor education teacher

Teaching motor education in primary school: from design to evaluation

Motor activity, disability and school inclusion

Textbook Information

Cottini L. Special Education and school inclusion, Carocci, Rome 2018.

Mulè P. (ed.). Training alternation and professional identity of disabled people in secondary school. An exploratory investigation, Cooperativa Sociale Ragazzi in Volo, Ragusa 2018.

M. Morandi, Ten lessons on pedagogy for motor and sports sciences, UTET, Milan 2023.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The final assessment of learning, aimed at the degree of acquisition of the contents envisaged by the program, will be carried out in written and/or oral form.

In addition to the laboratory exercises, aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of specific skills inherent in the design of inclusive motor education paths, students will have the opportunity to carry out ongoing tests on some didactic segments covered during the lessons.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Examples of questions:

1) The origins of special education

2) The BES

3) Cooperative learning

4) The role of the family in disability

5) Planning, teaching and evaluating physical education in primary school


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