Course content

Central to pedagogy and student knowledge 2 is knowledge about children and young people today, and the teacher’s encounter with the student in the classroom. The subject emphasizes the importance of good facilitation to promote academic and social development in a diverse school. Through active participation the student will develop general competence related to transitions between kindergarten, school and secondary school, psychosocial learning environment, special education, conversations with children, play and cooperation with the home. The beginner education is given great weight, along with knowledge of children and young people’s development, teacher-student relationships and social and emotional prerequisites for learning.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate

• has knowledge of the school beginner
• has wide knowledge of the transition from preschool to school and from primary to secondary level
• has knowledge of the students’ cognitive, emotional, bodily and social development
• has knowledge of key principles that promote inclusion and adapted education
• has knowledge of various learning difficulties and adaptation and behavioral challenges in children in grades 1-7, and how these become apparent in early education and later
• has knowledge of children in grief and crisis, abuse against children, and difficult life situations that children may experience
• has knowledge of the role of the homeroom teacher and school-home collaboration
• has knowledge of diversity in children and young people’s conditions for growing up in different social, linguistic, religious and cultural contexts
• has knowledge of central national and international regulations that apply to children and young people’s opportunities and rights
• has knowledge of the school's partners and how they help ensure a positive upbringing for children

Skills

The candidate

• can reflect on and facilitate an inclusive learning environment within a student group characterized by great diversity
• can use professional terms and justify their didactic choices in theory of beginner education and children and young people’s development
• can explain the relationship between ordinary and individual adapted education
• can, in teaching, reason, convey, and use documents on human rights and children's rights
• can apply methodological knowledge about conversation and interviewing

General competence

The candidate

• has knowledge of and can discuss didactic consequences, challenges and opportunities for students in grades 1-7 in a diverse school
• can engage in dialogue with students and their guardians about the students' learning and development on a reflective and professional basis
• can exchange professional views on children’s conditions for development and learning in today’s school and through this contribute to the development of good practice

Learning methods and activities

In pedagogy and student knowledge 2, there is a strong emphasis on student activity. The teaching methods will vary between lectures, seminar work, individual assignments, various types of group work, and the use of digital tools. Emphasis is placed on connection to the field of practice, both as a field of study and as an arena for professional development and practice. Writing processes are important for one's own academic development and competence enhancement on the way to the teaching role, and will also be used to reflect on one's own learning as a student and as a future teacher.

Professional discussions and other forms of academic collaboration are essential ways of working and learning in the subject, and students are expected to be active in such processes. These activities also form the basis for acquiring the current discourses in the subject, and it is therefore expected that students participate in all teaching.

Compulsory assignments

• Mandatory assignments according to emnebeskrivelsen

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

It is recommended to have completed MGLU1112, Pedagogy and student knowledge 1 (1-7) topic 1.

Course materials

The final syllabus will be published on Blackboard before the start of the program.

Credit reductions