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SKOLE6252

Equity, diversity and inclusion in education

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Credits 15
Level Further education, higher degree level
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Individual written assignment

About

About the course

Course content

The course provides insight into children and young people's experience of being involved and significant in their own education, and understanding of the teacher's role in exclusion and inclusion mechanisms, prevention of exclusion and development of the school as a democratic social institution.

The course will promote insight into the lives of children and young people. Understanding children's categorization, perceptions of hierarchy and difference are important to facilitate community and belonging in school. Furthermore, work with children's life worlds will form the basis for understanding important dimensions in children's lives, such as social inequality, gender, sexuality, functional variation and ethnicity. The course also sheds light on children and young people's own practices for recognition and appreciation, and learning in a digitalised and saturated information society.

The course promotes an understanding of educational policy and institutional guidelines and practices that are important for inclusion and exclusion processes in schools. Here, politics and practice that the students themselves have experience with will form the basis for exploring educational policy and inclusion.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The student

  • has knowledge of children and young people's different living conditions, and how the school can contribute to strengthening the individual child in school and society
  • can analyze the life worlds of children and young people in the light of material and social conditions such as nature, culture, technology and activity
  • can understand children and young people's experiences of attachment in light of their challenges, resources and opportunities

Skills

The student

  • can create safe and developmentally supportive relationships for all children and young people in school
  • can act in solidarity in relation to students who experience exclusion in school
  • can relate to the life worlds of children and young people in teaching and learning processes

General competence

The student

  • can act critically in relation to pedagogical practices and their consequences for different students
  • can express independent interpretations in dialogue with current education policy

Learning methods and activities

The course is completed with three physical sessions. Forms of learning: Lectures and workshops with good opportunities for participant activity, reflections, discussions in small groups and in plenary, exercises, and guidance related to written work. There will be digital meetings focusing on students' work between sessions.

Compulsory assignments

  • Submission of draft for exam
  • Oral presentation
  • Compulsory attendance in sessions

Further on evaluation

Exam: Individual written assignment 100%

Assessed to Pass / Fail

Work requirements: Individual written assignment with oral presentation and compulsory attendendance in sessions.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Education for Teachers (MPEDLÆR)

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
PED6036 15 sp Autumn 2022
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Education
  • Social Education

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Teacher Education

Department with administrative responsibility

Section for quality in education and learning environment