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SKOLE6253 - The teacher in education for social justice

About

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score
Grade: Passed / Not Passed

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Exam part 2 Individual Assignment 1/4
Exam part 3 Group Assignment 2/4
Exam part 1 Individual Assignment 1/4

Course content

The course explores and develops education for social justice in the classroom and school. The focus is on community building teaching and learning that promotes all students' mastery and connection. This involves practices for recognition and appreciation that strengthen individual students' relations in the social community, and the formation of a democratic learning environment.

Students learn strategies to reduce the importance of ethnic divides, gender stereotypes, economic inequality and variation in functional ability among students. Central tools are teaching that promotes skills in collaborative learning between students who have different strengths, recognition between students in the classroom, and recognition of diversity within and across all socially created categories of people.

Students will learn to use a breadth of sensory impressions as a basis for teaching and learning experiences, with a focus on bodily experiences as a source of variation in working with adapted education for all students. Work with physical learning requires creative work with the place and space of teaching, and the course will provide insight into different uses of outdoor spaces, school spaces and the local environment.

Furthermore, the students' experience of collegial development work and collaboration on inclusive practice will form the basis for exploring the possibilities for collective strengthening of inclusive practice in their own workplace.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The student

  • can develop knowledge about community building teaching and learning
  • has knowledge of opportunities and challenges in being a change agent

Skills

The student

  • can take initiatives that engage students in participation and collective experiences
  • can analyze children and young people's experiences of inclusion and exclusion

General competence

The student

  • can use experience to secure student diversity and contribute to development support processes in the classroom and college
  • can create empowering teaching and learning processes

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 drafts for individual exam texts
  • Participation in group process and submission of group text
  • Compulsory attendance in sessions

Further on evaluation

The exam consists of three written assignments, two individual and one in group (weighting 25%, 25%, 50%). A student who has not passed the assessment in one of the assignments only has to present himself/herself for a reassessment in the part that has not been passed. The student can appeal only when all grades for the course are announced. The student must specify which sub-assessment the complaint applies to.

Work requirements: Submission of drafts of individual examination texts. Participations in group process and submission of draft group text.

Specific conditions

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

Required previous knowledge

SKOLE6150 The teacher as an agent for inclusion

SKOLE6252 Equity, diversity and inclusion in education

More on the course

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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  15.0 SP
Study level: Further education, higher degree level

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  SPRING 2025

Language of instruction: Norwegian

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Education
  • Social Education
Contact information
Course coordinator:

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Teacher Education

Department with administrative responsibility
Section for quality in education and learning environment

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Spring ORD Exam part 1 Individual Assignment 1/4 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Spring ORD Exam part 2 Individual Assignment 1/4 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Spring ORD Exam part 3 Group Assignment 2/4 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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