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

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

SKOLE6150 The teacher as an agent for inclusion

SKOLE6252 Equity, diversity and inclusion in education