Course content

The course explores and develops pedagogical work in kindergartens and schools. The focus is on community-building teaching and learning processes that promote all children's mastery and attachment. This involves practices for recognition and appreciation that strengthen children's attachment opportunities in the social community, and the formation of a democratic educational environment.

Key tools are teaching and facilitation that promote skills in cooperative learning between children who have different strengths, recognition between different children, and recognition of the value of difference within and across all socially created categories of people. Facilitation for children with special needs within the community is central.

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 work with adapted education. Work with bodily learning requires creative work with place and space, and the course will provide insight into different uses of outdoor spaces, school and kindergarten spaces, and the local environment.

Furthermore, the students' experience with collegial development work and collaboration on inclusive and global 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 collective learning processes

• has knowledge about the necessity of and opportunities and challenges in being a democratic change agent in school or kindergarten

Skills

The student

• can take initiatives that engage children in participation and collective experiences

• can plan activities that open children and young people to the world

• can create community-building learning processes for children with different backgrounds and needs

General competence

The student

• can use experience to secure and clarify student diversity and contribute to community-building and subjectivizing processes in the class and the college

• can create empowering teaching and learning processes for children and young people with different needs

Learning methods and activities

The course is conducted in three physical sessions.

Learning methods: Lectures and workshops with good opportunities for participant activity, reflections, discussions in small groups and in plenary, exercises, and guidance related to written work. Digital meetings with a focus on the students' work between sessions.

Mandatory activities

• Submission of textual process work

• Participation in group process and submission of draft group text

• Participation in at least two of three sessions

Compulsory assignments

• Written task
• Participation in group process and submission of draft group text
• Participation

Specific conditions