Master in Special Education – Cognitive-Motor Domain
Goals
Intended learning outcomes of the curricular unit
- Problematize knowledge about human development - childhood and adolescence;
- Develop theoretical and methodological knowledge of neurobiological factors of development;
- Clarify the concept of disability;
- Clarify the concept of Intellectual Disabilities;
- Clarify the concept of adaptive behavior (functionality and dysfunctionality);
- Raising awareness of the complexity of Intellectual Disabilities study;
- Promote a set of theoretical knowledge that may develop in the professionals’ skills to work with children and young people with Intellectual Disabilities;
- Adoption of appropriate strategies for problem solving and making decisions in practical situations of their everyday education.
Curricular plan
| Curricular Unit | Period | ECTS | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Methodology | 1st Semester | 7.5 | 1st Year |
| Differentiation Pedagogy | 1st Semester | 7.5 | 1st Year |
| Learning problems | 1st Semester | 7.5 | 1st Year |
| Intellectual problems | 1st Semester | 7.5 | 1st Year |
| Intervention Techniq. in Comunication&Motricity | 2nd Semester | 9 | 1st Year |
| Artistic Expressions as Intervention Technique | 2nd Semester | 7 | 1st Year |
| Intervention methodology distinguished in mathematics and Nature Sciences | 2nd Semester | 7 | 1st Year |
| Assistive Technologies | 2nd Semester | 7 | 1st Year |
| Curricular Unit | Period | ECTS | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project I | 1st Semester | 15 | 2nd Year |
| Seminar | 1st Semester | 15 | 2nd Year |
| Project II | 2nd Semester | 30 | 2nd Year |
Conditions of admission
Entry Requirements
- Nursery, Basic & Secondary Education teachers who are professionalized and holders of an undergraduate degree, and other graduates with an undergraduate degree in related areas or who have professional experience relevant to the objectives of this MA;
- Holders of foreign academic degree of a 1st study cycle organized according the principles of the Bologna Process offered by a State that has adhered to this Process, in the area mentioned in paragraph;
- Holders of foreign academic degree recognized by the scientific body of the establishment of higher education as an undergraduate degree, as long as it is in the area mentioned in paragraph
- Holders of an educational, scientific or professional curriculum, recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by competent scientific body of the establishment of higher education (subparagraph d)) of paragraph 1 of article 17 of the Dec. Law 74/2006, of 24 March, with changes introduced in subsequent normative.
More information
Regulamento Geral da Formação Graduada e Pós-Graduada no IPL e Regimes Aplicáveis a Estudantes em Situações Especiais
Plano de Estudos (Despacho n.º 11884/2012, D.R. n.º 173, 2.ª série de 06 de setembro)
Observations
The study cycle will have duration of 4 semesters and has been structured in the following manner:
The 1st semester comprises 4 curricular units, for a total of 30 credits;
The 2nd semester has a total of 4 curricular units and 30 credits;
In the 3rd semester, the students attend the curricular unit “Seminar” and start and carry out their Professional
Use Project (Project I), for a total of 30 credits;
The 4th semester will be the conclusion of the Professional Use Project (Project II), which also will amount to
30 credits.
Contacts
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