Inclusive learning & teaching

Overview

This module introduces the concept of inclusion as it applies to learning and teaching, and with reference to education rights. The module will expand students’ understanding of the range of additional needs which learners experience, and of how additional needs are defined and conceptualised by stakeholders. Students will critically reflect on how learners can be supported, in a broad range of formal and informal educational settings and beyond.

Students will consider evidence from research, practice and policy to better understand how education can be made accessible to a full spectrum of learners. This module will offer students opportunities to identify and draw upon relevant evidence to critically evaluate the effectiveness of policies and pedagogies aimed towards creating supportive learning environments

Learning Objectives

Studying this module will enable students to:

• Understand how inclusive learning and teaching is delivered in policy and practice.
• Engage with different conceptualisations of inclusion and approaches to delivering inclusive education.
• Undertake critical reflection on the nature and purposes of education for a broad range of learners in formal and informal contexts.
• Draw on theoretical and empirical evidence to evaluate provision

Skills

This module will allow students to develop the following skills:

• Work effectively on their own and as part of a group, to respond to a range of tasks.
• Apply skills in critically analysing, summarising and communicating complex ideas and issues.
• Interpret and present relevant data to particular tasks and demonstrate capacity for argumentation.

Assessment

None