Special Education – Cognitive-Motor Domain

Special Education – Cognitive-Motor Domain

Course Type:
Master’s Programme

Programme Introduction

The Master’s in Special Education – Cognitive-Motor Domain has as its main focus the updating and deepening of knowledge and skills in Inclusive Education, as well as the development of recommended and evidence-based practices, resulting from research carried out in this domain. It also aims to develop knowledge, skills to diagnose and evaluate situations within the scope of specific needs, provide tools to intervene pedagogically in specific situations, and also develop skills to identify inclusion difficulties, define intervention strategies and their evaluation.

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Programme Coordinator

Célia Maria Adão de Oliveira Aguiar de Sousa
celia.sousa@ipleiria.pt

Reference

2077

School

City

Language

Portuguese

Type

B-learning

Length

4 Semesters

Vacancies

General and International Student Contingent: 25

Notice

Edital 2024 (PT Doc)

DGES certification

Objectives

Programme

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.

Study Plan

ECTS: 120

Entry Requirements

Entry Requirements

  1. 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;
  2. 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;
  3. 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
  4. 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.

Accreditation

State: Accredited
Nº of years of accreditation: 3
Date of Publication: 12-12-2018
A3ES Accreditation
A3ES Self-Assessment Report

More Information

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.

Application Fee

60€

Enrolment Fee

General contingent: 50€
International student contingent:  100€

Tuition Fee

General contingent: 1140€
International student contingent: 3000€


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