Remedial Education at School (FR)

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  Profile of the study programme

  The programme is open to holders of a bachelor's degree in Primary Education and/or Special Education. The content varies in that students are offered complementary tuition depending on the bachelor's degree held. The course is designed to be taken full time, but it can however be completed part time.

  The course develops an ongoing relationship between teaching at an academic level and the learning of practical skills. The research-based curriculum enables you to gain in-depth knowledge of various concepts: knowledge of different forms of disabilities/disorders, reflection on the concepts of difference, disability and normality, and the acquisition of means of assessment and intervention that are adapted to the specific needs of pupils concerned by special needs education.

  Fribourg profile
  This master programme is based on a solid scientific tradition that has been established at the University of Fribourg for nearly threequarters of a century. It is one of the only French-speaking university courses to offer professional training and research training in the field of special needs education in Switzerland and abroad.
  The final diploma is recognised by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (CDIP/EDK) and enables access to doctoral studies.

  Learning outcomes and career openings
  The programme prepares students to become specialists in all of the current issues in special needs education.

  At the end of their training, students are able to:
  – use diagnostic evaluation procedures adapted to each child, on the basis of personal and environmental characteristics;
  – develop and implement an individualised specialised teaching project taking into account the school, family and social environments;
  – collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner with all the specialists and institutions involved;
  – work in both ordinary and specialised school environments;
  – perform a consulting and support role in relation to the problems which arise in special needs education;
  – engage in theoretical reflection with a scientific basis on the problems and tasks involved and the possible teaching initiatives;
  – evaluate the effectiveness of professional activity using explicit methods;
  – engage in reflection on their personal, social and professional skills with a view to planning ongoing training requirements;
  – construct qualitative and/or quantitative research projects respecting the relevant ethical and deontological codes.

  This master programme is appropriate to careers in teaching, research and training:

  • Teaching in special needs classes (institution);
  • Teaching in development classes (reduced size);
  • Teaching in integration classes;
  • Teaching on an individual support basis (itinerant development class teacher);
  • Counsellor or educational adviser in special needs education;
  • Administration, training and research positions (universities, higher education establishments, research centres).

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