Special Educational Needs (MA)

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <div id="stcpDiv"> <p>In accordance with the University’s Regulations/Guidelines on Master’s qualifications, the MA Special Educational Needs consists of a 180 credits taught postgraduate programme. The programme offers exit awards at the Postgraduate Certificate stage (60 credits) and the Postgraduate Diploma stage (120 credits). The research phase leads to completion of a dissertation through independent study with individual research supervision. To achieve the full award (180 credits) students must take a range of taught modules up to the value of 120 credits and complete the research phase, which follows a 15+45 credit model.</p> <p>The modules covered include Critical Disability Theory; Disability and Professional Practice; Segregation, Integration and Inclusion; Normalising Difference in Educational Practice; and a Dissertation.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Critical Disability Theory (30 credits)</span></p> <p>Focusing on critical theory from the modern and postmodern eras, this module provides a basis for an interrogation of Disability Studies and Special Educational Needs. From Freud to Foucault, Goffman to Garland-Thomson, Derrida to Davis, McRuer to Murray, and so on, the module follows the progression of critical disability theory from the early twentieth century to the present day. Though explicitly theoretical, the content of the module is grounded in experiential knowledge. Concepts such as stigma, the normate, panopticism, normalcy, narrative prosthesis, dismodernism, crip theory, aesthetic nervousness, autistic presence, and the metanarrative of blindness are explored in relation to social, cultural, and individual attitudes toward impairment, disability and education.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Disability and Professional Practice (30 credits)</span></p> <p>The relationship between disability and professional practice can be both problematic and productive. This relationship is explored in the module as an array of perspectives and expertise is considered. Training, teaching, therapy, legislation, and so on, are all manifestly praiseworthy but nonetheless warrant critical engagement. How and by whom is disability voiced within the professions? These are some of the many proactive questions that the module explores in relation to the professional context.</p> <p data-angle="0" data-canvas-width="371.8272" data-font-name="g_font_2"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Segregation, Integration and Inclusion (30 credits)</span></p> <p data-angle="0" data-canvas-width="186.29999999999995" data-font-name="g_font_2">As Baglieri and Knopf (2004) suggest human differences are ordinary, yet education continues to mark out some human differential characteristics as 'abnormal' and in need of 'special' education. Therefore, this module intends to map out how learner's differences have been conceptualised across time and examine the range of influences that have been significant to the changing landscape of what we now call SEN.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Normalising Difference in Educational Practice (30 Credits)</span><br> Baglieri and Knopf (2004:526) suggest that ‘active and continual effort toward the acceptance and improvement of inclusive educational practices is a possible first move towards social justice’. As such, this module aims to highlight the disabling nature of many educational structures and pedagogical practices and offer you insights into how curricula can be designed to reduce inequality and embrace human variation.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dissertation (60 Credits)</span><br><br></p> </div> </div>