Special education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the degree of education is awarded.
This major trains compound talents with good ideological and moral quality, solid knowledge of general education and special education and strong teaching practice ability, who can engage in special education practice, theoretical research and management in special education institutions and related institutions.
Special education is an education that uses general or special courses, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching organization forms and teaching equipment to achieve general and special training goals for children with special needs.
In other words, how to make special children learn like ordinary children, how to help special children build self-confidence and how to find and cultivate gifted children are all research fields of special pedagogy.
Theoretical course
General education courses mainly include ideological and political theory courses, college foreign languages, computer basics and applications, college physical education, cultural quality education courses, entrepreneurship basic courses, employment and entrepreneurship guidance courses, etc. It aims to improve students' basic knowledge literacy, scientific and humanistic literacy, moral quality and physical and mental quality.
Professional basic courses mainly include Chinese, mathematics, English, special education, primary school psychology, the principle and practice of primary school classes and teams, the teaching and research of primary school subjects, the history of special education in China and the history of foreign special education.
Specialized courses are determined by colleges and universities according to the training objectives of special education, including: physiology and pathology of special children, introduction to special education, psychology and education of blind children, psychology and education of deaf children, psychology and education of mentally retarded children, education of children with developmental disabilities, behavior correction technology, primary school Chinese teaching method, primary school mathematics teaching method, etc.