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What kind of major is special education?
With the continuous progress and development of society, there are more and more types of education. Formal education, adult education, technical education and lifelong education have flourished. Special education is also one of the rapidly developing types of education. What is the major of special education? I am looking for and sorting out relevant information, hoping to bring help to everyone.

What is special education? Special education refers to the use of universal or specially designed courses, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching organizational forms and teaching equipment to educate children with special needs to achieve universal and special training goals. In other words, how to make children with special needs learn all kinds of knowledge and skills like ordinary children, how to help them build their self-confidence, and how to find and cultivate gifted children are all research fields of special pedagogy. Special education majors train high-level professionals with general education and special education knowledge and ability, who can mainly engage in special education practice, theoretical research and management in special education institutions and institutions related to special education.

Special education curriculum and training target curriculum (1)

Main courses: pedagogy, psychology, introduction to special education, psychology and education of blind children, psychology and education of deaf children, psychology and education of mentally retarded children, physiology and pathology of disabled children, rehabilitation of disabled children, and special education technology.

(2) Training objectives

This major trains senior professionals with knowledge and ability of general education and special education, who can mainly engage in special education practice, theoretical research and management in special education institutions and institutions related to special education.

Students in this major mainly study the basic theories and knowledge of psychology and pedagogy for children with special education needs, receive basic training in education and research for children with special children's rights, and have the basic ability to carry out practical teaching and theoretical research.