The course is structured into three parts: the first one is related to the epistemology of special pedagogy, as a science that focuses its attention and reflections on educational issues concerning children, young people and adults who have particular problems. The focus is on people with disabilities, with different serious disorders, with marginal life situations and who are unable to adapt to the conventional rules of civil cohabitation, with special educational needs. Such situations are more and more widespread, but they can be transformed and improved if people are supported by capable and competent educational interventions. Operational and planning indications will also be given, to undertake such educational actions, with practical exercises and simulations of scenarios in different contexts.
The second part will mainly focus on the school context and on subjects with special educational needs, in order to design paths for a real inclusive didactics, involving teachers, families, operators and all those who collaborate in the development and growth of children and adolescents. The ministerial documents accompanying the BES pathways will be examined and exercises on the structuring of curricula, learning units, inclusive and personalized evaluation pathways will be proposed.
The third part will concern the Quality of Life construct and its dimensions. It will examine how to detect the perception and self-perception of the Quality of Life with regard to young people and adults with disabilities, in particular through the "San Martin Scale".