Equity, diversity and inclusion in education

The course provides insight into children and young people's experience of being involved and significant in their own education, and understanding of the teacher's role in exclusion and inclusion mechanisms, prevention of exclusion and development of the school as a democratic social institution.

The course will promote insight into the lives of children and young people. Understanding children's categorization, perceptions of hierarchy and difference are important to facilitate community and belonging in school. Furthermore, work with children's life worlds will form the basis for understanding important dimensions in children's lives, such as social inequality, gender, sexuality, functional variation and ethnicity. The course also sheds light on children and young people's own practices for recognition and appreciation, and learning in a digitalised and saturated information society.

The course promotes an understanding of educational policy and institutional guidelines and practices that are important for inclusion and exclusion processes in schools. Here, politics and practice that the students themselves have experience with will form the basis for exploring educational policy and inclusion.

Knowledge

The student

• has knowledge of children and young people's different living conditions, and how the school can contribute to strengthening the individual child in school and society
• can analyze the life worlds of children and young people in the light of material and social conditions such as nature, culture, technology and activity
• can understand children and young people's experiences of attachment in light of their challenges, resources and opportunities

Skills

The student

• can create safe and developmentally supportive relationships for all children and young people in school
• can act in solidarity in relation to students who experience exclusion in school
• can relate to the life worlds of children and young people in teaching and learning processes

General competence

The student

• can act critically in relation to pedagogical practices and their consequences for different students
• can express independent interpretations in dialogue with current education policy

The course is completed with three physical sessions. Forms of learning: Lectures and workshops with good opportunities for participant activity, reflections, discussions in small groups and in plenary, exercises, and guidance related to written work. There will be digital meetings focusing on students' work between sessions.