Master's Degree in Inclusive Basic Education - Version 2

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The purpose of the master's degree in Inclusive Basic Education is to prepare specialized personnel in educational inclusion processes. To achieve this, legal and context factors have been taken into account. Regarding the legal factor, there is a whole body of regulations in the country in favor of these processes. Regarding the context, made up of professionals in charge of basic education, it is not prepared to face these challenges. Therefore, the conditions of income profiles of the population interested in our offer is aimed at: Basic Education teachers, Special Education teachers and Educational Psychologists.

We then have three profiles as applicants in our program: Teachers and professionals with training in education who are prepared to face basic education in subjects who are in "normal" conditions. Professionals in special education, prepared to face disability education and educational psychologists who, from the organization of services, deal with the care of people with or without Special Educational Needs in therapeutic spaces through the Counseling Departments. None of the professionals in the three groups analyzed have a training to face the process that summons them from Educational Inclusion. We know and are aware that basic education teachers are experts in the different methodologies of education for the so-called “normal” child, thus they handle the methods and techniques to teach reading and writing, to teach mathematics, natural sciences and at each and every level of the basic curriculum. But they do not know the techniques and methods to face the teaching of disability. We also clearly know that special educators are fully capable of coping with the education of those with sensory, motor, mental and multiple disabilities. But they do not master the teaching methods and techniques of basic education.

We know that educational psychologists are props in the support of teachers of both basic and special education, from the Departments entrusted to them but also as in the two previous cases, they do not know the answers on how, when and where to make inclusion . The purpose of offering this master's program is to achieve this point of union of the group of professionals in the respective preparation of the professional field that is complemented with their training to build common challenges and combine together towards Inclusion.