Qualification in Social Education provides competance for working with people with various disabilities. The programme’s aim is to create values- and client-orientated professionals who are capable of reflecting on relevant issues and are equipped and qualified to carry out welfare and systematic rehabilitation work and care of people with various physical, mental and social disabilities.
Year 1:
Introduction (6 ECTS)
Child Development and Adolescence (13 ECTS)
Society’s Framework Conditions (8 ECTS)
Social Work Methods and Practice Studies (33 ECTS)
Year 2:
Quality of Life and Welfare (15 ECTS)
The Individual, Disability and Illness (16 ECTS)
Nursing and Care – Medication Management (13 ECTS)
Work experience in Health sector (16 ECTS)
Year 3:
Evaluation of the Legal Status of the Functionally Disabled and Working Conditions (7 ECTS)
Interdisciplinary Cooperation (7 ECTS)
Further Study Methods through Practice Studies (16 ECTS)
Critical Perspective on the Student’s Professional Skills (30 ECTS)
This programme focuses on the resources, wishes and choices of the disabled. Through knowledge of health promotional and social education work, and knowledge of the relationship between social processes and quality of life for vulnerable groups, the Social Educator will operate in a professional manner to promote the rights and opportunities in society for those with various disabilities. The programme includes a broad and varied range of pedagogical tools with an emphasis on the students’ own activities and interaction through project-orientated teaching, lectures, group work, skills’ exercises, fieldwork, work experience and comprehensive supervision. Thorough use of portfolio evaluation forms a part of the final assessment. Students are expected to work in groups throughout the programme.
Graduates who have successfully completed this programme will receive official authorisation as social educators. Social educators may seek positions working with people with various disabilities. Employment may be found as a caseworker or milieu therapist in the health and social services, including within the fields of care in the community, child welfare and sheltered housing. There are also positions to be found in schools, the recreational sector and various employment projects. In the specialist health services there are employment opportunities in rehabilitation, drug abuse counselling and psychiatry. This degree provides qualification for admission to masters level study.
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