What Are the Different Types of Special Education Careers?
The special education major trains senior professionals with general education and special education knowledge and abilities, who can mainly engage in special education practice, theoretical research, and management in special education institutions and institutions related to special education.
Special Education
- What is special education?
- As the name suggests, special education is education for special populations (including people with vision, hearing, speech disabilities, physical, intellectual, mental and general disabilities). Special education is the use of special methods and means to create special conditions and special equipment for the learning, behavior correction and training of special young children, in order to enable them to master knowledge, make up for deficiencies, develop abilities, and maintain healthy mind and body.
- Teachers are necessary to carry out special education, and special education majors have emerged. Professor Liu Quanli from the Department of Special Education, School of Special Education, Beijing Union University introduced that the so-called special education specialty refers to the second-level specialty of a pedagogy major set up by colleges and universities to train special education teachers. China's special education majors include three levels: college, undergraduate and graduate.
- What is special education?
- The special education specialty is an education specialty, and it is a second-level discipline under education. The undergraduate level of this major varies according to the emphasis of each school, but generally includes three types of courses. One is a pedagogy course (such as pedagogy, psychology, and course theory), the other is a theoretical course for special education (such as an introduction to special education, the characteristics and education of various special children, etc.), and the third is the method of special education Curriculum (such as pedagogy, sign language, Braille, etc.).
- Special education does not distinguish specific research directions at the undergraduate level. Students can develop research directions based on subsequent learning and teaching practice. For example, according to the research object, special education can be divided into education for blind (deaf) children, education for mentally retarded children, and psychological education for special children.
- More than just patience and love
- Special education majors, like other education majors, require candidates to be prepared for hard work in education. And this profession needs the practitioners to have love, patience and confidence, as well as a broad knowledge background and corresponding skills. [1]
- Students in this major mainly learn the basic theories and basic knowledge of children with special education needs in psychology and education, receive basic training in education and research for special children, and have the basic ability to carry out practical teaching work and theoretical research.
- 1. Master the basic theory and basic knowledge of special education disciplines; 2. Master the basic methods of assessing all kinds of special children; 3. Have the basic ability to carry out practical work, research or management of special education; 4. Familiar with China's special education policies, Policies and regulations; 5. Understand the theoretical frontiers and developments of special education; 6. Master the basic methods of literature retrieval and data inquiry, with preliminary scientific research and practical work ability.
- Special education, special child assessment, special child pathology, educational audiology, early intervention for special children, teaching methods for special school materials, rehabilitation education for children with disabilities, psychological measurement and special school practice. [1]
- Special education enrollment is relatively "cold", but the job market is unusually "hot" because the Chinese government attaches more and more importance to the education of the disabled, and special education teachers and staff are extremely scarce. Therefore, when special education students graduate four years later, , Basically will be "robbed" by the employer. If you don't want to get a job right away, postgraduate study is much easier than other majors. Take East China Normal University as an example. In 2008, the employment rate of special education graduates of the school was 100%, of which 1/3 continued to study, 1/3 went to teach in local universities, and 1/3 went to party and government agencies and The Civil Affairs and Disabled Persons' Union of the public institution works, and only one person actually finds employment in a local deaf-mute school. Of course, if it is a graduate of a general institution, most of them still teach in special schools (that is, schools for the deaf-mute and mentally handicapped).
- In addition, in recent years, some physical education colleges have begun to recruit special education undergraduate majors. Its characteristics are that in addition to allowing students to master the basic knowledge of special education, students must also be informed about the relevant knowledge and organizational methods of physical education, sports training, and sports competitions for the disabled. The graduate employment direction is to engage in related work in sports teaching, sports organization and sports management for the disabled. [2]
| Serial number | Institution name |
| 1 | Beijing Normal University |
| 2 | Tianjin Institute of Physical Education |
| 3 | Tangshan Teachers College |
| 4 | Handan College |
| 5 | Chifeng University |
| 6 | Suihua University |
| 7 | Zhejiang Normal University |
| 8 | Anqing Normal University |
| 9 | Quanzhou Teachers College |
| 10 | Ji Nan University |
| 11 | Heze College |
| 12 | Huazhong Normal University |
| 13 | Wuhan Institute of Physical Education |
| 14 | South China Normal University |
| 15 | Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education |
| 16 | Guangxi Normal University |
| 17 | Sichuan Normal University |
| 18 | Sichuan University of Arts and Science |
| 19 | Tongren College |
| 20 | Guizhou Engineering and Technology College |
| twenty one | Pu'er College |
| twenty two | Xi'an Institute of Physical Education |
| twenty three | Xinjiang Normal University |
| twenty four | Chengdu college |
| 25 | Beijing Union University |
| 26 | Nanjing Special Education Teachers College |
| 27 | Huihua College of Hebei Normal University |
| 28 | Guizhou Teachers College |
| 29 | Beijing Language and Culture University |
| 30 | Baoding University |
| 31 | Shijiazhuang University |
| 32 | Inner Mongolia Normal University |
| 33 | Liaoning Normal University |
| 34 | East China Normal University |
| 35 | Hangzhou Normal University |
| 36 | Huaibei Normal University |
| 37 | Jiangxi Normal University |
| 38 | Binzhou Medical College |
| 39 | Shandong Institute of Physical Education |
| 40 | Hubei Normal University |
| 41 | Hunan Normal University |
| 42 | Lingnan Teachers College |
| 43 | Guangxi Normal University |
| 44 | Southwest University |
| 45 | Chongqing Normal University |
| 46 | Leshan Teachers College |
| 47 | Anshun College |
| 48 | Yunnan Normal University |
| 49 | Shaanxi Normal University |
| 50 | Northwest Normal University |
| 51 | Weifang University |
| 52 | Kunming College |
| 53 | Changchun University |
| 54 | Zhengzhou Teachers College |
| 55 | West Yunnan Normal University of Science and Technology |
| 56 | Guangdong Second Normal University |
| 57 | Changchun Teachers College |
- (The rankings are in no particular order. ] [3]