Do you agree that an educational environment should offer all children the opportunity to learn and grow? Regardless of their physical or mental abilities and their religious, racial, cultural or social background? Then the minor Inculsive Education is just right for you.

The Inclusive Education minor prepares you to teach in real, diverse classrooms where every learner matters. You learn how to recognize barriers to learning and design lessons that include students with different needs, languages, and backgrounds. Through hands-on projects and real cases, you turn theory into action. This minor stands out for its international and intersectional perspective, helping you work confidently across contexts. You leave with practical tools, a critical mindset, and the skills to create belonging and equity in any classroom.

Minor content

In the Inclusive Education minor, you actively connect theory to practice through interactive seminars, workshops, and real-life cases from schools. You analyse learning situations, identify barriers to participation, and design concrete solutions such as adapted lessons, supportive classroom routines, and targeted interventions. You collaborate with peers, reflect on your own beliefs and teaching style, and apply what you learned during internships or through authentic practice tasks. Learning is hands-on, with a strong focus on designing, testing, and improving your own educational choices.

The minor includes courses on inclusive classroom culture, diversity and equity, learning differences, social-emotional development, collaboration with families and professionals, and reflective practice. Throughout the programme, themes such as belonging, differentiation, wellbeing, and teacher agency run across all activities. Together, these elements help you build the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to create learning environments where every student can participate and succeed.

Structure of the minor

The Inclusive Education minor (30 EC) invites you to rethink what it truly means to teach. Instead of asking how students can fit the system, you explore how schools can fit their students. You examine the history, politics, and ethics of inclusion, learn to recognize barriers at every level, and develop the knowledge and confidence to design learning environments where all children feel safe, seen, and capable. Research, literature, and reflection help you connect theory to your own professional voice and vision.

Across four phases, you move from understanding inclusion to putting it into action. You collaborate with peers, design workshops, visit schools, learn from guest speakers, and apply your ideas during internship experiences. Major projects, such as an Inclusion Expo, professional learning & development sessions, and classroom challenges, ask you to create, test, and refine inclusive practices. Themes like equity, belonging, wellbeing, and partnership with families and communities run throughout. Step by step, you build the mindset and tools to become not just a teacher, but an advocate for every learner.

 

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The Inclusive Education minor is designed for students in teacher education and related educational programmes who want to strengthen their ability to teach diverse groups of learners. It fits particularly well with (international) primary education, educational support, and other child- or learning-focused fields. Students who are curious, reflective, and motivated to work with differences in ability, language, culture, and wellbeing will benefit most. This minor is especially valuable if you want to feel more confident supporting students with additional learning or social-emotional needs and creating equitable classroom environments.

To participate, you should have basic pedagogical and didactic knowledge. No highly specialized prior expertise is required, but a willingness to collaborate, read professional literature, and critically reflect on your own beliefs is essential. There are no formal exclusions; however, some working visits or field trips may involve small travel costs. The minor helps you move beyond general teaching skills toward becoming a thoughtful, adaptable, and inclusive education professional.

Assessment in the Inclusive Education minor is continuous, authentic, and practice-based rather than exam-driven. You demonstrate your learning through projects that mirror real professional work: co-creating and presenting an Inclusion Expo, designing and leading a professional learning workshop, completing an individual classroom challenge based on a real case, and writing a reflective portfolio that articulates your vision and growth. Assignments combine presentations, collaboration, research-informed writing, and applied design tasks. Together, these assessments show not only what you know, but how effectively you can translate inclusive principles into everyday educational practice.