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About Study Course

Department: Unit for Continuing Education of Academic Staff
Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Nora Jansone-Ratinika
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Rehabilitation
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Pedagogy; General Pedagogy

Objective

To promote learning of the basic categories and regularities of pedagogy and understanding of their use in practice.

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of psychology.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Knowledge and understanding of the basic concept of pedagogy, the nature of problems and solutions thereto, the regularities, cause and effect relationships, meaning and content, objectives and ideals, and the implications in human life of the problems it addresses.

Skills

To see the essence of pedagogical problems, to analyse and evaluate them, to use pedagogical approaches and tools flexibly and creatively in research, social and professional work in health care.

Competence

To understand the nature and significance of the categories included in the science of pedagogy, to reason competently on the problems of pedagogy, appropriately integrating the acquired knowledge into everyday professional practice. To demonstrate the ability to organise one’s work competently and creatively, and to collaborate with colleagues, customers, patients and students. To be able to identify the categories of pedagogy in everyday work (care, education and teaching), to critically and argumentatively seek and implement interdisciplinary (medicine, pedagogy, psychology, etc.) approaches. To know how to develop one’s professional identity independently.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Rehabilitation, REHM2Master’sRequiredNora Jansone-Ratinika