Innovative Pedagogy and Technology in the Interaction between Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Inclusive Teachers in a Chilean Special School
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63385/ipt.v2i1.100Keywords:
Art Education, Technology Education, Special Education School, Intellectual Disability, Inclusive Teaching, Hard-of-Hearing, After-School Workshop, Qualitative StudyAbstract
This article presents a new perspective on the integration of personalized teaching in the complementary subjects of art education and technological education, with the participation of an educational and vocational workshop (informal classroom) in a special school. The main objective is to analyze the inclusive interaction between young students with intellectual disabilities and a teacher with hearing impairments, facilitating their impact on the optimization of the educational process through strategic teaching, methodological adaptation, and artistic-digital teaching resources to the specific needs of each student. This method focused on a qualitative, experimental, and analytical approach, including a documentary review and personal cases from multiple sources on inclusive education and methodological adaptations for the creation of educational materials, integrating topics like healthy eating and art methodologies. This method focused on a qualitative, experimental, and analytical approach, with a documentary review and personal case study of various sources on educational inclusion and adapted teaching strategies for the creation of educational materials, integrating healthy eating topics and artistic methodologies into different didactic activities. The results consist of the variation to the study on the proposal 'Digital Adventures: Magical Nutrition for All' (in Spanish) to describe the context focused on food and nutrition education. The discussion focuses on various aspects of enhancing inclusive interaction toward innovative pedagogical practice and social integration through artistic and technological activities. In conclusion, some recommendations to advance inclusive labor and educational inclusion, regardless of their artistic and technological skills, on a healthy lifestyle.
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