Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation (Jun 2008)
EDUCATIONAL EFFECTS FROM THE WORK WITH A PROJECT CURRICULUM WITH HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN
Abstract
The reform of the special education is directed towards creating preconditions for a more massive inclusion of children with developmental difficulties in the mainstream educational system (inclusive process), but also towards improvement and change of the concept of work of the special schools, especially the change in the internal organization of the educational work through introducing contemporary models and methods of learning. The modernization of the educational process asks for a modernization of the curriculum, but also of the modus which they are realized with, so therefore the goal of this research was to confirm the educational effects of the innovative models and methods of working in the educational process with the hearing impaired children. In this article we showed the experimental check up of the efficiency from the application of the project curriculum in relation to the traditional teaching, regarding the level of the gained knowledge of the hearing impaired pupil. The sample is consisted of 49 hearing impaired pupils, from the fifth to eighth grade from primary schools for children with impaired hearing. The results that we got show statistically significant difference between the accomplishments confirmed in the subjects with an applied traditional model of work and the application of the project curriculum.