Vision/Mission Statement
Vision
The Department of Special Education shall become a department of academic and professional excellence, offering leadership in the teaching of special education at all levels in the educational structures of the country.
Mission
The Department’s mission is to produce competent graduate teachers in special education, to employ modern technological methods for research and teaching in the subject, and endow our products with both professional skills as well as critical minds to help them adapt to a rapidly changing world environment.
Goals/Objectives of the Department
The programme supports the national development agenda and provides opportunities for the University of Education, Winneba, specifically to:
-
produce competent graduates to strengthen the inspection administration of special and inclusive schools in Ghana and the sub-region.
-
provide understanding of special education to students to become professionally competent in teaching, research and facilitate formulation and implementation of policies in disability and special needs education.
-
train professionals who would be knowledgeable, skillful and capable of managing learners who have special needs at all levels of education in Ghana.
-
train students to acquire requisite skills in research philosophies and methodologies to enable them to conduct basic and applied research in special needs and inclusive education.
-
train student professionals to acquire relevant skills to provide resource support for learners with disabilities in inclusive and special educational institutions.