PPE
Contact / Information
Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83
fde-scolarite@umontpellier.fr
Course leaders
Registration
Montpellier Faculty of Education
Training location
Montpellier
The PIF specialization is aimed at working professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in a field or area related to teaching, education or training. To this end, 3 courses are offered in M1 and 3 in M2. M1 includes a majority of core curriculum units (TC), to give students time to discover and refine their choice of course.
This master's degree does not prepare students for the competitive examinations for primary and secondary school teachers.
Hybrid training in M1 and M2 with distance learning and two compulsory group sessions per year at the FDE in Montpellier.
Since the law of February 11, 2005, "For equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people", accessibility has become a government priority. Whatever their individuality, whatever their needs, schools - and society in general - must be fully inclusive. They must provide quality schooling and support, by seeking out and proposing solutions adapted to each individual.
With this in mind, the course has two objectives:
- Train professionals in the challenges of inclusive schooling, enriching their knowledge and practices and helping them to better understand and support these special-needs students.
- Developing a scientific culture linked to research for inclusion
This master's degree is open to :
- Teachers of ordinary classes and professionals (educators, etc.) working with special-needs pupils who wish to deepen their knowledge of the diversity of needs and adapt their professional practices.
- Teachers of regular classes who wish to prepare for the CAPPEI (Certificate of Professional Aptitude for Inclusive Education Practices) as an independent candidate.
General skills
- Know the regulatory and institutional environment concerning schooling and support for students with special educational needs.
- Epistemological, sociological and cultural benchmarks relating to the evolution of the French and European education systems in the field of schooling and education of pupils with special educational needs.
- Critical appropriation of fundamental concepts: special needs, normality and pathology, inclusion, integration, insertion, disability and/or difficulty, autonomy, project, activity, participation, educational and school institutions and communities.
- Build your professional identity to complement that of the partners with whom you work: build and work in a network, promote interdisciplinary dialogue, work with families as partners
- Building a pedagogical and educational ethic in line with professional responsibility
Specific skills
- Identify, beyond the origins of personal dysfunctions and the diversity of their manifestations, the expression of special educational needs.
- Take into account the possible consequences of personal characteristics on learning, i.e. the obstacles resulting from interactions between these characteristics and the educational and/or teaching situation: analyze the pedagogical obstacles specific to these audiences, which do not fall within the traditional logic of the school.
- Build an appropriate educational and pedagogical project, taking into account the mediations to be provided by the environment (school, family, etc.): understand existing educational and pedagogical methods, assess their limitations and build other methods and tools.
- Build appropriate career paths and be familiar with facilities (ITEP, IME, UE, ULIS, etc.).
- Implement personalized, adapted and differentiated educational and pedagogical practices: in particular, analyze subjective relationships to language, discourse, instructions, the group, the law and rules.
Organization
MASTER EPI in hybridization (face-to-face, synchronous and asynchronous distance learning).
EPI M1: Distance learning + 3 compulsory weeks in class at the FDE in Montpellier (1 week during the autumn, winter and spring vacations, zone C Montpellier).
EPI M2: Distance learning + 2 compulsory weeks in class at the FDE in Montpellier (1 week during the autumn and winter vacations, zone C Montpellier).
Partnership
- Rectorat de l'académie de Montpellier (Inspection académique École Inclusive et EAFC) ;
- Institut régional de travail social du Languedoc-Roussillon (IRTS-LR) ;
- Medical-social sector (medical-social institutions: ITEP, IMP, etc.) ;
- Associations for the public concerned or parents (sésame autisme...);
- Industry professionals.
M1: This course is aimed at all bachelor's degree holders with professional experience in primary or secondary teaching or in special education.
M2: have an M1 related to inclusive practices (by decision of the pedagogical committee) or apply for validation of professional experience (teacher, specialized educator).
| Semester 1 | Hourly volume total student |
ECTS | |
| EU 101 | Challenges and changes in education | 45 | 15 |
| EU 102 | Introduction to research | 32 | 15 |
| Total semester 1 | 77 | 30 | |
| Semester 2 | |||
| EU 201 | Using scientific literature | 21 | 5 |
| EU 202 | Building a research project | 21 | 5 |
| EU 203 | Foreign languages and research writing | 21 | 5 |
| EU 204 | Inclusive school principles and obstacles encountered by PTAs and teachers | 40 | 10 |
| EU 205 | Professional identity and activity analysis for inclusion | 20 | 5 |
| Total semester 2 | 123 | 30 | |
| Total Master 1 | 200 | 60 |
| Semester 3 | Hourly volume total student |
ECTS | |
| EU 301 | Designing and understanding inclusive systems | 36 | 8 |
| EU 302 | Work for all | 25 | 7 |
| UE 303 | Analysis of teaching practices | 15 | 3 |
| UE 304 | Epistemology of practices: objects of study and methods methodology seminar ECUE 2 (optional) internship 1 | 20 | 12 |
| ECUE 304.1 | Methodology seminar | ||
| ECUE 304.2 | Stage 1 (optional) | ||
| Total semester 3 | 96 | 30 | |
| Semester 4 | |||
| EU 401 | Collaboration with partners and role of contact person | 27 | 6 |
| EU 402 | Invention at work | 33 | 7 |
| EU 403 | Analysis of professional activity to transform practice | 15 | 3 |
| UE 404 | Finalizing the brief | 20 | 14 |
| ECUE 404.1 | Research seminar | 20 | 14 |
| ECUE 404.2 | Internship 2 (optional) | ||
| Total semester 4 | 95 | 30 | |
| Total Master 2 | 191 | 60 |
All applications will be examined by a commission. Answers will be communicated to all applicants from Monday June 2, 2025. As with Parcoursup, you can either be admitted, put on the waiting list or rejected. If you are admitted, you will have a period of time in which to accept or reject the admission offer. If you are definitively accepted, all other offers that may be made to you are cancelled. Full information on this subject is available on the Mon Master portal.
Candidates on the waiting list will be called as and when they drop out.
No ranking on the waiting list will be communicated to interested parties.
All responses will be sent to candidates via the Mon Master platform.
You will be notified directly of the procedure for your final registration as soon as you have accepted an offer of admission to the master's program.
Applications (also known as pre-registration) will be open from Tuesday February 25 to Monday March 24, 2025, for all our Masters programs.
Enrolment in this MEEF Master's program is only possible in the M1 year; for information on prerequisites and entry requirements, please consult the corresponding section of the Faculty of Education website.
The approach is identical for each of the five courses in this Master's program.
Registration is a two-stage process: first, you need to submit an application via the Mon Master portal; a link to this application is already available on our website, in the "Registration" section.
To support your application, you'll need to submit a cover letter detailing your background and career plans, as well as a CV, via the Mon Master portal.
The MEEF Master's in Training Practice and Engineering offers four distinct courses:
- Didactics of the Humanities (DIDHUM) ;
- Inclusive education and practices - Ordinary class (EPI-CO) ;
- Inclusive education and practices - special education (EPI-ES) ;
- Knowledge, learning, training, identity, research (SAFIR).
The "Education et pratiques inclusives - Classe ordinaire (EPI-CO)" and "Education et pratiques inclusives - enseignement spécialisé (EPI-ES)" tracks are differentiated only in the 2nd year of the Master's program. The 1st year (M1) "Education and inclusive practices" is common.
Admission criteria differ for each of these courses. To find out about the prerequisites and conditions of access, please consult the corresponding section on the Faculty of Education website.
