Study and Teaching

Concrete content and a great deal of expertise

Our discipline can look back on over 250 years of development, which can be seen in the highly differentiated spectrum of differently effective interventions and colourful cultural techniques. Much of our content leads to practical skills and abilities: Our students can read Braille, design accessible documents, use a white long cane, use a tablet as a didactic aid...

Our specialisation is also extremely interdisciplinary, with substantial links to computer science, medicine, neuropsychology, political science, law and sociology. Our students can use real word processing, they can work with Excel and they know what latex is, they understand the basics of perception and can knit surprising stories from it, they can argue and fight together with other people for their rights and their political participation, they can read very complicated written texts and understand them....

Really a lot of variety

Visual impairments are not milieu-specific and occur as purely sensory impairments or in combination with other impairments. This means that support and assistance services address the needs of people at all levels of the education system and in a wide range of professional and private activities. In addition, this heterogeneity leads to different lifestyles on a continuum between fully inclusive normality and consciously chosen distinguished exclusivity.

Studying education for the visually impaired requires an insatiable interest in people, empathy and flexibility as well as pedagogical skills, but in return offers a colourful variety of very different demands, interests and experiences of success.

Inclusive alternatives to being a teacher

This breadth of content is also reflected in the exceptionally wide range of professions that are opened up by a degree in education for the visually impaired: Support facilities and general schools, early intervention centres, vocational training and professional development centres, self-advocacy organisations, development aid, pastoral care, outpatient clinics, advice centres, media centres, assistive technology companies, workshops, boarding schools, retirement homes...

As the demand for qualified specialists in our field will be very high in the foreseeable future, our degrees offer the best job opportunities and career prospects in Bavaria and, due to the limited number of study centres, far beyond. In addition, this broad field of pedagogical fields of action means that your decision in favour of the degree programme is not final, as you will also have various career options open to you in the course of your professional biography

Scripts for download

The script for the Scientific Writing Workshop with introductory notes, considerations on scientific methodology and strategies for research and citation.

The script for the introduction to Braille, divided into 6 lessons.

Important documents

The following documents and sources structure the Teacher Training Programme for Special Needs Education:

• LPO I (Study regulations for teaching programmes in Bavaria)

• LASPO (Study regulations for teaching programmes at the University of Würzburg)

• FSB-B-V and SFB-B-V (subject-specific regulations and subject description for the study of pedagogy for visual impairments as an in-depth specialisation in the teaching degree for special education)

• SVP-B-V (Non-mandatory study plan for the study of Pedagogy for the Visually Impaired as an in-depth specialisation in the teaching profession for special education)

• FSB-B-Q and SFB-B-Q (Subject-specific provisions and subject description for the study of Education for the Visually Impaired as a qualification programme / extension subject in the teaching degree for special needs education)

• SVP-B-Q (Non-mandatory study plan for the subject Pedagogy for the Visually Impaired as a qualification programme / extension subject in the teaching degree for special needs education)

• FSB and SFB for the additional qualification in inclusive pedagogy for visual impairments for teachers at special, general or vocational schools

• Module handbook B-V German (Pedagogy for the visually impaired) Module handbook B-V English (Pedagogy for the visually impaired)

• Module Handbook-B-Q German (Education for the Visually Impaired) Module Handbook-B-Q English (Education for the Visually Impaired)

Bachelor of Teacher Education

Teacher training students can apply for a Bachelor's degree if they have achieved 180 ECTS including the final thesis.

So if you would like to dedicate your career to education for the visually impaired, but are not sure whether the job description of a teacher will suit your inclinations and passions, we still recommend that you study education for the visually impaired (specialising in vision) in depth in the special education teaching degree programme. This will provide you with the broadest possible foundation in the specialisation, which offers a useful basis in all fields of activity. With the teaching bachelor's degree, you will gain an additional regular degree that is also fully recognised outside the school system.

You still have the opportunity to complete the 1st state examination as a regular programme. This will provide you with a degree that is also in demand in extracurricular fields of our specialisation. You will also secure the pleasant option of being able to switch to the safe harbour of the teaching profession as a civil servant at a later date. With the specialisation in Education for the Visually Impaired, you therefore have two options open to you for your professional future.