Communitarian and Local Development

Code:

E503

Acronym:

ICDL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education

Instance: 2008/2009 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	66	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	4,5	49	122

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

•To discuss theoretically the “community” concept and its related problems in contemporary social contexts;
•To question the concept of “community intervention” and its different discourses of legitimating: the technical-political, the functional-services and the socio-educative perspectives;
•To problematise the relations between different perspectives of “community intervention” legitimating in what their political and philosophical foundations is concerned;
•To discuss “community intervention” as a complex practice of reality organization;
•To understand intervention as a change process intersected by contradictory dynamics

Program

•To plan educative projects for community intervention aiming community animation and local development;
•To analyze and to assess educative local development projects;
•To give support to the development of local educative processes integrated in multiprofessional teams;
•To prepare social workers in the field of development on the domain of community intervention, local development and socio-educative methodologies of intervention.


1.Theoretical and Methodological options
a.The objectivist perspective: community as a natural process able to be defined through its regularities. Action as behavior.
b.The subjectivist perspective: “society as a life context with a significant structure” (Habermas). Action as sense.
c.The significance of implicit knowledge in community intervention
d.Relation with social action: attachment versus explanation
e.Relation with reality: the relation subject/subject versus subject/object
f.The “community (re)turn”: a brief reference to the socio-historical context of “community turn” and its material and symbolic elements
g.Primordial forms of communitarian structuration and its meanings: US and THEM
h.Tension between community and society: political and ethnomethodological readings
i.Significant dichotomies: society/rationalization/modernization versus community/social experience/tradition
j.Keys for community intervention: a multireferential strategy
i.Theoretical and methodological tools in a change process: systemic analysis, institutional analysis, organizational analysis;
ii.The analysis of change processes in the context of socio-instituted realities: from organic totality to active particularity and identity singularity: the conflict
iii.Interactive research techniques: interviews, participant observation, clinical approach
iv.The community intervention projects: from exteriority to mediation (the scientific-technical model of intervention and the socio-communitarian model of intervention).

Keywords
Social sciences – Sciences of Education – Education – Adult Education

Mandatory literature

Matos Manuel Santos e; Intervenção comunitária em educação
Correia, J. A; Políticas e lógicas da territorialização: contributos para a produção emancipatória do local, in Arbores III: trabalho em rede e desenvolvimento territorial , Almada, ICE & Sebastian: 17-29., 2005
Zamanillo, T. & A. Rodríguez; Un universo complejo: Los paradigmas en la intervención social, Documentación Social. Revista de Estudios Sociales y de Sociologia Aplicada 81(Métodos de Intervención Social): 9-33., 1990
Matos, Manuel; Desenvolvimento e Cidadania: intervenção associativa e acção comunitária, in Cadernos ICE 7 (Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local), Setúbal, ICE: 135-149, 2004
Padilla, C. S. C.; Sistema, Sociedad Civil y Movimientos Sociales, Documentación Social. Revista de Estudios Sociales y de Sociologia Aplicada 90: 219-229, 1993
Crozier, M.; Mudança individual e mudança colectiva, in Mudança Social e Psicologia Social. AAVV. , Lisboa, Livros Horizonte: 69-81., 1982
Villar, M. B. C. ; A cidade educadora como exemplificação do desenvolvimento integrado e relacional do território, in A Cidade Educadora: nova perspectiva de organização e intervenção municipal. , Gaia, Instituto Piaget: 19-44, 2002

Complementary Bibliography

Monteiro, A. R. ; Ética dos direitos do Homem e do direito à educação in O Direito à Educação., Lisboa, Livros Horizonte: 47-58., 1998
Correia, J. A. ; Relações entre a escola e comunidade: da lógica da exterioridade à lógica da interpelação , Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Revista Aprender 22: 129-134., 1999
Nisbet, R. ; Comunidade. Sociologias e Sociedades. Leituras de Introdução à Sociologia (organizadores M. Foracchi and J. S. Martins), São Paulo, Livros Técnicos e Científicos: 255-262., 1977
Monteiro, A. R. ; A revolução dos Direitos do Homem, in O Direito à Educação, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte: 27-34, 1998
Busino, G.; Comunidade, in Enciclopédia Einaudi., Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda. 38: 146-160., 1998

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching and Learning Methodologies in contact time
Lecturing
Group work and debate
Tutorial guidance
Assessment

Teaching and Learning Methodologies in students’ autonomous work
Reading and analyzing bibliography
Research
Bibliographic Research
Organization and dynamisation of classroom activities

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Adult education

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	0,00
Assessment	Exame	7,00		2009-01-12
Organisation and Preparation of Activities	Teste	16,50		2008-12-19
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Lectures	Frequência das aulas	15	2008-12-19
Group work and Debate	Frequência das aulas	15	2008-12-19
Tutorial Learning	Frequência das aulas	8	2008-12-19
Reading and analysing texts	Estudo autónomo	20	2008-12-19
Research work	Estudo autónomo	20	2008-12-19
Bibliographic Research	Estudo autónomo	20	2008-12-19
	Total:	98,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed assessment without final examination
The assessment regime implies presence in ¾ of lectures, except for students legally authorized to do not attend lectures (as for instance student-workers)

Calculation formula of final grade

Group assignment – 40% (considering two elements: a subject presentation in the classroom + group report about the presented subject)
Individual assignment: 60%

Examinations or Special Assignments

A classification under 8 in 20 in any of the required assignment elements implies its reformulation as a condition to continue in the distributed assessment regime.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students legally authorized to do not attend lectures are required to present a written essay concerning one of the textbooks. This written essay must include an introduction where students are asked to justificate the pertinence of the theme and the linkage with their own learning project.

Classification improvement

To improve the final classification obtained, students must accomplish a written examination concerning the whole contents of the subject, as defined above.