Gender Violence in School and Family Social Practice and Inclusion

Code:

OP111

Acronym:

VGEF

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	15	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Gender Violence in School and in Family is structured in three axes: first, the theoretical knowledge, involvind students in diverse theoreticalperspectives, as well as in different epistemological approaches to know the phenomenon of gender violence, mostly in school and family contexts; second, the development of critical and reflexive analysis skills of the models of intervention and prevention of violence as well as social policies in Portugal and other ocntexts; third, the construction of dispositives for intervention of professionals of Sciences of Education in the field of prevention gender violence in formal, informal and family educational settings.
Learning outcomes:
- to deepen theoretical concepts of gender violence in different theoretical and epistemological pespectives;
- to critically analyse educational contexts and power mechanisms in the construction of a culture pervasive to gender violence;
- to reflect upon social dynamics of social movements and social change in the historical construction of gender violence;
- to identify and analyse persepectives, models and social policies to gender violence;
- to conceptualize educational intervention in social and educational projects about prevention of gender violence in a multidisciplinar perspective;
Skills to develop:
- to position critically in face of different theoretical perspectives around gender violence;
- to built dispositives to analyse situations, contexts and mechanisms promoting or tolerating violence;
- to make diagnosis and projects to intervene in prevention of violence in school and in family;
- to develop listening skills, and identification of signs of vitimization in intervention settings;
- to develop network and partnership work skills to know how to coordinate efforts and resources in fighting against gender violence.

Program

Programatic contents:
1. Conceptualizing gender violence
a. Diverse theoretical approaches: clinic, psichoanlitic, structuralist, feminist;
b. Social movements and the social emergence of the phenomenon of gender violence;
c. Gender violence, domestic violence, violence against women: senses, meanings and distinctions;
d. Gender violence in the context of gender, class, race, culture hierarchies in social relations;
e. Articulating the social construction of masculinities and femininities in vitimization dynamics;
2. Causes and consequences of victimization by gender violence;
a. Types of gender violence, its specificities and characteristics;
b. Identifyng structural and relational causes of victimization;
c. The consequences of direct and indirect victimization in women, children, adolescentes and elderly people;
d. Learning how to identify signs in different stages of vicitimization process;
e. Uxoricide and homicide by gender violence in intimate relationships;
3. Social policies and intervention models in preventing gender violence;
a. Diverse models to answer to gender violence, in different countries and in Portugal;
b. The National Plan Against CDomestic Violence and national legislation;
c. Social policies in Portugal to gender violence.
4. Elaborating social educational projects onpreventing gender violence in school and in family;
a. Building social educational projects to intervene to prevent gender violence in school and in family;
b. Criating dispostives for intervention by professional of Sciences of Education in institutional contexts which may or may not provide answers to this kind of violence.
5. Elaboration of research projects to knowledge production about thsi social phenomenon.
Bibliography:
Dias, Isabel (2004) Violência na Família, Uma Abordagem Sociológica, Porto: Afrontamento.
Hoff, Lee Ann (1993) Battered Women as Survivors, Londres: Routledge.
I Plano Nacional Contra a Violência Doméstica, Lisboa: CIDM
II Plano Nacional Contra a Violência Doméstica, 2003-2006, Lisboa: CIDM
III Plano Nacional Contra a Violência Doméstica, 2007-2010, Lisboa: CIDM.
Klein, Renate C. A. (1998) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Family violence, Londres: Routledge
LaViolette, Alyce D. e Barnett, Ola W. (2000) It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay, Londres: Sage.
Lisboa, Manuel, Isabel do Carmo, Luísa Branco Vicente e António Nóvoa (Sofia Marques da Silva) (2003) ?Os Custos Sociais e Económicos da Violência Contra as Mulheres, Lisboa: CIDM, Colecção Ditos Escritos, nº 17.
Lisboa, Manuel, Zélia Barroso e Joana Marteleira (2003) ?O Contexto Social da Violência Contra as Mulheres Detectada nos Institutos de Medicina Legal, Lisboa: CIDM, Colecção Ditos Escritos, nº 16.
Lisboa, Manuel, Isabel do Carmo, Luísa Branco Vicente e António Nóvoa (Sofia Marques da Silva) (2003) ?Os Custos Sociais e Económicos da Violência Contra as Mulheres, Lisboa: CIDM, Colecção Ditos Escritos, nº 17.
Lisboa, Manuel, Zélia Barroso e Joana Marteleira (2003) ?O Contexto Social da Violência Contra as Mulheres Detectada nos Institutos de Medicina Legal, Lisboa: CIDM, Colecção Ditos Escritos, nº 16.
Pinto, Helena, Elisabete Brasil, Laura Fonseca e Maria José Magalhães (2003) ?ONG de Mulheres e a Luta contra a Violência contra as Mulheres e as Crianças no seio da Família ? o contributo da UMAR?, Colóquio Internacional Família, Género e Sexualidades nas Sociedades Contemporâneas.
Perelberg R. e A. Miller (org.as) (1990) Gender and Power in Families, Londres: Tavistock/Routledge.
Wilson, Margo e Martin Daly (2003) ?Till Death Us do Part?, in Rose Weitz (2003) The Politics of Women?s Bodies, Nova Iorque: Oxford University Press.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Methodologies of teaching and learning in contact hours:
Exibition 15h
Discussion and debate 10 h
Anlysing social policies and intervention models 10 h
Elaboration of small reseaarch projects 10 h
Elaboration of intervention projects in preventing gender violence 10 h
Activities of developing listening skills 5 h
Presentation to the class of the research or intervention projects 5 h
Ways of autonomous work:
Invidual assignment review of a theoretical work 20 h
Analysis of documents and / or situations 10 h
Elaboration of research repport 30 h
Group work to make an intervention project about preventing gender violence 30 h
Visits to institutions with intervention projects in this field 7 h
An assignment written in presence about the contents of th discipline 3 h

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	64,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Individual elaboration of a theoretical assignment.
Conceptualizing a social and educational intervention project in preventing gender violence in school and in the family.
Oral presentation to the class.

Calculation formula of final grade

a) Theoretical assignment
b) Project
c) Oral presentation

Examinations or Special Assignments

Follows Faculty Rule.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Follows Faculty Rule.

Classification improvement

Follows Faculty Rule.