Policies for Social Inclusion and Community Intervention

Code:

OP117

Acronym:

PIIC

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

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	19	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Policies for Inclusion and Community Intervention aims at to develop students abilities to understand and to interpret Social Policy and social policies within various analytical and interventive fields. The place of exclusion/inclusion within social policies is another dimension to be analised along the course, both reflecting on related problems and socio-political interventions to be addressed. The Portuguese social policy context will be analised on its emergency, development and ongoing situation at the community intervention. Course Main Goals
i) To discuss conceptions of Social Policy and Social Inclusion/Social Exclusion
ii) To identify and analyse policies oriented to Social Inclusion
iii) To reflect on the role and influence of supranational agencies, principles and proposals
iv) To reflect Portuguese reality, its trajectory and current situation on the field of social policies toward social inclusion.
v) To define and to debate the place of community intervention within the field of social policies.
SKILLS
i) To be able to learn and to interpret social policy and policies on their various domains
ii) To be able to analyse contemporary social problems, namely social exclusion
iii) To be able to analyse measures and policies addressed to face contemporary problems and their diverse scales (local, national and supranational)
iv) To be able to conceive and to propose initiatives and measures in specific domains of social policy.

Program

Program
I Social Policy and e Social Policies
1 Brief history of Social policy in capitalist societies
2. Public Policies and State toward development
3. Goals, objectives and domains of intervention within social policies
4. Organisation, agents and intervention scales
5. Social dimension in supranational contexts.

II Social Policies on Social Inclusion
1. Debates around concepts of inclusion/exclusion
2. Inclusion/exclusion as foci of social policies
3. Typology, diversity and adequacy analysis in social policies
4. Social Policies measures and their relation with human needs
5. Planning, monitoring and evaluation of social policies.

III Social Inclusion Policies in Portuguese context
1.Retrospective analysis and socio-economic contexts
2. “New” social policies and social assistance policy
3.“Active Inclusion”: activation - its potential and conditionalities
4. Measures and policies, according to areas, problems and categorial dimensions
5. Means of means test insertion
6. Workfare or “On offer you can´t refuse”

IV Community Intervention and social policies
1. What is/are community/ies?
2. Brief history on the field of social policy and in the Portuguese context
3. Community intervention and public policies
4. Contemporary community intervention and the state reform
5. Community intervention and social movements.

Main Bibliography
DOMINELLI, L. (2004) “Social Work Interventions in Communities” in Social Work – Theory and Practice for a Changing Profession, Cambridge, Polity: 201-229.
ESPING-ANDERSEN, C. et al.(2002) Why We Need a New Welfare State, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
FIGUEIRA-Mcdonough, Josefina (2001) Community Analysis and Praxis: Toward a Grounded Civil Society, Bunner, Routledge.
GEDDES, M. (1998) Local Partnership: A Successful Strategy For Social Cohesion?, Dublin, EFILWC.
LODEMEL, I. e TRICKEY, H. (2000) “An offer you can´t refuse” – Workfare in international perspective, Bristol, The Policy Press
PEREIRINHA, J. (2008) Política Social – Fundamentos da Actuação das Políticas Públicas, Lisboa, Univ. Aberta
RODRIGUES, F. et. al. (2005) Pobreza e Perspectivas Europeias, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang.
RODRIGUES, F. (1999) Assistência Social e Políticas Sociais em Portugal, Lisboa, Ed. ISSS-CPIHTS
RODRIGUES, F e STOER, S. (1993) Acção Local e Mudança Social em Portugal, Lisboa, Fim de Século.
SCHRAM, s. (1995) Words of Welfare – The Poverty of Social Sciences and the Social Sciences of Poverty, Minneapolis/London, University of Minnesota Press
STEINERT, H. e PILGRAM, A. (2003) Welfare Policy from Below – Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe, Hampshire, Ashgate.
VEIT-WILSON, J. (1998) Setting Adequacy Standards – How governments define minimum incomes, Bristol, The Policy Press.

Mandatory literature

DOMINELLI, L. ; Social Work Interventions in Communities” in Social Work – Theory and Practice for a Changing Profession, Cambridge, Polity: 201-229, 2004
ESPING-ANDERSEN, C. et al.; Why We Need a New Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2002
GEDDES, M.; Local Partnership: A Successful Strategy For Social Cohesion?, Dublin, EFILWC., 1998
LODEMEL, I. e TRICKEY, H.; “An offer you can´t refuse” – Workfare in international perspective, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2000
PEREIRINHA, J. ; Política Social – Fundamentos da Actuação das Políticas Públicas, , Lisboa, Univ. Aberta, 2008
RODRIGUES, F et al.; Pobreza e Perspectivas Europeias, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang., 2005
RODRIGUES, F. ; Assistência Social e Políticas Sociais em Portugal, Lisboa, Ed. ISSS-CPIHTS, 1999
RODRIGUES, F e STOER, S. ; Acção Local e Mudança Social em Portugal, Lisboa, Fim de Século, 1993
SCHRAM, S.; Words of Welfare – The Poverty of Social Sciences and the Social Sciences of Poverty, , Minneapolis/London, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
STEINERT, H. e PILGRAM, A. ; Welfare Policy from Below – Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe , Hampshire, Ashgate, 2003
VEIT-WILSON, J.; Setting Adequacy Standards – How governments define minimum incomes, Bristol, The Policy Press, 1998

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentations by the teacher followed by debate. Students are invited to present and to conduct debates with colleagues on relevant topics of the course

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Trabalho escrito
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must attend at least 75% of the sessions

Calculation formula of final grade

The assessment process is made of the following elements:
- participation in the classroom activities and presentations by students – 40%
- writing a 3000 paper (bibliographic references included) on a specific theme (to be agreed) – 60%

Examinations or Special Assignments

The students legally authorized to not attending the sessions will deliver, besides the paper referred to above, two reports on the bibliography related with 2 of the 4 modules of the course

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students legally authorized to not attending the sessions will deliver, besides the paper referred to above, two reports on the bibliography related with 2 of the 4 modules of the course

Classification improvement

Those students wishing to improve their assessment or those who could not meet regular procedures can (re)write the paper or be submitted to an oral exam.