Health, Age and Work

Code:

P817

Acronym:

SIT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	0	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
		Official Curricular Structure 2012	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The UC, Health, Age and Work studies the phenomenon of growing old in work. It is placed at the level of social nature concerns and at the biological and cognitive levels. The main goals of this course try to answer two questions:

- how older workers live progress in work,  thecnological  and organisational transformations

- how older workers experience working with a strong cognitive and physical component

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

1 - own knowledge and comprehension abilities  at the level of health, age and work

2 - apply knowledge and comprehension abilities in the portuguese context

3 - encourage  comunication of information competences

4 - understand the relation between work context and worker’s health

5 - mobilise knowledge in discussion context

 

 

6 - describe working conditions at work

 

7 - elaborate a written report about the gathering information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

describe working conditions at work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

No

Program

1. Theorical and methodological development in the study of ageing at work

2. Social worries in the study of ageing at work

3. The biological ageing and work

4. The cognitive ageing and work

5. Expertise and management of the risk at work

6. Presentation of Inquérito Saúde e Trabalho 2010

7. Achievement of a work field

 

Mandatory literature

Ramos, S. & Lacomblez, M. ; Envelhecimento, trabalho e cognição: 80 anos de investigação. , Laboreal, 1, (1), 52-60., 2005
Barros Carla, Cunha Liliana; INSAT 2010 Inquérito Saúde e Trabalho: outras questões, novas relações, Laboreal, 6, (2), 19-26, 2010
Marquié, Jean Claude ; Working with age, Taylor & Francis: London, 1998
Actes du séminaire Vieillissement et Travail, Centre d' étude de l' emploi, 2007
Actes du séminaire Expérience professionnelle et gestion de la sécurité au travail, Centre d’etude de l’emploi, 2010
Gollac, M., Volkof, S.; Les conditions de travail, Editions la Découverte

Teaching methods and learning activities

1. Contact activities: lecture, group discussion, to attend the development in the working field, discussion of the presented report.

2. Autonomous activities: to search for information sources, to read and to analyse the documentary and written sources, to do observations of a worker and interviews, to make a report. 

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Teste	50,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

In the evaluation the following items will be considered: the written test (50%) and group written report (50%). If an evaluation component is not done it will have a 0 marks valuation. The minimum demand classification is 25%  in written text and 25% in the group written report.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The final classifications of the students with a special status concern the same evaluation components of the other students. The work will be guided by the rules of functioning of all students.