Social and Educational Mediation

Code:

MED302

Acronym:

MSE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2022/2023 - A

Active?	No
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to broaden the study of the modes of intervention in the field of social work, specifically those of social and educational mediation.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

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

N/A

Program

 

I - General framework

1 – A (re)view of the concept of mediation.

1.1 - Social mediation models. 

1.2. - Mediation in Portugal and the work of the National Commission for Mediation.

2 - The relationship between mediation and social inequality.

2.1. - Mediation and inclusion.

 

 

II – Fields, models and intervention practices of mediation

6 – The mediation spaces: professional agents/intervention processes.

7 – Educational mediation. 

8 – Social and community mediation.

9 - Conflict mediation.

 

 

Mandatory literature

Correia, J. A. and A. M. C. Silva, Eds. ; Mediação: (D)os Contextos e (D)os actores. , Porto, CIIE e Edições Afrontamento., (2010)
Correia, J. A. and J. Caramelo ; "Da mediação local ao local da mediação: figuras e políticas." , Educação, Sociedade e Culturas 20 167-191., (2003).
Guilaume-Hofnung, M. ; La médiation. , Paris, PUF., (2000).
Hamzaoui, Mejed ; El Trabajo Social Territorializado. Las transformaciones de la acción pública en la intervención social. , València: Nau Llibres & Universitat de València., (2005).
Mayer, Bernard ; Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution. , São Francisco: Jossey-Bass., (2004).
Milburn, Philip ; La Médiation: Expériences et competences., Paris: La Découverte., (2002).
Neves, T.; "Practice Note: community mediation as social intervention." , Conflict Resolution Quarterly 26(4): 481-495., (2009)
Six, J.-F. ; Les Médiateurs. , Paris, Le Cavalier Bleu., (2003).
Torremorell, M. C. B. ; Cultura de mediação e mudança social. , Porto, Porto Editora., (2008).
Vasconcelos-Sousa, José; O que é Mediação. , s/l: Quimera., (2002).

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact time: 
Lectures and debate

Text analysis

Presentation and discussion of cases

Tutorial monitoring

 
Autonomous work: 

Bibliographic Research and Analysis

Preparation of course dinamization through case studies analysis

Assignment for assessment production 

Software

N/A

keywords

Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour
Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Participação presencial	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de investigação	18,00
Total:	108,00

Eligibility for exams

The assessment process requires that students must attend at least 75% of the sessions. Exceptions are those students legally exempt from class attendance.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

 The grade is based on participation in classes (20%) and ann individual essay (80%) The essay may have a maximum of 8 pages. The final mark of the curricular unit is expressed in a 0-20 scale.

By means of the mobilisation of the theorethical contributions of mediation field, the individual essay may assume different forms:

i) Analysis of a case involving a situation of social intervention;

ii)(re)conceptualise and reconfigure a work in progress during the semester in another curricular unit of the master;

iii) Analysis of the process experienced in the master’s course or a specific content, theme or issue relevant for preparation of the dissertation through the mediation theoretical lens.

Assessment criteria: i) coherence and consistency of the theoretical analysis produced; ii) personal and critical appropriation of the theoretical contributions in the production of the analysis and the development of the arguments

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

The non-realisation of any of the previewed assessment assignments and/or the obtention of a grade below 10 (under 20), implies the reformulation of the assignment in the next evaluation period

 

 

 

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students legally authorised to not attending the sessions must deliver an individual essay (15 to 20 pages) and discuss it with the curricular unit teachers. This aims at assessing the achievement of the curricular unit competences and learning-outcomes.

 This essay aims to summarize and critically address the whole or part of the themes of the Curricular Unit, particularly the contributions of mediation to the definition of social problems and intervention in social and educational fields.

Classification improvement

 

 

Observations

N/A