Socio-anthropology of Development

Code:

E501

Acronym:

SD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2010/2011 - 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	72	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	4,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

•To contribute to the reflective conceptualization of social practises, namely in the field of education, as management processes of social change;
•To contextualize the handling of the problematic of social change management within the scope of globalization processes in the Portuguese society;

Aimed competences

•To analyse projects on education while instruments of social change;
•To identify in texts on social work in education, and in the practises of that work, the political assumptions that support them while development projects.

Program

This unit approaches to anthropological and sociological theories of development and culture, emphasizing the issues concerning the development and development concepts and its reconfiguration in the globalization context, as the scope of the problematics of social change management and globalization processes in Portuguese society.

Program contents:

1. The impacts of globalization: economy, politics and epistemology
2. Tradition and modernity: problems and dilemmas of modernization
3. Consequences of modernity
4. Debate on post-modernity

Mandatory literature

Santos Boaventura de Sousa 570; Globalização. ISBN: 972-36-0569-4
Giddens Anthony; As^consequências da modernidade. ISBN: 972-8027-27-3
Giddens Anthony; Modernidade e identidade pessoal. ISBN: 972-8027-11-7
So Alvin Y.; Social change and development. ISBN: 0-8039-3546-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Expositive
- Group work
- Discussion in small and big group
- Tutorial guidance
- Assessment

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Assessment only with final exam.

Considering that the aim of assessment is to give indications on the degree of accomplishment of the final goals; to evidence which knowledge proposed by the program is more relevant and to be itself a learning device, this unit’s assessment assumes the form of a synthesis with the following characteristics:
-accomplishment time: 3 hours;
-scope: the themes will respect the learned issues;
-accomplishment conditions: individual work with consultation

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam - 80%.
Oral presentation - 20%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Presentation of a text in a group work.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Only Erasmus students

Classification improvement

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