Communitarian and Local Development

Code:

E503

Acronym:

ICDL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult 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	65	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	4,5	49	122

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

•To discuss theoretically the “community” concept and its related problems in contemporary social contexts;
•To question the concept of “community intervention” and its different discourses of legitimating: the technical-political, the functional-services and the socio-educative perspectives;
•To problematise the relations between different perspectives of “community intervention” legitimating in what their political and philosophical foundations is concerned;
•To discuss “community intervention” as a complex practice of reality organization;
•To understand intervention as a change process intersected by contradictory dynamics

Program

•To plan educative projects for community intervention aiming community animation and local development;
•To analyze and to assess educative local development projects;
•To give support to the development of local educative processes integrated in multiprofessional teams;
•To prepare social workers in the field of development on the domain of community intervention, local development and socio-educative methodologies of intervention.


1.Theoretical and Methodological options
a.The objectivist perspective: community as a natural process able to be defined through its regularities. Action as behavior.
b.The subjectivist perspective: “society as a life context with a significant structure” (Habermas). Action as sense.
c.The significance of implicit knowledge in community intervention
d.Relation with social action: attachment versus explanation
e.Relation with reality: the relation subject/subject versus subject/object
f.The “community (re)turn”: a brief reference to the socio-historical context of “community turn” and its material and symbolic elements
g.Primordial forms of communitarian structuration and its meanings: US and THEM
h.Tension between community and society: political and ethnomethodological readings
i.Significant dichotomies: society/rationalization/modernization versus community/social experience/tradition
j.Keys for community intervention: a multireferential strategy
i.Theoretical and methodological tools in a change process: systemic analysis, institutional analysis, organizational analysis;
ii.The analysis of change processes in the context of socio-instituted realities: from organic totality to active particularity and identity singularity: the conflict
iii.Interactive research techniques: interviews, participant observation, clinical approach
iv.The community intervention projects: from exteriority to mediation (the scientific-technical model of intervention and the socio-communitarian model of intervention).

Keywords
Social sciences – Sciences of Education – Education – Adult Education

Mandatory literature

Matos Manuel Santos e; Intervenção comunitária em educação
Matos, Manuel; Desenvolvimento e Cidadania: intervenção associativa e acção comunitária, in Cadernos ICE 7 (Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local), Setúbal, ICE: 135-149, 2004
Crozier, M.; Mudança individual e mudança colectiva, in Mudança Social e Psicologia Social. AAVV. , Lisboa, Livros Horizonte: 69-81., 1982
Caramelo, J. and J. A. Correia ; Políticas e figuras do local: contributos para a construção de um cosmopolitismo comunitário." Cadernos Ice “Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local" 7: 31-44., 2004
Berger, G.; Reflexões sobre democracia, participação e cidadania. Cadernos Ice “Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local" 7: 13-30., 2004
Nisbet, R.; Comunidade. Sociologias e Sociedades. Leituras de Introdução à Sociologia. M. Foracchi and J. S. Martins. São Paulo, Livros Técnicos e Científicos: 255-262., 1977
Melo, A.; Educação e Formação para o desenvolvimento rural. Fórum Educação de Adultos. L. Lima. Braga, Universidade do Minho/Unidade de Educação de Adultos. I: 137-149., 1994
Nóvoa, A., C. Castro Almeida, et al.; Desenvolvimento endógeno e formação de agentes de desenvolvimento. Formação para o desenvolvimento: uma experiência participada de formação de agentes de desenvolvimento. Lisboa, Fim de Século Edições: 17-47., 1992
Guerra, I. C.; Fundamentos e Processos de uma Sociologia da Acção: o planeamento em Ciências Sociais. São João do Estoril, Principia., 2006
Vachon, B. ; Le développement local: théorie et pratique: Réintroduire l’humain dans la logique de développement. Montréal, Gaëtan Morin Éditeur., 1993
Gómez José António Caride; Educação e desenvolvimento comunitário local. ISBN: 978-972-8562-44-1
Correia, J. A. and R. D’Espiney, Eds.; Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local. Cadernos do ICE. Setúbal., 2004
Matos, M. ; O local e a redefinição do social. Porto, FPCEUP: 7., (s.d.)
Matos, M.; "Da Intervenção Comunitária à Mediação Comunitária." Educação, Sociedade & Culturas 29: 175-189., 2009

Complementary Bibliography

Fraser, H.; Four different approaches to community participation. Community Development Journal 40(3): 286-300., 2005
Busino, G. ; Comunidade. Enciclopédia Einaudi. Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda. 38: 146-160., 1998
Laverack, G.; Using a "domains" approach to build community empowerment. Community Development Journal 41(1): 4-12., 2005
Veen, R. V. D. ; Community development as citizen education. International Journal of Lifelong Education 22 (6): 580-596., 2003
Teisserenc, P.; Développement local et mobilisation des acteurs. Contemporaines 18/19: 187-213., 1994
Enriquez, E.; Problématique du changement. Connexions 4: 5-45., 1972
Silva, A. S.; A educação para o desenvolvimento como estratégia da educação de adultos. Educação de adultos, educação para o desenvolvimento. Porto, Edições Asa: 91-148., 1990
Nóvoa António 070; Formação para o desenvolvimento
Silva Augusto Santos; Cultura e desenvolvimento. ISBN: ISBN 972-774-077-4
Silva Augusto Santos; Educação de adultos
Melo, A.; A acção local dos cidadãos como forma de resistência à nova onda de colonização global: o caso da Associação In Loco no Sul de Portugal. Produzir para viver: os caminhos da produção não capitalista. B. d. S. Santos. Rio de Janeiro, Civilização, 2002
Freire, P.; Extensão ou comunicação. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Paz e Terra., 1971
Correia, J. A.; Políticas e lógicas da territorialização: contributos para a produção emancipatória do local. Fênix - Revista Pernambucana de Educação Popular e de Educação de Adultos Ano 4 - Nº5(1): 33-42., 2005
Melo, A.; Formação de adultos e desenvolvimento local. Educação e Formação de Adultos: mutações e convergências. R. Canário and B. Cabrito. Lisboa, Educa. 11: 97-113., 2005
Silva, A. S.; Sociedade civil, democracia local e desenvolvimento. Democracia: novos desafios e novos horizontes. J. M. L. Viegas, A. C. Pinto & S. Faria. Oeiras, Celta Editora: 11-34., 2004
Paulo, J. C.; O que faz falta. Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária. Instituto de Educação e Psicologia. Braga, Universidade do Minho: 23-59., 1999
Garcia, O.; Animação comunitária nos processos de desenvolvimento. Inovação, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Local. J. A. Correia & R. D’Espiney. Setúbal, ICE. 7: 123-134., 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching and Learning Methodologies in contact time
Lecturing
Group work and debate
Tutorial guidance
Assessment

Teaching and Learning Methodologies in students’ autonomous work
Reading and analyzing bibliography
Research
Bibliographic Research
Organization and dynamisation of classroom activities

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Social pedagogy
Social sciences > Sociology > Social changes
Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Adult education

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
Preparation and organisation of class presentations	Teste	15,00		2010-12-17
Community and local development projects analysis	Teste	20,00		2010-12-17
Evaluation	Exame	2,00		2011-01-21
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Bibliography and documental research	Estudo autónomo	10	2010-12-17
Reading and analysing handbooks and textbooks	Estudo autónomo	30	2010-12-17
	Total:	40,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed assessment without final examination
The assessment regime implies presence in ¾ of lectures, except for students legally authorized to do not attend lectures (as for instance student-workers)

Calculation formula of final grade

Group assignment – 40% (considering two elements: a subject presentation in the classroom + group report about the presented subject)
Individual assignment: 60%

Examinations or Special Assignments

A classification under 8 in 20 in any of the required assignment elements implies its reformulation as a condition to continue in the distributed assessment regime.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students legally authorized to do not attend lectures are required to present a written essay concerning one of the textbooks. This written essay must include an introduction where students are asked to justificate the pertinence of the theme and the linkage with their own learning project.

Classification improvement

To improve the final classification obtained, students must accomplish a written examination concerning the whole contents of the subject, as defined above.