Ecology of Social Work and Education

Code:

E408

Acronym:

ETSE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=2088
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	33	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	3	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This optional curricular unit supplements the Mediation and Training Seminar course of the 4th semester (also the case for the Seminar of the 6th semester) by problematizing the features of working in the social and educational fields - in terms of how these differ as well as in what brings them closer - following an ecological perspective, i.e., "studying the interactions between human beings and between them and the environment".
This ecological perspective accentuates the ethical and deontological dimensions of the practice of working in the social and educational fields. These dimensions are considered to be inscribed in an approach that distinguishes educational and social work according to a repairing logic which calls for practice following an emancipatory logic. It is from the perspective of the construction of a praxis of professional exercise that the relevance of the educational in social work definitely becomes more evident, as does the relevance of the social in educational work.
Objectives:
— To deepen the knowledge and the ability to distinguish disciplinary and work fields;
— To understand the approaches in social and educational work from a chronological (historical) perspective;
— To understand the main strategic lines of social and educational policy and their relation to different intervention modes;
— To analyse professional situations, particularly from the point of view of the objectives and the intervention possibilities in diverse work contexts.

Program

1. Social and educational work; distinct notions, contiguous fields and conceptual hybridity.
2. From local to global: counter-senses of the localized social and the globalized economic.
3. From global to local: rehabilitating the meaning of 'communitary' according to a logic of territorialization; or social intervention according to the axis of people vs. the axis of spaces.
4. From the repairing function to the emancipatory function; the ethics and professional ethics of social and educational intervention.
5. Analysis of cases from professional situations following the seminar work developed by the students.

Mandatory literature

Ardoino J. 300; Le^travail social par l.éducation
Capul Maurice; Da educação à intervenção social. ISBN: 972-0-34852-6
Carvalho Adalberto Dias de; Educação social. ISBN: 972-0-34851-8
Castel Robert; Les métamorphoses de la question sociale. ISBN: ISBN 2-07-040994-5
Castoriadis Cornelius; A^instituição imaginária da sociedade. ISBN: 85-219-0370-7
Correia José Alberto; Para uma teoria crítica em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34127-0
Fablet Dominique 300; Les^professionnels de l.intervention socio-éducative. ISBN: 978-2-296-02301-7
Hamzaoui Mejed; El^trabajo social territorializado. ISBN: 84-7642-708-5
Lamoureux Henri; Éthique, travail social et action communautaire. ISBN: 2-7605-1245-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

About half of the training sessions, each with a duration of two hours, will be occupied with lectures. Debates and field work - on the professional situations and contexts - as well as the presentation and evaluation of the work developed by the students will occupy the remaining sessions.

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Social pedagogy

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
	Trabalho escrito	10,00		2011-06-02
	Trabalho escrito	15,00		2011-06-16
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	28	2011-06-02
	Total:	28,00

Eligibility for exams

In accordance with the regulations, students are admitted to exams when they attend at least 75% of the presented classes. This rule does not apply to those students who, by law, are authorised to not attend classes - even though they are not exempt from completing the evaluation elements of the course.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation will consist of:
— writing an analytical report on the work situations observed in the context of the present seminar and taking into account the theoretical framework of this curricular unit. Even though students may work in groups on this assignment they must write it, and hand it in, individually. This assignment weighs 85% of the final mark.
— presenting in class the characterization of the professional situations observed for the analytical report. This component weighs 15% of the final mark.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The types of assessment remain the same for the students enjoying a special status, i.e. those who are not obliged to attend classes, in order to be evaluated in the presentation component (with a weight of 15% of the final mark) must attend the presentation session as any other student (since it is a formal evaluation moment that can be justified).

Classification improvement

Students can require the possibility to improve their marks on the analytical report under these conditions:
— as long as they do so in an exam season - normal or appeal - and as long as they communicate their intention to do so to the lecturer so their grades can be withheld and not published.

Observations

The presentation in class of the evaluation component with a weight of 15% of the final grade is optional. In any case, not completing it makes the final to be calculated strictly attending to the mark obtained on the analytical report (85%).