Social and Educational Mediation

Code:

EFA08

Acronym:

MSE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Studies/Public Policies

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Adult Education and Training

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEFA	8	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	4	43	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to broaden the study of the modalities of intervention in the field of social work, specifically the social mediation and local action approaches as alternative modalities of political and cognitive definition of social problems.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

B-learning

Program

I - General framework

1 – Social and cognitive production of the concept of mediation.

1.1 - The crisis of macro-social integration devices: work, school and political world.

2 - Social spaces and time heterogeneity in the post modern era.

3 - The ambiguities of local scale centrality in social problems management.

4 - New configurations of social policies, devices and social policies management agents

5 - Cognitive and political dimensions to consider in the construction of intervention alternatives.

 

II – Fields, models and intervention practices of mediation: case studies

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

7 – Mediation in the education field (school mediation, socio-educational mediation)

8 – Social and community mediation

9 – Cognitive/Dialectical mediation

10 – Intercultural mediation

Mandatory literature

Boqué Torremorell Maria Carme; Cultura de mediação e mudança social. ISBN: 978-972-0-34174-7
Bonafé-Schmitt, J.-P.; La médiation: une justice douce, Paris, Syros, 1992
Cardinet, Annie; École et Médiations, Ramonville Saint-Agnes: Éditions Érès, 2000
Correia José Alberto; Da mediação local ao local da mediação
Correia José Alberto 570; Mediação. ISBN: 978-972-36-1083-3
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
Schwerin, Edward W. ; Mediation, Citizenship Empowerment and Transformational Politics, Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995
Six, J.-F.; Les Médiateurs, Paris, Le Cavalier Bleu., 2003
Tricoire, Bruno ; La médiation sociale: le génie du «tiers», L'Harmattan, 2002. ISBN: 2-7475-1970-8
Vasconcelos-Sousa, José; O que é Mediação, s/l: Quimera, 2002
Vaz Henrique; A^mediação em contexto de formação como reinvenção de novos ofícios

Comments from the literature

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 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
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 an individual essay. Individual essay values 100% of the final grade. The essay may have a maximum of 8 pages. The final mark of the curricular unit is express 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 realization of the established assessment or failing in the assessment assignment will imply the realization of a new one in the next period of evaluations.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students legally authorized 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.

Students in this situation should contact the teachers during the first three weeks of classes in order to define a pedagogic contact and the assessment assignment

Classification improvement

To improve the final grade students must deliver an individual essay (15 to 20 pages) and discuss it with the teachers of the curricular unit. The essay is supposed tosummarize andcriticallyaddressthe wholeorpart of the themesof theCurricular Unit particularly the contributions of mediation to the definition of social problemsand intervention in social and educational fields.