Policies of Social Inclusion and Community Intervention

Code:

OP120

Acronym:

PIIC

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

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	18	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Policies for Inclusion and Community Intervention aims at to develop students´skills in order to understand and to analyse social policy and social policies in various fields and types of intervention. The place of inclusion/exclusion in social policies is another dimension under analysis both thinking on the related problems and on the adressed intervention practices. Portuguese reality and the supranational context  are reflected namely looking at the emergency, development and the current situation of policies and community intervention towards inclusion.

Sumarising the main goals of the course are:

i) to debate conceptions on social policy and social inclusion/exclusion

ii) to identify and analyse policies adressed to social inclusion

iii) to think on the role and influence of supranational agencies, their basic principles and proposals

iv) to analyse Portuguese reality, its trajectory and on-going situation within the field of social policies for inclusion

v) to define and debate the role of community intervention within social policies domain.

Learning outcomes and competences

1) To be able to learn and to interpret social policy and social policies on their various domains
2) Identification of ways of conceptualization of social policies and their influence on the analysis and practices of intervention policies
3) To be able to analyse contemporary social problems, namely social exclusion
4) To develop skills enabling to analyse measures and policies addressed to face contemporary problems on their diverse scales of expression and action (local, national and supranational)
5) To be able to conceive and to propose initiatives and measures in specific domains of social policy.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I Social Policy and Social Policies
1 Social Policy and Welfare Systems: perspectives and proposals
2. Goals, domains , organics and intervention scales
3. Social dimension and the supranational context

II Inclusion: social policies and other policies
1.Concepts of inclusion/exclusion
2. Inclusion and human needs
3.Typology, diversity and adequacy analysis in social policies

III Community intervention and social policies
1. Defining community: polysemy and consensus
2. Emergency and contexts for development of community intervention
3. State reform, community intervention, social movements and gender

IV Portuguese context, policies for inclusion and community intervention
1. Retrospective view and development
2.“New” social policies within the Social Assistance domain
3.Activation and “Active Inclusion”: potentialities and conditionalities
4. “Means test” insertion
5. Workfare or “an offer you can´t refuse”
6. Areas, problems and target groups: examples of measures and programmes

Mandatory literature

Bruto da Costa, A. et al ; Um Olhar sobre a Pobreza: Vulnerabilidade e Exclusão Social no Portugal Contemporâneo, Lx: Gradiva, 2008
Guerra, I.; Participação e Acção Colectiva, Interesses, Conflitos e Consenso, Estoril: Principia, 2006
Nunes, M. H. e Hoven, R.; Desenvolvimento e Acção Local, Lx: Fim de Século., 1996
Pereirinha, J.; Política Social – Fundamentos da Actuação das Políticas Públicas, Lx: Univ. Aberta, 2008
Rodrigues, D. (org) ; Perspectivas sobre a Inclusão – Da Educação à Sociedade, Porto: P Ed , 2003
Rodrigues, F. et. al. ; Pobreza e Perspectivas Europeias, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang., 2005
Rodrigues, F. & Stoer, Stephen R. ; Acção local e mudança social em Portugal, Lx: Fim de Século, 1993
Rodrigues, Manuel D.; Ciudadanía, Comunidad, Municipio y redes sociales. La fuerza de lo imprevisto, Intervenção Social, 40, 125-142., 2012
POWELL, Fred. and M. Geoghegan; The politics of community development: reclaiming civil society or reinventing governance?, Dublin: A&A Farmar., 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Face to face:
Presentations by the teacher, debate, presentations by students, individual and group tutorial work.

Autonomous work:
Individual and team work

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation without final exam:

Components: 1) Participation in the tasks of the classroom sessions; 2) elaboration of scheme to a thematic final essay; 3) production of a final thematic essay.

The final classification is made of the diverse components are as follows: 1) 10%; 2) 40% and 3) 50%.

If students only present results in the components 1) and 2) they are not successful on the evaluation, however they can appeal (as foreseen under internal regulations) to an extra period of time.