Educational Work With Young People, Multi-level Governance and Regional Development: Research Scenarios, Policies and Practices

Code:

DE341

Acronym:

TEJGMDR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2021/2022 - 2S

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	13	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	12	98	324

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To study the interinfluence between research, policy and practice, integrated process in the construction of narratives and policy agendas around contemporary youth.

To equip students with scientific and technical knowledge for the development of policies, of research for social impact, of action programs that put young people, their agendas and their role in the development and cohesion of their regions at the center;

To foster the investigative spirit on youth issues and their territories;

Develop research and intervention projects in contexts and around youth issues - Diagnose, read and critically analyze problems affecting young people

Provide knowledge about different professional roles in working with young people and with organizations in the improvement of responses situated for youth

Analyse modes and models of socio-educational work with young people and their communities in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts.

Study ethical issues in different contexts of work and research with youth.

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Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course students should be able to

Analyze youth policies and ways in which they are appropriated and territorialized.

Identify the best approaches in working with youth, as well as the main governance figures and organizations.

Design innovative proposals for potential youth policies, for the implementation of youth actions and agendas, notably at regional and local level.

Be able to incorporate young people in the design of intervention, research and policy proposals.

Identify professions, structures, institutions and programs dedicated to youth and youth development.

Be able to analyze, evaluate and propose work programs for youth development in different socio-educational contexts and different territories.

Know the stages of a social impact study.

Recognize ethical requirements and their deontological procedures in research and intervention work with young people.

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Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Do not have

Program

European, national and regional youth policies: the main agendas and their territorialization.

National and international research programs with young people and in youth contexts.

National and international intervention programs with young people and in youth contexts.

Multi-level governance, youth and regional development

Young people as agents of local development, territorial cohesion and social change

Social and educational work with young people: professional figures and competencies in youth work

Ethical issues in research and youth work

Social impact studies of intervention projects with/for young people

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Mandatory literature

Nicola Mirra, Antero Garcia, Ernest Morrell; Doing Youth Participatory Action Research, Routledge, 2016
KIm Sabo Flores; Youth Participatory Evaluation, Wiley, 2008
João Abreu; Casos de Sucesso nos Municipios Portugueses, Dioteque
Kitty te Riele; Rachel Brooks; Negotiating ethical challenges in youth research, Routledge, 2013
Susan Groundwater-Smith ; Participatory Research with Children and Young People, Sage, 2015
Governo da Républica Portuguesa; Plano Nacional para a Juventude, 2018
Conselho da Europa; EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, 2019
Filip Coussée; Howard Williamson; Griet Verschelden; The history of youth work in Europe : relevance for youth policy today, 2014

Complementary Bibliography

Governo da República Portuguesa; Programa Nacional para a Coesão Territorial (2017), 2017

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture.

Discussion and analysis of texts relating to youth policies and multi-level governance processes - European, national and regional.

Analysis and discussion of programs and research projects about and with young people.

Contact with the field which will be developed as follows:

- contact with research projects underway or already carried out in the Center for Educational Research and Intervention, in particular those developed in the framework of the Community of Practice Research Youth, Education, Diversity and Innovation (CoPIn - JEDI).

- Contact with projects and intervention programs being developed in the field (refer to those with which there is already a long-standing institutional relationship, protocoled, or collaborative networks: Federations and youth associations (ex: FNAJ), pedagogical departments of sports clubs, industry, town halls, museums, local development associations and schools.

Assessment: research proposal/intervention/project (60%) in articulation with specific disciplines 1 and 2, the UC of Research Methodologies in Education and Critical Analysis of Theories in Education. The structure and internal coherence in theoretical and methodological terms is valued, as well as the social and educational relevance of the proposal and the way in which they are able to integrate young people in the proposal in an evident manner in the production of knowledge, the project or the intervention. The evaluation focuses on the written document and a short presentation in the CoPIn JEDI.

Construction of an integrated collective digital portfolio (40%) grouping the different proposals of the class group around their objects, problems, theoretical and methodological approach.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Trabalho laboratorial	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Elaboração de projeto	90,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	172,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance is obtained by attending 75% of the scheduled classes and obtaining at least 10 points (out of 20) in all the assessment components

Calculation formula of final grade

Project: 70%
Colective Digital portfolio and oral presentation