Local Dynamics, Socio-Communitarian Resources and Organizational Rationales

Recommended Prerequisites

Students should have intermediate knowledge of written and spoken Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Teaching Methods

This curricular unit gives priority to lectures and active learning methods, although other methods and strategies will be used in classes.Taking in consideration the theoretical-practicalx of this Curricular Unit students will discuss interventions, analyse legal documents, and compare practices, context in which it is mobilized active method. In adittion to content exposition interrogative (e.g., analysis of practices ans pojects) and demonstrative methods will also be used.      

Learning Outcomes

Students should demonstrate they have acquired the knowledge and developed the competences required to:

- Design, accordingly to multiple criteria, local projects;

- Implement atrategies and initiatives that support the development of innovative projects;

- Assess, taking in consideration its conceptual and metodological specificities, the socio-comunitarian resources involved/predicted, and also the predominant organizational rationales (intra and inter organizations), local innitiatives.

- Critically analyse documents that support the generation and implementation of iniciatives in this specific scope.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Scope: Purposes; definition of key concepts; theoretical and methodological foundations

2. From centralizing policy approaches to the recognition of the territory specificities. The country in the national, regional and local dimensions

2.1 Guidelines and structural practices for the promotion of development and citizenship

2.2 Special features of bottom-up approaches and indicators for assessing its quality and effectiveness

2.3 Comprehension models of local dynamics in Portugal and in the EU

3. Generation, implementation and evaluation of local projects

3.1 Matrices and indicators for projects creation and implementation

3.2 Methos and assessment strategies

3.2 Inter and intra-organizational communication and the enhancement of socio-cummunitarian resources

4. Participation in the context of promoting equity and democratization

4.1 (In)Formal networks, negotiations and power(s), mobility patterns and innovation

4.2 Inclusion of vulnerable groups and identity (re)configurations.

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Barzanò, G. (2009). Culturas de liderança e lógicas de responsabilidade. V. N. de Gaia: Fundação Manuel Leão.

Castells, M. (2002), A Sociedade em Rede, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Jolland, Michael (2001). L'évaluation des politiques éducatives: regard externe et processus interne. In G. Figari & M. Achouche (Eds.),  L' Activité Évaluative Réinterrogée (pp.276-279). Bruxelles: De Boeck Université.

Ferreira, A. I. e Martinez, L. F. (2008). Manual de diagnóstico e Mudança Organizacional. Lisboa: Editora RH.

Wiley, J. W., & Brooks, S. M. (2000). The high-performance organizational culture. In N. M. Ashkanasy, C. P. M. Wilderom & M. F. Peterson (Eds.), Handbook of organizational culture and climate (pp. 177–191). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.