Seminar of Social Work Research

Recommended Prerequisites

The student should have basic understanding about the identity issues and methodological approaches of social work and/or professional experience and/or intervening in the field of social intervention. Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The Seminar will with the collaboration of researchers, doctoral students, and other guests, to ensure the sharing of knowledge and experience essential to the construction of an analytical and multifaceted thinking. The seminar will focus on the analysis of texts, group work, lectures and debates, privileging interactive models of teaching and learning. The evaluation will be based on the participation of master’s in public spaces contact, through the analysis and presentation of texts, with the final delivery of a critical review of a recent work.

Learning Outcomes

The Social Work Seminar: Debates, Challenges and Opportunities, in line with objectives to pursue in the first semester of the Masters Course, intended to promote a complex reflection around the major contemporary scientific and social debates considered essential for the analytical approaches privileged in this Master and the reflexive construction and the appropriate analysis Model of the object of study.

Therefore, the overall objectives of the course referred above are: to identify and discuss approaches and social, political and economic paradigms, social, in the light of the (new) societies current data, in order to position the scientific and normative references, as well as reflect on the epistemological foundations of contemporary social intervention.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The Seminary - Social Work: Debates, Challenges and Opportunities structure will be around the following axes discussion closely articulated:

1. Dynamics and models and personal and social development: new demands, new skills, new standards, new social institutions

2. "Active Trust" and Re-emergence of the subject in philosophical rhetoric, political and social news

3. Social Invisibility and processes in action: new complexities, new paradigms

4. Power (s) and socio-political participation

5. State, market and the third sector: potential relationships and conflicts. The necessary hybridization

6. Epistemology of Social Work within the framework of "reflexive modernity"

7. Ethics and Social Intervention: ethics of care and justice under the mediation of care, prudence and social responsibility.

Head Lecturer(s)

Helena da Silva Neves dos Santos Almeida

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Amaro, Maria Inês (2012) – “Urgências e Emergências do Serviço Social. Fundamentos da profissão na contemporaneidade. Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora.

Doel; Mark & Shardlow, Steven (2012) Modern Social Work Practice. USA: Ashgate Editor.

Fook, Jan (2002) – “Social Work. Critical Theory and practice”. London: Sage Publications.

Santos, Clara; Albuquerque, Cristina & Almeida, Helena (2013) (Org.) Serviço Social: Mutações e Desafios. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

Santos, Clara (2012). Organização da Prática Profissional do Serviço Social em Modelos de Intervenção Social in Revista Intervenção Social. Lisboa, Universidade Lusíada, pp. 121-145.

Parton, N. (ed.) (2000). Social theory, social change and social work. Routledge.

Smale, G. et al. (2003). Problemas Sociales y Trabajo Social. Hacia la inclusión y el cambio social. Madrid: Ediciones Morata.

Touraine, A. (2005). Um novo paradigma para compreender o mundo de hoje. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.