Social Policies and Work Work I
2
2024-2025
01010259
Social Work
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodologies (including evaluation)
Exhibition / information of theory and operative contents by the teacher;
Analysis and discussion around texts and documents;
Presentation of case studies with particular emphasis on student participation; Small workshops with professional guests
Group work, presentation and plenary discussion of various topics on the Course Unit
Learning Outcomes
It is intended, in general, to explain and operationally frame the regulatory functions, objectives and processes of professional practice in the three major contexts of social work intervention :( Local Government, Social Security and Labour/Employment), reflecting on the issues of complexity in the analysis of social issues and target populations of the intervention of Social Work.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Module I-The Social Security
1. Terminological precision and evolutionary approach
2. Welfare and Citizenship
3. Regulatory and working framework of the social worker in the Social Security
Module II - The Local Government
1. Precisions terminology and evolutionary approach
1.1. Relations between local and central government (Connections disconnections): dual power
2. The Local Government
2.1. Legal and institutional framework for Local Authorities
2.1.1. New powers for Local Authorities
3. Integration of Social Work in Local Government: Analysis and field expansion professional acting
3.2. Intervention strategies and methodologies of Social Work in Local Government.
Module III - Conceptual Framework and Political Employment and Vocational Training
1. Vocational Training and Employment
2. Political Context - Institutional
3. Regulatory and functional framework of Social Work / Employment
Head Lecturer(s)
Joana Andreia dos Santos da Silva Brinca
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Individual or group:50% the summary on a theme proposed by the teachers that integrates autonomous Bibliographic and document research,and inst. contacts: 100.0%
Bibliography
Poder Local
Guerra; I (2006) Participação e Acção Colectiva. Lisboa: Principia
Meneses, M. (2000) Serviço Social Autárquico e Cidadania. Coimbra: Quarteto.
Ruivo, F (2000). Poder Local e Exclusão Social. Coimbra: Quarteto.
Santos, C (2009) Retratos de Uma Profissão. Coimbra: Quarteto. Segurança Social
Almeida, H (2004). “A recomposição dos laços sociais, in Cunha, P. (org), Mediação, uma forma de resolução alternativa de conflitos. Porto, Ed. U. F. Pessoa, 33-61.
HESPANHA, P (2000) Entre o Estado e o Mercado – As fragilidades das instituições particulares de protecção social em Portugal. Coimbra: Quarteto
RODRIGUES, F (coord.) (2003) A Acção Social na Área da Exclusão Social. Lisboa: Univ. Aberta
Trabalho Emprego
Dubechot, P, Le Quéau, P e Messu, M (2003). Os empregos da Inserção e do Local. In Chopart, J (Org.). Os Novos Desafios do Trabalho Social. Porto: Porto Ed, 147-161.
Ramos, Mª (2003). Acção Social na área do emprego e da formação profissional. Lisboa: U. Aberta.