Pratice I

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The seminar is the moment of collective teaching where the specification of each experience and learning is done and match the globalization of information. In this context, it made the sharing of information between peers, followed by questioning, analysis and reflection on the contexts and processes of learning and intervention. Will be provided guidance on the requirements of organization, synthesis and precision required for the monographic study design.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives: the acquisition of knowledge of organizational contexts (equipment and structures) and social contexts (actors and social issues), where the social workers develop their professional activity; familiarization with routine procedures in place; training of operational and analytical skills of social work; development of reflexive capacity about the contexts and intervention practices. Skills: To Identify the institutional framework; To understand the legal framework, political, social, economic and cultural measures of social policy and intervention procedures; understanding the complexity of (s) issue (s) to which the host institution and the Social Worker respond; To recognize appropriated professional routines to the characteristics of subjects and contexts; To specify and reflect on the roles and responsibilities associated with job performance; Developing a prospective attitude regarding the understanding of social issues, and training in data collection

Work Placement(s)

Yes

Syllabus

This teaching unit will develop in operational context, with a duration of 180 hours of institutional stay (12 hours / week) and 2 hours per week in college, on a seminar for 15 weeks. Your organization integrates prior contacts with organizations as well as the establishment of an inter-institutional agreement on the period of observation.

The seminar (collective supervision) will reference the following contents:

I - Contexts social and institutional intervention

Spaces and socio-institutional dynamics

Framing Social Issues

II - Learning and Skills Intervention

Professional Contexts and Methods of Intervention

Professional Contexts: Specifics and Constraints

III - Requirements and characteristics of a monographic study.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Carla Marques Vale Mendes Guerra

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Observation’s period (30%;Monographic Study (written component 50% and oral 20%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

Será indicada bibliografia específica em função do contexto institucional e da área problemática em que se inscreve o estágio.

It will be indicated specific bibliography accordingly to the stage area and institutional context