Processes of Territorial Diagnostic

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01010388
Subject Area
Social Work
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will have an essentially practical orientation, so that students can explore and learn to apply the diagnostic and registry tools. Accordingly, strategies for simulation, analysis of projects and audiovisual recordings, as well as access to real contexts (in conjunction with Stage I for example) and the construction of instruments for registration are teachinglearning strategies to explore. It will be explored in parallel, by the teacher, the great debates and concepts associated with the territorial approach and its political and economic connections.

Learning Outcomes

The value of the territory, as a geographic and experiential space, and the capitalizing of strengths and resources of individuals and communities emerge, currently, in socio-political discourses, as the alchemical principle capable of reversing the social implosion. Under this assumption it is intended, in the optional curricular unit Territorial Diagnostic Procedures to understand the relevance of the territory as a space for innovation and development, through the analysis of current experiments, and to identify and apply knowledge of diagnostic procedures and participatory dynamics in an integrated and bottom-up approach.

Understanding the relationship between local and global knowledge and the effective use of diagnostic tools constitutes itself as the central axes of the c. unit which aims to complement the training received in Social and Community Development

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The territory as a space of innovation and development

- The Anthropology of the territory

-Sociological approaches on spatial exclusion

-The territory on public policies

-The relationship between the local and the global

- New Expediencies on territorial ground: transition towns; building for humanity…

2. Mapping the territorial characteristics and dynamics

- Procedures for collecting and recording information: Territorial Charter, Eco-maps, sociograms and Culture-maps

- Procedures for assessment and determination of territorial change.

- Processes of consultation / involvement of the population

- Techniques for determining priorities for action

Analysis of cause and effect: Spine diagram, tree diagram, Complex Diagram

Analysis of hierarchy: Diagram "social tree."

Analysis of complex context: SWOT Analysis

The construction of plans and activities schedules.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Carla Marques Vale Mendes Guerra

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 40.0%
A territorial diagnosis assuming an empirical grounding : 60.0%

Bibliography

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Journal of Regional Science, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 134–152.

EQUAL (2008),Histórias de Sucesso de Inovação Social : Lisboa/Gab. Equal.

Ferrão, J. (2015), "Ambiente e território: para uma nova geração de políticas públicas

in Afirrmar o Futuro, políticas públicas paraPortugal - volumeII, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, cap. 11.

Guerra, I. C.(2002). Fundamentos e processos de uma sociologia de acção.Cascais:Principia.

ONU (2009). Case Studies on Community Participation. Regional Trends, issues and practices in rural poverty reduction. ESCAP.

Sintomer, Y. (2003). Development of Democratic Citizenship and Responsive Leadership at Local Level », F.Report, International Conference, Dec.2002,Council of Europe.