Seminar: Issues and Debates in Social Work I

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The Seminar will with the collaboration of researchers, specialists of recognized merit, doctoral students, and other guests, domestic and foreign universities, to ensure the sharing of knowledge and experiences essential to building a thought analytical, demanding and multifaceted. Thus, the seminar will focus on the analysis of texts, working groups, conferences and debates, privileging interactive models of teaching and learning.

The evaluation will be based on the participation of masters in the spaces of collective contact, through the analysis and presentation of texts.

Learning Outcomes

The Seminar Themes and Debates in Social Service I, in line with the objectives to pursue in the first half of a PhD, aims to promote a

- complex reflection on the major social and contemporary scientific debates, which are considered essential for analytical reasoning of the privileged in the PhD program approaches and reflective construction of the object of study and the appropriate analysis model.

- to identify and discuss issues and paradigms, social, political and economic, in the light of the (new) current corporate data.

At the end of the course the doctoral student should be able to demonstrate skills of critical analysis, reflexivity and argumentation suitable to the object of study that he aims to investigate.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Closely articulated discussion points:

1. Re-trial processes and resizing of public policies vs complex readings of contemporary Social Issues

2. " Active Trust" and Re-emergence of the subject in philosophical political and social rhetorics of our time. Implications for social intervention

3. Invisibility and social action processes: new complexities, new paradigms, new ways to intervene

4. Public Policy and Capacity Building: Critical analysis and new perspectives

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Maria Rodrigues Cruz Silva Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

Bibliography

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

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

Reisch, Michael (2014). The Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice. USA: Routledge.

Faleiros, Vicente P. (2014). Globalização, correlação de forças e serviço social. Cortez Editora

Sheedy, Martin (2013). Core Themes In Social Work: Power, Poverty, Politics And Values. EUA: OUP