Seminar: Issues and Debates in Social Work II

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

- Complex reflection around the great social debates and contemporary science that are considered essential for the analytical justification for the privileged approaches in the PhD program and the reflexive construction of the subject matter and respective analysis model.

- Identify and discuss paradigms and models of intervention and operation of social work in contemporary societies.

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. Power and Empowerment: assessment and critical issues

2. Social work and social and Community Mediation

3. Case management and social monitoring

4. Social Work, participation, association and social development

5. Social Services and new information and communication technologies. Implications and Potentialities

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Maria Rodrigues Cruz Silva Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Hill, A. & Shaw, I. (2011). Social Work and ICT. Sage Publ.

Baraldi,C. & Vittorio Iervese (2012). Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation: Children and Young People in their social contexts. Routledge.

Healy, Karen (2014, 2ª ed). Social Work Theories in Context: Creating Frameworks for Practice. Palgrave.

Fook, J. (2012). Social Work: A Critical Approach to Practice. Sage.

Almeida, Helena, Santos, Clara e Albuquerque, Cristina (Org.) (2014). Social and Community Mediation in Europe: Experiences and Models. Coimbra: FPCE-UC/OCIS.