Social Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Active and participatory methodologies with oral presentations supported by texts and audio-visual resources. Group work on oral presentations and promotion of debates by students (presentations for youth projects under analysis) and invited experts (Open Classes Social Education). There will also be tutorial guidance regarding the projects under analysis.

Learning Outcomes

In this course it is expected that students :

- Relate the concepts of Social Pedagogy, Social Education and Socio-educational intervention

 - Recognize the educational dimension of the social contexts, and  in addition, the social dimension of education.

 - Meet the agents, participants,  scopes,  themes and modalities of socio-educational intervention

 - Understand the historical and conceptual processes, and also pedagogical, psychological and sociological assumptions that underlie the processes of socio-educational intervention

 - Identify the factors of vulnerability, risk, conflict, marginalization, exclusion and discrimination that hinder the socialization and social inclusion of individuals and collectives.

 - Know socio-educational intervention projects and programs  for  public with or without  social conflict

 - Analyse a socio-educational intervention project  based on planning and evaluation models of social and educational projects.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I.Social Education,Social Pedagogy,SocioeducationalIntervention and Ed.Sciences

1Social Education and Socioeducational Intervention:The knowledge and recognition of the educational character of the social and in addition,of the social dimension of education

2.Contexts,agents,areas,areas of intervention and logics of personal,social and community development

3.Concepts of vulnerability,risk,conflict,marginalization andsocial exclusion:what hinders the social integration of individuals and collectives

4Methods of socioeducational intervention:Promotion,prevention,diagnosis,support,mediation,therapy,(re)integration, reduction of risks and threats,training and animation

5.Skills of a social pedagogue

II.Historical and conceptual references of Social Ed.

III.Projects,themes and areas of Social Education:Human Rights and Education for Citizenship;Interculturalism and Intercultural Mediation;Conflict and Violence and Pedagogy of Coexistence;Social Volunteering and Socio-cultural Animation.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Diaz, S. (2006). Uma aproximação à pedagogia – educação social. Revista Lusófona de Educação, 7, 91-104. http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/pdf/rle/n7/n7a06

- Losego, M. (2016, Coord.). Compass: Manual de educação para os direitos humanos com jovens.Lisboa:Dínamo - Associação de Dinamização Sócio-Cultural.

- Pinheiro, M. R; Velho, C.; Santos, L.; Palaio, C. (2018). Projet’Ar-te - Programa de promoção da autonomia para jovens em risco: Implementação e avaliação da eficácia e da qualidade de uma intervenção durante o processo de acolhimento residencial, sua finalização e acompanhamento. In Maria João Carvalho e Anabela Salgueiro (Coord.): Pensar o acolhimento residencial de crianças e jovens, 189-215, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

- Serrano, G. P. (2008). Elaboração de projectos sociais: Casos práticos. Porto Editora.

- Varela, S. M. (2012). La formación práctica en intervención socioeducativa. Madrid: Sanz y Torres.