Vocational Training, Work and Social Innovation

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Expositive and case discussions.

Analysis of paradigmatic cases and design of potential intervention strategies. 

Learning Outcomes

- To critically debate the relationship between the issues of training, work, and social innovation;

- To analyze personal and contextual conditions of maintenance/worsening and moving out from situations of exclusion (e.g., social, economic, educational);

- To plan intervention, research, and evaluation strategies for social innovation in contexts of exclusion (situations of homelessness, poverty, unemployment, migration, special educational needs, mental health, violence, drug addiction, prostitution, etc.).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Conceptual definition of the programmatic axes: Vocational Training, Work and Social Innovation.

II. Diagnosis of social exclusion.

III. Taxonomy of interventions.

IV. Applied research methods.

V. Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of field interventions.

VI. Study of paradigmatic cases.

Assessment Methods

Assessment method
Resolution Problems: 10.0%
Synthesis work: 90.0%

Bibliography

Borges, M. A., Dandolini, G. A., & Soares, A.L. (2020). O processo de formação de parcerias intersetoriais em iniciativas de inovação social em Portugal. Análise Social, 234, 118-143. doi:10.31447/AS00032573.2020234.05

DeWall, C. N. (Ed.) (2013). The Oxford handbook of social exclusion. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195398700

Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Schröder, A., & Zirngiebl, M. (Eds.) (2019). Atlas of Social Innovation. 2nd Volume - A World of new Practices. oekom Verlag GmbH. ISBN: 978-3-96238-157-8

Santos, E.,Veiga, F., Cruz, P., Lopes, M., & Ferreira, S. (2015). O impacto social e institucional da crise económica e financeira nas Organizações do Terceiro Sector. Lisboa: EAPN Portugal/Rede Europeia Anti-Pobreza. ISBN: 978-989-8304-42-1

Schröder, A., & Krüger, D. (2019). Social Innovation as a Driver for New Educational Practices: Modernising, Repairing and Transforming the Education System. Sustainability, 11, (4), 1070. doi:10.3390/su11041070