Local Dynamics and Social Development

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures, debates, field work and presentation of practical work

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the educational models of community intervention and local development;

2. Develop detailed diagnoses, identifiers of exclusion or potential exclusion, identifying educational responses that promote an integrated and sustainable development of territories and their respective communities;

3. Implement strategies and initiatives to support the creation of innovative educational projects, promoting personal and community transformations;

4. Plan, develop and evaluate local projects, promoting local development;

5. Identify, evaluate and mobilise socio-community and organisational resources aiming at the progressive construction of educational communities;

6. Critically analyse documents and legal norms that support the creation and implementation of initiatives in this scope, developing local and community-based strategies for their improvement

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I - The relevance of thinking about local intervention in today's society.

II - The local vis-à-vis the national and the global.

III - Education as social emanation and human condition.

IV - Sustainable development and social cohesion.

V - The territorialisation of social, cultural and educational policies.

VI - Differentiating characteristics of social development projects.

VII - Dimensions in inclusion/exclusion and educational intervention strategies, at local and community levels.

VIII - Socio-community resources and (in)formal networks for the continuous promotion of equity and participatory democracy.

IX - Models for understanding local educational and cultural dynamics and promoting social development.

X - Typology and logic of organisation and associative intervention.     

Head Lecturer(s)

António Gomes Alves Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Alcoforado, L., Cordeiro, A. R., & Ferreira, A. G. (2014). Territórios, comunidades educadoras e desenvolvimento sustentável.  In A. M. Cordeiro, L. Alcoforado, & A. G. Ferreira (Eds.), Territórios, comunidades educadoras e desenvolvimento sustentável (pp. 7-14). Coimbra: Departamento de Geografia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.

Castells, M. (2002), A sociedade em rede. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Elfert, M. (2019). Lifelong learning in Sustainable Development Goal 4: What does it mean for UNESCO’s rights-based approach to adult learning and education?. International Review of Education, 65, 537–556.

Franco, R. C. (2015), Diagnóstico das ONG em Portugal. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Murray, R. et al. (2010), The open book of social innovation. London: The Young Foundation

Ramírez, L. N. R. (2020). Tendencias de la innovación educativa en los contextos sociales. Análisis del mapeo de literatura. Revista Educación, 44(1), 1-18.