Social and Community Mediation

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures with dialogues, group work (case analysis), mediators' testimony, privileging the sharing of experiences by intercultural and family mediators

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand different approaches and conceptual and methodological paradigms in the field of social and community educational  mediation

2. Understand the importance of "conflict" in the different approaches and paradigms of  mediation

3. Understand the emergence of  mediation practices in the context of a society in transition

4. Analisar criticamente projetos e práticas de mediação intercultural

5. Develop, support and implement appropriate proposals and mediation devices to intercultural and family mediation

6. Know the profile and the different professional's realities of the intercultural and family mediator.     

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The emergence of the concept of mediation and the institutionalization of mediation practices in a society in transition

2. Paradigms and models of mediation

2.1. The traditional Harvard model

2.2. The transformative model

2.3. The narrative circular model

3. Fields and practices of social and commmunity mediation  

3.1. Intercultural Mediation

3.2. Family Mediation

4. The profile of the social and community mediator: skills and professionalism

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Project: 60.0%

Bibliography

- Araújo, E., Rodrigues, C., Fernandes, H., & Ribeiro, M. S. (2011). Porque o tempo conta: elementos para uma abordagem sociológica da mediação familiar. Análise Social, (199), 283-308.

- Gimenez Romero, C.(2010). Interculturalidade e Mediação. Lisboa: ACIDI.

- Ribeiro, M., Matos, P., & Pinto, H. (Eds) (2014). Mediação familiar: Contributos de investigações realizadas em Portugal. Lisboa: Unive.

- Silva, A.M., & Moreira, M.A. (2009). Formação e mediação sócio-educativa: Perspectivas teóricas e práticas. Porto: Areal Editores..     

- Vieira, A.M. & Vieira, R. (2016). Pedagogia social, mediação intercultural e (trans)formações. Porto: Profedições.

- Vieira, R., Marques, J., Silva, P., Vieira, A., Margarido, C. (2017). Conceções e práticas de mediação intercultural e intervenção social. Porto: edições Afrontamento. ISBN: 978-972-36-1615-6