Social and Community Development

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The achievement of the objectives and competencies of the curricular units requires the coherent combination of expository teaching methods and classes focused on the analysis and debate on selected texts and intervention /community development projects.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit of SCD aims to prepare students for identifying and capitalizing on the territorial strengths and resources in a point of view of social development. Thus the curricular unit has as general objectives to: contribute to the development of analytical skills and application / adaptation of concepts and methods of intervention to new societal frameworks; Position critically different conceptions and dimensions of Development; Explain and discuss the areas of intervention and the theoretical-methodological frames, of innovative nature, within the local social action; Identify and understand the assumptions and operating strategic principles of collective action oriented for change; know and apply territorial diagnostic procedures.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Development Perspectives and Paradigms

1. Theoretical and conceptual framework

- The semantic field around the concept of development

- The concept of UNDP's Human Development in the last 20 years

- The concept of development in the perspective of Amartya Sen

- Community development and social development in Social Work

II. Collective action and current trends in Community Development

1. Colective action: theoretical and methodological assumptions

- Awareness and collective identity

- Organization for autonomy

1.1.Participation - process and steps

1.2.Partnership and network intervention

1.3. Community Empowerment

- Mobilization for action and ownership of power

2. Territorial diagnostic techniques

3. The role of collective action in promoting well-being in Portugal

- Structure and dynamic partnerships in the framework of social policies;

- Current Experiences in Social and Community Development.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Carla Marques Vale Mendes Guerra

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam 100%) or Midtern exam (50%) + 50% completion of a work (in group) centered in an analytical articulation between a selected text and an ongoing territorial development project.: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Estivill, J. (org.) (1997). O partenariado social na Europa : uma estratégia participativa para a inserção. Porto: REAPN.

Guadalupe, S. (2009). Intervenção em rede. IUC.

Guerra, I. (2006). Participação e acção colectiva. Interesses, conflitos e consensos. Cascais: Principia.

Laot, F. et al. (1994). Piloter le développement social: Guide d’évaluation dynamique et participative. Paris : L’Harmattan.

Leene, G. et al (2008). The power of the stranger. Structures and dynamics of social intervention. Ashgate Publishing.

Opt, S. & Ging, M. (2009). The Rhetoric of Social Intervention. An Introduction. Sage Publications.

Petitclerc, J. M. (2002). Pratiquer la médiation sociale. Un nouveau métier de la ville au service du lien social. Paris : Dunod.

Rodrigues, F. & Stoer, S.(1998). Entre parceria e partenariado. Celta Ed.

Sen, Amartya (2003). O Desenvolvimento como Liberdade. Lisboa: Gradiva.