1. Locate Community Development within the Social Work intervention.
2. To transmit knowledge on key concepts, models and approaches, guiding principles, objectives and characteristics, as well as ways and means of intervention, currently used within the Community Development.
It is intended that students are able to:
1. Question Community intervention in today's society, at both global and individual level.
2. Identify the different theoretical models of Community Development and analyze them critically.
3. Develop skills for reading and analysis of societal frameworks under different conceptual frameworks.
Programme
1. Theoretical framework of Community Development: core concepts
1.1. Growth and development
1.1.1. The concept of growth
1.1.2. The concept of human development
1.1.3. The concept of development according to Amartya Sen
1.2. The concepts of community and society
1.3. The concept of community development
2. A historical perspective of Community Development
2.1. Roots of Community Development
2.2. Development theories in space
2.3. Community Development in Portugal
3. Community Social Intervention
3.1. Key features of community development
3.2. The principles and main elements involved in community intervention process
3.3. Professional profile of Community social worker
4. Different approaches and Community Development models
5. The areas of intervention of Community Development, its publics and institutional framework
6. New challenges and areas of intervention in Community Development
6.1. How to think and act in the community in the "liquid modernity"?
6.2. Tensions and conflicts between community and individualism in the globalized world.
Main literature
Amartia Sen;O Desenvolvimento como liberdade, Companhia das Letras, 2012
José Paulo Netto e Marcelo Braz;Introdução a Economia Política, Editora Cortez, 2006. ISBN: 85-244-1258-8
Maria Lucia Silva Barroco;Reflexões sobre liberdade e (in)tolerância, Revista Serviço Social e Sociedade
Tatiana de Amorin Maranhão;Amartya Sen e a responsabilização do pobres na agenda internacional, Revista Contemporânea, 2016. ISBN: 23161329
Rosilene Cardim Guilherme;Desenvolvimento Comunitário e o Serviço Social: entre o conformismo e a critica, Revista Emancipação, 2019
Francisco Branco e Ernesto Fernandes;O Serviço Social em Portugal: trajetória e encruzilhadas.
Xosé Cid Fernandes;Intervenção Comunitária e Práticas de Inclusão, Universidade de Vigo, 2019
Vamberto Spinelli Junior;BAUMAN E A IMPOSSIBILIDADE DA COMUNIDADE, CAOS - Revista Eletrônica de Ciências Sociais Número 11 ¿ Outubro de 2006, 2006. ISBN: 1517-6916
Learning Methods
1. Lectures to transmit knowledge concerning design issues.
2. Lectures to comment and discussion texts and videos in the area of Community social intervention and community development.
Assessment Components
Description
Type
Time (hours)
Conclusion Date
Attendance (estimated)
Lessons
51
Total:
51
Continuous Assessment
Students may choose one of the following types of assessment:
1. DISTRIBUTED EVALUATION (Article 11 of the Knowledge Assessment Regulations) which consist of:
a) In carrying out two written tests. The 1st test will take place on 22 November 2016. The 2nd test will take place on the date of the final exam. Each test has a weight of 40%.
b) Oral presentation of a text on a community development experience and written report. The work should preferably be carried out in a group (maximum three elements) and the last class students must submit the written report on the displayed text. Weighting of 20% (10% for oral presentation and 10% for the written report). It will be given to students a guiding script for preparing the report.
2. FINAL EXAM (Article 12 of the Knowledge Assessment Regulations) which will consist in carrying out an individual written exam.
