Community Development
Code:
ECTS:
Department:
Field of Study: Social Policy
Webpage:
http://www.univ-ab.pt/disciplinas/dcsp/dc2571/resumo.html
Teacher(s) Identification:
| | Lúcio Manuel Gomes de Sousa
Field: Anthropology.
E-mail:
Phone: (+351) 213576024
Office Hours: Mondays: 13h00-18h00; Tuesdays: 09h00-13h00
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Course Description:
This course unit provides students with the theoretical and practical knowledge on Community Development (CD). The concepts and different theory charts that can be applied to CD (such as the contributions of Applied Anthropology, Interventional Sociology and Systemic Approach) will be discussed. The different variables of community work will be analysed while using real case situations. Thus, the objective is to provide a way of learning in which there is the conceptual and theoretical analyses together with intervening practices so that the student acquires the skill to apply the CD methodology to different realities.
Competences:
1. To aknowledge the main variables in community work;
2. To discuss the correlation between Community Development, Economic and social functions of the State and citizenship;
3. To identify the conceptual structure of Community Development;
4. To acknowledge the contribution of Applied Anthropology, Interventional Sociology and Systemic Approach to Community Development;
5. To describe and discuss the methodology of community Development in its different stages;
6. To apply Community development to different realities.
Contents:
The process of social assistance in communities
Elements at stake in a process of social assistance
Culture shock, main problem in any preestablished change
The role of the social assistant
A conceptual map of the social assistance process
The setting changes of social assistance
The evolution of environmental features
The evolution of social assistance
The Community Development: general framework
Base-concepts
Community Development
Types of Community Development
Community Development in the 90’s
Applied Anthropology and Community Development
Evolution of the main interests of Applied Anthropology
Poverty and the contribution of Anthropology
Interventional Sociology and Community Development
The range and branches of Interventional
Paulo Freire’s method: a paradigm of Interventional Sociology
Empowerment and advocacy, two inclusive concepts
Non-active violence, a social intervential strategy
Methodology of Community Intervention
A compass for community intervention: Systemic Approach
Step taking towards community intervention
Specific areas of Community Development
Community development and education
Community development and health
Community development and social exclusion
Community development and macro social action
Promising paths for the 21st century
Required Reading:
Coursebook:
Hermano Carmo, Desenvolvimento Comunitário, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 2007, 2ª ed.
Notice: The 1st chapter – Introduction (p. 17-27) provides information and study guidelines to make the student familiar with the distance learning method. Thus, it is, in fact, a brief study guide, and it will not be assessed. At the end of each chapter there is additional bibliography that can be read to deepen one’s knowledge on the themes studied although it isn’t mandatory and will not be assessed.
Teaching Methods:
Distance learning students have at their disposal a coursebook that follows a self-learning structure and that should contain all contents on which the final in-school exam will be based. The study comprises the distance learning tutorial support done by the teacher. That support can be done via phone, fax, e-mail and online, depending on the subject. This tutorial support can by complemented, whenever is necessary, with scheduled in-school appointments.
Workload: 156
Contact Hours: 15
Assessment:
Final written exam (100%).
Comments:
Students will be asked to do practical exercises from the coursebook as well as formative tests.
